Gee man, this thread makes me think of the problem: how many system
programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? Well: an entire forum of
them. The question is answered but still there is a lot to say,
consider, add, contradict, supplied, etc.etc. If the OP is to wait
untill all information has
Check out the latest edition of z/OS Hot Topics:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/hot_topics.html
There are a lot of great topics in this issue. As always, we'd love to get
your feedback and hear about what you would like to see published in future
editions.
Your astonishment only shows your own limitations.
Maybe true.
The reason it is not reasonable and useful is for exactly the reason that
Roland ran into trouble: we might choose to roll back a definition at any
point for any reason that we feel useful.
I'm guessing that your astonishment arises
Now I would give the latest feedback on this topic.
After I switched from 'Enterprise PL/I for Z/OS v3r1m0' to 'IBM PL/I
for MVSVM V1R1M1', my problem has been solved.
And I would say thanks to Barry Merrill. He kindly took my SMF dump
data set duing my test and gave me the analysis:
The two
What is going on with IBMLink?
Since last Wednesday, I have hit the Our Apologies page more than IBMLink.
Talked with a Help Desk person this morning who told me the URL has been
changed:
www.ibm.com/ibmlink/link2
That worked for a little while, now I am back to the Our Apologies page.
Any
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[ snip ]
You build your own stuff in a block of common storage
(typically ECSA or ESQA) and place its address in your
designated slot. Once its there you can access your own stuff
from any
The new URL you posted worked for me.
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Didn't work for me; I got the same panel about apologies. In out shop,
about half of the users have success and about half fail.
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Is storage isolation on for this transaction.
No.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 08/25/2006
at 08:36 AM, Gibbons, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I was trying to set an IF slip given a csect name in an NFS module.
Since these modules are now program objects I was not getting the
right offset from the beginning of the load module. The offsets
listed
In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 08/26/2006
at 05:52 AM, Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Checking the runtime level happen during runtime but at assembly
time I would like to know what is maximum of info.
I've often used SYSPARM to control assembling for different
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/26/2006
at 09:33 PM, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
And, I'm astonished at your astonishment!
But Peter is right.
The technique of testing for the presence of control block fields at
assembly time e.g., AIF (NOT D'CVTH) to skip around
release-dependent
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
08/25/2006
at 05:33 PM, John R. Ehrman (408-463-3543 T/543-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
John Ehrman
There was a subthread on the issue of whether such questions should be
posted here or only on ASSEMBLER-L. What is your position?
Thanks.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/27/2006
at 01:36 PM, Ken Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I am looking to run an inline proc that will insert the rundate from
the System
Which system? They might not all be in the same timezone.
into a data set name in a JES2 environment.
It's an MVS problem, not
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/27/2006
at 04:44 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
i think there was the vehicle plowing into the lobby of a building
... early 80s? someplace in maryland?
Goldsboro Road?
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
08/25/2006
at 01:31 PM, Martin, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I know communicating is key, but we are looking for extra controls so
we don't step on each other. Any good ideas for serializing access
to libraries we will be customizing?
LMF or SCLM?
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/27/2006
at 11:28 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
ISPF/LMF. Keep a source copy of each library and a production
copy. Make all changes to the source copy with ISPF Edit, which
serializes updates to members. Periodically (e.g. daily plus on
special
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/27/2006
at 05:17 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Likewise, if an edit session is interrupted with RECOVERY ON, does
ISPF lock out other editing of the same member until the original
user recovers?
No.
As others have noted here, CMS UPDATE provides
In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
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at 04:58 PM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Any program that returns to the operating system by branching to the
address it was told when it initially got control is assumed to have
completed successfully.
FSVO successfully. In general
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snip
Make a business case to IBM that they will
On Monday, 08/28/2006 at 08:08 AST, Peter Relson/Poughkeepsie/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Your astonishment only shows your own limitations.
Maybe true.
The reason it is not reasonable and useful is for exactly the reason
that
Roland ran into trouble: we might choose to roll back a definition
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
08/27/2006
at 09:49 AM, Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
IBM said it's a problem that 'VisualAge and Enterprise PL/I
sometimes use BSAM for record I/O, while the older PL/I always used
QSAM.
