Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread Rashmi Nijaguni Mogali
Hi, I need to schedule the execution of 26 jobs. This has to happen such that the 2nd job should start after the successful execution of the 1st job, the 3rd after the 2nd and so on. Moreover the output of 1st job is the input to the 2nd job. How do I accomplish this using Clist? Any

Run CLIST/Edit marco without SYSEXEC

2006-04-12 Thread Jeff Guan
Hi all, We used an Clist/edit marco to custmised some keyword. To run the clist, we just enter the clist name on the command line while in ISPF editing a PDS member. The Clist is just like below: -- ISREDIT MACRO ISREDIT C

Re: A very basic question

2006-04-12 Thread Gerhard Adam
From what you've described it appears that this transaction can be divided up into a certain amount of CPU time to process the transaction and then an amount used to drive/manage the I/O. If that's the case, and the CPU consumed for the transaction is relatively constant, you can approximate

Re: system level objects

2006-04-12 Thread Luis Correia
Hi Lizette, Your right.. i think it's due to my inexperience in Z/OS. The answers are 1. Z/OS 1.4 2. RACF 3. I must test a control that says: Ensure that the creation / deletion of all system objects is logged. Until now I consider datasets and TCP connections, for both systems objects I've the

Re: A very basic question

2006-04-12 Thread Phil King
Ted, A general technique I have used successfully to estimate the CPU usage (or instruction path length) of a black box piece of code is as follows: (1) Measure the resource usage of the standard job - call this R1 (2) Modify the job (in the case your COBOL program) to call the black box

Storage group PAV

2006-04-12 Thread Max Scarpa
Esteemed listers I'd like to modify our Storage Groups structure to react quickly if the SG is in shortage of space. We want to create some SG with many volumes (say 100) defined but only few (say 20) having a real DASD allocated, the other should be only entries in SG. I did it in other shops

Re: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/11/2006 at 11:55 AM, Cathy Taddei [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Aaron, I don't post here often, but I want you to know that z/OS Sysprogging is not a world of men with grey beards and hairy chests. Although we are definitely in the minority, there are plenty of female

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/11/2006 at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I was giving 'reasonable' substitutes, ie: what it does. Print is *not* what it does. It catenates its inputs into standard output, and in this case standard output was a pipe. The function of that cat was a

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/12/2006 at 08:14 AM, Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I place it right up there with the TSO line mode edit command - when you have a *really* broken install, you need a tool of last resort. Other than being line mode, TSO EDIT is a *lot* more user friendly than vi.

Re: A very basic question

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/11/2006 at 09:43 AM, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I also believe that VSAM uses EXCPVR, AFAIK it uses STARTIO, which has a shorter path length than EXCP or even EXCPVR. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: Storage group PAV

2006-04-12 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Esteemed listers I'd like to modify our Storage Groups structure to react quickly if the SG is in shortage of space. We want to create some SG with many volumes (say 100) defined but only few (say 20) having a real DASD

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Print is *not* what it does. These arguments would be more interesting if you read my post(s). I originally said: cat -- list ... Where was the word PRINT? - -teD O-KAY! BLUE! JAYS! Let's PLAY! BALL! -- For IBM-MAIN

(fwd) Re: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS

2006-04-12 Thread Clark Morris
On 9 Apr 2006 12:40:06 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 11:43:35 -0500, Sebastian Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 8 Apr 2006 09:13:43 -0400, Aaron Peterson [log in to unmask] reasonably competent with Perl, and I have looked

(fwd) IBM Announces WebSphere Application Server V6.1 for z/OS

2006-04-12 Thread Clark Morris
On 11 Apr 2006 04:49:30 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Sipples) wrote: Version 6.1 announced today. Details here: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS206-077/ENUS206-077.PDF GA date is June 30, 2006. I'm still quickly reading through the announcement,

(fwd) Re: Over my head in a JES exit

2006-04-12 Thread Clark Morris
On 10 Apr 2006 10:33:57 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote: much snipped I believe in the context of the original writer that the JES exit(s) were either complex or change was needed to accommodate the change in JES2 levels. Some one spoke about the

Re: Heads Up - LE PE - PK15432

2006-04-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
The 'SEARCH ALL' APARs PK15432 and PK16765 have closed with PTFs available. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO Performance and Availability Management mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (office) 301.986.3574 IBM: I Bring Madness

