Re: Quick SMS Question.

2006-04-04 Thread John Ticic
-- snip -- If the volume was _already_ defined in the storage group, then you did the init, you should just be able to vary it online. You need to do -- snip -- The SMS volume status should also be set to ENABLE. This many not be the case depending on how the volume(s) were initially added to the

Re: 2105 Question

2006-04-04 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to have a disk device being accessed at the same time by a 3990 control unit and a 2105 control unit? It is not! Differing technology. Differing back-ends. *It is possible*. BTDT. I used such (weird in fact) configuration on HDS 9960

How do you train your Z machine operation stuff?

2006-04-04 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I am looking for some hints, PowerPoint, etc. on how to train our operations. Thanks for your advise. Itschak -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: How do you train your Z machine operation stuff?

2006-04-04 Thread Doc Farmer
Three simple words. Whip. Chair. Gun. :D Itschak Mugzach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for some hints, PowerPoint, etc. on how to train our operations. Thanks for your advise. Itschak -- For

Re: How do you train your Z machine operation stuff?

2006-04-04 Thread Itschak Mugzach
We tried all of them. It didn't work for us. We are trying the carrot lane now... Itschak -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doc Farmer Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How do you

Re: DEBE Documentation

2006-04-04 Thread David Cole
The original DEBE was an IPL'able deck of cards. You'd put the deck in the card reader, dial in the reader's address, and press the LOAD button (or IPL button or whatever). IIRC, the original command codes were 2 hex digits that corresponded to CCW opcodes. In the early 1970s, while working

Re: Dcollect

2006-04-04 Thread Rob Scott
There are quite a few DCOLLECT processing examples on the CBT Tape - www.cbttape.org Download File #1 and have a look. Rob Scott Rocket Software, Inc 275 Grove Street Newton, MA 02466 617-614-2305 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/

Re: How do you train your Z machine operation stuff?

2006-04-04 Thread Doc Farmer
That's very odd. Usually, they enjoy whip. Sometimes a bit too much, if you get my drift... As for the chair, it should always be held to protect your midsection as they throw tape cartridges at you. Trust me, when we used the old 3420-style tapes it was a lot more dodgy in those

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread Dave Cartwright
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 10:07:53 -0500, Jay Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Of course, if IBM had a sane licensing policy, he could run it on Hercules...) IANAL but I would have thought that he could run it under Hercules under zLinux on a z890. That solves all the problems, architectural and Y2K

dfsflgx0 COMMIT problem

2006-04-04 Thread Arie Kremer
Hi all, we have our own dfsflgx0 IMS exit for IMS updates capture. We have a problem with an understanding of a commit process. We used x'37' record as a COMMIT. Sometimes, we did not received this record after UPDATE transaction in DEDB. We begun to use x'5937' solving the problem, but sometimes

3592-E05 Jaguar Drives on ZOS1.4

2006-04-04 Thread Meganen Naidoo - BCX - Data Centre Services
Hi All, We have recently purchased an ATL3584 with 3592-E05 drives and have installed all relevant '3592DEVICE' put-bucket fixes - quite a few. The Robot comes online but when we vary the devices online we get the following message: V 300,ONLINE

Re: 2105 Question

2006-04-04 Thread Roy Hewitt
Micheal, I'm still a bit confused? are you talking about the cu groups within the USP, or CU definitions within HCD (ie CUADD=). Yes they are related, but I dont understand what you mean by 'Logical CUs accessing the same disk'. AFAIK each disk (ie 3390) is defined to only one CU image within

Re: 3592-E05 Jaguar Drives on ZOS1.4

2006-04-04 Thread R.S.
Meganen Naidoo - BCX - Data Centre Services wrote: Hi All, We have recently purchased an ATL3584 with 3592-E05 drives and have installed all relevant '3592DEVICE' put-bucket fixes - quite a few. The Robot comes online but when we vary the devices online we get the following message: V

Re: Dcollect

2006-04-04 Thread David Betten
You can download a sample for processing DCOLLECT with DSFSORT from the DFSORT web site. http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/srtmdwn.html Have a nice day, Dave Betten DFSORT Development, Performance Lead IBM Corporation email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DFSORT/MVSontheweb

Re: dfsflgx0 COMMIT problem

2006-04-04 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Arie, This a pretty deep IMS question and you might get a better response on the IMS-L mailing list which does get good activity and is widely subscribed by a number of the IMS guru's. https://po.missouri.edu/archives/ims-l.html Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread B Sysprog
Thanks to all the responders so far. I am afraid I was given no information other than MVS/SP 3.2.2 and DFP 3.2. These products are licensed (and running on some old IBM hardware, which has yet to be identified) by a non-US company that we acquired. Migration is the goal; how we accomplish