That's wrong; even PL/1 (F) supported BSAM.
So, what I should do?
Get
I was told by our IBM rep that the URL below is temporary. They are having
some JAVA issues. They are working it as a Severity 1.
Thanks.
John Eatherly
What is going on with IBMLink?
Since last Wednesday, I have hit the Our Apologies page more than IBMLink.
Talked with a Help Desk person
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Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 7:31 AM
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Subject: Re: Z/os Performance issue: REWRITE a sequential data set
snip
So it's really because of BSAM and
John:
The problem with AINSERT from what I currently understand (and we need
to take this to the ASM LIST, which I will complete doing this evening),
the card image must be built so that you have a non-blank that will show
up in CC72. Otherwise all your data that will be substituted will get
And I would counter that the best way to get a requirement reject by IBM
is to tell them how it should be implemented. The requirement should
spell out the PROBLEM in detail, not HOW the user thinks it should be
fixed.
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
JME Software LLC
NOTE: All opinions are
The problem with AINSERT from what I currently understand (and we need
to take this to the ASM LIST, which I will complete doing this
evening),
the card image must be built so that you have a non-blank that will
show
up in CC72. Otherwise all your data that will be substituted will get
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[ snip ]
Let's not forget that bombs actually _have_ been carried onto
the Tube whereas none have been carried onto aircraft so far.
Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie was attributed to a bomb carried inside a
Richard Peurifoy wrote:
I was curious, so I did a GTF trace and see I/O to the PDS to count the number
of directories. SVC 0 is used and shows a DDNAME of , a DCB addr,
and a DEB addr. There is no OPEN, CLOSE, DYNALLOC, or DEBCHK SVC.
There may be branch entries internally for these
LE as used by COBOL and LE as used by PL/1 are wildly different. The
functionality is the same but many of the interfaces and defaults are
different. For examle, I had a problem whtere the old cobol II runtime was
in the joblist - PL/1 ran just fine - COBOL did NOT.
MIke
On 8/28/06, Johnny Luo
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:55:35 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
: At 16:20 -0500 on 08/25/2006, Mark wrote about Re: VSAM CLOSE failure
: problem:
: Charles,
: When I issue the close request, I do indeed still have the ACB in
: core. The SHOWCB ERROR as noted in
From: Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok, ADCD 1.4 is old and maybe is lack of maintenance so its PL/I compiler
is 'buggy'. But how about the compiler of my friend's site? It's the newer
version and is under normal maintenance( built on 20051017) .
I doubt that IBM would accept your
To continue with my problem with DCOLLECT and phantom VSAM datasets.
What appears to have happened is we have several VSAM data sets (DATA or INDEX)
spread across several SMS managed volumes that are uncataloged.
Does anyone know how a VSAM data sets can go through delete processing and
still
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Behalf Of Anne Lynn Wheeler
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:44 PM
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snip
i think there was the vehicle plowing into the lobby
Lizette,
I did not see a reply from you about having volumes in more than one
storage group. *That* might have caused this. Not sure.
Nevertheless, you can get rid of them with a DELETE clustercomponentname
VVR
Bob Richards
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I had the same problem. This time I sent them a feedback, then I went to
the z/OS page and did a search on IBMLINK. The first hit was the old page
that IBMLINK has changed. I clicked the United States link and found that
I was logged on and could use it.
Tom Marchant
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006
Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) wrote:
snip
If this pervasive and well-established technique becomes unreliable, I
predict *lots* of software will break!
snip
Shall I give two for instances?
JES2 and JES3 exits and interfacing code?
The values of EQUates and the existence of field names are
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said:
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:48:46 -0300
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/27/2006
at 05:17 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Likewise, if an edit session is interrupted with RECOVERY ON, does
ISPF lock out other editing of the
Just one more plus for the 3270 interface..
Jon L. Veilleux
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i think there was the vehicle plowing into the lobby of a building ...
early 80s? someplace in maryland? after that you definitely saw
datacenters being moved from glass showplace next to the lobby into some
form
On Monday, 08/28/2006 at 08:34 AST, B Sysprog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What is going on with IBMLink?
