Ian (or Christian?) writes:
Has anyone found an easy way to incrementally backup HFS/ZFS files on a
ZOS platform. At the moment I am using the service routines BPX1GMN and
BPX1OPD to get a list of the mounted file systems, their ZOS dataset name
and modified date then using this as source to
I agree with Bill.
We are currently in the process of going from z/OS V1.4 to V1.7. Our LE on
V1.4 has not had maintenance for over 1 year. The Cobol Compiler is at
3.3.1. When we attempted to get the 3.4 Cobol compiler used, we ran into an
issue with the SEARCH ALL function in Cobol. In V3.4
Eric Bielefeld wrote:
My question is, will this affect anything? Is there any program products
that could be affected by changing the SID? I read the whole chapter in
the Init Tuning Reference, and I didn't see anything that would matter to
us.
A lot of sites set SYSNAME=SID so just
Dear list,
we have in place the JES2 Exit1 which, other than tailoring the
separator page, adds printer control information (JDE and JDL) to
the raw data
An apply check will tell you a lot.
Do not bypass any hold errors, make sure you use the check, and for a check
I would bypass all system holds, SMPE will sort thru everything and give you
the information you need.
You may still need to go back to IBM to resolve a specific issue.
George
I know what you are talking about. I had the same problem until I
realized that the Edit Sessions Coniguration window has a left right
scroll bar and if you scroll completely to the right you will see that
there is a second up down scroll bar to the right of the RTO column.
On 2/6/2007 5:32 PM, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
My question is, will this affect anything? Is there any program products
that could be affected by changing the SID? I read the whole chapter in
the Init Tuning Reference, and I didn't see anything that would matter to
us.
RACF allows you to
In
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on 02/05/2007
at 08:08 AM, John P Kalinich [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The only free emulator that I know of is QWS3270,
Both tn3270 and x3270 are free. Of course, those are TN3270 clients,
and don't support the use of a serial port or coax adaptor.
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In
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at 11:01 AM, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
During acceptance testing of z/OS 1.7 one of our testers said the
following:
We used to be able to say RESTART=PSTEP025 or whatever step.
I had to change that to RESTART=STEP001.PSTEP025
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 04:32:01 -0800, Walter Marguccio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/-snip/
We are going to remove above printers from JES2 control, both XEROX
will be IP-controlled printers. Once JES2 is excluded from this
process, Exit1 will not be triggered anymore to pass above control
On 2/7/2007 5:18 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have defined the dataset profile as AUDIT(FAILURES(UPDATE)). When
will log the failure to SMF.
That specification will cause auditing only for attempts that need
UPDATE access or higher (failing attempts to change the data in the data
set, or (for
I made a mistake. I missed *one day*. It wasn't 16 hours, but 40 hours.
So, write speed is 71 MB/s, and read speed is 41 MB/s.
So, read is *slower* - why ?
In both cases I used default values for buffers. AFAIK the defaults are quite
similar to optimal.
The SIO values observed in SDSF remains
In JES2, there are a couple of JCL statements that I'd like to find the
JES3 equivalent to. they are:
/*EOF
/*PURGE
I'm writing a small program which submits JCL and I'd like to generalize
it to be able to purge the current job being submitted. I th
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Subject: Re: Basic SMP/E question
Individual PTFs, APARs, USERMODs, etc. can be selectively applied.
That's what I
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour
J.)
on 01/21/2007 at 11:01 AM, Chase, John said:
During acceptance testing of z/OS 1.7 one of our testers said the
following:
We used to be able to say RESTART=PSTEP025 or
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 13:40:09 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I'm still confused, though. I think you said that there were 13
PTFs bundled in the APAR, and some of them were PE.
I guess I'm not being clear.
They were PE'd later, I think.
Is this bleeding-edge service? How long has it been from the
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Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 11:52 PM
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Hello Steve,
We protect the OMEGAMON commands via the security exit in the Omegamon
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/26/2007
at 08:31 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Some TSO-REXX readers resent the U-word: After all,
this _is_ a _TSO_ list!
Unix is available from TSO. There's even an ISPF shell for it.
