Re: FICON Saturation?

2006-11-09 Thread Joe jeffries
Thanks for that Bill, it's certainly filled in a few gaps in my understanding of PAVs, but I'm still not convinced that is what caused this sort to run for 6 times it's normal elapsed time. I'm seeing many other jobs with the same symptoms. Here's the device activity report Time S

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 11:18:26 -0600, Jerry Ragland wrote: Yes, IEASYSAW is the member used during the IPL. From the logs - *IEA247I USING IEASYSAW FOR z/OS 01.04.00 HBB7707 IEASYSAW contents - CLOCK=00, SELECT CLOCK00 CLPA, CMB=(UNITR,COMM,GRAPH,CHRDR), ADDITIONAL CMB ENTRIES

ACS Error found when REF=ST after migrated to z/os 1.7

2006-11-09 Thread Tommy Tsui
hi, We found the following ACS error when tape REF refer to previous tape volume after migrated to z/os 1.7 but no error when running in z/os1.4. //STEP1EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //IN1 DD DSN=.ITB.ITBBAL.FORSTMT.CP.BK1(-2),DISP=SHR //IN2 DD

Re: Dataset created without corresponding RACF profile

2006-11-09 Thread Robert S. Hansel (RSH)
Debbie, See if there is an entry in the RACF global access table like RACUID.**/ALTER that enables users to create and access datasets prefixed with their own ID without the need for a profile. Executing the following command will display this information. RL GLOBAL DATASET Regards, Bob

Re: Two questions.

2006-11-09 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 11/9/2006 1:52:16 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to write something of really simple to expand the LOAD SVC to catch and store (like SOFTAUDIT and so on) a set of infos about jobname, stepname, date, time and dataset from where the

Re: Dataset created without corresponding RACF profile

2006-11-09 Thread Walt Farrell
On 11/8/2006 3:08 PM, Debbie Mitchell wrote: I encountered a problem that I'm trying to understand where to even look for the answer. A user connected to our mainframe (z/OS 1.4) through Attachmate and then logged onto TSO. From the Ready prompt, he initiated a file transfer from his PC to a

Re: ACS Error found when REF=ST after migrated to z/os 1.7

2006-11-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 18:01:00 +0800, Tommy Tsui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - 7 IGD304I DATA SET ALLOCATION REQUEST FAILED - ACS STORAGE GROUP ROUTINE DID NOT ALLOW USE OF THE STORAGE GROUP OF THE REFERENCED DATA SET USMT.ITB.ITBBAL.FORSTMT.CP.BK1 BY THE REFERENCING DATA SET

Re: z/OS product licensing options.

2006-11-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chris Mason John You're URL worked for me - once I had made sure there were no or framing characters polluting the text. It took a while but finally a 12 page .pdf file entitled the IBM System z Software

Re: z/OS product licensing options.

2006-11-09 Thread Edward Jaffe
Chase, John wrote: I just tried it again, with the PC freshly IPLed after a night's rest, and still get the page not found error. Sounds like something on your PC needs to be freshly reconfigured. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jerry Ragland Hi all, We have our new CICS TS 3.1 installed in our z/OS 1.4 system and I have included the **.SDFHLPA member in to the LPALSTxx member of the SYS1.PARMLIB to load the new modules in to the LPA

Re: FICON Saturation?

2006-11-09 Thread Paolo Cacciari
Joe, in FICON channel environments, if the CHANNEL has run out of resources (OE's/Credits) this is not shown in IOSQ time. This is recorded as PENDING TIME. As you certainly know, IOSQ time is time spent inside operating system in UCB queuing. During this state, WLM IOS are controlling I/O

Re: IKJCT43A Return Code 99 - What does this mean.

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006 22:42:02 -0600, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Issue TSO ISRDDN and scroll to the left or right. Look at the data set characteristics for SYSPROC. It's even easier than that. For some time now just getting into ISRDDN and hitting enter will give you this warning:

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 02:49:53 +0100, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You'll note the recommendation *not* to have CLPA permanently specified in your IEASYSxx member. After a change to the LPALST concatenation, CLPA need be specified for one IPL and one IPL only. snip That may be the

Re: IKJCT43A Return Code 99 - What does this mean.

