Re: Wrong structure name

2005-12-06 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Nobody answered, so I did a test. I tried to use by mistake RACF structure as NEWCKPT1. Here are the results. IXL013I IXLCONN REQUEST FOR STRUCTURE IRRXCF00_P001 FAILED. JOBNAME: JES2 ASID: 0018 CONNECTOR NAME: JES2_BROT

Re: Wrong structure name

2005-12-06 Thread R.S.
Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM wrote: R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Nobody answered, so I did a test. I tried to use by mistake RACF structure as NEWCKPT1. Here are the results. IXL013I IXLCONN REQUEST FOR STRUCTURE IRRXCF00_P001 FAILED. JOBNAME: JES2 ASID: 0018

Re: Submitting a JCL via Email

2005-12-06 Thread Parin Gangar
Guys, But, the question is HOW ? I mean, we have been talking about sceurity and encryption, etc... but how does all that work. Meaning, what are the code blocks that we need to develop ? Also, what type of network setup should be there between Mainframes and its TCP/IP server ? --- Parin On

Problem regarding IMS-DC

2005-12-06 Thread Bill Klein
For further information on (conforming) what Rich states, see: http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/dfsaptg1/2.4.2.10 Specifically, If the output MOD name parameter is not specified, IMS formats the message using the MOD named in the MESSAGE OUTPUT DESCRIPTOR NAME field of

Re: STK9840A/B tape data restored from 9840C tape drives

2005-12-06 Thread Michael W. Moss
Hi Bob, Whenever I’ve done DR and I have tested with a lot of customers and invoked in anger on two previous occasions, at SunGard the Tape Hardware (E.g. 9310 ATL and 9840C Drives) has never been the same as at the Primary Data Centre location, but it’s been good enough for DR. So generally we

Re: IEASYM override in LOADXX

2005-12-06 Thread TISLER Zaromil
-- snip -- Example: IEASYM (00,Z0,L) NUCLST Z0 PARMLIB SYS1.LPLEX.PARMLIB PARMLIB SYS1.PARMLIB PARMLIB SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB SYSCAT CATL00133CCATALOG.LPLEX.MASTER SYSPARM (Z0) *-* * SL20 SPECIFIC VALUES

Re: z/OS 1.5 EOS

2005-12-06 Thread John Eells
Dennis Trojak wrote: Has anybody seen any updates to the 3/31/2007 date for End-of-Service on z/OS 1.5? The IBM web site still has an * next to it indicating it has not been officially announced yet. Is there any offering available from IBM that will still get you z/OS 1.5 for those of us still

Re: z/OS 1.5 EOS

2005-12-06 Thread R.S.
John Eells wrote: [...] You can order the same version of a z/OS product for which you are already licensed at no additional charge. So if there is any significant possibility you will get stuck, it's in your best interest to order releases before they get withdrawn from marketing even if

Re: Problem regarding IMS-DC

2005-12-06 Thread Mike Bell
The mod name specifies the format used for the display to the screen. If it is specified, it will over-ride the default. Usually the first call to IOPCB will specify the modname, second and later calls will specify the modname only if they want to change the format. Mike On 12/6/05, sudhanshu

Re: z/OS 1.5 EOS

2005-12-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. John Eells wrote: [...] You can order the same version of a z/OS product for which you are already licensed at no additional charge. So if there is any significant possibility you will get stuck, it's

DB2 Version 8 on a Flex-ES box.

2005-12-06 Thread Jim McAlpine
Does anyone have any experience of the above and if so have you noticed any performance degradation because of 64 bit instruction emulation on 32 bit instruction hardware. Better still, can anyone quantify it. Jim McAlpine --

Re: z/OS 1.5 EOS

2005-12-06 Thread John Eells
R.S. wrote: Does it mean, I can order, let's say, z/OS 1.7 or CICS TS 3.1 (I'm on lower levels) and have no obligation to migrate within one year ? I was told I have to migrate within one year from delivery otherwise I'll pay for both versions. Just curious. There is only one _version_

Re: z/OS 1.5 EOS

2005-12-06 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell In a message dated 12/6/2005 8:59:57 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is only one _version_ of z/OS, with seven _releases_ so far. Whether there are version license

START fails no diagnostics!

