HELLO ALL,
I am configuring a switched major node with dynamic LUs. It seems to be
easy, I have configured a lugroup major node and use LUSEED parameter.
When I have activated the node, it give me always invalid value for LUSEED.
I have also verified the exit routine, it is active.
We have
John,
Yes, we actutlly have one. Our distributed server groups was kicking
and screaming the the whole time.
iSCSI is SCSI over IP - you don't actually have one. That's like saying
FICON, we actually have one!'
I have used VMWare and it performance leads a lot to be desired. We
Shmuel,
I was indeed intent on correcting the incomplete impression given by the
text in the original paper.
According to my understanding of the carefully selected word sensitive I
had in mind that it was insufficient merely to note the variable screen
dimensions - obviously - you have to do
Thomas,
I've just replied to Shmuel and, in the process of doing so, I wondered what
your objective was in running this little REXX program - just curious.
You seem to conclude that the 3270 emulator is not the culprit whereas I am
tempted to think that maybe it is. And I'm supported in this by
Edward,
snip
(Regardless of the logmode, some software like Netview won't support
anything other than a 24x80 primary size. I have a special modified
version of Netview that gets around this restriction so long as the
primary screen size width is always 80.)
snip
I think you do NetView a
I'll add my result to the list too..
VendorProduct Votes
Mackinney VTAMSwitch 2
Macro4Vtubes 3
PassGoMultSess2
NC Access/NC Pass 1
IBM Supersession
Bela,
I'm going to take a guess at what's wrong.
Fortunately - for the purposes of my guess - j'ai vu le mot RESEAU avant
votre commandes - I'd better continue in English g.
If you take a look at the text of the default mode table ISTINCLM in your
VSE VTAM Resource Definition Reference manual,
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 05:25:32PM +1000, ibm-main wrote:
From: Jay Maynard
With the release of version 3.03, the Hercules site has moved to its own
domain: http://www.hercules-390.org .
Well that should (eventually) break a few package managers.
Pretty simple hack to get an ebuild that can
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:08:49PM -0800, Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
Jay Maynard wrote:
ALS5, z9 and other architectural enhancements
What the heck is ALS5? AFAIK, we aren't even at ALS3 yet (unless you use
that designation to loosely refer to the z/Architecture requirement for
z/OS
I note ( http://www.hercules-390.org/hercfaq.html#2.02 ) that you are still
propagating the hoary old disaster recovery myth. I thought we'd laid
that one to rest. Also, if you make an illegal copy of IBM's (or anone
else's) software it is the LICENSEE (i.e., your employer) who will be held
Good morning,
we are revising central storage due to our systems not paging and,
therefore, it's possible that we have installed too central storage.
We have seen to find values or some rule of thumb but we don't find
anything.
At 1991 the recommendation was 300-500pag/sec of total paging but
John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote:
[...]
I can matter matter, 100 PC's need at least 100 network connections
and 100 connections to the SAN.
[...]
Again, you compare port numbers, not dollars. Single LAN card costs
about 5$ (reatil price PCI 32-bit, Eth 100BaseT). Probably veeery good
3Com LAN
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
[ snip ]
Howard did specify GROUPEXTEND, which should automatically
APPLY needed corrective maintenance. In Howard's text, I see:
SYSMOD STATUS TYPE FMIDreqUISITE SYSMODS, SUPBY
Ron and Jenny Hawkins wrote:
John,
[...]
If a VTS is not supposed to save money due to staffing and time, then
why get one?
You're asking the wrong person here. I am a confessed TMM bigot, and I fail
to see why Mainframe sites would go VTS when TMM is so much faster, simpler
and easier.
Hello,
Thank you for your response
For your first question, here the part of our istinclm, but i have not
understood the link ?
***
// EXEC ASSEMBLY
ISTINCLM MODETAB
EJECT
IBM3767 MODEENT
Do you mean that the PTF that fixes AQ64238 is in PE status?
