Hi George,
With regard too:
I'm curious if its fine to take the default of 32720 even though its not
using half track blocking like the PDS. Is it safe going with the default or
am I wasting a bunch of space? Does it matter with PDSE's since they are
radand written to differently?
George D Dranes wrote:
I have a question I was hoping someone on the board would have some
experience
with. I'm converting many of our PDSs to PDSEs. Most of these datasets
are
LRECL=80 and RECFM=FB. The default blksize (which I typically take) for
the
PDS is 27920 while the default for
Situation:
zOS 1.4, DFDSS 1.3 (mainframe going away within 1 year :-( )
I am asked to restore a tape created with DFDSS 1.7.
The restore job fails with IEC141I 013-E1.
This is my first confrontation with LBI.
It looks like our ADRDSSU is unable to handle this.
Right?
Tia for any suggestion/help.
Terry (and George)
I'm not at all an expert - except that long, long ago I studied QSAM and
BSAM very hard indeed on microfiche viewers[1]. I can imagine that PDSE
logic sits between largely unchanged QSAM logic and whatever logic
corresponds to PDSE support. Thinking about writing, once a QSAM
Hi,
We have a z890 with ICC defined.
We recently had a network problem, and since then, when I try to access the ICC
I get a Communication Check 658.
I've tried restarting the ICC from the HMC and IPLing the LPAR (it's a test
LPAR).
I can ping the ICC tn3270 server address, but telneting
If you have an installed image of CICS - you may (for almost 30 years)
consider SVC99 samples in following library
xx.CICS.SDFHSAMP(DFH99*)- all members starting with DFH99*
Shmuel Koller
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John,
You can use NAVIQUEST to generate all volume you want by selecting the
volume id PA* or P* .
Tommy
On 10/3/06, Russell Witt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John,
If you have CA-1 or CA-Dynam/TLMS on the system, you can run the CTSSYNC
utility. That will allow for a statement of
Hi folks,
I am looking for a way to retrieve the TIME data for each JOBCLASS entry
from within the JES2 Exit #6.
i.e. this data.
$DJOBCLASS,TIME
$HASP837 JOBCLASS(A) TIME=(30,00)
$HASP837 JOBCLASS(B) TIME=(30,00)
$HASP837 JOBCLASS(C)
Hi folks,
I'm trying to find a full and concise description for the following XRC
informational messages;
ANTX8117/8 - A description of what is happening for JOURNAL, PRIMARY,
SECONDARY and MASTER. I've read the message from messages and codes but
need to understand what each one means for a
Having just stumbled down the same road, it starts with the RACF
permissions job. Inside is default user IBMUSER which needs to be changed
to the ID used for the installation.
I actually massaged RACF on my driving system by hand until I beat it into
submission.
Daniel McLaughlin
ZOS
It has it by being allowed at the superior level, if the original rule was
alter for PROD.*.**
Daniel McLaughlin
ZOS Systems Programmer
Crawford Company
PH: 770 621 3256
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.
- Zig Ziglar
Bruce,
JES2 jobclasses are described by the $CAT macro.
Although I haven't done this myself, I believe you can retrieve a
specific $CAT for a jobclass by using the $DOGCAT macro.
Looking at this reminds me of when the JES2 guys introduced the BERTs
and all of the nicely named macros : $DILBERT,
Hi all,
I need to print a report using an overlay contained in a formdef.
The problem is that the report starts with an IMM (Invoke Medium Map)
instruction which refers to a Medium Map contained in another formdef.
This causes the printing (and ACIF creation) to fail because the Medium Map
is
hello all,
I just finished developing a new tools to report the mirrored dasd. It =
is based on the interesting ANTTREXX interface. It runs much faster then
=
multiple Cquery and have several reporting options. If you like it, I'll
=
send the Panel as well.
Regards,
Itschak
/* rexx */
1. Is there an un-IDENTIFY? Following the principle of you allocated it,
you unallocate it, how do you clean up when you are done with the entry
point created by IDENTIFY?
Answer: No to the first question. It will get cleaned up when you DELETE
the
entry point within which the identify'd entry
we are a shop with a z890-230 with three zOS.e LPARs in Basic Sysplex.
