Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:00:11 -0600 McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Note that not every product which has a command characters uses the :z/OS API to register it. D OPDATA only gives those products which use :the API. Some actually trap the console SSI and do their thing. I have not tried

Independent Le enclave

2007-02-21 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi I would like to get an independent LE enclave for all of my subtasks in a multitask application. (Subtasks A starts an LE application, and subatsks B also starts another LE application. I got some U4093 X'AC' abend , as I can specify POSIX(ON) once in nested enclaves ) -- Miklos

Re: Running DFHLS2WS

2007-02-21 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi I'm using the DFHLS2WS utility, but don't have very long path names. Anyhow you can define in the USS a symbolic link to your long path name and access over the symbolic link גדי בן אבי wrote: Hi, We are exploring the new Web Services features in CICS TS v3.1. One of the steps in

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-21 Thread Mark H. Young
On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:01:40 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find all of 'em via the CMD 'D OPDATA' IEFSSNxx? Well Ted, that's what I was thinking. It's defined there for DB2 on my test system LPAR, but does NOT show up via 'D OPDATA'.so go figure?! Someone else

z/OS V1R8 Thruput Manager

2007-02-21 Thread Jim Marshall
If you are going over to z/OS V1R8 and run MVS Solutions Thruput Manager I would wait until the smoke clears on recent JES2 abends which IBM seems to think are caused by the Thruput Manager product. I will keep you posted. If you are running it and are not having problems, I would appreciate a

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-02-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/20/2007 at 03:08 PM, Charles Mills said: I think there may have been some other subsetting also. For example, I suspect there was no problem program disk support either. (No QSAM.) I don't know about BPS and BOS, but DOS and TOS had access methods. The source code,

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-21 Thread Walt Farrell
On 2/20/2007 9:54 PM, Clark Morris wrote: I haven't seen whether COBOL development is supported with a full blown IDE based on Eclipse, either stand alone or in the one also used for C/C++ and Java. If you haven't seen that then perhaps you should look around a little more. Websphere

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-21 Thread Rob Scott
D OPDATA only shows those command prefixes from software that participate by using the CPF services - in essence it is a gentleman's agreement as any software that has a active subsystem that has a function that responds to SSI broadcast 10 (System command) can implement its own command

[SPAM] Tivoli workload scheduler variables

2007-02-21 Thread Perry O'Connell
I'm fairly new to this does anyone know a way of obtaining a future date using the SETVAR command? I want to obtain the date 9 in MMDD format of the next calendar Sunday I have tried something like this... //*%OPC SCAN //*%OPC SETVAR TEMP=(7 - CDAY) //*%OPC SETVAR TSUN=(CYMD + TEMP)

[SPAM] Tivoli workload scheduler variables

2007-02-21 Thread Perry O'Connell
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2007-02-21 Thread Steve Comstock
Walt Farrell wrote: On 2/20/2007 9:54 PM, Clark Morris wrote: I haven't seen whether COBOL development is supported with a full blown IDE based on Eclipse, either stand alone or in the one also used for C/C++ and Java. If you haven't seen that then perhaps you should look around a little

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:22:44 -0600, Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:01:40 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can find all of 'em via the CMD 'D OPDATA' IEFSSNxx? Well Ted, that's what I was thinking. It's defined there for DB2 on my test system

Tivoli workload scheduler variables

2007-02-21 Thread Perry O'Connell
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Re: Independent Le enclave

2007-02-21 Thread Steve Comstock
Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Hi I would like to get an independent LE enclave for all of my subtasks in a multitask application. (Subtasks A starts an LE application, and subatsks B also starts another LE application. I got some U4093 X'AC' abend , as I can specify POSIX(ON) once in

Re: z/OS V1R8 Thruput Manager

2007-02-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:28:56 -0600, Jim Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are going over to z/OS V1R8 and run MVS Solutions Thruput Manager I would wait until the smoke clears on recent JES2 abends which IBM seems to think are caused by the Thruput Manager product. I will keep you posted.