But its not in PE status. More specifically, SMP/E doesn't think its PE
because there's no HOLDDDATA in the global zone to indicate that its PE.
Notice in the SYSMOD Status Report AQ64238 is NOT annotated with an
asterisk (*).
You can suppress xPROG755 message. Add following stanza to the bottom of
PCOMM configuration (.WS file):
[LT]
UndefinedCode=Y
Tomas
Yes, I do also get a xPROG755 error after the first couple of IKT00405I
messages.
It's interesting that Vista have no such problems (and that You also have
problem
Without paying additional license fees
Why have those words in the agreement? Doesn't that imply that you can pay
additional license fees and use it on a home PC?
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:12:34 +0100, Phil Payne
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
means that you may not copy and use this Program on another
Yes, I have tried that; got PROG753 instead. :)
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Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
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Skickat: den 21 december 2005 15:05
Till: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Ämne: Re: Creating dynamic 3270 screen size definitions for
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Skickat: den 21 december 2005 11:16
Till: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Ämne: Re: Creating dynamic 3270 screen size definitions for
increased productivity
Thomas,
I've just replied to Shmuel and, in the process of doing so,
I wondered what your
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Payne
[ his usual rubbish concerning anything Hercules ]
I'm sorry for the link length, but this is IBM's EXPLICIT ban
- this one for SMP/E:
RMM is a tape management (inventory) system (TMS). It makes no difference if
the tape is real or virtual. All TMSs and VTSs that I know of work together.
The savings with VTS are:
1. If it is tuned correctly, the mount time should be zero for most mounts. If
a lot of tapes are having to be
Roach, Dennis wrote:
RMM is a tape management (inventory) system (TMS). It makes no difference if
the tape is real or virtual. All TMSs and VTSs that I know of work together.
The savings with VTS are:
1. If it is tuned correctly, the mount time should be zero for most mounts. If
a lot of
I'm trying to get my employers to upgrade our boxes so I can get some
zAAPs, but I'm not having much luck with the Excel Production Tool Workbook
provided. I'm only testing it out with a little bit of data, but when I
try to pull in the data, Visual Basic barfs, saying the procedure is too
large
I believe that version excel has a 64K limit on the number of rows.
Thanks,
Fletch
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Aaron Walker
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 10:09 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: zAAP
Chris Mason wrote:
Edward,
snip
(Regardless of the logmode, some software like Netview won't support
anything other than a 24x80 primary size. I have a special modified
version of Netview that gets around this restriction so long as the
primary screen size width is always 80.)
snip
I think
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/20/2005
at 09:20 AM, Edward E. Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
No.
Yes. Read what I wrote.
host-defined logmodes with both primary
alternate screen sizes hard-coded therein (e.g., SNX3270x)
I think _you_ need to try it before commenting further.
Does looking at
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/21/2005
at 11:15 AM, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm out of the business end these days and I wondered whether or not
there was some facility in REXX now to assist in creating 3270 data
streams.
There are facilities in, e.g., CICS, GDDM, ISPF that you may
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/21/2005
at 11:16 AM, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
One can say that IKT messages are from both TSO and VTAM since the
programming responsible is from VTAM development. There was a messy
situation at one time when TSO was in some way part of TCAM and this
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/20/2005
at 03:01 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Howard did specify GROUPEXTEND, which should automatically APPLY
needed corrective maintenance.
No; it will only automatically apply needed maintenance that is in the
PTS. It is quite common for hold data
In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 12/20/2005
at 10:18 AM, Jon Brock [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Not the point.
Yes it is.
The point is that if I define a guest linux machine as having a size
of 128 MB, then when linux is brought up under that guest it will
know of only 128 MB.
