Re: when is an error message NOT an error?

2006-01-16 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
"pdc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I was just defining a compat-mode ZFS using the zfsadm calls and got this > > interesting response with a IOEZ00248E msgid. > I was under the impression that the 'E' was an error situation. > I took a look at the manual for t

Re: How SMFDUMP works?

2006-01-16 Thread Víctor de la Fuente
Our problem is also SMF starts losing data before all files are full: IEE979W SMF DATA LOST - NO BUFFER SPACE AVAILABLE TIME=08:19:30 ... D SMF IEE974I 08.20.04 SMF DATA SETS 177 NAMEVOLSER SIZE(BLKS) %FULL STATUS P-SYS1.MAN1E1 CGEHAA 43200 100 CLO

Re: How SMFDUMP works?

2006-01-16 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 14:54 +0100 on 01/16/2006, Víctor de la Fuente wrote about How SMFDUMP works?: Hi all! I was wondering which is the process of clearing SMF datasets. We are having a problem, and I'd like to know the process to see which is that problem. When one SMF dataset is full, it should get into DUMP

Re: OSA question - fallover

2006-01-16 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
McKown, John wrote: We have two OSAs on our z/OS 1.4 system. The are running in QDIO mode. I remember in the past that __something__ happened and one of the OSAs "died". But I don't remember how. I don't remember if it was the OSA itself that had a problem or if the switch to which it was connect

Re: limited Numbers of TSO users on z/OS.e

2006-01-16 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Walter Marguccio wrote: --- Hal Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We run a capped z/os LPAR in the MAS. Works great. Simple, not > that expensive. There is a tiny loss of functionality (active > job output and the SYSLOG is a little behind) but everything else seems to be there. Hal,

Re: REXX Problem

2006-01-16 Thread Dave Salt
From: "Stephen M. Wiegand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I am always getting the string not found message. The return code is a 4. Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. Hi Steve, Others have mentioned the use of ampersands versus leaving variables outside the quotes, so I'll try a different sug

Re: Retrieve Jobname, SMFID or Machine Name Assembler Code

2006-01-16 Thread Charles Mills
More than you asked for: * 01180002 * ASXB-DERIVED INFORMATION 01190011 * 0122 * USER ID 01210011 L R3,PSAAOLD-PSA(0) POINT TO ACB 01220011 L R4,X'6C'(,R3) POINT TO ASXB FROM ACB 01230011 LAR0,ASXBUSER-ASXB(,R4) USER NAME FROM ASXB 01240011

Retrieve Jobname, SMFID or Machine Name Assembler Code

2006-01-16 Thread Jim Franklin
List members, I'm after some assembler code that will return (1) Job Name or (2) SMFID or (3) Lpar Name or all of the above items. I know that I should open the manuals but using the combined list intelligence is faster and easier. Thanks in hope Jim Franklin CSC Australia --

Re: What starts Netview?

2006-01-16 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi John, If we could get rid of BNJMTERM that would be great. Currently the z/OS team here installs a user modification to add the IMS static resource manager historically known as Mr. Clean because it's module name is DFSMRCL0 and BNJMTERM into the resource manager list. With IMS V9 apparently

Re: REXX Problem

2006-01-16 Thread Brian Peterson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >REXX does not do variable substitution with '&'. But ISPF's ISPEXEC service does - even in a REXX. >From topic 1.3.2.3 "Using Command Invocation Variables" in manual "ISPF Services Guide": "You can use a CLIST or REXX variable, in the form of a name preceded by an am

Re: REXX Problem

2006-01-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
REXX does not do variable substitution with '&'. ISREDIT CHG "&HILVL..ZZ.ZZ.&P.&STK0..PARMLIB" "%" ALL is a CLIST construct, try (or something like): "CHG" "'"HILVL".""ZZ.ZZ."P||STKO"."PARMLIB'" ...etc -Original Message- From: "Stephen M. Wiegand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date:

Re: REXX Problem

2006-01-16 Thread Rob Scott
Steve, First of all, I advise that you standardize on the way that you use your quotes. I always use double quotes for the buffer that I am passing to my ADDRESS environment (if possible) and I always include them rather than relying on REXX to init a variable to its name. This leaves single quot

Re: FW: Interview with Fredrick Brooks

2006-01-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 1/16/2006 4:27:02 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: read it in Grad school during a software engineering class ad look forward to getting the new edition which I just found at Barnes and Noble >> "Some people have called the book the "bible of soft

REXX Problem

2006-01-16 Thread Stephen M. Wiegand
OK I admit I'm old and my brain sometimes goes out to lunch. Today is one of those times. I have this error in a REXX macro that I use in TSO that I just can't figure out how to correct. The particular instructions are: /* REXX ADDRESS ISREDIT "MACRO (XX)" IF XX = "T" THEN DO ISREDIT LOCA