Re: PDS Unload Using IEBUPDTE

2006-04-12 Thread Greg Price
Really Jim? You surprise me. BTW, Release 40 of REVIEW should be out in a week or two. :) GP Jim Marshall wrote: Snippage. You can thank Bill Godfrey for getting everyone started in many more utlities besides LISTPDS. Jim Marshall

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Comstock
Rashmi Nijaguni Mogali wrote: Hi, I need to schedule the execution of 26 jobs. This has to happen such that the 2nd job should start after the successful execution of the 1st job, the 3rd after the 2nd and so on. Moreover the output of 1st job is the input to the 2nd job. How do I

Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Comstock
A. Harry Williams wrote: Let's see if I can get this past Darren's filters this time. From: A. Harry Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Marist College Subject: Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion X-LSVline1: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 07:42:40 -0500 Mohammad Khan said: On Tue, 11 Apr 2006

Region size for batch processing

2006-04-12 Thread andy corpes
Hi All, We are having discisisons regarding an optimal region size for our standard batch processing. Currently, we use region=0M for all of our batch jobs without any noticeable problems. Is this subparm useful anymore? it would appear that our system does not care too much, but i am concerned

Re: IBM Announces WebSphere Application Server V6.1 for z/OS

2006-04-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
Timothy, I don't see the SOD re: Apache in the referenced announcement. Can you provide a link? Thanks, Kirk Wolf On 4/11/06, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Version 6.1 announced today. Details here: http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/7/897/ENUS206-077/ENUS206-077.PDF GA date

Re: Region size for batch processing

2006-04-12 Thread Chris Hoelscher
our sysprogs discourage (prevent?) 0M on the belief (fact?) that if such a job were to run-away and consume all available memoryon its way to ebending, there would be no room to set up abend-related control blocks in memory when it did abend - thus we are constrained to use 2047M Chris

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rashmi Nijaguni Mogali Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Job scheduling Hi, I need to schedule the execution of 26 jobs. This has to happen

Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread Warner Mach
I have been reading IBM-Main off and on for awhile and one of the reoccurring concerns is, of course, the phasing out of the mainframe at various shops. There is one aspect of this that, I think, has not been emphasized. This aspect was pointed out in recent Wall Street Journal column titled,

z/OS 1.6 End of support date

2006-04-12 Thread Raymond J. Slisz
Could someone please inform me as to the end of support date for z/OS 1.6 ?? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: z/OS 1.6 End of support date

2006-04-12 Thread Porowski, Ken
Last I saw, last column is service discontinued. z/OS Program Marketing Service number VRMAnnounced Available withdrawn discontinued 5694-A01 1.07.0 2005/07/27 2005/09/30 2006/09* 2008/09* 5694-A01 1.06.0 2004/08/10 2004/09/24 2005/10/24 2007/09*

Betr.: [IBM-MAIN] z/OS 1.6 End of support date

2006-04-12 Thread N. Blekemolen
I´m afraid not, because it has not been announced yet. Have a look at http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/supportlifecycle/index.html Raymond J. Slisz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden door: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 12-04-2006 14:57 Antwoord a.u.b. aan IBM Mainframe

Re: z/OS 1.6 End of support date

2006-04-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/support/zos_eos_dates. html -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond J. Slisz Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 8:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: [IBM-MAIN] z/OS 1.6 End of

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Jon Brock
Yeha, that works on my Intel Linux systems, but on my VM-hosted ones, if things are that broken, then I'm probably in 3270 mode and even vi doesn't work; that's when I find myself trying to remember how to use ed. Jon -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: IBM Patents

2006-04-12 Thread Jon Brock
Eliminated. Heh. They couldn't resist it. Jon snip IBM has quietly eliminated a patent it received on a method for determining who gets to use the bathroom next. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread Karson, Lynne (SAA)
One of the things I do for test purposes is use the following JCL at the end of the job: //STARTER EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=25,COND=(4,LT) //SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD *

Re: IBM Announces WebSphere Application Server V6.1 for z/OS

2006-04-12 Thread Aaron Walker
Page six of the referenced link, left side, bulleted item: IBM currently intends to deliver the following items for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, V6.1 in a post GA timeframe: - 64-bit enablement for WebSphere Application Server for z/OS - A Web server for z/OS, powered by Apache for use

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread Greg Shirey
Workload Manager allows for the definitions of scheduling environments. If you were to use JES2 (or JES3, I suppose) to issue MODIFY commands to the WLM address space at particular times of the day to set the resource values, you could create some semblance of a job scheduler. It does require you