It will know of 128 MB
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/20/2005
at 08:54 AM, Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
i did some work with a 165/168 processor engineer ... he said that
one of the things for the 165-168 transition was that they reduced
the avg. machine cycle time per instruction from avg 2.1 machine
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/20/2005
at 03:57 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Nonetheless, since AQ64238 is known to SMP/E and manifest to the
customer, wouldn't it be a courtesy to casual and naive (such as me)
browsers, to make AQ64238 known in IBMlink, perhaps as a keyword
for
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/20/2005
at 03:36 PM, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
All order codes have an EBCDIC value in the range hexadecimal 00
(X'00') through hexadecimal 3F (X'3F'). Order codes with values in
this range but not defined in this chapter are rejected.
Don't forget
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:12:21 +0100, Thomas Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I have tried that; got PROG753 instead. :)
The message PROG753 is correct. It occurs when you display character '29'x
(Start Field Extended order) that is followed by invalid data.
Read the document 3174
Jay Maynard wrote:
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 09:08:49PM -0800, Edward E. Jaffe wrote:
Jay Maynard wrote:
ALS5, z9 and other architectural enhancements
What the heck is ALS5? AFAIK, we aren't even at ALS3 yet (unless you use
that designation to loosely refer to the
AFAIK, the modern ROT for paging is zero. One or two per second is ok.
Some argue that modern DASD will support slightly higher rates.
A demand page in is a very expensive synchronous event, burning IO, CPU,
and clock time. Any page or physical swap is very expensive and s l o w.
Make sure
Unless you have some compelling reason to stay with -9's, consider going
to the -27's. With PAV's there are little or no performance issues.
Frees up UCB's for added capacity.
However, IBM should make you some killer price offers on new hardware
this time of year. It just might be cheaper to
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 02:16:52 -0500 Robert A. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:At 19:04 + on 12/19/2005, john gilmore wrote about first MD5 and now
SHA-1:
:Shiaoyun Wang has done it again! After breaking MD5 last year, she
:has now broken SHA-1. The NSA's own pridefully recommended
Ed Jaffe's comments about z/OS alsi values are as usual entirely correct.
As usual too there are other contexts in which IBM publications discuss
architectural levels and use terminology derived from 'architecture' in
quite different ways. (Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds; is it
Make that 2 for TPX
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Patrick Loftus
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 5:02 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: 3270 Session Manager survey - results (sorta, kinda)
I'll add my result to the
Excel has an architecture limit of 65K rows which still exists today. I'm
not familiar with the zAAP APP but you may just need to reduce your input
data volume selection in order to work with the tool.
Sincerely,
Scott Barry
SBBWorks, Inc.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe
john gilmore wrote:
Ed Jaffe's comments about z/OS alsi values are as usual entirely correct.
As usual too there are other contexts in which IBM publications discuss
architectural levels and use terminology derived from 'architecture' in
quite different ways. (Consistency is the hobgoblin of
Do they also encipher IQD traffic ? vbg
But seriously: there is no reason (*) to encipher traffic within server
room, especially if you can use fiber optic as connection medium.
By definition we consider only machines in one room, otherwise CPC with
IFL couldn't be used instead.
(*) Internal
john gilmore wrote:
Ed Jaffe's comments about z/OS alsi values are as usual entirely correct.
As usual too there are other contexts in which IBM publications
discuss architectural levels and use terminology derived from
'architecture' in quite different ways. (Consistency is the hobgoblin
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
NSC being Network Systems Corporation. Acquired by Storagetek in the
90s. Storagetek was acquired by Sun last year.
NSC got killed by standards-based networking, essentially. Their
original products were doing cross-platform networking before there
were
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:19:11 +0100 Luis Alcibar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:Hello listers. I'm looking for information to know how to navigate through
:MVS System Areas to find the DCB's of the Data Set that a COBOL program is
:using, in order to know the RECFM, the LRECL, etc. .
If the DCB
* ABN Amro Eyes Electronic Data Transfers After Tape Loss Incident
http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/196540/248833/4471/0/
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In a recent note, Bruce Black said:
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 14:31:00 -0500
HSEND requires special authority. Instead use HRECALL, e.g.,
HRECALL dataset1
We both forgot to remind him (as if it were necessary),
Don't specify WAIT.
