Re: 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT

2006-03-24 Thread John Eells
** Very long post warning * I thought I'd posted this before, but didn't see it in the archives. This was originally written as a post to IBM's internal software packaging forum on the topic of block sizes to recommend for different system software data sets.

Re: CICS down after transaction exec wait macro.

2006-03-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
Jorge, I assume you are CICS TS2.2 what version of operating system? I am not sure but I think you need to start with a S0201 abend with MVS or z/OS. In the MVS messages codes (or z/OS) the error indicaties: 201

Re: CICS down after transaction exec wait macro.

2006-03-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
Jorge, One last thought, have you asked on the CICS-L list. They may have some experience with this type of issue. Lizette -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mar 24, 2006 6:15 PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CICS down after

Re: Convert 3490E Tapes to CD or DVD

2006-03-24 Thread Eric N. Bielefeld
Tim, I think you missed the start of this thread. Our mainframe and our entire Milwaukee datacenter is going away at the end of April. I am looking for a way to potentially convert tapes to a CD offsite - a business that would do that for us. Everything that we think we need we will

MMA news, Again

2006-03-24 Thread Gary Green
This IS mainframe related; not like that one I posted yesterday... g A quote from the article made me want to laugh if it were NOT so funny... Macrosoft Inc., a global software design and development organization, today announced it joined the Mainframe Migration Alliance (MMA) founded by

Re: Convert 3490E Tapes to CD or DVD

2006-03-24 Thread Eric N. Bielefeld
Don, I know that I have searched previously for companies to do this, but I didn't find anywhere near as many hits as I got when I entered your search arguments. Thanks - those are a lot better than the search arguments I used previously. I was hoping for someone who had already done this,

Re: z990 multiprocessor overhead issue.

2006-03-24 Thread Shane
On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 18:48 -0500, Richards.Bob wrote: With the CPs being pooled, I doubt the specialties draw down the MIP MP effect. They might chew some quick cycles, but they should not impact MIP capacity like additional general purpose CPs would. My take on this is that they are CPs

Re: Convert 3490E Tapes to CD or DVD

2006-03-24 Thread Eric N. Bielefeld
Ed, I'll look up FILETEK on Monday. $250,000 is not cheap though. Like I said in an earlier post, we can buy a desktop 3490E drive, software, and a connector to a PC for about $10,000. When I told our management about that, they thought it was too expensive. Eric Bielefeld PH Mining

Re: MVS LTO tape usage

2006-03-24 Thread Russell Witt
Actually, the new BrightStor Tape Encryption product gives you the ability to encrypt as desired. There is a CA-Disk version that will encrypt all backup tapes created by CA-Disk and there is a version that will allow you to encrypt all tape files regardless of the creating program. No need to

Re: 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT

2006-03-24 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Gerhard, The Text records may be 256 bytes, but they are blocked, and the Blocksize of the text block will be up to the blksize of the loadlib. Two verifications: 1) Browse any medium size load module in you load libraries and page right. Browse reads the modules as a recfm=u file, and you will

Re: 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT

2006-03-24 Thread Gerhard Adam
The Text records may be 256 bytes, but they are blocked, and the Blocksize of the text block will be up to the blksize of the loadlib. Two verifications: 1) Browse any medium size load module in you load libraries and page right. Browse reads the modules as a recfm=u file, and you will see text

Re: 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT

2006-03-24 Thread Bruce Black
John, what a great post! thorough, well-organized, mostly easy to understand. You should consider getting a version added to the Using Data Sets manual, or at least published as a TechNote. A point you might want to add: For PDSs there is an additional track utilization issue and that is

Re: VSAM file open/close

2006-03-24 Thread Bruce Black
In general, don't ENQ's only show up if there is contention? Show up where? The console command D GRS,C show contention but the commandD GRS,RES=(SYSVSAM,*) will show all SYSVSAM ENQs (could be a long display if there are lot of open VSAM) Under TSO, the freeblie programs TASID and

Re: Convert 3490E Tapes to CD or DVD

2006-03-24 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/24/2006 8:11:03 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'll look up FILETEK on Monday. $250,000 is not cheap though. Like I said in an earlier post, we can buy a desktop 3490E drive, software, and a connector to a PC for about $10,000. When I told

Re: VTAM and MS Host Integrated Server IP-DLC (Enterprise Extender)

2006-03-24 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Tim Hare wrote: Is this the correct place to ask about VTAM issues? We're trying to move a Microsoft Host Integration Server from 802.2 connection to IP-DLC (AKA Enterprise Extender). The documentation we've found, however, doesn't really use the same names everywhere so we're having difficulty

Re: z900 Capacity Models?

2006-03-24 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Nope, that the z990. The z900 does not have books, but just a single MCM with 20 PU's, 16 of which z/OS can use. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that the capacity model allowed you to go all the way from 1 processor to the maximum number of processors. I think the z/900 comes with books

Re: 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT

2006-03-24 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Adam, Yes there are a few RLD, ESC, etc records and they are LE 256 bytes. However this does not affect the blocking of the text blocks. If, after writing a few small records a track has space remaining for a text block up to the Max block size then it will use the max block size. If the

Re: 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT

2006-03-24 Thread Gerhard Adam
Ron: You are correct that the library will typically use less space, however ... This is very much dependent on the size of the CSECTS within it. I don't have a problem with the assertion that 32760 results in larger TXT blocks being written, but unless you have a library that has such

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