2006-11-09 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/8/2006 10:42:28 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Issue TSO ISRDDN and scroll to the left or right. Look at the data set characteristics for SYSPROC. If you can't get ISPF/PDF to motor, can use TSO command LISTALC (List Allocated)? Guess the

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
According to the Init Tuning Reference: If a module exists in more than one library in the concatenation, the first occurrence of the module is placed in the PLPA. Later occurrences are ignored. Don Imbriale -Original Message-

Re: FICON Saturation?

2006-11-09 Thread Joe jeffries
Many thanks Paolo, I'll certainly check out the RMF bits and revisit ANTMON. With XRC in mind, could anyone point me to a description of the LONGBUSY (I've only been around XRC for 10 weeks). I did look at the ANTMON figures for the related secondary volume and saw very low consistency delays

All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread Daniel A. McLaughlin
Tried to hit the archives to look for similar conditions, but it seems to be running a bit sluggishly this morning. Situation: Operator somehow hit the enable interface switch on a bank of 3590 drives. They went boxed and no matter what we have done, we cannot get them back. We have powered

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Tom, and Jerry, (and I'm not going to make any jokes) Are you sure about the concatenation sequence? (I almost said issue but decided not to) According to the z/OS 1.4 documentation, and this what I remember from eons ago, that the first occurrence of a module is the one loaded into the

Re: All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread Neubert, Kevin (DIS)
...varied with various forms of vary... Including VARY device(s),ONLINE,UNCOND? Regards, Kevin -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/9/2006 10:17:01 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Online doc says call hardware support. Could something have tripped inside the unit to require an engineer to reset? I'd plink at it with DEVSERV commands. ===DS QT,ucb,range to see which

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Kittendorf, Craig
IBM suggests that you have an IEASYSxx member that does not specify CLPA. I read this as having an IEASYSxx member without CLPA available if needed. Not that you shouldn't do CLPA as normal procedure. Craig -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt [ snip ] To add to Tom's excellent and probably correct analysis, I would remind you that CICS **REQUIRES** that the SDFHLPA modules (particularly DFHCSVC and DFHIRP) in a multi-release installation be

'MOUNT' attribute of a DASD volume

2006-11-09 Thread Johnny Luo
Hi, I spent three days on this and had some thoughtsbut don't know whether they're right. What I have is just a MVS system running on pc and I never had the chance even to see the real big machine. So it's really hard for me to understand some hardware parts of mainframe. 1. Init Tuning book

Re: All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread August Carideo
what cpu are you running , are the CHPIDS on-line and not the devices, can you look at them from the HMC for example on our 2064 , we can put it in single object mode and display the chpids, you can see normal , loss of signal etc. at the hardware level

Re: z/OS V1.4 and v1.7 with Language Environment

2006-11-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave I can only say that it hasn't messed with us and I've had 1.7 in the development LIAR for a couple weeks now, and it will be 4 more weeks before I can move it to Prod. Freudian slip? :-) -jc-

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 10:16:19 -0600, Pommier, Rex R. wrote: Tom, and Jerry, (and I'm not going to make any jokes) Are you sure about the concatenation sequence? (I almost said issue but decided not to) According to the z/OS 1.4 documentation, and this what I remember from eons ago, that

IBM DEBUG TOOL Install in Own SMP/E CSI or in IBM Z/OS BASE ELEMENT CSI

2006-11-09 Thread Mark House
We are installing IBM DEBUG TOOL ADVANCED FUNCTIONS on a SYSPLEX which has multiple LPAR'S running different levels of z/OS (1.4 1.6 and 1.7). The LPAR'S share DASD for non SYSRES packs. The documentation indicates that we can install the IBM DEBUG TOOL in it's own SMP/E CSI. However, a

Re: IKJCT43A Return Code 99 - What does this mean.