Re: Storage group PAV

2006-04-12 Thread Max Scarpa
Hi Kees Actually I suspected it but some bosses were scared about having so many sms volumes with PAVs. Having many volumes defined tgo SMS even if not 'real' volumes gives me more flexibility in managing space shortages. Thank you very much MAx Scarpa Db2 sysprog

Re: Storage group PAV

2006-04-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Actually I suspected it but some bosses were scared about having so many sms volumes with PAVs. SMS and PAV's are not connected (yet). PAV's are based on device activity and I/O queuing. Devices that are not SMS managed are still eligible for PAV's (EG: SPOOL). And, you can (through the IODF)

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/12/2006 8:24:30 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In this case, two jobs are submitted simultaneously. We use CA-Scheduler for production and other test job streams. I thought that a scheduler was included with the operating system, but I am just

Re: ISPF panel question

2006-04-12 Thread Jim McAlpine
Blue Peter badges to Dave and Tom. It was a cock-up with the ISPTLIB concatenation. Thanks chaps. Jim McAlpine On 4/11/06, Thomas Conley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm configuring File Manager for DB2 and I want to remove a particular option from a panel so some users can't see it. The

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Darren Evans-Young
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Other than being line mode, TSO EDIT is a *lot* more user friendly than vi. But if you're working on multiple Unix systems, it's useful to know an editor that will always be there. Then there are the people who actually like the thing. De

Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-12 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/11/2006 10:46:19 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Universities that don't place graduates in jobs don't stay in business long. If your place of employment cares about zSeries skills, it is important to make that known to local colleges and

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread R.S.
Darren Evans-Young wrote: [...] vi used to be the only editor included on standard Unix installations. Now, the vendors include other editors. However, if you have to boot from the CD to recover a system in single user mode, vi is usually the only editor available. You better know if you need to

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi, A recent post posed the question: I need to schedule the execution of 26 jobs. This has to happen such that the 2nd job should start after the successful execution of the 1st job, the 3rd after the 2nd and so on. Moreover the output of 1st job is the input to the 2nd job. How do I

Re: Region size for batch processing

2006-04-12 Thread Ray Mullins
When I was in support many years ago, many times customers would call asking us about an S40D or S0DC abends - it just went away! (For the peanut gallery, the problem is that there is no more left in below-the-line private to acquire LSQA for the RTM control blocks.) I've lost track of the

Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-12 Thread Darren Evans-Young
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006, Ed Finnell wrote: So the exposure starts much younger and is continuous 'til they get to 'higher ed'. Now who's gonna opt for JCL and TSO after they've been ICON'd and auto updated for a decade? The CS departments dropped ALC and COBOL at least 12 years in favor of C++,

Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-12 Thread Justin Eastman
I think you hit the nail on the head here Steve. I volunteer to help with Universities in Arizona for the IBM Academic Initiative. 2 of the 3 Universities have been approached in Arizona and the heads of the CS departments have stopped IBM in their tracks saying mainframes are not a

Re: Region size for batch processing

2006-04-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
've lost track of the times I've told people why 0M is a bad idea for a server-type program, and in general is a bad idea. IBM has shipped 0M for 'server-types', for years. VTAM, NETVIEW, IMS, DB2, MQ-Series, to name a few. I don't have a problem with that. Where I have a problem is with

Re: Region size for batch processing

2006-04-12 Thread Rugen, Len
I have a SAF call in IEFUSI, you get over 256M if you DESERVE it. I think you can address the under 16M vs. 0M limit in IEFUSI as well, I think you could set the region size to a suitable value less than GDAPVTSZ. -Original Message- snip I don't have a problem with that. Where I

Re: Region size for batch processing

2006-04-12 Thread R.S.
andy corpes wrote: Hi All, We are having discisisons regarding an optimal region size for our standard batch processing. Currently, we use region=0M for all of our batch jobs without any noticeable problems. IMHO it's like lack of fuse in a circuit. Fuse is not needed ...unless something

Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-12 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/12/2006 10:37:48 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: senior level programmers to do entry level jobs. IBM is actively soliciting Universities to try to introduce more curriculum. So hopefully its moving in the right direction. Unfortunately, its an

Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-12 Thread Kristine Harper
Justin, That is interesting to hear! I just graduated from U of AZ last year and ran into the exact same problems - they have no idea what power the mainframe has and think it is something that won't have importance in the future. Everyone thought I was pretty crazy for wanting to pursue a

