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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clem Clarke) writes:
In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO.
Yep. TSO was, as I
Gerhard Adam wrote:
In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO.
I guess one could say, in a round about sort of way, that IEFBR14 was
the front end to invoking the DASD allocation, scratch and catalog SVCs?
I'm sorry, but you still can't say it no matter how
Don't your emergency IPL tapes (e.g., SADUMP or DFDSS) need to be
non-labeled?
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From: Tim Hare [mailto:snip]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 7:07 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Ln tapes mystery
Is there ever really a reason for using NL tape, these days? I
Anybody attempted to download the Audit and Report Application for
RACF from ftp://lscftp.pok.ibm.com/pub/racf/mvs. It is not working for
me and am just wondering if download instructions have changed since the
book SG244820 RACF Audit Tools was published in 1996. Any help will be
appreciated.
In
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at 09:48 AM, Jack Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm surprised that smf14 doesn't have the alias name,
Why would you expect the SMF 14 record to have the alias? The JFCB
should contain the true name after allocation.
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Hi IBM-Main,
I read somewhere that there have been some major performance
improvements to the use of the TRUNC(BIN) compiler option.
ENTERPRISE COBOL FOR Z/OS 3.3.1
and
ENTERPRISE COBOL FOR Z/OS 3.4.0
Does anyone have any information on this ? ...
The background on this is we are
I have never IPLed SAD off anything but disk. For the other things you
can IPL from a tape unit like FDR, DFDSS, ZZSA you can just repeat the
IPL function till you get past the labels to the program. I always kept
the FDR install tape in the computer room for just that reason as it was
a ready
We are testing 1.7 and getting ready to go. While messing around with DB2
we had an issue with the region coming up until we added IRLx and JRLx
entries in the IEFSSN00 subsystem names. I'm not a DB2 type, nor do I
completely understand all the relationships such as IRLP/JRLP for a production
Timothy Sipples wrote:
Ed Finnell writes:
Wonder why they went with z900? No zIIPs or zAAPs. Maybe for the price
they
just added another couple CPUs and let VM figure it out.
The z900 is not at all surprising (and likely does not represent the bulk
of the donation's value). A z900
snip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clem Clarke) writes:
In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO.
Yep. TSO was, as I recall, *added* to MVT somewhere along the line.
And SVC 99 was not used, again, as I recall. That came with MVS or
maybe VS2?
/snip
AFAIK, TSO was always a
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Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 7:09 PM
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Subject: Re: Ln tapes mystery
In a recent note, Ed Gould said:
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:56:24 -0500
In case anyone lost it, assemble this:
BR14
Just hive it a name.
Bill
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Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes
Date: Mon, 23
What large corporation is located right down the highway from the University
of Arkansas? (hint: Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of
Arkansas.)
What large corporation in northwest Arkansas has a large z/OS installation?
What large corporation will have access to the finest
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 7:48 AM
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Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes
In case anyone lost it, assemble this:
BR14
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 00:48:54 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't your emergency IPL tapes (e.g., SADUMP or DFDSS) need to be
non-labeled?
No. You can hit load 5 times to get past the labels.
Mark
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Lizette,
Great explanation and just enough to keep from confusing me.
Thank you.
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Nope,
The actual code is:
SR15,15
BRR14
Bill Wilkie wrote:
snip
In case anyone lost it, assemble this:
BR14
Just hive it a name.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:14 AM
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Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes
Nope,
The actual code is:
SR
Haven't you two guys just re-created the apocryphal IEFBR14 APAR ?
:-)
Rob Scott
Rocket Software, Inc
275 Grove Street
Newton, MA 02466
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Yup!!!
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Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes
Haven't you two guys just re-created the
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 09:49, McKown, John wrote:
OK, so I'm not on top of things. But this seems like short notice to me.
Or have I been living under a rock, again?
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/
You have. This has been announced for a while now.
snip
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:53 AM
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Subject: Re: End Of Service for z/OS 1.6 in September 2007?
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 09:49, McKown, John
It's a good thing your company was getting rid of the mainframe!
And I prefer living under soapstone.
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Date: Tue, 24
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:59 AM
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It's a good thing your company was getting rid
Oops.
I think you forgot the SR 15,15
I seem to remember we apared it at Shell, Melbourne, some centuries ago!!!
Clem
PS: Others probably did the same.
Bill Wilkie wrote:
In case anyone lost it, assemble this:
BR14
Just hive it a name.
Bill
McKown, John wrote:
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It's a good thing your company
That notice has been out there for awhile, one of the reasons we have 1.8
rolling into production this month.