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ISO
In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 12/21/2006
at 09:19 AM, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Any suggestions?
Maintain your variables in a file. At the beginning of each REXX
routine that needs the variables, read the file, parse it and use the
VALUE function to set the variables. If you
Good Day,
I am trying to find the contents of a tape (DFHSM) and I am encountering an
error.
Below is my command:
hsend list ttoc volser(045388)
Error message:
ARC1001I LIST TTOC VOLSER(045388) COMMAND FAILED, RC=0005, REAS=0004
ARC1605I COMMAND HAD PARSE ERROR
Is this bleeding-edge service?
Q2-2006
How long has it been from the time the service was applied until it went into
production?
Too long!
Actually, the service wasn't applied at all.
That's what caused us to back out and burn our schedule.
Was it selected by RSU or by some other method?
On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 16:32:31 -0600, Eric Bielefeld
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We just made an interesting discovery. Our SMF SID parameter is the same
for our production Lpar and the corrosponding Test Lpar for one of our
boxes. I changed the SID for the Test MVS machine, as that would not
affect
Replace volser with volume
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I am trying to find the contents of a tape (DFHSM) and I am
encountering an error.
Below is my command:
hsend list ttoc volser(045388)
Error message:
ARC1001I LIST TTOC VOLSER(045388) COMMAND FAILED, RC=0005, REAS=0004
You have to talk to the salesman? Are you a company employee or do you work
for another service provider?
Not a salesman.
I'm the technical liasson between us an the service provider.
I'm the 'goto' guy for all things mainframe, for our company, but even I don't
know everything! (8-{}}
-
Too
ARC1605I COMMAND HAD PARSE ERROR
Explanation: The TSO IKJPARS routine was called to check the syntax of a
DFSMShsm request and encountered an error. Message ARC1001I precedes
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:30:05 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have to talk to the salesman? Are you a company employee or d
you work for another service provider?
Not a salesman.
I'm the technical liasson between us an the service provider.
I'm the 'goto' guy for all things
Here's the syntax I use:
HSEND LIST VOLUME(227214) MCDS TERM
Not cerain whether the CDS is an optional parameter or not.
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Don't let them shine you with that line!! Yes it's work, but that's
just part of the game. That's part of their job, to work. Sheesh.
Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Allan,
I tried your suggestion but all I get back is the following:
COMMAND REQUEST 00241364 SENT TO DFSMSHSM
ARC0140I LIST COMPLETED,1 LINE(S) OF DATA OUTPUT
***
I tried the command (see below) to output
Let's try this again.
Proper syntax for this command is
HSEND LIST DSN MCDS SELECT(VOLUME(HSM132))
You're missing the DSN parameter
From: John Dawes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 2/7/2007 9:47 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] DFHSM
Wow...
I had spent about 13 years with what must be a different service provider.
It was not unheard of to have the technical support person, and in many
cases their manager as well, in front of the customers CIO to explain
themselves.
It would appear to be difficult to move beyond speculation
Another consideration to be made here is with accurate tracking of pages
printed, which relates to
chargeback and also device utilization and possibly management/audit reporting
if you do this type
of thing.
With the XEROX print subsystem approach, you will no longer have accurate SMF
type 6
In a recent note, Ted MacNEIL said:
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:34:37 +
Individual PTFs, APARs, USERMODs, etc. can be selectively applied.
That's what I thought.
But, they claim it's a lot of work to sift through the APAR and pick out the
non-PE'd (and their associated apply
Are the help panels wrong? They indicate DSNAME is the abbreviation
for DATASETNAME, not DSN.
Regards,
Greg Shirey
Ben E. Keith Company
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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 8:50 AM
To:
Greg,
The following command is currently running on my system without any parsing
errors.
LIST DSN MCDS SELECT(VOLUME(H10197))
Getting back to John's problem the DSI parameter which is the default will give
him the dataset info he is looking for.
Dave O'Brien
John,
The followig command:
LIST DSN MCDS SELECT(VOLUME(HSM132)) ODS('$DOB.HSM132')
produced the following list
DATASET NAME MIGRATED LAST REF MIGRATED TRKS
ON VOLUME DATE
DATE
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:30:05 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have to talk to the salesman? Are you a company employee or do
you work for another service provider?