Re: Region size for batch processing

2006-04-12 Thread Hal Merritt
If your system is not set up to deal with very large address spaces, a malfunctioning task can cause you some serious problems. On the other hand, if you are not set up for large address spaces, you could be underutilizing you main storage and hurting overall throughput. Some argue that that is a

Re: IRA400E

2006-04-12 Thread Leif Rundberget
I had the same problem at this site a month ago. My Low and OK thresholds for frame stealing were already set at 4000,4500. I doubted that adding a few hundred more to the OK threshold would make a difference. What I found was that all of the batch jobs using up memory are running SyncSort's

Re: IRA400E

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Pinion
Wait a minute, I thought the State of Colorado doesn't have mainframes anymore! [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/12/2006 12:24:35 PM I had the same problem at this site a month ago. My Low and OK thresholds for frame stealing were already set at 4000,4500. I doubted that adding a few hundred more to the

Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Comstock
Justin Eastman wrote: I think you hit the nail on the head here Steve. I volunteer to help with Universities in Arizona for the IBM Academic Initiative. 2 of the 3 Universities have been approached in Arizona and the heads of the CS departments have stopped IBM in their tracks saying

Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Comstock
Kristine Harper wrote: Justin, That is interesting to hear! I just graduated from U of AZ last year and ran into the exact same problems - they have no idea what power the mainframe has and think it is something that won't have importance in the future. Everyone thought I was pretty crazy for

LDAP in z/OS 1.6 question

2006-04-12 Thread Kevin Mullin
This is a code issue. I'm trying to do something, and its not working, and I need some help from someone who knows LDAP in z/OS 1.6. Here is a statement of my problem. By the way, I am cloning an existing system, one that I wrote, to come up with a similar system to achieve a similar result, an

Moving BACK to the mainframe

2006-04-12 Thread Dave Salt
From: Warner Mach [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been reading IBM-Main off and on for awhile and one of the reoccurring concerns is, of course, the phasing out of the mainframe at various shops. Very recently I've been talking to two different people at two different shops who both share a similar

Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion

2006-04-12 Thread Justin Eastman
But you have to have a two-pronged approach. It's nice to have the universities offer z/OS-related training, but you (IBM) still need to win the hearts and minds of young techies and managers back to the values of the platform, or they will never select or sustain it. We've discussed this to

Another fine mess

2006-04-12 Thread Kirk Talman
Our tech people can't find the source of this problem and I am looking for any guesses you might have. Sysplex in question has 11 lpars on 5 CECs zOS 1.4 with 1.7 being tested. Sometimes this summer some of the lpars in this plex will be running 1.7 if all goes well. (So far it hasn't.) I

Re: Moving BACK to the mainframe

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Comstock
Dave Salt wrote: From: Warner Mach [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have been reading IBM-Main off and on for awhile and one of the reoccurring concerns is, of course, the phasing out of the mainframe at various shops. Very recently I've been talking to two different people at two different shops who

Re: Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread George Bly
Evil according to a small shop! I work with a younger staff that has played with computers since birth. My boss who is not yet thirty (I'm over thirty) can buy 36 4 processor servers a quarter for what we pay in software costs alone for the mainframe. I am a small shop 1 CPU, 1 chip, small

SHARE Baltimore

2006-04-12 Thread Bielskie, Stephen
Does anyone know when SHARE - Baltimore registration will be available? I want to get in early to assure a piece of the education budget. Steve == Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic

Re: Another fine mess

2006-04-12 Thread Charles Mills
Are you SURE that your batch job on LPAR 1 is the problem? That is, are you sure there is not some other factor outside of what you have described here? Is it possible something else is deleting or renaming C? The reason I ask is that it seems to me that even if you totally dropped the ENQs the

Re: Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread Ray Mullins
What about factoring in personnel costs? 8 x salary for servers versus 1 x salary for mainframe seems to be an obvious arguing point. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Bly Sent: Wednesday April 12 2006 11:09 To:

Re: Space in MB?

2006-04-12 Thread Neil Duffee
On 2006-04-11 at 15:19, Lester, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Space in MB? to IBM-Main: I have a need to produce a listing (via batch) of MVS datasets by dataset pattern. I'd like 1 line per dsname with the space used expressed in GB instead of cylinders,tracks,blocks, etc.

