Re: Problem with RMM and VRSes

2005-11-09 Thread Mike Wood
Staffan, That VRS chain should do what you describe. The results do not depend on whether you have specified VRSEL(NEW/OLD) in parmlib. The types of location do not have a bearing on this. What is important are the data sets and how VRSEL might be processing them. You should see this in the

System Managed Duplexing, RMF CF report example

2005-11-09 Thread WitekS
Hi all, Has anyone implemented System Managed Coupling Facility Structure Duplexing ? I am looking for real RMF Coupling Facility reports with System Managed Duplexing data (of course I need only reports without company name and etc data - only technical reports). Reports from my site in return

z/OS IPv6 testing - who's doing it?

2005-11-09 Thread mclellan, dave
Hi everyone: cross-porting to IBM-Main and MVS-OE looking for experience with IPv6 in z/OS. We are planning to support IPv6 in z/OS as soon as we can. It's been available since 1.5 anyway. We're fully functional in Unix/Linux/Win with IPv6, and want to add z/OS to the mix. Not

MEMLIMIT and IEFUSI and GRS

2005-11-09 Thread Peter Relson
An earlier append (properly) berated IBM for not providing SMF information about 2G usage. We have every intention of addressing that in the near future. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Passing PARM to COBOL.

2005-11-09 Thread Howard Brazee
On 8 Nov 2005 14:47:32 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray Mullins) wrote: Try PARM='/DATAHERE'. This has to do with COBOL runtime options. But I can never remember if user parm data follows or proceeds the slash. I'm unfamiliar with use of the slash, I've never worked in a site that used it. What

Re: Passing PARM to COBOL.

2005-11-09 Thread Lizette Koehler
Howard, As stated in previous posts on this issue, LE options can be part of the PARM input. So depending on how your shop has setup LE and COBOL, the LE parms (if you want to overrides) either comes before the / or after. CBLOPTS which does determine whether or not the user data should come

Re: Passing PARM to COBOL.

2005-11-09 Thread Greg Shirey
One example with which I am aware is the RTEREUS option. IBM recommends: Avoid using RTEREUS(ON) as an installation default. If you do use RTEREUS, use it for specific applications only. At my previous job, we had a financial package from GEAC which (IIRC) had a main assembler program calling

Re: Passing PARM to COBOL.

2005-11-09 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
PARM='RPTSTG/DATAHERE' (for CBLOPTS OFF or other than COBOL) or PARM='DATAHERE/RPTSTG' (for COBOL with CBLOPTS ON) would request an LE Storage Report at EOJ. See the LE reference manual for (many) more LE runtime options. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: OT- IBM slows the speed of light

2005-11-09 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/9/2005 8:00:46 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to find a way to use Cherenkov radiation, for FTL computing! Will it help you when quoting(mis)??? 'Bought the best we can do right now.

Re: MEMLIMIT and IEFUSI and GRS

2005-11-09 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/9/2005 6:36:25 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We have every intention of addressing that in the near future. Mark and Roland did it about 4 hours(with a couple of snags and enhancements thrown in). If you can't measure it, you can't

Re: Passing PARM to COBOL.

2005-11-09 Thread Steve Comstock
Howard Brazee wrote: On 8 Nov 2005 14:47:32 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray Mullins) wrote: Try PARM='/DATAHERE'. This has to do with COBOL runtime options. But I can never remember if user parm data follows or proceeds the slash. I'm unfamiliar with use of the slash, I've never worked in a

Re: Error SQL in package

2005-11-09 Thread Rob Wunderlich
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 14:51:25 -0200, Helio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends It would like a help of you, when I enter in the panel of DB2TOOL option 1(DB2 System Catalog), later option K, and in front of a packages I inform the command SQ, I am receiving the following error message, IBM0534S

CP offline and LPAR weights

2005-11-09 Thread R.S.
The following scenario: two LPARs on 3 CP machine, shared CPs, both LPARs are assigned weight of 50%. Now I issued on LPAR A: CF CPU(2),OFFLINE and then CF CPU(1),OFFLINE Question: Machine has x MIPS. What are the limits for LPAR A and LPAR B ? 1/6 of x and 5/6 of x ? 1/2 of x and 1/2 of x ?