2005-12-06 Thread William Walsh
Have you ever seen a situation where the START command is issued, but the address space fails with no diagnostics: 05340 13:30:58.39 WWALSH 0290 START BBO6ACR,JOBNAME=BBOS001,ENV=CPAC.CPAC.BBOS001 05340 13:30:58.44 0090 IRR812I PROFILE BBO6ACR.* (G) IN

Re: Question on IDCAMS Delete and dynamic Allocation

2005-12-06 Thread Rob Wunderlich
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 11:01:19 -0600, Alan Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've had many times that our Customers IDCAMS DELETE statements fail due to a DATASET IN USE condition. We would like to somehow trigger a GRS display or perform a GQSCAN at the time this occurs but have been unable to

Re: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-06 Thread Jon Brock
Another mention of the Hannaford system is here: http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,106776,00.html?source=NLT_AMnid=106776 (Mind the wrap. http://tinyurl.com/anju3 should work temporarily for those of you who have trouble with the wrap.) From the article: The

Re: START fails no diagnostics!

2005-12-06 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Walsh Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 9:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: START fails no diagnostics! Have you ever seen a situation where the START command is issued,

Re: START fails no diagnostics!

2005-12-06 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 12/6/2005 9:12:29 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any ideas? Probably need to look down the syslog and see if BBOS01 is purged. Default sysout for STC could be set to a PURGE class. So if you've got access to JCL change SYSOUT=* to SYSOUT=H or

AFP-l FAQ

2005-12-06 Thread Ed Finnell
Been meaning to post. The AFP-l FAQ. Maybe it will help. _http://www.botos.com/afp/faq.html_ (http://www.botos.com/afp/faq.html) I'd stay away from the topica site as much as possible. Almost like phising. But maybe that's just me...

Re: START fails no diagnostics!

2005-12-06 Thread Schramm, Rob
I am not sure how your output processing is set... but you might check the OUTDISP on the OUTPUTCLASS associated with JOBCLASS(STC) to make sure your output is being saved. -Rob Schramm -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: START fails no diagnostics!

2005-12-06 Thread Lizette Koehler
One thing I usually do with STCs that fail, is to run the STC JCL as a batch job. It would not matter if the job failed, but I would be able to see if there were any data sets that were not valid or if there were some other issue or messages. //TSTJCL JOB ... //S1 EXEC

Re: How to quickly shut down system

2005-12-06 Thread Skip Robinson
I think the most important action--but not necessarily the first--is V XCF OFF. That should stop ongoing I/O in as synchronized a manner as possible across all applications. $PJES2 will most certainly never complete, but it will prevent any new tasks from starting. I would NOT do a TERM because

Re: STRNO in DB2 catalog

2005-12-06 Thread Avram Friedman
I am a bit confused. Dose the term 'DB2 catalog' in the original posting refer to the ICF catalog that points to data sets of any type or the special set of objects in DB2 that contains DB2 system information. I fankly assumed it was the second case ... There is nothing uniquely DB2 about the

Re: IEASYM override in LOADXX

2005-12-06 Thread TISLER Zaromil
-- snip -- NUCLST Z0 PARMLIB SYS1.LPLEX.PARMLIB PARMLIB SYS1.PARMLIB PARMLIB SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB SYSCAT CATL00133CCATALOG.LPLEX.MASTER *-* * SL20 SPECIFIC VALUES*

Re: Oracle question

2005-12-06 Thread Timothy Sipples
We run Oracle on z/OS here but i haven't come across a VSAM Transparency option. i had a quick look in Oracle Metalink and someone had asked a similar question and the answer was Oracle's SQL*Loader will load MVS VSAM data directly into Oracle tables. However we do not offer a VSAM

Re: z/OS 1.5 EOS

2005-12-06 Thread Timothy Sipples
Has anybody seen any updates to the 3/31/2007 date for End-of-Service on z/OS 1.5? The IBM web site still has an * next to it indicating it has not been officially announced yet. Is there any offering available from IBM that will still get you z/OS 1.5 for those of us still stuck on G5 hardware?

Symbols in batch JCL (was: START fails no diagnostics!)

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Lizette Koehler said: Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:01:57 -0700 One thing I usually do with STCs that fail, is to run the STC JCL as a batch job. It would not matter if the job failed, but I would be able to see if there were any data sets that were not valid or if

IOSK CAPTURE CAPE

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Schuster
Hello: IBM APAR OW40658 details how to determine if a S822 abend is due to outstanding captured UCB's. They provide the IPCS command 'IOSK CAPTURE' which will provide the 'CAPE' address. They further state to look at the 'NOCJECNT' field of the 'CAPE' to determine if there are outstanding

Re: DB2 Version 8 on a Flex-ES box.

2005-12-06 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 12/6/2005 12:42:02 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This also has put small z/OS and z/VM operations into a bind - no place to grow except to higher-priced hardware if they want to go beyond z/OS 1.4 (and z/VM 4.4, I think). Hopefully IBM will take

Re: IOSK CAPTURE CAPE

2005-12-06 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 12/06/2005 01:37:25 PM: Hello: IBM APAR OW40658 details how to determine if a S822 abend is due to outstanding captured UCB's. They provide the IPCS command 'IOSK CAPTURE' which will provide the 'CAPE' address. They further state

Re: START fails no diagnostics!