Not a salesman.
I'm the technical liasson between us an the service provider.
Here's another thought -- if you can't
Sorry, thought I had responded. Guess I forgot to hit send.
I use this:
HSEND LIST TTOC(100618) ODS(your choice) SELECT(ML2) DSI
The other examples I have seen will be listing the MCDS information of
files it has registered to the volume you put in the command.
The TTOC is looking at the
So you are an employee of the company? In that case, I think that if I were
you I'd be asking my boss why I can't talk directly to the people doing the
work, rather than through a translator.
Can we talk to level II or higher, automatically?
The out-sourcing contract states how we are to
Don't let them shine you with that line!! Yes it's work, but that's just
part of the game. That's part of their job, to work.
Yes. I didn't mean that they won't do the work.
They're just delaying our migration while they do it.
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
We don't use SYSNAME=SID, so that isn't a concern. You can't use the
system symbolic of SID for anything except in nameing the MANx datasets,
according to the Init and Tuning Guide.
Eric Bielefeld
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 06:07:28 -0600, Michael Babcock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
A lot of sites
Saw Notre Dame's Library sprinkler system burst(get timeouts to their
website .notredame.edu). Just wondering of cold/snow related IT outages.
What was the Star trek episode where the protagonist spoke in Metaphors?
Anyway we had a Mechanical Engineering professor who used to speak in
After doing an install of the Ported Tools for z/OS, I was curious how you
SYSPROGs handle the cloning and rolling into produciton of
the HFS files. Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated.
Our z/OS 1.7 Serverpac MVSRES volume contains everything... all the System
PDS's and HFS files.
Yes, exactly what I am looking for. I will give it a try.
O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John,
The followig command:
LIST DSN MCDS SELECT(VOLUME(HSM132)) ODS('$DOB.HSM132')
produced the following list
DATASET NAME MIGRATED LAST REF MIGRATED TRKS
ON VOLUME
Yes. Mixing levels can cause problems. The migration guide is your
friend and can lead you through the troubled waters.
My personal ROT* is that the runtimes should always be at a level that
is equal to or greater than all of the compilers.
You can run different levels of runtimes on different
John Norgauer asks:
After doing an install of the Ported Tools for z/OS, I was curious how
you SYSPROGs handle the cloning and rolling into produciton of the HFS
files. Any ideas/suggestions would be appreciated.
We install all products into their own HFSes. We DFDSS dump these and
ftp them to
We recently replaced our 3590-B1A tape drives 3590-H1A units in our 3494
tape library. Now when ever I insert a private tape into the library I have
to go to RMM and set the Attribute to RDCOMPAT. I would like avoid this and
tried to find a way to do that via CBRUXENT exit.
I found a sample in
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/23/2007
at 11:01 AM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
And I'm always looking for old software as well.
I'm quite certain that the Hercules people would like copies. Jay?
SONBOL
I assume that you mean SNOBOL 4; ICEBOL is proprietary.
Assembler G?
I've got
The MCDS is growing uncontrollably. I understand that I can Use FIXCDS to
delete old or obsolete records. The problem is I do not understand how to
code. If any one has done this before, could you share the code.
thanks,
JUdy Ellis
The MCDS is a VSAM KSDS file. Deleting records will not free up space.
When was the last time you re-org'd it?
What is the freespace parameter? The folks at Mainstar recommend freespace(50
50) to minimize CI and CA splits.
From: Judy Ellis [mailto:[EMAIL
I just get held by two APARs:
AK34959 and AK33471. Those APARs can be found ...under PK34595 and PK33471.
I guess PKn is APAR number, and AKn is APAR fix number.
Those APAR describe fixes UK21449 and UK21373 respectively.
However ...I cannot download those fixes, because IBM system
Andy Kochis wrote:
I work in a shop that only has 3480 IDRC drives (Memorex IBM) and they
are looking to purchase new media as the 3480 media is producing many IO
errors.
Does anyone know if IBM supports writing to 3490E cartridges
(re-initialized to 18 track) using 3480 IDRC drives?