2006-11-09 Thread Tony Harminc
Mark Zelden wrote: Warning: ISRDDN has detected that one or more concatenations, including DD name SYSPROC contain mixed record formats, organizations, or fixed record lengths. Wouldn't it be nice if they would just *fix* it, rather than having an unrelated application program issue a

COBOL and C

2006-11-09 Thread Chithra Nayar
Hi, Thanks to Mr Comstock.I tried the changes you suggested and it worked!!! How can i change the static call to a dynamic call?I tried by changing the first line PROCESS NODYNAM MAP LIST to PROCESS DYNAM MAP LIST and left the remaining unchanged. Compiled and linked the C code. MODULE ENTRY NOT

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:39:01 -0500, Kittendorf, Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM suggests that you have an IEASYSxx member that does not specify CLPA. I read this as having an IEASYSxx member without CLPA available if needed. Not that you shouldn't do CLPA as normal procedure. H...

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Tom, I saw that one too. My guess is that the warning about having multiple datasets is that NIP processing has to read the directory trees of every PDS it encounters and go through the work of discarding the duplicates. Back when I started working on MVS on a 4.3 MIP 4381, this processing

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Mason
Craig and Mark You're probably right about To CLPA or not to CLPA. It may be my approach to CLPA when I ran my test systems which caused me to find support in that recommendation when no support was really meant to be there. Running my test systems involved frequent IPLing. The systems ran

Re: COBOL and C

2006-11-09 Thread Steve Comstock
Chithra Nayar wrote: Hi, Thanks to Mr Comstock.I tried the changes you suggested and it worked!!! How can i change the static call to a dynamic call?I tried by changing the first line PROCESS NODYNAM MAP LIST to PROCESS DYNAM MAP LIST and left the remaining unchanged. Compiled and linked the C

SMP/E - module attributes issue

2006-11-09 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
I think I may have abused SMP and it has retaliated. Help would be appreciated. 7 or 8 months ago our MVS team received a new release of NetView into our main MVS SMP environment. They then decided they were too busy to do anything with it. Last week I was givin permission to do the install

Re: All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread Daniel A. McLaughlin
Yep...all them options. Just IPL'd the sandbox to see could we get them up there. Same results. Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Crawford Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta Tucker GA 30084 phone: 770-621-3256 fax: 770-621-3237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web:

Re: All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread Daniel A. McLaughlin
We've about exhausted the MVS type commands, next will be the HMC approach. Thank you for the suggestion. Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Crawford Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta Tucker GA 30084 phone: 770-621-3256 fax: 770-621-3237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web:

Obtaining current job step start date and time

2006-11-09 Thread Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD.
Which fields in which control block contain the currently executing step's start date and time? Thanks, Jerry -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.0/524 - Release Date: 11/8/2006

Re: All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/9/2006 12:03:59 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We've about exhausted the MVS type commands, next will be the HMC approach. What about the Enable on the Magstar console? --

Re: SMP/E - module attributes issue

2006-11-09 Thread Brian Peterson
Talk about doing things the hard way!! Here's some ideas you might consider. You probably already thought of them - if so, sorry! 1) Order a new copy of the product. Perform your own RECEIVE from the original copy of the product. This is the start from scratch option. 2) Define new

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Jakubek, Jan
IBM suggests that you have an IEASYSxx member that does not specify CLPA. And this seems to imply the following: 1. CLPA should not be specified in IEASYS00 since it cannot be overridden (there is no a negating option). 2. An image setup should have multiple overriding IEASYSxx members (xx NE

Cheers: CA-UNICENTER DETECTOR FOR DB2 and KEY8 CSA storage PTFs available

2006-11-09 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, Working with CA we finally obtained a fix to eliminate use of user key common storage by CA-UNICENTER DETECTOR FOR DB2. --- Enhancements have been provided to support for z/OS 1.8 parameter ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(NO) by eliminating Detector use of

