Greetings,
An updated level of GRS is available at:
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Changes in GRS 1.4.2 include:
RIBETCBF - TCB Abending flag removed in z/OS 1.6
Change default waiters to 0
Change default propagate to NO
Enhanced GQSCAN return code checking
Add RIBDMIN RIB
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Eric N. Bielefeld
My Garmin GPS didn't reset the time either, but then it never
has. It doesn't take much to tap the clock icon and then tap
Daylight savings time.
Our hq building has several battery-powered
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Kopischke
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:23:54 +1000, Shane wrote:
Any horror stories out there?
The rest of the world deals with this on a regular basis.
Enough of the Chicken Little syndrome from the yanks
DB2 Version 9 for z/OS available March 16, 2007:
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS207-041/ENUS207041.PDF
More stuff moves into 64-bit land, lots of XML goodies, increased zIIP
affinity (including stored procedures), rearchitected stored procedures
(for better performance), more
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 17:04 +1000, Timothy Sipples wrote:
DB2 Version 9 for z/OS available March 16, 2007:
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that IBM never releases a ?.0
of DB2 - 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1 now 9.1
Maybe they know no-one trusts a dot.zero release.
Then again, given what a
Then again, given what a f*ck-up 6.1 was with star-join ...
DB2 6.1 is AFH Shane.
Bob
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Clark Morris
The following is a reposting because of the possible
implications for other shops, The tax e-file application is
probably on a mainframe.
It has been down for over a week starting last Monday and
DB2 Version 9 for z/OS available March 16, 2007:
Thank you for your (unbiased) marketting pitch!
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we have applications that make use of ARCINBAK to backup datasets during
their Batch runs (which goes to tape). i often wondered what benefit that
gives, when compared to DFDSS.
what scenarios will prove beneficial to use ARCINBAK ?
as it is, we have a tough time justifying the CPU usage for
It isn't a question of what's common, we are just trying to make sure that
either will do the job in a shop as large as ours. Just want to make the
best choice for our environment. From the replies I've seen either one
will do the job we need. Which brings me to my next question, as our
Using ARCINBAK allows applications to take point in time backups
meaningful to the application as opposed to during a predetermined
backup window.
Having the backup under HSM control allows you to select the backup you
want to restore from the output of a HLIST command as opposed to
guessing which
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:16:55 +1000, Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 08:49 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
We also run an ISV product (perhaps the same one) that requires a zap to a
module that is part of CEEPLPKA. Even though we only run the product
on one LPAR, I still
Timothy Sipples wrote:
DB2 Version 9 for z/OS available March 16, 2007:
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS207-041/ENUS207041.PDF
More stuff moves into 64-bit land, lots of XML goodies, increased zIIP
affinity [...]
So, more XLM, more Java more other modern stuff. How many
Hi Folks,
I'm very happy that this issue of (the old Experience and newer
Experience in MVS) has been addressed. Radoslaw's experiences and
observations from the situation in Europe have not been often repeated
here, in the USA. We don't seem to have too many bright kids here, who
are
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould
[ snip ]
The second part of your interview is to figure out what type
of company you are interviewing with.
That should probably be in pre-interview preparation
-jc-
Sam Golob said:
We don't seem to have too many bright kids here, who
are willing to try anything and learn about the nitty gritty innards of
the MVS system.
Cue the zNextGen crew from SHARE in 3, 2, 1, . . .
IBM and SHARE and a very bright, motivated and enthusiastic crew of
On 13 Mar 2007 19:44:59 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Since one of the major hysteria media tycoons is Rupert
Murdoch from Austrailia, I don't think the Aussies on the
list are in much position to be smug. More on topic, my PC
and my wife's laptop coped. I don't have a
Thanks, all, for the good information. Now I get to go back to the
applications staff to find out which, if any, of these fonts they actually
use...
Rex
From Roger Bolan:
For specific information on fonts on your system you can 1. Browse the fonts
directly. There is some readable
I was cleaning out my IBMMain inbox and came across an email from 9/05 from
me to the group in response to an email from Wayne Driscoll in response to
another lister asking about writing a PC routine. (Whew)
Wayne's response was for the lister to get their hands on a copy of
either/both
Wouldn't XML, Java, and more other modern stuff qualify as an add-on such
as you mentioned in the MVS Experience thread? Surely you're not saying,
Don't tell me about DB2 and your XML, we DON'T NEED IT! big grin
Jon
snip
So, more XLM, more Java more other modern stuff. How many
On the subject of dot.zero release, did you also notice that there is never
a dot.two release? Always new versions. New versions typically have a
price increase on the MLC, whilst new releases do not.