We'd be really happy to consolidate some of our applications running right
now on Blades and/or pSeries on the mainframe due to reliability and
scalability of the latter. Within the TryBuy agreement with IBM we got
one IFL
My boss asked me to find out information on how other sites schedule their
folks for the operations area.
Number of shifts per day:
Average number of operators on duty:
Length of shift:
Rotation frequency:
All information will be kept strictly confidential. Your company name
will not be
Did you do SETPROG LPA or is your SYS1.LPALIB in the LINKLIST? If its in LPA
and you refreshed the LINKLIST, then it would appear the just cycling SMS
address space resolved you problem since the newly updated module would not be
found in the system search order.
Regards,
Steve
-Original
With PDSE and SMS compressed data sets, there is the concept of a
logical blocksize and a physical blocksize. In both cases, the physical
blocksize is 4096. That is the blocking factor used to store the data
on disk. The logical blocksize, either specified by the user or
selected by System
I believe APAR OA13742 will resolve your problem.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 2:11 AM
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Subject: Large Block Interface
Situation:
zOS 1.4, DFDSS 1.3
Logically I would agree because the LPALIB is not in the LINKLIST and there
was some debate if the refresh would actually do anything. However, the SMS
developer we spoke with said to do the two steps so we did.
JPace
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Hello all,
Does anyone have a job description for a z/os tuning expert, also for
storage specialist that you are willing to share?
Thanks
Mike!
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Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 8:45 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Oracle on System z.
We are looking at running Oracle instances on System z, and would like
to know
Hi,
We had the same problem with websphere portal, the problem was with only 1
IFL cpu, this is an issue tha you need to worry about, the memory (16 GB)
will be ok with z/Vm 5.2 (not in 5.1).
Oswaldo
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On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 08:32 -0500, Ward, Mike S wrote:
Does anyone have a job description for a z/os tuning expert, ...
Convivial, outgoing, lovable Aussie, first name Shane ...(oops, I wonder
if that's a bit obvious :-) ).
Man, I hope your site isn't in Texas - such a small state probably
In the OP there were two profiles mentioned:
PROD.** to which USR1 had ALTER
PROD.BACKUP to which USR1 does not yet have ALTER access.
The simple way to think about these kinds of problems is that RACF always
chooses the most secure situation. Since PROD.BACKUP is a more specific
profile for
Forget it. PDSEs don't have blocks.
Sure they do, they are always 4K. The blocksize of the PDSE is emulated
when it is read with a standard access method
--
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Senior Software Developer for FDR
Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300
personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sales info:
I tried to find the following web-deliverables:
z/OS V1.4 z990 Exploitation Support
z/OS.e V1.4 z990 Coexistence Update
However the page
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/downloads/
does not contain any links to the deliverables.
WHY ???
z/OS 1.4 is still supported, even older
On Monday 02 October 2006 13:24, Charles Mills wrote:
2. Is there a macro or service that does what IDENTIFY does but
with more control and/or options? Specifically, I would like to
be able to create an entry point that was not marked as reentrant.
The loader form of IDENTIFY creates a major
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 15:56 +0200, R.S. wrote:
I tried to find the following web-deliverables:
z/OS V1.4 z990 Exploitation Support
z/OS.e V1.4 z990 Coexistence Update
However the page
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/downloads/
does not contain any links to the
Shane wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 15:56 +0200, R.S. wrote:
I tried to find the following web-deliverables:
z/OS V1.4 z990 Exploitation Support
z/OS.e V1.4 z990 Coexistence Update
However the page
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/downloads/
does not contain any links to the
Thanks, IBMers.
Charles
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Of Peter Relson
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:32 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IDENTIFY questions
1. Is there an un-IDENTIFY? Following the principle of you
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 08:32 -0500, Ward, Mike S wrote:
Does anyone have a job description for a z/os tuning expert, ...
Shane sez
Convivial, outgoing, lovable Aussie, first name Shane ...(oops, I
wonder
if that's a bit obvious :-) ).