Re: Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Bly Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 1:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe Evil Evil according to a small shop! I work with a younger staff that has

Re: Another fine mess

2006-04-12 Thread Kirk Talman
Replies in [[ ]] IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 04/12/2006 02:11:13 PM: Are you SURE that your batch job on LPAR 1 is the problem? That is, are you sure there is not some other factor outside of what you have described here? Is it possible something else is

Abend B00 using IBM Debug Tool

2006-04-12 Thread Ken Deering/TBS Software Inc.
I've searched all the IBM sites I can get to on this with no luck. I can't shake the feeling that we've done something stupid here ourselves. We're running z/OS 1.6 and trying to run an C++ app compiled under that level of z/OS UNIX with the TEST/ parm and we get 3 consecutive B00 abends and

Moving BACK to the mainframe

2006-04-12 Thread Dave Salt
Steve, I've contacted the 2 people off list and forwarded your email to them. I've explained the situation, and left it up to them whether they want to contact you or not. I hope they do, but of course it's up to them and their management. Sometimes, management isn't too keen to have their Oops

Message to: Mohammad Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-04-12 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi Mohammed, You recent contributes to the Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion to the effect that ..The poster child of IBM education initiative, Marist College, does not even reply to emails, the phone number listed on the web page either does not work or leads to a fax machine... I cannot comment

Re: Moving BACK to the mainframe

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Comstock
Dave Salt wrote: Steve, I've contacted the 2 people off list and forwarded your email to them. I've explained the situation, and left it up to them whether they want to contact you or not. Absolutely. That's terrific. Thanks. I hope they do, but of course it's up to them and their

Re: Message to: Mohammad Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2006-04-12 Thread A. Harry Williams
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:55:03 +0100 Terry Sambrooks said: Hi Mohammed, You recent contributes to the Re: Kudos to IBM's promotion to the effect that ..The poster child of IBM education initiative, Marist College, does not even reply to emails, the phone number listed on the web page either does

Re: A very basic question

2006-04-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
There have been some good discussions in the past which suggest that the DFP access methods don't use STARTIO directly. Those few dedicated vivisectionists of I/O working at ISVs and the IBM folks working in DFSMSdfp z/OS IOS can talk about this with some authority but with OCO and withdrawal of

Re: Region size for batch processing

2006-04-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
ABEND40D, ABEND0F9, ... are what you can get running REGION=0M without any intervention by IEFUSI so your systems programmers are right. This has been discussed at length before search terms REGION and IEFUSI will get you tons of hits in the archives. We use an IEFUSI I updated from one Mike

Re: Moving BACK to the mainframe

2006-04-12 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/12/2006 12:57:28 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yup. Keep 'em coming, y'all. Did the boothill website die from lack of use or lack of inclination? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/12/2006 1:09:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Things run well on the server side for a fraction of the cost so how can I defend the mainframe in our environment. Cost per butt?

Re: Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread Hal Merritt
You can't. PC folks lack a frame of reference and tend to ignore significant parts of the TCO. Server farms are entry level and are cost effective for that mission. However, as the load grows past some point, the TCO of the server farm begins to skyrocket. The MF costs also rise, but at a rate

Re: Job scheduling

2006-04-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
ftp://phoenixsoftware.com/pub/demo/JES3_White_Paper.pdf A point Ed makes very well in his white paper worth reading even for JES2 folks BTW. Thanks, Sam -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Wednesday, April 12,

Re: Run CLIST/Edit marco without SYSEXEC

2006-04-12 Thread Barry Schwarz
CLISTs belong in SYSPROC, not SYSEXEC. (REXX's can go in either.) You can change the SYSEXEC/SYSPROC allocation after logon with the ALLOCATE command. This will allow your macro to be in any library you like. You can also use the ALTLIB command to set up a temporary library that

No subject

2006-04-12 Thread Pamela Christina in sunny Endicott NY
Subject:May 3 IBM Webcast - The IBM System z(tm): Rethinking the Role of the Mainframe Cross-posted to IBMVM,IBM-MAIN,and LINUX listservs for your reading pleasure Date:Wednesday, May 3, 2006 Time: 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT Register: http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/2006 This webcast looks to

Re: A very basic question

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
So, it seems that this package is used to perform some sort of computation based on zip codes, or something along those lines. If this is the primary (or part of) application on this CICS region, then it's quite conceivable that during a peak period, the region is, in effect, doing a lot of

Re: Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread George Bly
It is not just the low cost of entry but also the cost of change. The way technology is changing it is cheap to change to double the technology in two years. When you add another processor to a sun box the only cost is the additional processor. No software increase and no license changes.