My experience has been that every even numbered version of DB2 has brought
with it significant
Jon Brock wrote:
Wouldn't XML, Java, and more other modern stuff qualify as an add-on such as you mentioned in the
MVS Experience thread? Surely you're not saying, Don't tell me about DB2 and your XML, we DON'T NEED
IT! big grin
Apples and oranges. zIIP, zAAP, IFL are for non-MVS
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:22:51 -0500, Tom Moulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On the subject of dot.zero release, did you also notice that there is never
a dot.two release? Always new versions. New versions typically have a
price increase on the MLC, whilst new releases do not.
Unless you're on a
What's the best way to tell if SDSF is using external security? We have
some LPARs that have the SDSF class active, but few profiles. SDSF's
ISFPARMS don't appear to be using external security. Is there a way to
tell definitively? Or will SDSF use a combination?
I would assume it would
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:25:51 +0100, R.S. wrote:
Timothy Sipples wrote:
DB2 Version 9 for z/OS available March 16, 2007:
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/1/897/ENUS207-041/ENUS207041.PDF
More stuff moves into 64-bit land, lots of XML goodies, increased zIIP
affinity [...]
So, more XLM,
I met with some IBM DB2 folks this week and they claim performance was a big
aim of V9 and that it buys back a lot of the CPU lost to V8. Not sure about
the memory, but with 64 bit addressing, I can't see it going down.
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From: R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups:
I am currently installing z/OS 1.8 and trawling through our local mods. It
seems that we have an HSM initialisation exit that simply issues a LOAD for
IDCAMS and IDCXP01.
I suspect that this was implemented in the dim distant to help with a
performance problem (extra LOAD means there will
On the subject of dot.zero release, did you also notice that there is
never
a dot.two release? Always new versions. New versions typically have
a
price increase on the MLC, whilst new releases do not.
I don't know that there's any particular rhyme or reason to the
numbering scheme. There
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/14/2007
at 03:48 PM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I too agree with you Rick. I have seen so called IT Professionals
stuck in a time warp.
So have I. Some of them were young. In fact, I was moved to coin the
phrase young fogies for IT employees who were
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/09/2007
at 12:59 PM, George Dranes [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I have a bit of a weird situation in which I'm running a clist in a
step of a batch job. In this clist I'm reading an input file
containing variables that I would like to use in the following steps
of the
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:53:25 -0400, Bob Shannon wrote:
Then again, given what a f*ck-up 6.1 was with star-join ...
DB2 6.1 is AFH Shane.
AFH ??? I tried to look up this acronym, but I can only find stupid things
like:
American Fork and Hoe
Assassins for Hire
Australian Fluid Handling
or my
AFH ???
Ancient History
Bob Shannon
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Art Celestini wrote:
Not sure if this is your problem, but as shown, your X'800'
constant doesn't have enough zeros. (It should be X'8000'.)
You're right, but that was just a typo on my part
when making the post.
Turns out it seems the problem was an Assembler
alignment error
Rich Tabor wrote:
I think you will have better luck using FI and DA instead of DD and DSN.
Huh? Why would that be so? Both {FI | DD}, and {DA | DSN} are
shown as options; all four combinations should work.
Problem seems to have been alignment (see below)
On 3/12/07, Steve Comstock [EMAIL
McKown, John wrote:
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From: MVS OpenEdition [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Steve Comstock
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 10:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [MVS-OE] BPXWDYN problem
OK, so I'm writing this CGI in Assembler to access
a VSAM file [seemed like
I guess, rather than moving the label alloc, I would have suggested:
DS 0H force half word alignment
allocds 0cl62
dc h'60'
dc cl60'alloc dd(meals) dsn(stnt329.train.meals) shr reuse'
It's a style issue, however. The effect is (mostly) identical. I
I guess what I didn't mention (my forgetful self), is that the MVS core
knowledge that us more experienced and older types have, (I hate that term:
old farts.let's just say seasoned MVS veterans), has a lot to do
with our training and how we acquired that knowledge of MVS. Most of ya’ll
Searching IBM-MAIN I see discussions of the problems of VSAM on SYSRES and
cloning, particularly when moving the volume to a system with a different
MCAT.
Trying to follow the IBM direction to replace HFS with ZFS, we have the
issue again of a VSAM (albeit LDS) dataset on the IPL set.
Has
How does one go about getting support for the non mainframe version of
that beast?
Thanks
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I have a copy of the J. Rande MVS Power Programming that I bought
about 12 years ago. At these prices maybe I need to dig it out of
storage and sell it on eBay.
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
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I believe you can purchase support through Passport Advantage.
Hal Merritt wrote:
How does one go about getting support for the non mainframe version of
that beast?
Thanks
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:02:22 -0500, Dan Ahler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Searching IBM-MAIN I see discussions of the problems of VSAM on SYSRES and
cloning, particularly when moving the volume to a system with a different
MCAT.