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-21 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:24:09 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless there's some sort of DB2 database voodoo incantation that needs to be performed?! There is. Check out the INITPARM options for the DB2 subsystem. Same is true with RACF - it will only register with the correct

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-21 Thread Mark H. Young
Mark, Do you have a REXX Exec in your bag of tricks that lists out the other CMD characters in use on a system, like in 'D OPDATA'?? Or does such code exist on the CBT tape somewhere? THANX, Mark -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: z/OS V1R8 Thruput Manager

2007-02-21 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Jim, Thanks for the heads up. We are running fine on z/OS R7. We are just ordering z/OS R8 next week and upgrading Thruput Manager from V6R1.1 AT PTF TMT6110 to V6R1.2 at the most current PTF level we understand to be TMT6115 but will be at least TMT6114. It will be a few weeks before we

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-21 Thread Bob Shannon
The CPF services are a fairly recent (ahem) addition and some legacy software may not have been updated to use CPF to register the prefixes. Brand new. Can't be more than 15 years old. ;-) Bob Shannon -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-21 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 9:45 AM Subject: Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters Mark, Do you have a REXX Exec in your bag of tricks that lists out the other CMD characters in use on a

CEE3203S (code=0C4) invoking Java from COBOL in batch

2007-02-21 Thread Jim McAlpine
We have successfully run the sample from the COBOL manual and are now trying our own COBOL to Java application but are getting an abend as follows - JVMDG217: Dump Handler is Processing Signal 11 - Please Wait. JVMHP002: JVM requesting System Transaction Dump JVMHP012: System Transaction Dump

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Re: Independent Le enclave

2007-02-21 Thread Art Celestini
(After ATTACH), in the subtask's initialization, you can use CEEPIPI to establish the LE enclave for that task. In that call, you can pass an environment variable list to 'PIPI to specify your POSIX(ON), or otherwise customize the environment for that subtask. I believe there are also other

COBOL Integrated Coprocessors

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Peplinski
I could separately post this to DB2 and CICS lists but I suspect I will get as good (or better) response here. Does anyone have advice on migrating to CICS and DB2 COBOL coprocessors opposed to separate translate and precompile steps? I tried it before for CICS (2002?) but encountered

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:38:59 -0600, Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:24:09 -0600, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless there's some sort of DB2 database voodoo incantation that needs to be performed?! There is. Check out the INITPARM options for the DB2

Re: The end of z/OS at this site.

2007-02-21 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip-- On 20 Feb 2007 13:44:04 -0800, Bo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today we shut down and boxed up the z/OS system. It's rolling out the door. Most of the operation got switched to either an AS/400 or VM/VSE platform. It was nice being here.

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:45:04 -0600, Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, Do you have a REXX Exec in your bag of tricks that lists out the other CMD characters in use on a system, like in 'D OPDATA'?? Or does such code exist on the CBT tape somewhere? No can do. If it was that easy,

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-02-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/21/2007 at 06:21 PM, Ken Brick [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: IBM called it a System 360. It had many things in common with other S/360's and many peculiarities of it's own. It wasn't the only S/360 that had differences from the norm. It was the only one that was grossly

Re: z/OS System Cmd Characters

2007-02-21 Thread Lance Kopplin
- Original Message - From: Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark, Do you have a REXX Exec in your bag of tricks that lists out the other CMD characters in use on a system, like in 'D OPDATA'?? Or does such code exist on the CBT tape somewhere? No can do. If it was that easy, don't you

License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?

2007-02-21 Thread Rick Fochtman
At the risk of starting a whole new discussion, let me propose a possible mechanism that MIGHT be acceptable to most, if not all, vendors. 1. IBM provides a mechanism to fetch a single entry from IFAPRDxx, based on a product identifier, E.G. SYNCSORT VxRx.x. The entry would include a USERDATA

UPDATING VLF data objects without an IPL --a query for the list, please

2007-02-21 Thread Rajesh Dharia
Hi All, Could someone please enlighten me on the below query ? : Q. I have renamed a LNKLSTed load library ( say , ABC.LOAD on VOLSER = XX ) to ABC.LOAD.OLD . I have then named a new version of the same product load library to the same name ( ABC.LOAD.NEW on VOLSER=XX to ABC.LOAD

Re: The end of z/OS at this site.