2005-12-06 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:01:57 -0700, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing I usually do with STCs that fail, is to run the STC JCL as a batch job. ... Another technique that has worked for me is to override MSGCLASS. S whatever,MSGCLASS=x where x is your hold class. That will save

DB2 Version 8 on a Flex-ES box.

2005-12-06 Thread Phil Payne
AMEN! Seems like they're just killing themselves(and us too) by not having a low end package for development and testing. Most folks will take the path of best ads and convert to something else, whether it's Oracle/Grid or Blade servers. There is, of course, a low end package for development

Re: Symbols in batch JCL (was: START fails no diagnostics!)

2005-12-06 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:30:53 -0700, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... This technique is far less effective if the STC JCL contains system symbols. There's another good argument here for supporting symbols in batch JCL. ... For that kind of test it's a whole lot faster to stick some SET

Re: data conversion with cobol

2005-12-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/05/2005 at 08:49 AM, Daniel Cremieux [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I am converting a rexx program to cobol and having this problem . The data is , for example x'0123' and after conversion , it must have the value 123 (decimal) In rexx , the statement is : decvalue =

Re: Symbols in batch JCL (was: START fails no diagnostics!)

2005-12-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Patrick O'Keefe said: Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 14:18:55 -0600 On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 11:30:53 -0700, Paul Gilmartin [log in to unmask] wrote: This technique is far less effective if the STC JCL contains system symbols. There's another good argument here for supporting

DB2 Version 8 on a Flex-ES box.

2005-12-06 Thread Phil Payne
As an unsollicited follow-up, there seems to be a little more going on. Dr Frank Soltis made some comments at COMMON that don't seem to have been reported in the English language press:

IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-06 Thread Phil Payne
I'm surprised that the first referencable account appears almost three months after FCS and is ostensibly (Computerworld) only a two-way in a range that supposedly includes a 54-way. Nothing better to be proud of? I've heard rumours about catastrophic z9 acceptance, but this is even more

Re: DB2 Version 8 on a Flex-ES box.

2005-12-06 Thread Timothy Sipples
On this general topic, has anyone else priced z800s lately? A z800 ranges from ~40 (smaller than the smallest Multiprise 3000) to ~630 MIPS with 10 capacity settings over 4 engines. Minimum memory is 8 GB. Runs all software (i.e. it's 64-bit). It's even Parallel Sysplex capable. Just for

Re: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-06 Thread Richards.Bob
I know of numerous 10,000+ MIPS z9 accounts, but I'll let those shops speak up for themselves should they so choose. Bob Richards VP, Enterprise Technologist Enterprise Technology Infrastructure SunTrust Banks, Inc. (404) 575-2798 Seeing beyond money (sm) -Original Message- From:

Problem in IMS-DC

2005-12-06 Thread sudhanshu Kumar
Hi all, I have created an online IMS-DC program that uses only one screen(mfs)both for taking input and displaying the output.The data is fed into the screen first and once enter key is pressed,we get the output ,which contains output message. The problem is if user does not feed any value and

Re: How to quickly shut down system

2005-12-06 Thread Tom Brannon
What effect would a Quiesce have? This is a clean, safe way to end all I/O but what incomplete transactions will be lost? Tom On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 08:13 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote: I think the most important action--but not necessarily the first--is V XCF OFF. That should stop ongoing I/O in

Re: Problem in IMS-DC

2005-12-06 Thread Rich Tabor
It sounds like your transaction may be defined as NONRESPONSE instead of RESPONSE. You probably can get more help on the IMS discussion group which can be joined at PO.MISSOURI.EDU (IMS-L). On 12/6/05, sudhanshu Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have created an online IMS-DC program

Re: IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-06 Thread Marian Gasparovic
There were also 54 way machines shipped, also some (not 54 way) Linux only ones, but until it is official reference marian On 12/7/05, Richards.Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know of numerous 10,000+ MIPS z9 accounts, but I'll let those shops speak up for themselves should they so

Re: How to quickly shut down system

2005-12-06 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KRDO 4)
$PJES2 will most certainly never complete, but it will prevent any new tasks from starting. I would NOT do a TERM because you lose all control at that point. From experience on education systems I'd say the $PJES2 isn't even necessary. I've always seen JES2 stopping after the V XCF OFF before

Re: How to quickly shut down system

2005-12-06 Thread Barbara Nitz
If you only have about 20 minutes of batteries left, do as orderly a shutdown as possible. (Even our heavily loaded production system doesn't take 20 minutes to come down.) As pointed out before, get the major players down (IMS, DB2, CICS) - those that have business critical transactions that may