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:10:15 -0700, John R. Ehrman wrote:
The new updated to the z/Architecture Principles of Operation is now
available at
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a2278325.pdf
Thanks, John. Will it be available as a BookManager book too?
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:49:24 -0500, McKown, John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, so I'm not on top of things. But this seems like short notice to me.
Or have I been living under a rock, again?
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/
Well, it is the standard 3 years from GA so it
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Duties include but not limited to: Top Secret, CICS, IMS and Networking.
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In a message dated 4/24/2007 7:36:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My understanding is TRUNC(BIN) was used by a lot of customers
because they were afraid of data being truncated when working
with, say, DB2 and other apps that use the whole capacity of
a binary
In a message dated 4/24/2007 8:14:01 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SR 15,15
BRR14
Plus the eyecatcher and the CNOP for alignment.
** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
I tried installing hercules on windows XP but could not follow the
instructions...
Can anybody help with the instructions for installation..
Thanks in advance.
Aven.
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Hi All,
I'm converting from CA-Allocate CA-Disk to DFSMS and DFSMSHSM.
We're at z/OS 1.7.
In my CA-Disk environment, I have multiple L1 migration volume pools.
For example, Production data is migrated to L1 DASD that is mirrored to
our DR site, while test/devl data is migrated to
Bob,
Is your test environment totally segregated from your Production
environment or is the DASD shared?
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:50 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: CA-DISK to DFSMSHSM
Hi All,
I'm
Hi Dave,
DASD is shared between PROD/TECH LPARS. PROD/DEV/TEST all on same
(PROD) LPAR.
Thanks!
*BobL*
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:38 AM
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Subject: Installation of Hercules(s390 Emulator) on Windows
I tried installing hercules on windows XP but could not
Nope. Those are not there!!
snip
In a message dated 4/24/2007 8:14:01 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
SR 15,15
BRR14
Plus the eyecatcher and the CNOP for alignment.
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Vinod Kumar wrote:
Anybody attempted to download the Audit and Report Application for RACF
from ftp://lscftp.pok.ibm.com/pub/racf/mvs. It is not working for me and am
just wondering if download instructions have changed since the
book SG244820 RACF Audit Tools was published in 1996. Any help
Bob,
In that case I think you need to plan on mirroring your test ML1 dasd
as well. I don't see any way to separate it. Even if the test data were
in its own storage group the SMS policy would call for it to be migrated
along with Prod unless you separated your SMS environment as well.
Cheaper
My recollection is different. SVC 99 (Dynamic Allocation) was a
necessary element of the TSO infrastructure. When TSO went GA, SVC 99
had to be there. TSO was available when I moved from New York to
Poughkeepsie in 1972.
Steve Samson
Staller, Allan wrote:
snip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clem
I am in the process of moving an IMS application from
VSE to Z/os. The system I am working on does NOT have
the latest Cobol Compiler, hence no integrated
transltors. I have a number of programs BATCH and CICS
that use the EXEC DLI ... construct. I am looking for
the DLI preprocessor that
Hi Dave,
I was afraid of that. Thanks for the confirmation.
Thanks!
*BobL*
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Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:16 AM
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Subject: Re:
The CICS translator should do the trick. I've used it for over 15 years.
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:58:30 -0700, Carl Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am in the process of moving an IMS application from
VSE to Z/os. The system I am working on does NOT have
the latest Cobol Compiler, hence no
BR14
Actually, IBM supplied a PTF (which doubled the programme size):
SR 15,15
BR 14
The reason being bad (non-zero) return codes.
(I really don't know if this is appocryphal, or not).
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
-snip
In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO.
--unsnip--
Strange. ISTR using TSO under Release 18.6 of MVT. Communications were
via TCAM.
-snip
I
Or have I been living under a rock, again?
It was announced while I was between opportunities in 2004, after being
downsized from IGS, Canada.
Plus, their three-year policy has been around for aeons.
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
Don't forget:
AMODE 31
RMODE ANY
That was an actrual APAR to IEFBR14 !! :-)
McKown, John wrote:
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:29:37 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:10:20 +0100, Beesley, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Our customer was also running SAP with lots of DB2.
Yup, I think the bug has been there since 1.7 base; there was some
change in multivolume dataset
In a recent note, Rob Scott said:
Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes
Haven't you two guys just re-created the apocryphal IEFBR14 APAR ?
I find the word apocryphal well-chosen insofar as the many times I've heard
this story I can't recall the APAR's being
1. IEFBR14
2. add SR 15,15
3. add RENT (I filed this under VS1)
4. add AMODE/RMODE
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Of Ted MacNEIL
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:23 AM
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Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought
Ed Finnell wrote:
Plus the eyecatcher and the CNOP for alignment.