Since last Wednesday, I have hit the Our Apologies page more than
IBMLink.
Talked with a Help Desk person this morning who told me the URL has
been
changed:
www.ibm.com/ibmlink/link2
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Peter Relson
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 7:08 AM
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Subject: IBM's rights (was Head's Up - zIIP issue OA17458/UA28419)
snip
Roland's technique is very reasonable
Alan,
The new US link you mentioned below fails the same way as the others
fail...
Tom Harper
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:11 AM
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We are having some success with the link the following way:
First, go to your normal link and try to log in. When you get the Sorry
message, cut and paste the link below into your browser, hit enter, and you
will be in. At least a most of our people are getting in that way.
John Eatherly
At 8/28/2006 08:08 AM, PRelson wrote:
DCole wrote:
Roland's technique is very reasonable considering that for many
decades you did not provide any of us with an alternative. Thank
you for finally providing SYSSTATE_OSREL.
Did anyone ever ask for this sort of thing before you did via a
On Monday, 08/28/2006 at 10:13 EST, Tom Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The new US link you mentioned below fails the same way as the others
fail...
:-( A previous post mentioned a Sev 1 problem. Hopefully these are all
just facets of the same problem.
Unfortunately IBMers cannot access
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Hi, All,
Got a CICS application program that branches out of itself
(stays in the CICS region)
Very confusing. If I follow the link http://www.ibm.com/ibmlink and
select Unitied StatesSISlogin, then I get my normal IBMLink page. But,
if I take that link directly to the login screen, I get the *apology*.
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You have to know the target address.
I think I can narrow it fairly well
Then SLIP SET,SB,range=(target-start,target-end) can be used
to set a slip trap which will hit when a branch is taken to
From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How does WSA deal with the need to update statistics?
Could you run THE on a workstation with TSO?
WSA has an option that allows member statistics to be generated (or not)
when files are transferred to a mainframe.
I don't know if THE works with TSO,
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:25:21 -0400, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Unfortunately IBMers cannot access IBMLink without incurring departmental
charges. We get to the back-end systems using other paths and so can't
readily test or verify problems you find in the front-end applications.
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Subject: Re: SLIP trap for wild branch?
snipage
different libraries concatenated
in front of the ISV
On 8/28/2006 11:38 AM, Chase, John wrote:
Hopefully the trap is sprung when the target address first appears in
the PSW, and before the current registers (esp. the program base regs)
can get changed?
If it's truly a wild branch then most likely an abend happens within the
first handful of
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TW)
[ snip ]
Just to be sure that you have checked all the environmental things:
Look at the CICS where it runs correctly and then look at the
others. If the libraries are different (PDS
Hi All,
I am burning the midnight oil. I have a problem trying to track down an
error messsage :ADSDM192. This pertains to CA-DISK product. I checked the IBM
BOOK MANAGER BookServer but no luck. I GOOGLED the error message but no dice.
I checked CA-Disk(TM) Release 9.0.2 (CADISK92)
Just a thought, have you tried CA support?
Thanks,
Fletch
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Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:15 PM
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Hi
This is what I have bookmarked, and it just worked for me:
(sorry for any URL wrap)
http://www-306.ibm.com/ibmlink/link2/servicelink/servicelinkPage.jsp?lc=encc=US
Mark
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That URL actually resolves to:
https://www-304.ibm.com/usrsrvc/account/userservices/jsp/login.jsp?persistPage=true
which is the URL that worked originally. That did work for me, but when
you sign-out, and click on sign-in, you get a different URL and get a
screen that asks you to update your
Hi Peter,
It was SVC screening, and screening is propagated to daughter TCBs (by
trapping ATTACH). The routine I wrote was needed because certain 3rd-party
IEBCOPY replacements attached their own SVCs, and security issues were
arising because TCBSENV was not being propagated. (This was over a
snip The current
production sysplex is running on a pair of Amdahl Millennium boxes
(a
700 series and a 2000 series). The ISV application runs correctly in
all three CICSes on both Amdahls. snip
Except as just noted, ALL of the software is identical across both
sysplex images. The only
28 August 2006
Do NOT bookmark the Sign In page
This article provides recommendations on how to access IBMLink pages,
whether invoking a bookmark you previously created, clicking on a link
in a note or document, or entering a URL into your browser. By following
these recommendations, you will
Anyone know where I can find a DSECT for the ULUT which is pointed to
by the IOVTULUT.