Re: Another fine mess

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Is it possible that someone isn't using the front-end? -- 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: Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Things run well on the server side for a fraction of the cost so how can I defend the mainframe in our environment. How many users in the server environment? How many support personell? Ditto (both) for the mainframe? Compare contrast. - -teD O-KAY! BLUE! JAYS! Let's PLAY! BALL!

Re: Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of George Bly [ snip ] Last upgrade in my small shop cost for just ISV software was $300,000 in just upgrade fees. I didn't need to change one piece of code. That's hard to defend. To put it bluntly, it's

Re: Space in MB?

2006-04-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
give you the value in Kb (or KiBi for the purists) Actually on disk it's KB. In memory, it's KiBi. (Also your replyto is set, so I had to over-ride to get to IBM-Main) - -teD O-KAY! BLUE! JAYS! Let's PLAY! BALL! -- For

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
On a few of our unix boxes, we actually have ISPF installed for a few crippled mainframers who have to do work on unix. Personally, I feel *when in Rome, ...* -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: A very basic question

2006-04-12 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 4/12/2006 5:46:05 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAIK it uses STARTIO, which has a shorter path length than EXCP or even EXCPVR. You're right. VSAM is officially defined as an IOS Driver in the IOSB DSECT in the Driver ID field. Therefore VSAM

Re: Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Bly Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe Evil It is not just the low cost of entry but also the cost of change. The way

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Tsujimoto Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS) On a few of our unix

Re: Cics Transaction I/O computation [was: A very basic question]

2006-04-12 Thread Neil Duffee
No definitive answers by a long shot but another coupla straws to consider grasping at. - On 2006-04-11 at 15:29, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about re: Cics Transaction I/O computation to IBM-Main: [snip] There is no contention unless you consider 2000 I/O's contentious. OMEGAMON

Re: A very basic question

2006-04-12 Thread Rugen, Len
I just pulled this from one of our CICS transactions: Overall Elapsed time: 4.109s *---·* | Dispatch time . . . : 0.453s| Suspend time . . . . . . : 3.656s| |

Re: A very basic question

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/12/2006 at 11:04 AM, Knutson, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There have been some good discussions in the past which suggest that the DFP access methods don't use STARTIO directly. Which DFP access methods? There's not much of a code overlap between [B|D|I|Q]SAM and

Re: LDAP in z/OS 1.6 question

2006-04-12 Thread Klein, Kevin
Semi-LDAP rookie here(z/OS 1.4). Don't you have to say which objectclasses you need any time you're adding a new record. Does it work if you include the objectclass=top objectclass=OnCallNotes lines in your LDIF file when adding the NoteNumber=6 record? -Original Message-

Re: Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread Dave Salt
From: Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last upgrade in my small shop cost for just ISV software was $300,000 in just upgrade fees. I didn't need to change one piece of code. That's hard to defend. To put it bluntly, it's indefensible. -jc- Gouging by ISV's is a large part of the reason

Don't go there ...

2006-04-12 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 15:47 -0500, McKown, John wrote: Well, if we're going to be off-topic, I've just discovered kate on my Linux system. The spark to start a (yet another) KDE vs. Gnome flame-war ???. Here of all places, in the land of (disappearing ???) Dinos ... Shane ...

Re: Mainframe Evil

2006-04-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I know of at least one ISV that charges a remarkably low flat rate for all of their software, regardless of size or speed of mainframe. IBM does (did?) that for NOTES and (IIRC) WebSphere. The cost was per CPU, whether stand-alone, or in a multi-processor configuration. This was after NALC and

COBOL2 Issues

2006-04-12 Thread Tom Ross
We ran into a program that was compiled and executed in a COBOL2 environment successfully. When we re-compiled and executed the program with Enterprise COBOL, it returned a S0C4 abend (rc4). The load module is a combination of COBOL and assembler code. Anyone know if this is a COBOL issue or LE?

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/12/2006 at 04:39 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Presonally I prefer ed, because I can work with it. vi includes ed. I cannot use vi. I use computers for years, people say, I'm not idiot. I would be the last person to defend vi[1], but an awful lot of people

Re: Fw: Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS)

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/12/2006 at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I originally said: cat -- list ... Okay, then list is not what it does. Where was the word PRINT? Print is usually synonymous with list in DP circles, and since the statement is wrong either way, ... --

Re: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS

2006-04-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/11/2006 at 07:52 PM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Never heard of ASI.. is that like Palm Beach computing? West Palm Beach. They're the outfit that used to sell an extremely simple, but useful, piece of hardware called FileGard. The copy command would have to

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