Re: All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread Daniel A. McLaughlin
What about the Enable on the Magstar console? --- OK, that's a new one for mewhat would that look like because I don't think we have one. Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Crawford Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta Tucker GA 30084 phone: 770-621-3256 fax: 770-621-3237 email:

Re: All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Haven't yet had this happen on our 3590s, but have had similar problems with channel interfaces on 3490 controllers. The solution with 3490s was was to get devices/CHPIDs off line to all systems and re-IML the tape controllers with the correct interfaces enabled, then put things back on line

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 13:27:04 -0500, Jakubek, Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if IEASYS00 is mandatory (will MVS come up if IEASYS00 is absent?). If not then an image could be set up to IPL with just one xx IEASYS suffix (and 00 absent form PARMLIB concatenation altogether). I think it

Re: IBM DEBUG TOOL Install in Own SMP/E CSI or in IBM Z/OS BASE ELEMENT CSI

2006-11-09 Thread Jakubek, Jan
We are installing IBM DEBUG TOOL ADVANCED FUNCTIONS on a SYSPLEX which has multiple LPAR'S running different levels of z/OS (1.4 1.6 and 1.7). The LPAR'S share DASD for non SYSRES packs. The documentation indicates that we can install the IBM DEBUG TOOL in it's own SMP/E CSI. However, a

Re: All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/9/2006 12:41:20 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, that's a new one for mewhat would that look like because I don't think we have one. The service PC in back of box?

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Jakubek, Jan
/* NOTE: DO NOT DELETE THE BLANK LINE AT THE TOP OF THIS MBR! */ Btw Mark: what's the purpose of a blank line? Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Workload manager

2006-11-09 Thread John C. Wolf
We have a modified the code which we got from Amdahl which they called JOBSTREAM MANAGER this code assignes job class based on how much storage you need and how much time you want and if you use tape drives. I was hoping that we could do away with these exits as they are going to be very hard

Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Andy White
I thought this came up in the past but for those of you that have Syncsort and DFSORT on your systems for DB2 8 etc. In LPA how do you have it coded which do you have first or does order not matter? We have a ISV product which seems to be picking up DFSORT even though we have both in LPA we only

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
The member needs at least 1 line that isn't a comment and a blank line fits the requirement. The system stops reading the member after the first line that doesn't end in a comma. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jakubek, Jan

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
Make sure the DFSORT libs follow the SyncSort libs in LPA. Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy White Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 2:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA I thought

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:30:04 -0500, Jakubek, Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /* NOTE: DO NOT DELETE THE BLANK LINE AT THE TOP OF THIS MBR! */ Btw Mark: what's the purpose of a blank line? Because it doesn't work without it?? :-) This explanation from the MVS Initialization and Tuning

Trying to figure out CPPUPDTE

2006-11-09 Thread John Norgauer
What's the role of the dsname in the SYSIN below: EOY.BKLSHELF ??? Here's a subset of my CPPUPDTE jcl from my SERVERPAC install: //SYSJCNSP JOB 'ACCOUNTING INFO','PROGRAMMER NAME', // CLASS=A, // MSGCLASS=T, // MSGLEVEL=(1,1), // NOTIFY=SYSJCN, //

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:31:59 -0500, Andy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought this came up in the past but for those of you that have Syncsort and DFSORT on your systems for DB2 8 etc. In LPA how do you have it coded which do you have first or does order not matter? We have a ISV product which

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Tim Hare
I just have to ask: why do would an installation need both sort products unless you're at an ISV where you have to test your product with both? Tim Hare Senior Systems Programmer Florida Department of Transportation (850) 414-4209

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Brian Peterson
We put only SYS1.SICELPA in LPA. Since this data set only has the DFSORT SVC, it did not matter whether it was before or after syncsort's LPA modules. We put SYS1.SICELOAD and SYS1.SORTLPA *after* syncsort's libraries in the link list. These steps were per instructions in II14047. II14047

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
DFSORT is needed for DB2 V8, even if you license/use SyncSort. But it does NOT require that DFSORT be licensed - it just needs to be accessible by certain DB2 utilities and functions. Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: Trying to figure out CPPUPDTE