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Home Depot Technology Center
1300 Park Center Drive, Austin, TX 78753
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John,
Did you get a four digit number after the ADSDM192 message? If so, try to
find that
code in the message manual.
Regards,
John
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ULUT is OCO. Starting with z/OS R7 the ULUT has been changed.
In this case you will see a x'02' (version) at offset 4.
Roland
Anyone know where I can find a DSECT for the ULUT which is pointed to
by the IOVTULUT.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris
snip The current
production sysplex is running on a pair of Amdahl Millennium boxes
(a
700 series and a 2000 series). The ISV application runs correctly
in
all three CICSes on both Amdahls.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Chase, John
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 12:20 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SLIP trap for wild branch?
snip
Might be worth a shot. I initially dismissed this as a possibility
I do have it the 4 digit (4266) but I cannot find the message manual online. I
tried calling CA and I get all our associates (I think that's what it said)
are busyblah blah blah. Since it is not an emergency I put the phone
down.
I am going to have 40 winks and hopefully I will
Might be worth a shot. I initially dismissed this as a possibility
because the application is CICS/COBOL, and those kinds of programs
normally don't visit the PSA (indeed, not many of them even know
there
*is* a PSA, let alone where to find it).
Its not that they intentionally visit the
I would venture to say that the operating system as we see it today is a
package of a kernel, API, and system utilities. Some would argue that an
operating system is only a kernel, and that wouldn't be wrong, just academic.
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On Monday, 08/28/2006 at 06:45 ZE2, Lindy Mayfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a general consensus about what pieces or aspects of the
software
shipped with z/OS would be defined as the operating system?
It depends on your definition of of operating system. The classical
definition
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:55:35 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
: At 16:20 -0500 on 08/25/2006, Mark wrote about Re: VSAM CLOSE failure
: problem:
: Charles,
: When I issue the close request, I do indeed still have the ACB in
: core. The
Lizette,
I don't know about deleting the cluster and leaving the DATA INDEX
components, but I have seen where the data sets were created and put on the
SMS volumes from a different LPAR (catalogs are either not shared). So,
from the production side we see only uncataloged DATA INDEX
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:13:28 -0400, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
It depends on your definition of of operating system. The classical
definition is the chunk of software that manages the real system
resources, allocating them to application programs. That is, the
gatekeeper for access
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Might be worth a shot. I initially dismissed this as a
possibility because the application is
Hello Gentle Listers.
Is there a standard way to handle dups if found in a KSDS, or an ESDS?
Or a non-standard way?
How are duplicates handled for these type clusters?
Thank In Advance
Carol
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From the other hand, DISP=SHARE (do not confuse with SHR) is still
supported and documented.
Never heard of it, and it's not in the z/OS 1.8 JCL Reference.
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You should not have dups in a KSDS file. During write processing you
should have had a dupkey condition raised.
For ESDS I would probably use SORT/MERGE and tell it to drop dups.
Mark D Pace
Senior Systems Engineer
Mainline Information Systems
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John,
I do have it the 4 digit (4266) but I cannot find the message manual
online.
I did not have it in my local manuals either. I found the manual through
the CA-Disk forum page on
esupport website.
4266 FILES-DD IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR (FFF)
It appears you tried a function that requires an
Alan Altmark writes:
It depends on your definition of of operating system. The classical
definition is the chunk of software that manages the real system
resources, allocating them to application programs. That is, the
gatekeeper for access to the CPU, memory, and I/O devices. That would
From the z/OS 1.7 JCL Reference...
SHR Indicates that the data set exists before this step and that other jobs
can share it, that is, use it at the same time. This subparameter can also
be coded as SHARE.
Thanks. The thing that confused me was Radoslaw's comment, do not confuse
with SHR.
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:56:44 -0500, John P Kalinich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
From the z/OS 1.7 JCL Reference...