Re: MEMLIMIT and IEFUSI and GRS

2005-11-09 Thread Ted MacNEIL
If you can't measure it, you can't tune it. ... The original quote was more general: “If you can't measure it, you can't manage it”. “Tuning” is just one aspect of “Managing”. -teD Me? A skeptic? I trust you have proof! --

Re: System Managed Duplexing, RMF CF report example

2005-11-09 Thread WitekS
Hi all again, I did not explained what exactly RMF CF Report I meant. I am interested in RMF CF Reports done 1. either by RMF Postprocessor, e.g. by JOB: //RMFPP EXEC PGM=ERBRMFPP,REGION=0M //MFPINPUT DD DISP=SHR,DSN= smf archive //PPXSRPTS DD SYSOUT=*

Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread JONES, CHARLIE
We have a LARGE application program that is exhausting below the line storage and abending. Sub Pool 0 (File Buffers) and Sub Pool 2 (Working Storage) are using about 3.5m Are there any easy tricks to make the entire program run above the line? Or will we simply have to reduce file

Re: Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
What language? COBOL? What compiler version? Help depends on the details. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 11:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Program exhausting below the line storage We

Re: Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread Larry Crilley
What kind of files are involved? VSAM, NonVSAM?? Larry Crilley Dino Software, Corp. http://www.dino-software.com/ 412-734-2853. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Abend-Aid 1.1.0 - Distributed Viewing Support(DVS)

2005-11-09 Thread Jorge Arueira Campos
Hi, I install a product of COMPUWARE group of Abend-Aid 1.1.0, the name is Distributed Viewing Support(DVS)(the first time in Brazil) to access report and source listing datasets on MVS systems to which they are not logged on and that do not share DASD. Via LU 6.2 of VTAM. When I hit to access a

Re: Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 10:51:17 -0600, JONES, CHARLIE wrote: We have a LARGE application program that is exhausting below the line storage and abending. Sub Pool 0 (File Buffers) and Sub Pool 2 (Working Storage) are using about 3.5m Are there any easy tricks to make the entire program run above the

Re: Abend-Aid 1.1.0 - Distributed Viewing Support(DVS)

2005-11-09 Thread Hal Merritt
I would look at the syslog on the target LPAR. There you should see additional messages as to why the file did not open. Perhaps a security issue, the file is required but does not exist, the file is corrupt, or some such. I don't think you have a VTAM issue. HTH and good luck.

Re: Abend-Aid 1.1.0 - Distributed Viewing Support(DVS)

2005-11-09 Thread Charles Mills
Catalog RC=08 is file not found, is it not? Perhaps you have specified the name of the file incorrectly? Perhaps the old userid/no userid problem as in TSO? I don't think VTAM has much to do with this error. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

COBOL Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread JONES, CHARLIE
Compiler: PP 5655-G53 IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390 3.2.0 We have a LARGE COBOL application program that is exhausting below the line storage and abending. There are 16 QSAM files and an IDMS Database. Sub Pool 0 (File Buffers 1.5meg) and Sub Pool 2 (Working Storage 2meg)

P390 start-up problem

2005-11-09 Thread Richard Verville
Hi have a P390 runnning OS2(base) OS/390. We had a power failure , on restart I got a message concerning DESKTOP line not being in config.sys. There is a desktop directory with what appears all my icons. So anyways I decided to rename config.sys to another name and I had a config.wal file that I

Re: CP offline and LPAR weights

2005-11-09 Thread ibm-main
Unless things have changed, weights are a proportion of the (total) CEC. With 2 engines on LPAR A, 50% can still be attained, but with a higher apparent usage of the 2 engines as compared to having all 3 available. With one engine, only 33% is available, so LPAR A will be effectively (hard-)capped

Re: P390 start-up problem

2005-11-09 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Richard Verville wrote: Hi have a P390 runnning OS2(base) OS/390. We had a power failure , on restart I got a message concerning DESKTOP line not being in config.sys. There is a desktop directory with what appears all my icons. So anyways I decided to rename config.sys to another name and I had

Re: COBOL Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
Cobol-Compile option DATA(31). Perhaps also LE runtime ALL31(ON) Roland -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JONES, CHARLIE Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 7:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: COBOL Program exhausting

Re: COBOL Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
With such a current compiler release, just recompiling with the COBOL option DATA(31) should put your working storage above the line. Unless your IDMS requires DATA(24), in which case you have no choice but to reduce the number of buffers assigned to each QSAM file (remember, system default is 5

Re: COBOL Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread Larry Crilley
Assuming you can not recompile, and assuming the QSAM buffers are taking a large amount of your region, and assuming your DCBs are not doing LOCATE mode processing... There are several products on the market that can intercept the OPEN and dynamically place your QSAM/VSAM buffers above the 16mb

HFS vs. zFS?