OSA question - fallover

2006-01-16 Thread McKown, John
We have two OSAs on our z/OS 1.4 system. The are running in QDIO mode. I remember in the past that __something__ happened and one of the OSAs "died". But I don't remember how. I don't remember if it was the OSA itself that had a problem or if the switch to which it was connected had a problem. My q

FW: Interview with Fredrick Brooks

2006-01-16 Thread Robert Lawrence
Bob Lawrence DBA Boscov's Dept Stores LLc -Original Message- From: Robert Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 4:54 PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: RE: Interview with Fredrick Brooks I read it in Grad school during a software engineering cl

FW: FFST Abend at Startup

2006-01-16 Thread Miller, Pat
-Original Message- From: Miller, Pat Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 10:40 AM To: 'Ulrich Krueger ' Subject:RE: FFST Abend at Startup I am using all the defaults as it comes with ServerPac. EPWPARM was empty. The PROC comes with the SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=A. I was surprised t

Re: What starts Netview?

2006-01-16 Thread John Eells
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What starts Netview? I'm trying to remove it from our system but I get BNJMTERM NOT FOUND" and then a disabled wait during IPL. The "S CNMNDEF,SUB=MSTR" has been removed from COMMND00. (I verified that the suffix is 00.) Long ago and far away, one had to zap BNJMTER

Re: z/OS on the ISERIES

2006-01-16 Thread Ray Mullins
Actually, I'll throw a little nit out there. There is one feature of z/Arch that is EBCDIC specific - and that is the decimal instruction set, with emphasis on UNPK, ED and EDMK. UNPK changes the digits to X'Fn'/X'ln' where l is the last nybble. Traditional 7-bit ASCII without parity does not def

Re: Interview with Fredrick Brooks

2006-01-16 Thread Richards.Bob
David, Priceless! Thanks for sharing it. It should be required reading for execs and project managers! Bob Richards VP, Enterprise Technologist Enterprise Technology Infrastructure SunTrust Banks, Inc. (404) 575-2798 Seeing beyond money (sm) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe D

Interview with Fredrick Brooks

2006-01-16 Thread David Alcock
An interview with the manager over the OS/360 project: http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2005/12/12/8363107/index.htm -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: IPCS Standard Print Service

2006-01-16 Thread Todd Burch
Here is perhaps the smallest verb exit I've ever written to demonstrate the blank lines at the top of the IPCS print dataset. There are three blank lines at the top. How do I access these? When I write a REXX routine that call the "NOTE" command, these blank lines do not exist in the print datas

Re: z/OS on the ISERIES

2006-01-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/15/2006 at 10:40 PM, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >I think we're looking at the results of a relatively short-term >project. This might make a great deal of sense if we postulate >zArchitecture on the iSeries. Crucially, both iSeries and zSeries >are EBCD

Re: DMV systems?

2006-01-16 Thread Eric Chevalier
On 24 Dec 2005 08:06:44 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main, "as400" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Dispatchers who enter license plate numbers or license numbers to query >about our personal records get authorized to access the DMV databases >in order to do those tasks. My question is, do those records

Re: BTAM on Zos 1.7

2006-01-16 Thread Staller, Allan
Don't know, Haven't used it. However, circa OS/390 2.10 IBM provided a procedure to "extract" BTAM from the SMP CDS so that it could be re-installed. AFAIK this "reworked" BTAM release has functioned through (at least) z/OS 1.4 so I have little fear it will not function on Z/OS 1.7 (although I hav

Re: SMS LPAR

2006-01-16 Thread Steve Arnett
Yes. Richards.Bob wrote: Good points, Steve. I take it then, HSM aside, you agree with the gist of what I said about adding SYSTEM-B to the same SMSPLEX? Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Arnett Sent: Mond

Re: SMS LPAR

2006-01-16 Thread Steve Arnett
Lack of tapes on SYSTEM-B would prevent the HSMPLEX from working properly, unless you carve out a CF and use the common recall queue. In our case, we do not have tape and do not have a CF, so the alternative was code to ship recalls over to SYSTEM-A for processing, as the original poster sugge

Re: SMS LPAR

2006-01-16 Thread Steve Arnett
Lack of tapes on SYSTEM-B would prevent the HSMPLEX from working properly, unless you carve out a CF and use the common recall queue. In our case, we do not have tape and do not have a CF, so the alternative was code to ship recalls over to SYSTEM-A for processing, as the original poster sugge

Re: SMS LPAR

2006-01-16 Thread Richards.Bob
Lars, I would strongly recommend *against* doing this. What happens if they change their mind in the future and want to put it back? In my opinion, a better idea would be to define SYSTEM-B to be part of the same SMSPLEX and HSMPLEX. Then *DISABLE* the storage group on SYSTEM-A and the associa

SMS LPAR

2006-01-16 Thread Lars Jansson
We are running z/OS 1.4.0 and DFSMS 1.3.0 on "SYSTEM-A". Now we are planning to move a certain application to an own LPAR "SYSTEM-B" The application has it's own STORGRP and the plan is to start "SYSTEM-B" with a "mini SMS" that will contain the same STORGRP that the application has in "SYSTEM-A".

