Re: Starting DB2

2006-12-03 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi, In respect of: I am a DB2 novice. We have an ADCD z/OS 1.4 system on which DB2 is installed but not active. I set the DB2 subsystem in IEFSSNxx and IPL-ed. With an ADCD system there should be no need to modify anything. The ADCD comes with several pre-configured IEASYS members to meet a

Re: JES2 performance problem - z/OS 1.7

2006-12-03 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi Norman, We have two members in our MAS. They are called CDVL and CMP1. Most TSO users log on to CMP1 and submit jobs from there. Control-M runs on CDVL and submits jobs from there. Our main printer runs on CDVL, but local printers are connected through CMP1. These are PSF printers. NJE and

Cloning a z/OS system

2006-12-03 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, I need to create a test system from our new z/OS 1.7 production system. I would like to create new target and dlib zones and have them point to the test systems volumes. Does anyone have a procedure for cloning a system? TIA Gadi

Re: JES2 performance problem - z/OS 1.7

2006-12-03 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 08:37:24 +0200, #1490;#1491;#1497; amp;#1489;#1503; #1488;#1489;#1497; [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Norman, We have two members in our MAS. They are called CDVL and CMP1. try this : http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/W9748B Bruno

Re: Cloning a z/OS system

2006-12-03 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Hello Gadi, You can use some of the server pack procedures: 1. find tour taget libraries volume (Why do you need your Dlib at all?) 2. Define the new Master catalog. 3. Copy with DFDSS physical copy with NEWNAME preficixng any HLQ to the datasets. 4. Run the catalog job

Re: How to use 'RECFM=VM' data set?

2006-12-03 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Johnny Luo wrote: Hi, Yesterday one of my friend sent me a file containing PERL 5.82. He told me after terse-and-restore, I'll get a HFS data set which can be mounted to USS directory. So first I need to unpack it: //UNPACK EXEC PGM=TRSMAIN,PARM='UNPACK' //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //INFILE DD

Re: Grammar (was RE: MB to Cyl Conversion)

2006-12-03 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 12/1/2006 6:27:58 A.M. Central Standard Time, rfochtman at YNC.NET writes: However, if the subject is of tracks... The of tracks are 1. H. The of causes a problem. The of does cause a problem, but I believe the real cause of the problem is the fact that the noun

Re: Cancelling a job/tso user in a 100% CPU situation.

2006-12-03 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip--- Who controls file allocation in your shop? I've seen fairly dramatic decreases in I/O (and the cpu cycles needed for that I/O) by tuning VSAM applications. Reduce your I/O by increasing the buffers, eliminate the cpu cycles used for

Re: JES2 performance problem - z/OS 1.7

2006-12-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
Andy White wrote: I know we have had similar problems but have had the luxury of putting the checkpoint in the CF now we dont problems like this... Ummm ... CF checkpoint does not eliminate long PCE dispatch or checkpoint lock time-out problems. What it does provide is better (FIFO)

Re: Grammar (was RE: MB to Cyl Conversion)

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) said: Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 09:30:43 EST Only a noun or a gerund. This is true, but literally any word or part of speech can be the subject of a sentence if used as a noun. E.g.: Are is the heading of the dictionary entry for

Re: Grammar (was RE: MB to Cyl Conversion)

2006-12-03 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip And a prepositional phrase can NOT be the subject of a sentence. Not true. E.g.: Of Mice and Men is a novel and a movie. This sentence's subject is a prepositional phrase being used as a noun. Only a noun or a gerund.

Re: Grammar (was RE: MB to Cyl Conversion)

2006-12-03 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 12/3/2006 10:26:04 A.M. Central Standard Time, gilmap at UNIX.STORTEK.COM writes: No. You are conflating use and mention. Right. My bad. I should have encapsulated my sentences' subjects [Of Mice and Men and Are] with quotation marks. And we forgot about pronouns.

Re: How to use 'RECFM=VM' data set?