2006-11-09 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
Doc for CPPUPDTE is available at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/s390/os390/installation/cppupdte.html Don Imbriale -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Norgauer Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 3:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread Daniel A. McLaughlin
We've just spent 45 minutes on phone with the CE. He conceded and is on his way in. Thank you all for many good suggestions. Sometimes things break. Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Crawford Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta Tucker GA 30084 phone: 770-621-3256 fax: 770-621-3237

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Frank Yaeger
Brian Peterson wrote on 11/09/2006 12:09:23 PM: ... II14047 describes several alternative options for installing the two sort products so they can successfully coexist. ... Right. Here's a link to informational APAR II14047: http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1II14047 Frank

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Richbourg, Claude
If you use Syncsort as your sort product and you have DB2 v8, you will need the DFSORT to make it work. IBM will let you use 'very limited' amount, just for DB2 v8 which requires it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Hare

Re: All Boxed Up

2006-11-09 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/9/2006 2:16:08 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you all for many good suggestions. Sometimes things break. Knuckles, kneecaps, thumbs. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Mainframe IDE

2006-11-09 Thread Neil Duffee
At 31 Oct 2006 01:03:56 -0800, concerning [Mainframe IDE], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (to IBM-Main): I remember that in the late 80s there was a syntax checker available for PL/I also. It ran with the ISPF editor and marked at least typing errors (prior to the times of syntax highlighting). I

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:09:06 -0500 Tim Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :I just have to ask: why do would an installation need both sort products :unless you're at an ISV where you have to test your product with both? Because, for whatever reason, DB2 insists on using DFSORT - it does not allow

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Jakubek, Jan
/* NOTE: DO NOT DELETE THE BLANK LINE AT THE TOP OF THIS MBR! */ Btw Mark: what's the purpose of a blank line? Because it doesn't work without it?? :-) I see ... your blank line designates a dummy/null IEASYS00 ... Thanks ...

Re: SMP/E in TSO (was: Why AUTHPGM?)

2006-11-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Ted MacNEIL said: Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 06:15:18 + If a DCB/ACB is inaccessible or appears corrupted, then TC issues IDC999I and S0 C3. ITYM SC03. (Considering I'm chasing one right now). What triggers the CLOSE when the DDNAME is allocated to HFS? Are

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Jakubek, Jan
I just have to ask: why do would an installation need both sort products unless you're at an ISV where you have to test your product with both? May be it is in a state of unfinished or perpetual conversion ... some of us went though this over years gone ... :-)

3480 Discontinuance????

2006-11-09 Thread George Bly
HI I can find the software lifecycle dates but how do you find hardware dates. I'm looking for the end of service for 3480 A22 and B22's Thanks!! George George A. Bly Senior Systems Programmer 331 Hayes Hall Information Technology Services Bowling Green State

Re: COND CODE 3592

2006-11-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/06/2006 at 07:52 PM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: AFAIR R14 always pointed to SVC3 when supervisor assisted linkage, i.e. either LINK or ATTACH, was used. You recall correctly. Specifically, it was the SVC 3 at CVTEXIT. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

Re: COND CODE 3592

2006-11-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/06/2006 at 04:14 PM, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So, effectively, does z/OS. No. ISTR that R14 in a jobstep programme points directly at an SVC 3 instruction. So does R14 after an ATTACH, LINK, XCTL, SVC (types 2-4) or scheduling of an IRB. I don't

Re: Assembler question

2006-11-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/07/2006 at 08:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I hadn't thought of that. And I see the cognitive dissonance in coding 1. But still, I would have preferred from the beginning a construct meaning Field to be Filled in Later, so a zero, possibly an

Re: Assembler question

2006-11-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/07/2006 at 08:21 AM, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Up until now we have been carrying on a civilized discussion, Chris Mason has not been carrying on a civilized discussion, and his comments were a lot more offensive than Alan's. That said, I consider

Re: Assembler question

2006-11-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/06/2006 at 01:37 PM, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Another exhausting post from what can only be deliberate misunderstandings. Well, if you claim that you are deliberately misunderstanding, I can't prove otherwise. Again, by not quoting everything, you have

Re: Dataset created without corresponding RACF profile

2006-11-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/08/2006 at 02:08 PM, Debbie Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I encountered a problem that I'm trying to understand where to even look for the answer. A user connected to our mainframe (z/OS 1.4) through Attachmate and then logged onto TSO. From the

Re: 3480 Discontinuance????