ENTREPRENURIAL He needs a robotic tape
Thanks Bruce, that did it.
Rex
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One of the things I hate about media reports. The title of the article
implies that ABN Amro had no intention of converting to encrypted
e-transfers until the tape was lost, but if you read the article, it states
that this change has been ongoing for over 6 months.
Quotes from the article:
The
On 12/21/2005 12:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
I am having a few problems with Alias's. I have a job which creates and
Alias.
DEFINE ALIAS -
(NAME(XXX.TT.RR.FILENAME) -
RELATE(XXX.TT.RR.FILENAME.DAOYMD1))
This creates the alais and there is no problem.
Gil,
HSEND is short for HSENDCMD which is a generic front-end that apparently
allows authorized users the ability to send any HSM command. Being that
DFHSM is a VERY small hat I wear, I honestly didn't know about the
HRECALL command - the DFHSM storage admin reference talks about RECALL
but not
hello friends
I am needing a help, as I can cancel a thread db2 that this arrested in the
cics, I verify through the command (dsnc display tran) and the result is:
DFHDB2013 12/21/2005 18:22:30 CICSDES Display report follows for threads
accessing DB2 DB2D
DB2ENTRYS PLAN
Just FYI ... we've been using a program called RECALL from the CBTTAPE
... we put it in the first step of a job and it figures out what to
recall ... and seems to do it with minimal tape mounts (although, I
wouldn't really know that because all of our HSM tapes are in a 3494
robot -- so if it
Rex,
you've got the solution by now, but allow me some questions ...
Why is the user wanting to recall all these datasets from migration? Is there a
legitimate production requirement?
If the datasets are used regularly, shouldn't they be online? Or should there be
rules in place to retain these
In a recent note, Stephen Y Odo said:
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:28:37 -1000
Just FYI ... we've been using a program called RECALL from the CBTTAPE
... we put it in the first step of a job and it figures out what to
recall ... and seems to do it with minimal tape mounts (although, I
Why is the user wanting to recall all these datasets from migration? Is there a
legitimate production requirement?
Excellent question. The best recall is one that is never done.
Datasets should not be migrated (archived for ABR users) if they are
likely to be recalled. If this user needs
I was wondering if anybody would question why my programmer is doing
this. We are attempting to populate a data warehouse with everything
including the kitchen sink - as well as all the kitchen sinks we have
used in the past 8 years so he is recalling old, very old, and ancient
generations of
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ulrich Krueger
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 2:44 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Question on DFHSM
Rex,
you've got the solution by now, but allow me some questions ...
What I don't understand is why companies don't just send their tapes
registered mail through the post office. The audit trail the post office
keeps on that kind of mail is very thorough and plus when registered mail is
received at each post it is locked in a secure cage until it will be shipped
Should I expect DFHSM to issue an ENQ on a GDG base name while performing
daily space management during GDG dataset (GDS) migration for a MGMTCLAS
rule where n generations remain on PRIMARY? In a recent instance, a large
(100K tracks) GDS was being migrated for the MGMTCLAS rule and for the
Ah, that explains it!
To expedite all those extra recalls and to make the processes run as fast as
possible, I assume, you have already checked your DFHSM SETSYS parameters
MAXRECALLTASKS and TAPEMAXRECALLTASKS and, if necessary, increased the numbers
to either the IBM maximum or the max number of
I know this might have already been answered but just want to throw in
another idea. If I am reading this right the operators are complaining
because they are mounting the same tape over and over? Why not use the mount
command M (driveid),VOL=(SL,XX) the tape will stay mounted in what ever
Of my reference Steve Comstock writes:
Actually, it's _Foolish_ consitency.
(http://www.bartleby.com/59/3/foolishconsi.html)
A significant difference.