2006-12-03 Thread Bruce Black
FYI, RECFM=VM indicates variable unblocked, and the first byte of each record is a printer machine-code control character for when the file is printed. Of course, you don't intend to print it, and LRECL=24383 would not print well anyways gr I have no idea why the RECFM=VM was assigned.

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-12-03 Thread Ulrich Boche
Steve Ware wrote: OpenOffice.org Impress easily allows one to prepare presentation material and natively store in PDF format. File - Export as PDF in OpenOffice.org Impress - been using it for years in Linux. (Import of SHARE .ppt templates works well, too. ;-) If PDF were the native format

Re: How to use 'RECFM=VM' data set?

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Johnny Luo said: Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 14:13:29 +0800 Yesterday one of my friend sent me a file containing PERL 5.82. He told me after terse-and-restore, I'll get a HFS data set which can be mounted to USS directory. Ummm. What version of Terse is he using. I

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Steve Comstock said: Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:16:49 -0700 I don't see where you get the idea that I have any annoyance, hidden or otherwise, against Adobe. You simply can't compose in PDF. Have I read too much in to: Linkname: Adobe - Adobe Acrobat Standard

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-12-03 Thread Steve Comstock
Paul Gilmartin wrote: In a recent note, Steve Comstock said: Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 07:16:49 -0700 I don't see where you get the idea that I have any annoyance, hidden or otherwise, against Adobe. You simply can't compose in PDF. Have I read too much in to: Linkname: Adobe -

Re: Grammar (was RE: MB to Cyl Conversion)

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 12:35:49 EST, IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote: No. You are conflating use and mention. Right. My bad. I should have encapsulated my sentences' subjects [Of Mice and Men and Are] with quotation marks. And we forgot about pronouns. They can also be the subject of

Re: [SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-12-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:52:22 -0600, W. Kevin Kelley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:29:49 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Too bad the support didn't also include defining IEAVXMIT to use the Dynamic Exit Facility. That would have made it easy. I wonder if there is

Re: [SPAM] OA17514 z/OS Message Flood Automation

2006-12-03 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006 17:36:26 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe most shops don't write IEAVXMIT exits anymore, but vendors do. At least one popular scheduling software package that I know of uses their own IEAVXMIT for triggering based on console events. I guess one can call their

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-12-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Steve Comstock said: Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 13:37:12 -0700 Yes, you've read too much into it. If you go to the page for the Professional version, you find this: Easily create Adobe PDF documents from Microsoft Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Project, Visio,

Re: z/OS 1.8 Features

2006-12-03 Thread Charles Mills
But how does one print to a PDF file on Windows? There are a number of third-party products that do this. Yes, you select a pseudo printer and it produces a PDF file. I use one also that produces .TIF files from any application that prints. There are PDF converters and there are PDF converters.

DB2/CICS coexistence and Fallback PTFs for z/OS 1.4 to z/OS 1.7 Migration

2006-12-03 Thread munif sadek
Is there any easy way to find out coexistence and fallback maintenance required for our CICS/DB2 subsystem for z/OS migration from 1.4 to 1.7. PSP bucket search for ZOSV1R7 does not show anything exclusive for CICS/DB2. Your help is much appreciated. regards, Munif Sadek.

Re: JES2 performance problem - z/OS 1.7

2006-12-03 Thread Brian Westerman
Hi, I ran a few jobs to generate some output JOBs and now I have about 33,000. When I enter the purge command, it does take a little longer (about 4 seconds) , but nothing close to what you are seeing. I tried it without the other member of hte MAS active, and it was very fast. It has to be

Re: JES2 performance problem - z/OS 1.7

2006-12-03 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi Brian, We implemented the GRS changes, but they did not seem to change anything. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Westerman Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 8:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JES2

Re: JES2 performance problem - z/OS 1.7

2006-12-03 Thread Brian Westerman
I don't understand, I can't reproduce your problem on my systems here and it's a pretty eclectic group of systems. Can you tell how many jobs are actually purged when you enter the command? I just don't see anything in your parms that would allow your system to hang on to the Checkpoint