I have
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok
Darmok from STNG
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Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2007 11:31 AM
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Saw Notre Dame's Library
Both PTFs show a status OPEN. They must be still building them.
John
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Anyone else notice this buried in the V1.9 announcement?
SDSF is being enhanced to add the capability to provide access to SDSF
functions through REXX variables. The variables will be loaded with data
from the SDSF panels, enabling scripts to access the data
programmatically. The data can also
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 21:23:56 +0100, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
...
Those APAR describe fixes UK21449 and UK21373 respectively.
However ...I cannot download those fixes, because IBM system Download
fixes claims they do not exist.
I tried the same on ShopzSeries. UK21373 is available, UK21449 is
Radoslaw, careful what you are willing to give away - are these tapes
completely free of any confidential data? We've gone to the steps of
shredding old tapes just to keep the residual information secret.
Rex
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In a message dated 2/7/2007 3:02:11 P.M. Central Standard Time,
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Both PTFs show a status OPEN. They must be still building them.
Right, they may even be testing them along the way! In the olden days you
would get on the Interested Party page if not the
In a message dated 2/7/2007 3:03:52 P.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
of applications. We could finally trash all those batch jobs that screen
scrape panels. And if overtypes and action characters were
supported...hmmm.
Kinda spooky too, letting the applications
What was the Star trek episode where the protagonist spoke in Metaphors?
Damoc
TNG - 3rd season - I think
Kemba! His arms wide!
Kemba at rest!
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The folks at Mainstar recommend freespace(50 50) to minimize CI and CA splits.
Take a look at the RedBook VSAM Demystified.
Splits are no longer a thing to be afraid of!
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I would expect the REXX capability to honor the RACF and/or SDSF
security limitations that SDSF honors now.
People who can't now won't be able to then and people who will be able
to then can do it already.
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One advantage of this SVC is that you're less likely to bump into
another exploiter because the 109 mechanism is relatively new(er).
Relatively new, yes, but it still goes back decades.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/24/2007
at 02:49 PM, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
As others noted, all interrupts caused a new PSW to be loaded, which
would normally be supervisor state. The SVC instruction was the only
way that a program could directly cause an interrupt to invoke a
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Later when S/370 came along the designers had recognized the
deficiencies of SVC and they came up with PC
That came later, with the 3033 (Brooklyn Bridge to the H Series.)
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
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And since many of the services one might want to use in the SVC
environment actually require interrupt enablement, the SVC interrupt
handler reenables for interrupts (except a type 6)
Not for type 1.
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Another reason not to write your own SVC routine is that some form of
validity checking must be done by the SVC routine to ensure that all
parameters passed to it are valid, including
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That is generally true with one caveat/exception. The MODE=SUP
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control in supervisor state. It does that by turning off the problem
Why do you feel compelled to reply to postings from two weeks ago?
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Fear has nothing to do with it. I was just passing along a recommendation from
someone who knows more about the subject than I do. The fact remains that using
0,0 will result in excessive ca splits which will increase the size of Judy's
MCDS which is what she was concerned about.
Not really freespace(50,50) will make the MCDS 4 times larger than
necessary.
IBM recommend (0,0) . After the initial ci/ca splits in the first few
weeks it settles down and only grows slowly.
snip
Fear has nothing to do with it. I was just passing along a
recommendation from someone who
Brian,
Not really. freespace(50,50) will make the HURBA 4 times larger than
necessary after you load it. The affect on file allocation will depend on how
much gas is already in the primary allocation, and the size of the secondary
extents.
What IBM actually say is:
Reorg with
What IBM actually say is:
IBM also recommends that installations define their CDSs with FREESPACE(0) so
VSAM can figure out where space is needed and perform the necessary CI/CA
splits when doing inserts.
This will create space where needed and eliminate the need for the extra space
that
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
I'm quite certain that the Hercules people would like copies. Jay?
SONBOL
I believe SNOBOL4 is easily available.
I assume that you mean SNOBOL 4; ICEBOL is proprietary.
Assembler G?
Some version of Assembler G is on CBTtape.
I've got SCRIPTW if anyone
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