2007-02-21 Thread Glen Gasior
z/OS sysprog with 20 years - I am out of work also - downsized and outsourced (corporate officers caught in fraud), no reason to wonder why the new generation is avoiding IT. On 2/21/07, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- On 20 Feb 2007

Re: UPDATING VLF data objects without an IPL --a query for the list, please

2007-02-21 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rajesh Dharia Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: UPDATING VLF data objects without an IPL --a query for the list, please Hi All, Could

Simulating SRL in integer arithmetic

2007-02-21 Thread Charles Mills
I think I have this figured out but I would like a second opinion from someone who unlike myself paid attention in math class. (I was talking to Maureen Valente.) I'm trying to port an S/390 assembler routine to Visual Basic. VB has no shift operators. I'm trying to simulate SRL R6,8 No

z/OS V1R8 Thruput Manager (cont)

2007-02-21 Thread Jim Marshall
Would be interested in knowing if anyone has gone all z/OS V1R8 on all LPARS in a SYSPLEX. Just went to it on Sunday and encountering $BR JES2 abends in the JES2 code which manages the XEQCOUNT timers in the checkpoint. MVS Solutions believes it is not their problem although they have no

Re: Time Zone query for remote users API in LE or z/OS for PL/I programs?

2007-02-21 Thread Dave Jones
Dennis, I just sent you the time zone routine you asked for. I sent it direct;y to your Netscape e-mail address from my gmail account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), as I am having some trouble with my main one. DJ On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 10:29:49 -0500, Denis Gäbler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dave,

CEE3203S (code=0C4) invoking Java from COBOL in batch

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Klein
Have you contacted IBM support? This certainly sounds like the way to go. Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... We have successfully run the sample from the COBOL manual and are now trying our own COBOL to Java application but are getting an abend as follows

FW: IBMLink SIS Fixed!

2007-02-21 Thread Chase, John
Since many of us were quick to complain From: CICS List Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:53 PM Since there was a lot of complaining about the IBMLink changes that forced us to search in two different places, I thought

Re: Really, really weird problem with IBMLink - PTF ordering

2007-02-21 Thread Brian Peterson
Apparently Internet delivery has just been fixed (server issue, I was told). So, anyone who's been having trouble with RECEIVE ORDER, try it again now. For future reference, here's some of the error messages I've seen over the past three days, each from a separate SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER job:

Re: FW: IBMLink SIS Fixed!

2007-02-21 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 2/21/2007 2:28:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: nice to say THANKS to IBM for fixing the SIS service in IBMLink. It's back to the way it used to work - we can search several libraries with one search submission. Be nice to get a 10% rebate

COBOL Integrated Coprocessors

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Klein
There were bunches of problems with the COBOL2 translator option interacting with the DBCS compiler option. I can't (quickly) find a summary of what APARs fixed which problems. You might want to check out PKPK26401 and PK26933: If you are a SHARE member, you may want to check out

Re: IBMLink SIS Fixed!

2007-02-21 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 3:28 PM Subject: FW: IBMLink SIS Fixed! Since many of us were quick to complain From: CICS List Sent: Wednesday,

Fw: Finding where a module is being loaded from

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Klein
If this feature is important to your site, then you should contact your marketing branch and ask that a REQUEST be submitted - referencing existing SHARE requirement: SSLNGC0313587 - LE Callable Service to get (various) Program Names (current IBM response RECOGNIZED) Oscar Flores [EMAIL

Re: UPDATING VLF data objects without an IPL --a query for the list, please

2007-02-21 Thread Rajesh Dharia
Thanks for your response , John :-) . You are right . I know, the proper way would have been to update the LNKLST with a new loadlib name or a different VOLSER ,at least . Considering the situation that a dynamic LNKLST change is not to be made , do you think IPLing the system will be

Resource Link

2007-02-21 Thread Alan C. Field
Don't be too quick to congratulate IBM. I just got this feedback from them after failing to lonon to Resourcelink. Did you change your password recently? The IBM registration authentication system is having problems and they estimate it will take hours to process/replicate all password change

Re: UPDATING VLF data objects without an IPL --a query for the list, please

2007-02-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:35:11 +0530, Rajesh Dharia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your response , John :-) . You are right . I know, the proper way would have been to update the LNKLST with a new loadlib name or a different VOLSER ,at least . Considering the situation that a dynamic

Re: UPDATING VLF data objects without an IPL --a query for the list, please

2007-02-21 Thread Rajesh Dharia
Hi Mark, Not local rules, really. I could update the LNKLST dynamically.However, that won't be useful unless it is backed by the same changes done statically (which will be taking effect during the next IPL ). The problem is ... the change management procedures come into the scene here and I

Re: UPDATING VLF data objects without an IPL --a query for the list, please

2007-02-21 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
There are numerous threads in the archives of IBM-Main which discuss manipulation of linklist. The basic procedure is: Define a new linklist set, copying the current one Add the new data set to the new linklist set Delete the old data set from the new linklist set Activate the new linklist set