Re: IPCS question.

2006-01-16 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris > Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 9:19 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: IPCS question. > > > > > > Is there an **EASY** way to give IPCS an address and have >

Re: USS Virus Scanner

2006-01-16 Thread Arturo Juarez
HiPerry, I have use in the past Norton AntiVirus for Lotus Notes on z/OS 1.4, and works fine it runs under the USS part of the OS, may be you can contact them and ask if they have a specific version for SendMail SMTP server. The following link is for the version that runs with Lotus Notes: http:

Re: IPCS question.

2006-01-16 Thread Robert Wright
John McKown wrote on 01/16/2006 10:06:47 AM: > Is there an **EASY** way to give IPCS an address and have it tell me: > (1) the storage key and (2) whether it is fetch protected? The easiest way that I know is to use the LIST subcommand together with the DISPLAY(MACHINE) option, e.g. list 12345

Re: IPCS question.

2006-01-16 Thread Craddock, Chris
> > Is there an **EASY** way to give IPCS an address and have it tell me: > (1) the storage key and (2) whether it is fetch protected? > Specify "NOMACHINE" (I think) in your defaults and all list commands will show the storage key and fetch protection attribute. If you got a S0C4-4 at the ent

Re: TN3270 Question

2006-01-16 Thread Chris Mason
Mr "AS400", If you are using RFC 2355 TELNET 3270 you will have access to the SysReq function which allows you to invoke an SSCP-mediated LOGOFF - unfortunately ONLY that. This is another way you may be able to exit from your current application at whatever depth you are within the panel hierarchy

IPCS question.

2006-01-16 Thread McKown, John
Is there an **EASY** way to give IPCS an address and have it tell me: (1) the storage key and (2) whether it is fetch protected? BACKGROUND: We implemented a new SMS managed tape system over the weekend. Part of the installation was to implement the OAM exits: CBRUXEJC, CBRUXENT, and CBRUXVNL. Thi

Re: IEFSSREQ

2006-01-16 Thread David Andrews
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 21:15 -0600, Jose Adauto Ribeiro wrote: > I have differents SSOB for the functions. Disclaimer: I know you're talking about SAPI, and my only experience is with the external writer interface. Back about 15 years ago I discovered the hard way that HASPPSO doesn't want you to

Re: How SMFDUMP works?

2006-01-16 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Victor, Are you perhaps recording Type 19 records? If not why don't you post your SMF parms. Here is our SMFPRMxx and like most sites I expect we exclude type 19. IIRC this can still cause delays switching SMF data sets. z/OS R6 improves the handling of SMF buffers considerably and makes

How SMFDUMP works?

2006-01-16 Thread Víctor de la Fuente
Hi all! I was wondering which is the process of clearing SMF datasets. We are having a problem, and I'd like to know the process to see which is that problem. When one SMF dataset is full, it should get into DUMP REQUIRED state to be cleared. The problem we are having is that, sometimes (randomly

Re: limited Numbers of TSO users on z/OS.e

2006-01-16 Thread Walter Marguccio
--- Hal Merritt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We run a capped z/os LPAR in the MAS. Works great. Simple, not > that expensive. There is a tiny loss of functionality (active > job output and the SYSLOG is a little behind) but everything > else seems to be there. Hal, does a basic sysplex (which is

Re: limited Numbers of TSO users on z/OS.e

2006-01-16 Thread Walter Marguccio
--- Tom Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a limit of 8 TSO users per image. If you ran three > logical partitions of z/OS.e then you would have a total of 24 > users. Tom, you are right, don't know why I didn't consider this yet. We are running right know with three z/OS 1.4 Monople

Fetch failed after UNALLOCATE LLA.

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Relson
Please note also that unless you are using the SYSLIB MIGLIB statement of an IPL-time PROGxx it is impossible to create a LNKLST set that does not have SYS1.MIGLIB in it (analogously true for SYS1.CSSLIB and SYS1.LINKLIB). So without an IPL-time SYSLIB MIGLIB statement, a command such as SETPROG L

Re: Number of extents on an HFS dataset.

2006-01-16 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: One of our HFS datasets is now pushing 40 extents. I was wondering how many this can go up to. It depends. Short answer is 123 extents per volume. 255 extents per multi-vol dataset. Usually HFS datasets are single-vol, but you can create multi-vol as well. Multi-vol HF

Re: z/OS on the ISERIES

2006-01-16 Thread R.S.
Charles Mills wrote: Is it a fair statement to say "zSeries [is] EBCDIC"? From the zPOP: "Although the System/360 architecture was originally designed to support The Extended Binary-Coded-Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC), the Instructions and data formats of the architecture are for the mos