Trying to follow the IBM direction to replace HFS with ZFS, we have
On Mar 15, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Chase, John wrote:
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Gould
[ snip ]
The second part of your interview is to figure out what type
of company you are interviewing with.
That should probably be in pre-interview
Yes, but the DB2 on z/VM and z/VSE is not really DB2. :-)
There are 3 different code platforms for DB2 - I'm missing some details, so
someone please fill in the blanks...
- Non-mainframe platforms (Unix-type), which came from another data base
product
purchased by IBM a long time ago
Chris Craddock writes:
I don't know that there's any particular rhyme or reason to the numbering
scheme.
and I should agree in general. There is, however, one ROT that I have found
very useful: When a supplanting release i + 1 is announced before release i
is shipped, avoid release i.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ray Mullins
Yes, but the DB2 on z/VM and z/VSE is not really DB2. :-)
There are 3 different code platforms for DB2 - I'm missing
some details, so someone please fill in the blanks...
- Non-mainframe
On 15 Mar 2007 09:29:24 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
On the subject of dot.zero release, did you also notice that there is
never
a dot.two release? Always new versions. New versions typically have
a
price increase on the MLC, whilst new releases do not.
I don't know that
Sam Golob wrote:
[...]
Also, I have to point out that MVS experience is almost always HARD
WON experience. So (being hard won), it is beloved by the experiencer
and it is close to the heart. We do not want to let it go. This is
(really) another one of my main points.
[...]
And this
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of john gilmore
Chris Craddock writes:
I don't know that there's any particular rhyme or reason to the
numbering scheme.
and I should agree in general. There is, however, one ROT
that I have found very useful:
Ah, SQL/DS - that's what I was thinking of. But I have seen DL/1 references
on the other platforms in casual conversation.
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Of Chase, John
Sent: Thursday March 15 2007 13:40
To:
Ray,
The non-mainframe (ie DB2 LUW (Linux/Unix/Windows) is actually based on
the OS/2 Database Manager, which became DB2/2 then DB2 UDB, then UDB
became the standard moniker for all DB2 products, so LUW was used to
distinguish from z/OS. Also, in the non-MF world, 8.2 was Stinger,
and 9 is Viper.
There are 3 different code platforms for DB2 - I'm missing
some details, so someone please fill in the blanks...
- Non-mainframe platforms (Unix-type), which came from
another data base product
purchased by IBM a long time ago (Sequent?), and has some
code shared with
snip---
Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that IBM never releases a ?.0
of DB2 - 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1 now 9.1
Maybe they know no-one trusts a dot.zero release.
Then again, given what a f*ck-up 6.1 was with star-join ...
I noticed our DBAs were out of
The IBM relational database that runs on VM VSE is called DB2, but it
is essentially the same codebase as SQL/DS. Unfortunately the product
hasn't changed much in the last 15 years or so.
Craddock, Chris wrote:
There are 3 different code platforms for DB2 - I'm missing
some details, so
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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:37 AM
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On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:22:51 -0500,
I don't want to rain on anyone's parade, but alot of these points seem rather
self-indulgent.
As in any career, there are some that will excel and others that won't. I
don't personally see the MVS environment as being any different than any other
career. There are many experienced people
CC wrote on 16/03/2007 02:29:12 AM:
There was a huge debacle with IMS V2.2 in the mid '80s
that cost several high-end customers $$ millions. V2.2 was going to be
the release that finally got the V1.3 customers to migrate and I suppose
it eventually was, but there were lots of bodies left in
Would DFSORT at release 1.4 (z/OS 1.4 and I think OS/390 2.10) using
EQUALS=VBLKSET produce the same results run after run if the input data
were the same but produce different results when run under DFSORT 1.5 (All
jobs ran with EQUALS=N)? I know what EQUALS= does, it's just that the
results
Craddock, Chris wrote:
There are 3 different code platforms for DB2 - I'm missing
some details, so someone please fill in the blanks...
- Non-mainframe platforms (Unix-type), which came from
another data base product
purchased by IBM a long time ago (Sequent?), and has some
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From: John Benik [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: Using RMM in a large STK environment?
It isn't a question of what's common, we are just trying to make sure that
either will do the job in a
There was a huge debacle with IMS V2.2 in the mid '80s
that cost several high-end customers $$ millions.
Shane asks (rhetorically)
Let me guess - you were employed by one such customer at the time ...
Oh yeah. No prizes for guessing who.
CC
A friend recently stated that the human brain is only capable of
learning
one and a half operating systems'. Perhaps that's true.
You mean I don't have a human brain? Eeek!
:-)
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Chris,
Like that was ever in doubt?
gdr
Wayne
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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:34 PM
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A friend recently stated that the
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