Re: UPDATING VLF data objects without an IPL --a query for the list, please

2007-02-21 Thread Matthew Stitt
As was pointed out by Mark, the LNKLST is accessed through LLA. VLF only does the memory storage based on LLA requests. So even though you restarted VLF, you must also restart LLA. This might make your changes available to the system. On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 17:01:13 -0500, Imbriale, Donald

Re: Simulating SRL in integer arithmetic

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:48:10 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: I'm trying to port an S/390 assembler routine to Visual Basic. VB has no shift operators. I'm trying to simulate SRL R6,8 No need to know Visual Basic, just pretend the following is pseudo-code. R6 is defined as a signed, 32-bit (31-bit

Re: Unix System Services Maintenance

2007-02-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/09/2007 at 11:04 AM, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Are you just adding another reason for not using a TFS for /tmp or are you making a different point? No, a reason for not using TFS for /var. I quoted the wrong text in front of my response. Sorry. It

Re: SUPERC allocation errors z/OS V1.8 - fix

2007-02-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/15/2007 at 01:46 PM, Veilleux, Jon L [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: We ran into an interesting situation with z/OS V1.8. One of our folks uses a PDS for his listing dataset in ISPF 3.12 and 3.14. This stopped working when we upgraded to z/OS V1.8. After hitting enter we

Re: Simulating SRL in integer arithmetic

2007-02-21 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. Without the R6 = R6 - 1 it's definitely wrong most of the time. That's the difference between 1's complement and 2's complement arithmetic. (I think your -512 is a particularly favorable boundary case with no remainder.) -1 \ 256 = 0 (with a remainder of -1). That would give you

What are the naming rules for LPARs?

2007-02-21 Thread Charles Mills
What are the naming rules for logical partitions? (I'll go RTFM if I have it -- is it on the DVD?) 8 characters, upper case alphanumeric, first character alpha? Are $, @, and # legal? (Hate those non-invariant EBCDIC characters.) Thanks, Charles Mills

Re: Simulating SRL in integer arithmetic

2007-02-21 Thread Bill Godfrey
I see it's not as simple as I thought. Maybe if it's negative, zero the sign bit with an And, divide by 256, then Or the quotient with hex 0080 to recover the dropped bit. Bill On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 14:43:51 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: Thanks. Without the R6 = R6 - 1 it's definitely wrong

Re: UPDATING VLF data objects without an IPL --a query for the list, please

2007-02-21 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:13:59 -0600, Matthew Stitt wrote: As was pointed out by Mark, the LNKLST is accessed through LLA. VLF only does the memory storage based on LLA requests. So even though you restarted VLF, you must also restart LLA. This might make your changes available to the system.

Re: Simulating SRL in integer arithmetic

2007-02-21 Thread Charles Mills
Bill - Good thought. Let's see (-1) anded becomes 7FFF (2147483647) divided by 256 becomes 007F (8388607) and oring the bit back gives 00FF QED FE00 (-512) anded becomes 7E00 (2147483136) divided by 256 becomes 007E (8388606) and oring the bit back gives

Re: Simulating SRL in integer arithmetic

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Charles Mills said: Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:52:53 -0800 Good thought. Let's see (-1) anded becomes 7FFF (2147483647) divided by 256 becomes 007F (8388607) and oring the bit back gives 00FF QED FE00 (-512) anded becomes 7E00

z/OS V1R8 Hyper Update

2007-02-21 Thread Jim Marshall
Just thought I would update folks on the present problem IBM has accepted as a JES2 problem. MVS Solutions' Thruput Manager is not the guilty party. This was introduced into JES2 with new function when all systems are running JES2 V1R8 in a sysplex. JES2 takes multiple $BR4 abends where

Re: Simulating SRL in integer arithmetic

2007-02-21 Thread Charles Mills
Ah! I knew someone out there was paying attention in math class. Thanks. OT The VB issue is complex. VB.Net breaks a whole lot of VB6. It will probably break this program somewhere, but the program is for internal use only in a software company, so we're used to broken software g, and there's no

Re: New Level of Dataset Audit Facility (DAF) is Coming Soon

2007-02-21 Thread Michael Cleary
I have a question about DAF. Have you ever made DAF so it uses less CPU time? I really like DAF, and found it a great help under certain circumstances. It just seemed that whenever I ran a DAF job, it buried the CPU while the job ran. This was at my last job, where we had an MP3000-H50,