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread Jay Maynard
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:57:05AM -0400, B Sysprog wrote: My initial thoughts are that the applications need to be moved, rather than the entire MVS image. Yes, you're dealing with an application migration. You won't be able to run the image directly on your z890, and while you may be able to

Re: 2105 Question

2006-04-04 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Roy, The various posts have mentioned a few things that we can do with the USP (and previous generations), and some sites have been able use achieve this dual personality - but only after some very careful planning. However, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. As

Re: 2105 Question

2006-04-04 Thread Roy Hewitt
Ron, When you say 'genned as 3990' I presume you mean how the USP interface emulation has been defined. Roy Ron and Jenny Hawkins wrote: Michael and I have talked offline and your comment regarding toleration for 2105 devices genned as 3990 may be what he is looking for. Ron BTW the

HCM output - PDF

2006-04-04 Thread Giovanni Cerquone
Hello; I know that HCM 1.7 comes with some new features, including a preview capability but I would like to know if there is a way to generate or create the HCM reports in PDF format. In this way I can make it available to people that need to take a lot on it. TIA, G.

Re: HCM output - PDF

2006-04-04 Thread Knutson, Sam
There are a number of free and priced tools to generate PDF files from anything that can print by acting as a printer driver. My favorite is the combination of FinePrint PDFfactory http://www.softwarelabs.com/pdf/pdffactory.htm Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO

Re: DEBE Documentation

2006-04-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/02/2006 at 11:05 PM, Doc Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Anybody know where I can find the program specs and variables for running DEBE (Does Everything But Eat)? Which DEBE? I may have some documentation lying around for MVTDEBE. 2 of which were a great humour bit

Re: 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT

2006-04-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/02/2006 at 02:31 PM, Gerhard Postpischil [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: RLD, CESD, IDR, etc. are all control records - you're just haggling over the price G Then how do you distinguish CTL from the others? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: 3380-3390 Conversion - DISAPPOINTMENT

2006-04-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/03/2006 at 09:07 PM, Ron and Jenny Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: However, this still leaves me confused over IBM's constant reference to blocking and reblocking of load modules. Does this make the authors as stupid as me? The authors regard the csect as the basic

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/03/2006 at 10:28 AM, Tom Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Was that level of MVS Y2K compliant? I doubt it; I don't think that even MVS/ESA 4.3 was Y2K compliant. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Alternative to mvsqr, was: Bringing the fun back to z/OS - new course

2006-04-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/02/2006 at 08:50 PM, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Receiving a fair price on any product requires a *credible* market alternative in *your* particular situation. Things that bring credibility to the discussion: - a project actually underway to switch

Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification

2006-04-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/03/2006 at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't know about the States, but, here in Canada, there a worker safety and insurance issues. I don't understand the details, but some companies are thinking of backing off, or (in my case) refusal. While

Re: Tabs, etc. in 327x data stream

2006-04-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/02/2006 at 01:28 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Yah. When I use tn3270 X, the tabs have already been translated to colons in the data stream. Now I'm in LOGMODE Hell (again). Is there any way to make the session confess everything it knows about the

Re: Tabs, etc. in 327x data stream

2006-04-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/02/2006 at 09:25 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is VTIOC part of TSO? Yes; it's the VTAM equivalent of TIOC, and is the interface between TPUT et al and VTAM. So my tn3270 X is identifying itself to the host as a different terminal type, resulting in a

Re: HCM output - PDF

2006-04-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/4/2006 9:17:18 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: capability but I would like to know if there is a way to generate or create the HCM reports in PDF format. In this way I can make it available to people that need to take a lot on it. Haven't

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 7:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries??? In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/03/2006 at

Re: Dcollect

2006-04-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/4/2006 2:24:48 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are quite a few DCOLLECT processing examples on the CBT Tape - www.cbttape.org Yeah _www.xephon.com_ (http://www.xephon.com) has archives search and a sorry user interface, but there's

Re: Confusing IEC507D

2006-04-04 Thread Jack Kelly
i also think that the exit isn't getting control because you never showed the 'expired message, ie, TMSTMSTV-00 HD0642 EXPIRE COMPLETE - EDMID=HSM Jack Kelly LA Systems @ US Courts x 202-502-2390 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Systems Programmer Levels Justification

2006-04-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
While others have made it mandatory. One of which, I believe, you used to work for. Not totally mandatory. But, preferable. It costs around $7,000 CDN per year to rent cubicle space for one employee in Toronto. And, that's not a very big cube! For the cost of a printer ($100), supplies

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread Steve Arnett
Tom, I was not picking on you. I was trying to get the thread back on track. I was curious about the correct answer to the question and did not feel that the thread was going anywhere. After my post(not because of it, mind you), I saw some superb posts that laid all of the

Re: The amazing shrinking batch window.