TCB#7 RB#1 - z/XDC TPUT
INTERFACE
XDC ===
_ _00F09000 0s (A.S.userid) --- IEFBR14+0, @R15+0, PLPA+1C
_+0 @R15 EQU *
_+0
Timothy Sipples wrote:
z/OS can now tell you what workload is zIIP and zAAP eligible. Also, z/VM
5.3 can simulate zIIPs and zAAPs without actually having the hardware. All
that is perfect for an educational system even if it isn't appropriate for
a commercial system.
What you've written
In a message dated 4/24/2007 12:25:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Plus the eyecatcher and the CNOP for alignment.
Yeah, it went away. Don't know when(used to be corporate standard). We had
to put in the CNOP for XA 1.3. Don't know if it was the OEM disks
Hi,
Try this link for Audit and Report Application manual..
http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abstracts/sg244820.html?Open
Regards,
Prathap KBS
On 4/24/07, Vinod Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anybody attempted to download the Audit and Report Application for
RACF from
Was SVC 99 the other name for the DAIR (dynamic allocation interface
routine(s?)) or did it replace them? I vaguely remember using DAIR
decades ago. Listings trashed/lost two moves ago.
In S229-3169-3 (1971Jul no release) SVC32 shows parm of R1--UCB list but
no mention of DSN, disp, etc.
In a recent note, Ed Finnell said:
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:34:19 EDT
Been so long, don't remember only that it wasn't fullword aligned as we got
it. CNOP 0,4 made everything happy. As has been pointed out, relinking might
have been all it needed. Also had more fun on the OEM dasd
If you wouldn't mind all your test data going only to ML2, then you
could either change the management classes of the test data to go to
ML2, or if you use some of the same management class for both you could
code an HSM migration exit to send test data to ml2 only. Production
data could then go
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/24/2007
at 07:56 AM, Steve Samson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
My recollection is different. SVC 99 (Dynamic Allocation) was a
necessary element of the TSO infrastructure.
Correct; if you generated OS/360 with the TSO option you got DAIR,
which uses SVC 99. Note that
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/24/2007
at 11:45 AM, Clem Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO.
Try again; DAIR uses SVC 99. You generate OS/360 with TSO, you get SVC
99. The interface to it is different from what you're used to.
I guess one
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/23/2007
at 08:40 AM, Craig Bakken [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This may be somewhat of a religious question, Is it better to be
right up to the current level of available maintenance or is it
better to hang back a few months worth so as not to apply a PTF that
goes PE?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/22/2007
at 07:22 AM, George Dranes [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
We recently copied many of our RECFM=U PDSEs (no aliases) to other
volumes and I used an old job inadvertantly which used COPYMOD
rather than COPY or COPYGRP. Everything appears to have worked fine
(RC=0)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/05/2007
at 10:54 AM, Walt Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
However, they would involve changes in EXCP processing for all
channel programs addressed to any member-protected PDS. The change
would examine all CCWs to make sure the channel program was going to
process
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/05/2007
at 09:29 PM, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The real performance impact would be to programs that do multiple
member processing,
No. It would have to read the entire member in order to determine
where to set the limits, even for single member
OK, another chance to prove me an idiot. I'm used to it.
I remember from messages posted here that z/OS 1.8, at least when
originally released, was (let us say) not up to our usual expectations
of RAS. Assuming that I order z/OS 1.8 soon and so get current
maintenance on it, it is now up to
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said:
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:56:06 -0300
channel programs addressed to any member-protected PDS. The change
would examine all CCWs to make sure the channel program was going to
process a member the user was allowed to use.
That would
At 20:44 -0500 on 04/23/2007, Ed Gould wrote about Re: Ln tapes mystery:
I have heard no complaint that the 44-character z/OS limit on data set names
is inconveniently large and should be decreased.
A long time ago (30+ years) I worked at a bank where the used a
*LOT* (read most) of dsns
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/19/2007
at 09:01 AM, Clem Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Of course, the Source Code for early versions of the OS and language
translators was also available.
The source code for the OS through OS/VS2 R3.8 in available, including
the bundled compilers. However,
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/19/2007
at 11:01 AM, Victor de la Fuente [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Please excuse me for my English, but...What does ETR mean?
Electronic Trouble Report.
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ISO position; see
On Apr 24, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
--SNIP-
There is also the poor design of Tape Labels where you have only 17
positions to store the last 17 characters of 18-44 character long
DSNs and also waste 9 of them for GDGs when the G and
70 matches
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