SHR Indicates that the data set exists before this step and that other jobs
can share it, that
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:41:02 -0500 Carol Srna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:Is there a standard way to handle dups if found in a KSDS, or an ESDS?
:Or a non-standard way?
:How are duplicates handled for these type clusters?
You shouldn't have dup's in a KSDS.
Regarding an ESDS: What does your
You can have duplicate keys in a path that uses an alternate index to
access a KSDS. The true key built by VSAM for the alternate index has a
tie-breaker field.
What does it mean to have a dup in an ESDS? There is no key?
pup
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On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 09:56:36 -0400, Wayne Driscoll
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And I would counter that the best way to get a requirement reject by IBM
is to tell them how it should be implemented. The requirement should
spell out the PROBLEM in detail, not HOW the user thinks it should be
...
It
Thanks Alan. I realized that coming up with a definition of what is an
operating system was a slippery slope. So I thought to ask if maybe it was
more well defined for z/OS by IBM.
I tried to think of an example where things were clear. I could think of maybe
PC-DOS 1.2. If I remember
Couldn't you use a GTF trace with the trace=slip operand and set an IF
or SB SLIP ACTION=TRACE with the limits being in your program? Setting
TRDATA=(STD,REGS) should show you where the branch is occurring and
where it is branching to.
Jon L. Veilleux
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 2:05 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: What part of z/OS is the OS?
Thanks Alan. I realized that coming up with a definition of what is an
Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote:
the result was that w/o stringently enforced microkernel standards ... the
micro-kernel tended to become extremely bloated, starting to resemble
the kernels of more traditionally implemented operating systems ...
becoming more and more bloating and much more difficult
Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) wrote:
How did this tape get created? Was it created on a VSE system? If so not
all of the label information is filled out and so *YOU* have to supply
the actual physical record size (BLKSIZE) along with the other DCB info.
UNLESS you are using LBI. In that case, the
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:14:19 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:Binyamin Dissen wrote:
: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:55:35 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: :Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
: : At 16:20 -0500 on 08/25/2006, Mark wrote about Re: VSAM CLOSE failure
: : problem:
: : Charles,
: : When
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Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 2:47 PM
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Subject: Re: JCL - Copy Tape
Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) wrote:
How did this tape get created? Was it created on a VSE system? If
From the other hand, DISP=SHARE (do not confuse with SHR) is still
supported and documented.
Never heard of it, and it's not in the z/OS 1.8 JCL Reference.
When I was taught JCl, in an earlier aeon, I was taught DISP=SHARE and DSNAME=
...
I now use SHR and DSN because I moved to a site using
In a message dated 8/28/2006 2:43:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you are a contract programmer in the state of Ohio, you must charge
sales tax any time the work you do involves the installation or
modification of the operating system!
Ok, so I asked the
In
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on 08/28/2006
at 11:25 AM, Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Unfortunately IBMers cannot access IBMLink without incurring
departmental charges.
Sigh! I'm firmly convinced that vendors should eat their own dog food,
and I consider charging departments for access to
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:14:19 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:Binyamin Dissen wrote:
: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:55:35 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: :Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
: : At 16:20 -0500 on 08/25/2006, Mark wrote about Re: VSAM CLOSE failure
: :
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:14:19 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:Binyamin Dissen wrote:
: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:55:35 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: :Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
: : At 16:20 -0500 on 08/25/2006, Mark wrote about Re: VSAM CLOSE failure
: :
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:14:19 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:Binyamin Dissen wrote:
: On Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:55:35 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: :Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
: : At 16:20 -0500 on 08/25/2006, Mark wrote about Re: VSAM CLOSE failure
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In a message dated 8/28/2006 4:22:54 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actually, it turns out that I have a valid in core ACB in both
situations. Verified through the dump contents of both dumps.
Guess I'd change the order of the closes and see if last one fails or
This performance problem was addressed in December 2004 (APAR PQ95212)
when we did the I/O rewrite. We have made substantial improvements in
Enterprise PL/I I/O during the past couple of years and we are in the
process of making more. For example, PQ95212 (12/2004) improved PL/I's
record I/O
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