2006-04-04 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, We originally allowed MIDAW support to default on for z/OS R6 but disabled it when we ran into a possibly related problem with DB2 V8 from APAR OA15034. IMHO the default should have been disabled in R6 R7 and changed to enabled in R8. The problem with DB2 V8 here turned out to produce

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread Tom Schmidt
Steve, My skin is thicker than that -- no apology necessary, but thanks for the offer. I agree that off-track threads are a notorious problem on ibm- main. My mind was wandering around the problem (maybe I shouldn't have posted so early) because the issue was so off the wall. I'm wondering if

Disaster Recovery, order of things

2006-04-04 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Any thoughts on the best way to handle the backup of the various catalogs and RMM files for disaster recovery purposes? TO be specific, 1) On weekends we backup our DASD to tape 2) We run DB2 Image backups to tape 3) After that completes, we have a job that runs a copies DR related libraries and

Re: DEBE Documentation

2006-04-04 Thread Porowski, Ken
Anything on www.bitsavers.org ? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Disaster Recovery, order of things

2006-04-04 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Tried and true - Backup from Shadowimage, Flashcopy or Timefinder P-i-T copies. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Longnecker, Dennis Sent: Tuesday, 4 April 2006 11:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Disaster Recovery,

Re: PCICC and z900 IFL

2006-04-04 Thread Timothy Sipples
Patrick, I've only done a very quick search, but I found some newer documentation that might provide some clues. There's a redpiece that got published recently here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4131.pdf Starting on page 5 there's a brief section on HMC configuration. There

Re: 2105 Question

2006-04-04 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Roy, I meant using Transparency mode by specifying CNTLUNIT=3990, even though the underlying hardware is emulating a 2105 controller. That's what I thought you meant. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roy Hewitt Sent:

Re: Disaster Recovery, order of things

2006-04-04 Thread Mike Bell
There are four kinds of things to backup 1. DB2 applications 2. Non database application data 3. DB2 system data (catalog and directory) and log files 4. system data. And you should back them up in that order because 1. DB2 backups are dependent on the information in tape catalog, MVS catalog and

Re: Tabs, etc. in 327x data stream

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said: Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 22:21:18 -0300 There's an ISPF panel that can display session properties, including the response to READ PARTITION - QUERY. (after some stumbling around with manuals and terminal) ITYM ISPF; 0; Environ;

Re: PCICC and z900 IFL

2006-04-04 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/4/2006 10:51:42 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.vm.ibm.com/perf/reports/zvm/html/crypto.html which makes for an interesting read. It looks like the crypto hardware does give a pretty good boost to Linux on z900 with PCICC, so I

Re: The amazing shrinking batch window.

2006-04-04 Thread Knutson, Sam
There are some really excellent papers in the CMG proceedings http://www.cmg.org/ about Batch Tuning. You do need to be an active member of CMG to view most of them but a few are available to anyone including this one which was a CMG99 Best Paper. REDUCING THE BATCH WINDOW TO START EURO

z8 ???

2006-04-04 Thread Kopischke, David G.
Greetings again, We're in another cycle of hardware upgrades. It seems our z800 tapped out after a frenzy of migrations from tape to DASD in order to prepare for a lights-out type of operation while the bird flu pandemonium was in full swing. Enough of the history... Now that we're looking

SSI questions

2006-04-04 Thread Gil, Victor x28091
I am probably missing something obvious - When setting up a subsystem, how do I tell the system to call a custom function to Allocate, Open, Get, Close or Deallocate a dataset? Doesn't the association come from a table built using the IEFSSVTI macro? But the list of codes SSI Function Codes Your

Re: Xpost - etcinit

2006-04-04 Thread Gabriel Tully
On 4/4/06, Ceruti, Gerard G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI I am cloning a zOS 1.6 system and get the following during the IPL, BPXP018I THREAD 0F7513D1, IN PROCESS 2, ENDED 151 WITHOUT BEING UNDUBBED WITH COMPLETION CODE84000FF2, AND REASON CODE 0002.