2006-11-09 Thread William Donzelli
I'm looking for the end of service for 3480 A22 and B22's Put those 3480s back in service! The Computer History Museum is still looking for 3480s - specifically the head assemblies - as they are extremely useful for pulling data off ancient tape. If anyone out there is about to kill off their

Re: 3480 Discontinuance????

2006-11-09 Thread Bob Rutledge
Start here http://www-306.ibm.com/common/ssi/OIX.wss?buttonpressed=DET001PT116page=1000paneltext1=DET001PEF012user+type=EXT and use advanced search for product number 3480. Bob George Bly wrote: I can find the software lifecycle dates but how do you find hardware dates. I'm looking for

ISAM question

2006-11-09 Thread Howard Brazee
I recently converted a tiny in-program ISAM file to an internal CoBOL table, but wondered about the JCL: //NAMES DD DSN=NAMES(PRIME), What does PRIME mean? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: ISAM question

2006-11-09 Thread Ray Mullins
That goes deep into the bowels of ISAM. You had the ability to specify different allocations for the (going off memory here) PRIME (the main data storage area), INDEX (obvious) and OVFLOW (overflow when hashes collided) areas of an ISAM file. And usually you had to for production files. More

Re: ISAM question

2006-11-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee I recently converted a tiny in-program ISAM file to an internal CoBOL table, but wondered about the JCL: //NAMES DD DSN=NAMES(PRIME), What does PRIME mean? In the cited context, it

Re: ISAM question

2006-11-09 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:37:01 -0700 Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :I recently converted a tiny in-program ISAM file to an internal CoBOL :table, but wondered about the JCL: ://NAMES DD DSN=NAMES(PRIME), You can remove it. :What does PRIME mean? ISAM allocation. -- Binyamin Dissen

DST2007

2006-11-09 Thread Big Iron
Head's up: APAR PK24076; Language Environment Daylight Saving Time (DST) Changes Energy Policy Act of 2005 (DST2007). This will be of interest to users who specify a daylight saving time zone name using the TZ or _TZ environment variable or have customized locales which use LC_TOD. APAR PK24076

Re: 3480 Discontinuance????

2006-11-09 Thread Brian Peterson
The most recent reference I could find to the 3480 A22 and B22 was announcement letter 305-028 dated March 8, 2005 quoting new prices for maintenance. This same letter quoted maintenance prices for 3420 (round) tape drives as well, so perhaps end of service for 3480 is not as near as you

Re: ISAM question

2006-11-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee I recently converted a tiny in-program ISAM file to an internal CoBOL table, but wondered about the JCL: //NAMES DD DSN=NAMES(PRIME), What does PRIME mean? In the cited context, it means to

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I just have to ask: why do would an installation need both sort products unless you're at an ISV where you have to test your product with both? You haven't been following the DB2 V8 requirements. Even SYNCSORT customers have to have a subset of DFSORT installed. DB2 V8 will not talk to

Re: SMP/E - module attributes issue

2006-11-09 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 12:24:22 -0600, Brian Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Talk about doing things the hard way!! Here's some ideas you might consider. You probably already thought of them - if so, sorry! ... One person's hard is another's fun. I haven't had a hands-on fight with SMP for

Re: DST2007

2006-11-09 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/9/2006 4:02:40 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: APAR PK24076 to resolve issue that affects Daylight Saving Time defaults used when parsing the TZ and _TZ environment variables in a C/C++ application. Don't forget in mixed OS environment all

Re: SMP/E - module attributes issue

2006-11-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Patrick O'Keefe said: Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 16:30:46 -0600 2) Define new Target and DLIB SMP/E CSI and Target and DLIB data sets. Attach this new, empty, Target and DLIB zone to the Global zone which has the product RECEIVEd into. ... Religious and political.