Man, I hope your site isn't in Texas - such a small
In a message dated 10/3/2006 8:48:35 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Man, I hope your site isn't in Texas - such a small state probably
couldn't handle *two* ex-pat Aussies. Maybe I'll have to pass on the
(potential) opportunity.
Texas is our second largest state
An Invoke Medium Map refers to a copygroup (or medium map) within the
current formdef. So, unless I am missing something on this point, you need
to have a copygroup by that name in the formdef that you are using. You can
include a formdef as an inline resource but I don't think that you can
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris
Shane sez
Convivial, outgoing, lovable Aussie, first name Shane ...(oops, I
wonder
if that's a bit obvious :-) ).
Man, I hope your site isn't in Texas - such a small state probably
Funny how this went from a request for job descriptions to stories about
Texas.
Daniel McLaughlin
ZOS Systems Programmer
Crawford Company
PH: 770 621 3256
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you aim at nothing you will hit it every time.
- Zig Ziglar
We just ordered the Exploitation Support through ShopzSeries.
John Ayon
z/OS Server Technology - Technology Specialist
Phone: (616) 791-3623
Fax: (616) 791-5131
In a message dated 10/3/2006 9:42:10 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
An Invoke Medium Map refers to a copygroup (or medium map) within the
current formdef. So, unless I am missing something on this point, you need
to have a copygroup by that name in the formdef that
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:31:50 -0400 Craddock, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
: On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 08:32 -0500, Ward, Mike S wrote:
: Does anyone have a job description for a z/os tuning expert, ...
:Shane sez
: Convivial, outgoing, lovable Aussie, first name Shane ...(oops, I
:wonder
: if
You need to stop and start the TELNET service. The cert is cached by
TELNET. Restarting it is the only to get the new cert read in. I usually
do this on a port by port basis to spread out the pain.
Jerry
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In a recent note, Bruce Black said:
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 09:56:14 -0400
Forget it. PDSEs don't have blocks.
Sure they do, they are always 4K. The blocksize of the PDSE is emulated
when it is read with a standard access method
Are they called blocks or pages nowadays?
OK.
Does the PDSE blocksize work like the blocksize on a load module? As I
understand it, if you allocate a loadlib with 32720, and there is a
large enough load module, the 1st block written will be 32720 bytes
long. Probably slightly less, as a couple of other small blocks are
written first.
I just ran into the same thing in testing. I figured out FTP, but not
telnet. How do you do that start/stop?
Thanks.
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Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 9:47 AM
To:
Eric Bielefeld wrote:
Does the PDSE blocksize work like the blocksize on a load module? As I
understand it, if you allocate a loadlib with 32720, and there is a
large enough load module, the 1st block written will be 32720 bytes
long. Probably slightly less, as a couple of other small blocks
In a recent note, Eric Bielefeld said:
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:33:24 -0500
Does the PDSE blocksize work like the blocksize on a load module? As I
understand it, if you allocate a loadlib with 32720, and there is a
But why not 32760?
large enough load module, the 1st block
Now I feel all wet!
OK. I think I understand it now.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
Eric Bielefeld wrote:
Does the PDSE work similarly, or is my speculation all wet?
Oceanic. As others have stated, PDSE physical blocks are always 4K in
The PDSE Usage Redbook seems to suggest that your speculation is
correct:
The significance of the block size keyword (BLKSIZE) has changed
slightly. All PDSEs
are stored on disk as fixed 4 KB blocks. These 4 KB physical blocks are
also known as pages. The PDSE is logically reblocked to the
John,
Instead of LIBRARY EJECT commands you might want to do the same thing with
a batch job issuing 'TSO RMM CV volser EJECT(BULK)' command. But it is
still 10,000 commands
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On Tuesday, 10/03/2006 at 10:05 ZE2, גדי בן אבי [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We recently had a network problem, and since then, when I try to access
the ICC
I get a Communication Check 658.
I don't know about your emulator, but in IBM PCOMM code 658 is a transient
state that indicates a TCP
Hi, I use these commands:
stop the telnet ssl port:
/V TCPIP,,TELNET,STOP,PORT=2323
start the telnet ssl port:
/V TCPIP,,OBEYFILE,TCPIP.DOE.TELNET.SSL
(be sure to include the
When PH Mining still had their mainframe, they had 6 operators who worked
standard the 3 shifts, with first shift working 8 1/2 hours, and 2nd and 3rd
shift working 8 hours. There was usually 2 people per shift, and 1 on the
weekend. They had a couple part time people who just worked
Shane,
I know Friday comes earlier in Australia than it does in the US, but not
this early!