Re: z8 ???

2006-04-04 Thread Staller, Allan
My unconfirmed source says in the next month or so... snip Any crystal balls in the audience ??? /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: IODF and IOCDS out of sync

2006-04-04 Thread Matt Simpson
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roy Hewitt) wrote: However, how desparate are you at avoiding an POR... Since everything seems to be working OK (which surprises me a little), not really desperate. As I said how desparate are you.. Not desperate enough to try something

Re: OAM question

2006-04-04 Thread Jack Kelly
if you're sure it's not in a library, ams del volent will get the entry out of the volcat. Jack Kelly LA Systems @ US Courts x 202-502-2390 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Looking for help offlist

2006-04-04 Thread Steve Comstock
Note: the Reply to is set to me instead of the list. It's time to look for alternatives. I've had one billable day all year and nothing on the books for the rest of my life. Time to move on, I guess. Anyone have any leads for me to do temp or contract work? Preferably in the Colorado front

Re: SSI questions

2006-04-04 Thread Tom Schmidt
Victor, Just how urgent is the need for your subsystem to perform the field obfuscation you discussed here last month? Try looking at macro IEFSSDA in SYS1.MODGEN. Those subsystem function codes (16-19) should get you moving again. As for the SMS comment... that's a good question. SMS is a

Re: 2105 Question

2006-04-04 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 4/4/2006 8:39:20 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In the TrueCopy case, it means that PPRC commands cannot be used to manage the storage because the OS wants to see 2105 format commands with the LSS specified, but the controller rejects the

Re: IODF and IOCDS out of sync

2006-04-04 Thread Neubert, Kevin (DIS)
Regarding what's different about the IPL process... Nothing if you still had the IODF that corresponds to the IOCDS. To make a change the hardware and software need to be in sync. The active IODF per D IOS,CONFIG is what you are running with. Regards, Kevin

Re: SSI questions

2006-04-04 Thread Victor Gil
Tom, Thanks a lot for the IEFSSDA pointer! [Why it's not documented in Using the SSI is beyond me] Currently the need is not terribly urgent, which gives me some time for research. However, in 6-12 months the need might become urgent. And, yes, I am now beginning to think about the Open exit...

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
On Monday 03 April 2006 11:00, B Sysprog wrote: I have been asked to identify if it is possible to run an old,old version of MVS/SP and DFP (3.2) on a zSeries processor (z890). Perhaps is ISX/390 a possible solution for you? ISX/390 allows you to run an old O/S as a virtual guest in an

Re: Disaster Recovery, order of things

2006-04-04 Thread Hal Merritt
I believe this is documented in the Redbook as a PIT strategy using PTAM. PIT = point in time. PTAM = Pickup Truck Access Method. (It really says that!). Missing from your strategy is POC = Point of Consistency. That is, your PIT backups need to be taken at a POC where all related files (be

Re: z8 ???

2006-04-04 Thread Isaac Yassin
DITTO Isaac Yassin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 7:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z8 ??? My unconfirmed source says in the next month or so... snip Any crystal

Re: z8 ???

2006-04-04 Thread Hal Merritt
Consider sub capacity pricing. Buy a bigger box than you need, pay for what you use. Your bill grows (or shrinks) right along with your load. Pluses include letting you pull large usage spikes without penalty. Minuses include watching for and managing runaway tasks. HTH and good luck.

Re: z8 ???

2006-04-04 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Ditto, but with the caveat (rumored caveat that is) that the z8 boxes won't go as small as the z890 boxes. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kopischke, David G. Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

SHOWZOS v712

2006-04-04 Thread Ed Micucci
Dear Fellow Respirers, Has anyone tried SHOWZOS v712? ...under z/OS 1.7? If so, have you gotten any s0c1's when running it? Thanks. Ed Micucci -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: How do you train your Z machine operation stuff?

2006-04-04 Thread Hal Merritt
You are ignoring the root problem. Most likely, you are asking too much. IMHO, complex operator duties are a management issue, not really a technical one. Set the objectives to lights out, automate every thing (to include the light switches). Reduce operator duties to calling for help for

Re: How to save data sets dump(from dfdss) in pc?

2006-04-04 Thread Hal Merritt
No, it simply means that all transport steps have to be binary, and you have to somehow get the DCB right on the final step back to MVS. A word of caution: do not use a Windows file suffix such as 'DOC'. No matter what you say, Windows will ignore the 'binary' directive and translate the file

Re: z8 ???