Now of course Emerson did write:
... A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little
statesmen and
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to determine the load library DSN used to load a module that is
managed by LLA. I found the module's CDE entry and from there the associated
CDX1. The CDX1 normally would provide the DDName for the load library which,
eventually gets me to the DSN. In the LLA case the
Actually it seems to me that DFHSM does sort the recall requests in
order on my behalf. When the programmer was single-threading them with
his infamous IEFBR14 job with the 250+ DD cards, DFHSM was doing a tape
mount for every recall. When I put the 200+ datasets that hadn't been
recalled yet
Easy answer - 4 tape drives, 25 DFHSM tapes, datasets to be recalled
scattered over all the tapes.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Huckert, James
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:31 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re:
Vic Petrone wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm trying to determine the load library DSN used to load a module that is
managed by LLA. I found the module's CDE entry and from there the associated
CDX1. The CDX1 normally would provide the DDName for the load library which,
eventually gets me to the DSN.
Ah, that will do it every time.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Pommier, Rex R.
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:47 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Question on DFHSM
Easy answer - 4 tape drives, 25 DFHSM tapes,
Scenario:
IODF file contains definition of all (actually three) CPCs and all the
DASD other I/O equipment.
When IOCDS is generated, one has to specify CPC for which the IOCDS is
generated. However IODF can be the same (*) on every LPAR on every CPC.
Let's make another assumption, the machines
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:04:40 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Don't forget commands, e.g., 7E.
...
Actually, I think he CAN forget the commands ... usless he's actually
building the complete 3270 datastream: command, WCC, and data. From
earlier postings
So what is your problem?
You cancel the db2 thread in db2 but it's still running in CICS?
You cancel the CICS task via CEMT and it's still running in DB2?
I'm sure what your problem is and what you did.
Roland
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL
Mmmm - that recommendation would have been from the days when we all had
expanded. You really wouldn't want to try and sustain that rate to round
brown spinning stuff.
It's good these days, but as Hal said, it's slow.
Zero is a good target.
As usual it's horses for courses - some
GDPS documentation is strictly only available to GDPS
customers. Even IBMers are not allowed to get a copy
without being involved in a GDPS project.
Not quite true -- I had access when I was working at IGS Canada.
I just had to keep my mouth shut.
-teD
Me? A skeptic? I trust you have proof!
Emerson's quote is a favorite of many, including me, but I was reminded
recently that he qualified it in a way we tend (prefer?) to overlook: 'A
foolish consistency' is what he derided. Maybe sensible consistency is not
necessarily to be eschewed...
.
.
.
JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California
The way I think about this is that there are two separate views of one data
source.
The hardware view is extracted from the IODF data set and loaded into the
machine when you load the IOCDS into the hardware. You use the HCD dialog
to load the appropriate hardware view into one of the IOCDS
To the watching readers,
I do like to see posts where the solution to a problem is confirmed -
especially if I provided the solution g.
Bela contacted me privately to say that the character which VTAM needs to
see in the LUSEED operand value in order to perform substitutions with a
decimal or
Ron,
Ron and Jenny Hawkins wrote:
snip
I have several. My favourite is handling video for a casino. There are 800+
cameras feeding 200 DVR. Every 15 minutes the DVR will dump their contents
to disk, and those disk files must be backed up to tape before the 15
minutes is over. This was two
R.S. wrote:
snip ?
You're right, LAN card (and usually SAN card as well) are included in PC
server price. I forgot about it.
You're wrong with assumption for 200 GbE ports. You don't need it.
Assuming that Linuxes on VM share one (or two) OSA GbE port, the
bandwith per server can be less.
Ron and Jenny Hawkins wrote:
snip
iSCSI is SCSI over IP - you don't actually have one. That's like saying
FICON, we actually have one!'
O.K, then I am not sure how to state, but we have a DASD box that is
connected to our LAN and using iSCSI protocol to one of our servers.
.
I've
Ali Serdar Yakut wrote:
Hi there,
I do not know if this is the right list to post this, but I'm trying
anything for help.
I have got a very urgent situation.
I am trying to have a configuration like -
VTAM1 - NCP1 - NCP2
NCP1 is loaded in a channel attached 3745. NCP2 will be on a link
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