2005-11-09 Thread McKown, John
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that I want to keep all the z/OS documentation that I currently have on a Windows share on z/OS itself. I plan to put it all in z/OS UNIX files and serve it up via the HTTPD server. This avoids any dependance on the Windows server for our documentation. The

Re: CP offline and LPAR weights

2005-11-09 Thread Don Deese
Neither answer you show is correct. The weights assigned to LPAR A and LPAR B represent each LPAR's share of shared CPC capacity. With 3 shared CPs and LPAR A/B having equal weights, your initial statement where each LPAR is entitled to 50% of 3 CPS (or 1.5 CPs each) is correct. After

Re: COBOL Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread Hal Merritt
Reducing block sizes can be *very* costly in performance. Same for buffers. Don't do that. Technically, it is very easy to change a few compile options and recompile. And that is the better choice by far. HTH and good luck. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: ZIP SOFTWARE for Mainframe

2005-11-09 Thread Skip Robinson
(Picked this note among many for reply.) As a first pass I decided to try Info-ZIP. The price is just right. Downloaded from two different sites (thanks to other replies). The unzip program verifies OK. That is, call infozip(unzip) '-v' gives what I would expect. However, the same command for

Re: P390 start-up problem

2005-11-09 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
Rich, When you start OS/2, there's a white square in one corner of the screen that stays for a brief moment. When you see it, press Alt-F1 to display a menu with a couple of options, one of which allows you to bring up a command line before the GUI starts. --  Gilbert Saint-Flour  GSF

Re: COBOL Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 12:16:52 -0600, JONES, CHARLIE wrote: Compiler: PP 5655-G53 IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS and OS/390 3.2.0 We have a LARGE COBOL application program that is exhausting below the line storage and abending. There are 16 QSAM files and an IDMS Database. How many records, on

Re: COBOL Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread Tom Schmidt
I would STRONGLY consider reducing the number of buffers and take the chance that the performance is perhaps less than ideal rather than watch the job ABEND. ABENDs are not considered better performance. On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 14:43:56 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote: Reducing block sizes can be *very*

Re: HFS vs. zFS?

2005-11-09 Thread Craddock, Chris
Well its late in the day and I just couldn't resist. So I'm a bad person. Suppose, for the sake of argument, that I want to keep all the z/OS documentation that I currently have on a Windows share on z/OS itself. I plan to put it all in z/OS UNIX files and serve it up via the HTTPD server.

Re: COBOL Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread Harold Zbiegien
IDMS does not require DATA(24), although for years they shipped required link time modules as AMODE 24 RMODE 24 and you had to override the linkage editor. We got around it my fixing the module inhouse. I think the name is IDMSCANC. They may also have some old subroutine that is AMODE 24 which

Re: ZIP SOFTWARE for Mainframe

2005-11-09 Thread Skip Robinson
(Like talking to myself.) I actually tested the program with zip, download, and unzip of a source module. It went from 10 tracks to 2--84% compression according to messages--and the result on my PC looked just like the original. So I guess it's working regardless of the -v problem. . . . JO.Skip

Re: HFS vs. zFS?

2005-11-09 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
McKown, John wrote: Suppose, for the sake of argument, that I want to keep all the z/OS documentation that I currently have on a Windows share on z/OS itself. I plan to put it all in z/OS UNIX files and serve it up via the HTTPD server. This avoids any dependance on the Windows server for our

Re: COBOL Program exhausting below the line storage

2005-11-09 Thread john gilmore
They [IDMS] may also have some old subroutine that is AMODE 24 which will generally force every thing below the line. If the notion of using a program object instead of a load module does not strike you as intolerably 'cutting-edge', the Binder's SPLIT option was provided to address just

Re: -911 fetching from a declared GTT.

2005-11-09 Thread Shane Ginnane
As Peter intimates, the cycle time seems to be outside the toleration of the application. RESMIL is an obvious place to start, maybe look at ACCELSYS as another option. Good discussions in the GRS Planning manual - see the Install and tuning and Diagnosing chapters under Ring mode. Be aware that

Re: P390 start-up problem

2005-11-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/09/2005 at 10:41 AM, Edward E. Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: You will need the boot diskette(s) to solve this problem. Not if he has an alternate rescue system. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: P390 start-up problem

2005-11-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/09/2005 at 04:10 PM, Gilbert Saint-Flour [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: When you start OS/2, there's a white square in one corner of the screen that stays for a brief moment. When you see it, press Alt-F1 to display a menu with a couple of options, one of which allows

Planning for Tivoli Enterprise Portal

2005-11-09 Thread Shmuel Koller
IBM is rolling out new version 3.1.0 OMEGAMON/XE line of products (availability 4Q2005) - announced as being accesses with Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) Assuming TEP is new name for CandleNet Portal - I am looking (towards 2006 budget/planning) for the workstation specification of this