2006-04-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
The timing is the problem for me. I'm trying to hold off a z890 purchase so our hardware doesn't go obsolete during shipment. They've just (today) announced obsolessence of the z/900 (sales - June; upgrades - October). And, the z9 is upgradable from the z/990. So, I wouldn't worry for awhile.

Re: lost DBRM [was: DB2 Question]

2006-04-04 Thread Neil Duffee
On 2006-03-30 at 15:05, concerning DB2 Question, WA Stout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to IBM-Main: Is there a way (or tool) to reverse engineer a plan to get a DBRM member? Some of our DBRM's have gotten corrupted and I want to recreate without having to recompile. DBRM's are simply (almost

Re: z8 ???

2006-04-04 Thread Roach, Dennis
Do you have a link to the letter? Dennis Roach United Space Alliance 600 Gemini Avenue Mail Code USH-4A3L Houston, Texas 77058 Voice: (281) 282-2975 Page:(713) 736-8275 Fax: (281) 282-3583 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my

Re: REXEC and TSO

2006-04-04 Thread Ian Worthington
Many thanks for all the replies on this. Unfortunatly the system is outsourced and getting anything changed moves at glacial speed. I'm stuck with what I've got, and that's the lot. Let me see what I can find out about running REXX under OMVS. I think maybe some sort of stub routine might be

Re: SHOWZOS v712

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Dineen
On Tue, 4 Apr 2006 13:43:53 -0500, Ed Micucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Fellow Respirers, Has anyone tried SHOWZOS v712? ...under z/OS 1.7? If so, have you gotten any s0c1's when running it? Thanks. Ed Micucci -- For

z8 ???

2006-04-04 Thread Phil Payne
According the unsolicited emails I have had the brazen temerity to open without the written permission of IBM's lawyers, we might expect a new system around 25 April. There have been suggestions of a single-book system with 12 PUs - 8 of them characterisable. Up to four for operating system

Re: z8 ???

2006-04-04 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: The timing is the problem for me. I'm trying to hold off a z890 purchase so our hardware doesn't go obsolete during shipment. They've just (today) announced obsolessence of the z/900 (sales - June; upgrades - October). IMHO the announcement is quite irrelevant.

Re: OAM question

2006-04-04 Thread Desi de la Garza
Do you use RMM? Thanks, Desi de la Garza Systems Programmer Bexar County Information Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 12:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: REXEC and TSO

2006-04-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Ian Worthington said: Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:14:09 -0500 Let me see what I can find out about running REXX under OMVS. I think maybe some sort of stub routine might be the order of the day. As a confidence builder you might try: rexec MVS /bin/extattr

Re: z8 ???

2006-04-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
IMHO the announcement is quite irrelevant. The OP was concerned about his equipment going obsolete. I was trying to point out that it's not a great concern. Also, you'll find that in North America, obsolete equipment/software is relevant. There's a different economic dynamic, in most cases.

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread Ed Gould
On Apr 4, 2006, at 7:57 AM, B Sysprog wrote: Thanks to all the responders so far. I am afraid I was given no information other than MVS/SP 3.2.2 and DFP 3.2. These products are licensed (and running on some old IBM hardware, which has yet to be identified) by a non-US company that we

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 3:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries??? snip That is entirely a different matter. It really

Re: SHOWZOS v712

2006-04-04 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
Ed, why not posting me the PSW and register? SHOWzOS 712 runs fine on R7 and R8. Roland -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Micucci Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: SHOWZOS v712

dynamic PAV

2006-04-04 Thread Dennis Leong
We recently migrated all our mainframe data to a new Hitachi storage array (9990v). In the initial setup we defined in HCD base (3390B) and alias (3390A) volumes with wlmpav=yes (for the aliases). On the storage array we have Compatible PAV enabled.In WLM we have Dynamic alias management

Re: dynamic PAV

2006-04-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
What am I missing to allow dynamic management of pav's? Do you have I/O Priority Management turned on? It seems basic, but without it two things happen: 1. Execution Velocity is calculated with only CPU values. 2. PAV is not dynamic. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal

SVC Screening -- again

2006-04-04 Thread Ira Broussard
I searched the archives for SVC screening posts and saw quite a few postings regarding when to use it and what to use it for. What I am looking for (and didn't find in the archives) is how multiple screening programs are implemented. For example, what if products from different vendors want

Re: IODF and IOCDS out of sync

2006-04-04 Thread Roy Hewitt
Matt There are a couple of things I guess I don't understand about this process. In a normal situation, I have a hardware configuration that was loaded from an IOCDS at POR, and an IODF that matches it. Then I can activate a new IODF which is different from the currently loaded config,

Re: SVC Screening -- again

2006-04-04 Thread Ray Mullins
If you mean the old save-the-current-address-and-stick-my-address-in-the-table-and-then-pass-con trol-to-the-old-routine-when-I'm-done-with-it method... A product that utilizes SVC screening should check to see if screening is already in place, i.e., the existence of a screening table in the TCB.