Re: SMP/E - module attributes issue

2006-11-09 Thread Brian Peterson
I admire your determination! Keep it up - that's what keeps all of us young at heart! As far as why you're getting a link edit operation doing things Pat's way, I suspect the answer has to do with the complex process SMP/E uses to build load modules - a process which has been enhanced over

Re: SMP/E - module attributes issue

2006-11-09 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:00:53 -0600, Brian Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Also, the way I think about JCLIN is that JCLIN describes a product's *structure*, it does NOT describe a product's installation process. ... In general, you're right, but SMP processes JCLIN for link steps to get

Re: SMP/E - module attributes issue

2006-11-09 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:48:00 -0700, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... // //** MVS utility IEBCOPY will be used to COPY these two LMODs ** //** from the installation tape into a Target Library.

Re: SMP/E - module attributes issue

2006-11-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Patrick O'Keefe said: Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 17:58:04 -0600 I wonder how the Creator built them. I wonder what happens if they ever need service. I bet there's an interesting story there that will probably stay untold. Obviously, someone linked it once. And

Re: Assembler question

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Mason
Shmuel You may have committed yourself to the rather rude intention not to read any reply but there may be some who are interested in the few responses worth making. Naturally, for the rest, especially the points where you refuse to understand, I disagree without reservation - but that's to be

Re: Assembler question

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Mason
Shmuel Your characteristic nose-penetrating inadequately documented stand-alone Nos are an affront to the purposes of the list and do not constitute a civilized discussion. Rather they cause exhaustion and are very misleading for those readers who may wish to learn something. As for being

Re: COND CODE 3592

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Mason
Shmuel Assuming my posts are being read sequentially, a good example. Chris Mason - Original Message - From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, 09 November, 2006 5:47 PM Subject: Re: COND CODE 3592 In

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Mason
Tom I see from subsequent posts that it may not be such a forlorn hope after all! My queen may, in a moment of jest, have said We are not amused! but it was good Queen Victoria who is credited with the sentence. I note you are from Wisconsin where I believe the spoken language can be mistaken

How to expand SYS1.LINKLIB?

2006-11-09 Thread Bob Henry
Is there a SAFE way to expand the size of SYS1.LINKLIB? I have a z/OS 1.6 ADCD system where SYS1.LINKLIB is using all of its primary extent. I need to apply a PTF to a module in LINKLIB but I'm afraid it will cause it to go into a secondary extent. Why it was set up with the exact number of

Re: Assembler question

2006-11-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 11:25:48 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But still, I would have preferred from the beginning a construct meaning Field to be Filled in Later, so a zero, possibly an expression value, could be flagged as an error. As I recall, SAP,

Re: How to expand SYS1.LINKLIB?

2006-11-09 Thread Ed Gould
Bob, If are asking to do this in a LIVE (running) environment, I would say NO. If you are asking about a copy of the pack then there are at least 2 ways. User FDR to consolidate extents then compress it. The other way is to copy the data set to another pack and delete it and reallocate

Re: Combine spool output datasets

2006-11-09 Thread Chris Mason
Mark It's not so obscure - at least to the users of Indo-European languages - if you take an etymological approach. Thus you probably know what necromancy means and what its associations are. You may also have heard of dendrites if you have ever, for example, had an interest in metallurgy or

Re: How to expand SYS1.LINKLIB?

2006-11-09 Thread Eric N. Bielefeld
The safe way is to copy the IPL pack to another volume. Expand SYS1.LINKLIB on that pack, and then IPL from that pack after clipping it to the same volser as you had before. I hope you are not planning on running SMP jobs agains the live IPL pack. That could lead to disaster. If you applied

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