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee Wisconsin
414-475-7434
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 08:32 -0500, Ward, Mike S wrote:
Does anyone have a job description for a z/os tuning expert, ...
To clarify, one of our plan is to run Oracle on zLinux under zVM on a
System z with 2 or 3 IFLs.
No z/OS nor MVS are involved.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Tuesday, October 03,
I'm thinking now that the difference may have occurred when we upgraded
our OS to 1.7.
Job 1 FTPs the EBCDIC file to a mainframe tape (named with .TEMP
suffix) - return code = 00.
Job 2 ICEGENERs this temporary tape to a new tape, and if the error code
is 0, sends an e-mail indicating
Does each member begin on a fresh track? If not, copying a member
or compressing the library spoils all this clever planning.
No. The last record in a loadlib member is as long as it needs to be,
leaving the rest of the track free. The next member will start with
whatever space is left on
I should have also mentioned that the COPYMOD function of IEBCOPY (as
opposed to the COPY function) will reblock the loadlib members to keep
the track utilization good. COMPRESS probably does not
--
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Senior Software Developer for FDR
Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300
Any suggestions on when in the install/pre-ipl/first ipl phase to receive
the RSU tape?
I responded earlier to a lister who was having allocation problems. If
your RACF on the driving system isn't up to snuff, you'll get these
errors. Run the RACF job using the USERID of the installer in the
On 3 Oct 2006 10:53:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard
Brazee) wrote:
Job 2 ICEGENERs this temporary tape to a new tape, and if the error code
is 0, sends an e-mail indicating success. But the error code now ia 12
after this weekend's upgrade.
I just tested this file, and it is no good. The
I'm an IMS Sysprog and we are bringing in a new IMS release. Currently
we use HFS and my MVS folks have recommended we switch to ZFS. I've
searched the archives here and can't find any help in trying to properly
allocate my ZFS file (size-wise).
Can someone point me toward a manual, Redbook
I just tested this file, and it is no good. The first data record is
down a ways from the top. So the problem may be with the FTP.
It was. Our system programmer will load a patch that she hopes will
fix this - meanwhile the solution is to FTP the EBCDIC file to disk
and then copy it to
At 08:56 -0600 on 10/03/2006, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Default
System BLKSIZE for PDSE:
Is there any value in specifying a value other than BUFNO=1 for
a PDSE? Why?
I'd say YES. You want a minimum of BUFNO=2 so that as you read from
one buffer, another is being primed with data. The
From z/OS Migration (GA22-7499-08), topic 29.3.2 Migrate from HFS file
systems to zFS file systems:
Define zFS aggregates by default to be approximately the same size as the
HFS. The new allocation size can also be increased or decreased.
Brian
On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 14:06:04 -0500, Bowers, Greg
Is this the CA FTP server and did you just upgrade it?
Bob
Howard Brazee wrote:
I just tested this file, and it is no good. The first data record is
down a ways from the top. So the problem may be with the FTP.
It was. Our system programmer will load a patch that she hopes will
fix
In a recent note, Robert A. Rosenberg said:
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 15:14:28 -0400
Is there any value in specifying a value other than BUFNO=1 for
a PDSE? Why?
I'd say YES. You want a minimum of BUFNO=2 so that as you read from
one buffer, another is being primed with data. The
Number of shifts per day: 2
Average number of operators on duty: 3
Length of shift: 12 hrs
Rotation frequency: Sunday thru Wednesday and Wednesday thru Saturday.
Daniel A.
I would venture that PDS-Es use (Media Manager?) sophisticated channel
programs which move several 4K pages at a time into the buffers, so I
think the total buffer space perhaps matters more than the buffer (in this
case also the block-) size.