Re: 2105 Question

2006-04-04 Thread Roy Hewitt
Ron, Well it is, i think.. (its been a long day!).. I suppose what i was trying to get at is that specifying CNTLUNUIT=3990 vs 2105 doesnt do anything different (apart from HCD only allows D/t 3390A/B for 2105..) All other control unit function/feature is queried during IPL (RDC and other

Re: dynamic PAV

2006-04-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
I don't have PAV on my 9980V but I just looked at the HSP 600 we installed on Sunday. I've also got it set to 192 bases and 64 aliases in each control unit. What I see is that when the box is at rest, only the first 64 bases have an alias assigned. I dragged out my test program that

Re: dynamic PAV

2006-04-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
Actually, 2. is incorrect. From the z/OS 1.7 WLM Planning book: IMPORTANT: If you enable dynamic alias management, you must also enable I/O priority management. So you need to specify yes for both of these options on the panel. If I/O priority management is set to no, you will get only the

Re: dynamic PAV

2006-04-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
So I think WLM is doing its thing, just not immediately. The PAV assignment is not immediate. I decide to (de-)allocate one, I don't do it until the next interval. I then don't look at that volume for 3 intervals. These are WLM intervals -- 10 seconds (clock) each. 2 years ago, I had a problem

Re: dynamic PAV

2006-04-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
This means that WLM will make alias moves that minimize overall IOS queueing, but these moves will not take service class goals into consideration. TOMAY-TOE TOMAW-TOE That is a difference that makes no difference. And, a difference that makes no difference is no difference. If I'm not

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread Timothy Sipples
IIRC a z890 will only run a OS in 64-bit mode, no 31-bit mode, in an LPAR. It may be possible to run a non-64-bit OS under z/VM. Actually that's not the issue. There are lots of currently supported 31-bit operating systems that'll run just fine on a z890 including VSE/ESA, z/VSE, TPF/ESA,

Re: dynamic PAV

2006-04-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
Ted MacNEIL wrote: This means that WLM will make alias moves that minimize overall IOS queueing, but these moves will not take service class goals into consideration. TOMAY-TOE TOMAW-TOE That is a difference that makes no difference. And, a difference that makes no difference is no

Re: 2105 Question

2006-04-04 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Roy, Yes it is. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roy Hewitt Sent: Wednesday, 5 April 2006 6:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 2105 Question Ron, Well it is, i think.. (its been a long day!).. I

Re: dynamic PAV

2006-04-04 Thread Ted MacNEIL
The point is that someone observing the storage array's behavior, like Dennis, should see aliases move regardless of the setting. But, what is required is something addressing goals. And, the OP was seeing nothing. - -teD I’m an enthusiastic proselytiser of the universal panacea I believe in!

(fwd) Delete VSAM file flagged as Open

2006-04-04 Thread Clark Morris
On 29 Mar 2006 15:04:27 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Willingham) wrote: I have a VSAM file that is used in CICS. The region is down and we are trying to restore the file but it will not restore because it is flagged as open for update by multiple users. How do you

Re: 2105 Question

2006-04-04 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Bill, The 3990-6 accepts PPRC commands, but you cannot specify the LSS parm. For the 3990 to accept the LSS parm it would have to support Logical SubSystems. I don't think that has happened. The Advanced Copy Services Manual states: Note: LSS number is required if the storage control supports

Re: DEBE Documentation

2006-04-04 Thread Doc Farmer
Nothing in their indexes that I could find. Porowski, Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything on www.bitsavers.org ? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Support for MVS/SP 3.2.2 on zSeries???

2006-04-04 Thread Ed Gould
On Apr 4, 2006, at 3:55 PM, McKown, John wrote: SNIP--- Yeah. I hope like the blazes that they don't have IMS. We had a sister company with IMS/DB that they used in CICS. Getting them up to date on IMS so that they could get up to date on CICS and z/OS was