Tim Hare
Senior Systems Programmer
Florida
Tim Hare said
I would venture that PDS-Es use (Media Manager?) sophisticated channel
programs which move several 4K pages at a time into the buffers, so I
think the total buffer space perhaps matters more than the buffer (in
this
case also the block-) size.
And you'd be right! PDSE is built
If you read the POP, MVCLE moves an implementation determined number of
bytes for each execution until the specified number of bytes have been
moved. You are supposed to branch back to the instruction on CC3. This is
in lieu of making the instruction interruptable like MVCL is. It also gives
Is anyone running Easytrieve v6.4 Gen0202 on a z9 box (2094-604)? CA's
answer is go to the latest version, but we have time constraints.
John Ayon
z/OS Server Technology - Technology Specialist
Phone: (616) 791-3623
FYI,
Update on our z/OS R4 to z/OS R7 migration. We have encountered another
issue
that appears to match the symptom that is described by IBM APAR: OA17875.
We
haven't installed the PTF on the z/OS image that experienced the problem,
so that
is why I indicated 'appears to match'. I spoke to IBM
Bill Planer wrote:
If you read the POP, MVCLE moves an implementation determined
number of bytes for each execution until the specified number
of bytes have been moved. You are supposed to branch back to
the instruction on CC3. This is in lieu of making the
instruction interruptable
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 08:32 -0500, Ward, Mike S wrote:
Does anyone have a job description for a z/os tuning expert, also for
storage specialist that you are willing to share?
Apparently not - at least not on a public list. Interesting.
Are such things deemed corporate confidential these days
Hello,
We are running V6.4 Gen 0202 on a Z9 box and it is working well except for
1 fix we had to apply: QO72665
If you have any more questions Call Diane at CA 630-505-6776 - she is the
one we worked with.
Lucy
We are running 6.4 ML0202 on a z9-BC with no problems. When we went to
the z9-BC CA said there was no problem. We are on z/OS 1.4.
Rex
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Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:39 PM
To:
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 14:19 -0400, Daniel A. McLaughlin wrote:
Any suggestions on when in the install/pre-ipl/first ipl phase to receive
the RSU tape?
Any time you feel comfortable the new system is bedded in I would
think. I generally throw new maint at it from the new system once all
the
John, you may need this one depending on your level of z/OS. In my
earlier post I said I am on 1.4. The description of the CA APAR is
PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: *0311* ABEND IN COMPILE AFTER OS UPGRADE
And it is for specific situations in the eztrieve code. I am planning
on migrating
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 08:32 -0500, Ward, Mike S wrote:
Does anyone have a job description for a z/os tuning expert, also
for
storage specialist that you are willing to share?
Apparently not - at least not on a public list. Interesting.
Are such things deemed corporate confidential these
If XXX is the jobstep program and XXX has an alias of YYY, then is a CDE
created for YYY at the time the jobstep begins? That is, does a LOAD or LINK
to EP=YYY involve a library directory search, or only an in-memory search?
Does it matter whether XXX is a primary name or is itself an alias? Would
In the state of CT, we're eligible for tax savings if our software is
downloaded electronically rather than obtained via physical media.
Has anyone downloaded their complete z/OS ServerPac either via ShopZ or
FTP? Care to share your experience and/or opinions?
We're beginning our plans for
Gee Chris- that description sounds very familiar.
You need the parts about Walking on Water, Dealing
with Products that are not Performance Related, and
Keeping up on new z/Architectures that improve performance.
You may also have to add Java Workloads, z/Linux Environments
that may interact with
In a recent note, Robert Raupach said:
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 19:21:49 -0500
In the state of CT, we're eligible for tax savings if our software is
downloaded electronically rather than obtained via physical media.
In some jurisdictions the tax saving is identical if the vendor's
On Oct 3, 2006, at 7:21 PM, Robert Raupach wrote:
In the state of CT, we're eligible for tax savings if our software is
downloaded electronically rather than obtained via physical media.
---SNIP--
Thanks in advance...
Bob R
Is this real money or
When I compile a REXX exec I see a message from the REXX compiler that
states:
Minimum Library Level required: 4
It's just an informational message, the compile works fine and the program
runs fine (of course it does, on the system where it was compiled!)
The value 4 differs across REXX
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