Re: Compuware installs get an F

2007-05-21 Thread Robert Bardos
Damn! I wish JCL symbol substitution could be performed in the body of instream UCLIN. Don't we all - symbolics in sysin (in general) that is, not just the specific case you highlight. Add to that a feature that most scheduler products have. Something like 'substitute

Re: How can I influence VTS device allocation

2007-05-21 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Duane, No problem. If I really need a product to achieve what I want and this means that in standard z/OS it is impossible, this is valuable information. Kees. Duane Reaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Sorry to put in a plug for a vendor product but ACC from DTS

EZASMI and LE

2007-05-21 Thread Nick Baguley
Is anyone aware of whether the EZASMI macro level interface uses LE at any stage? I am about to attempt to write code to allow for persistant connections across IMS transactions and LE enclave term/init. I dont particularly want to code it all only to find there is some C/C++/LE conf asm

Re: VTAM question (***)

2007-05-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
I just thought if he needed more detailed help on how to you ISPVCALL or ISPF TEST, it might clutter the list a bit too much. I am more than happy to keep the list updated on discussions. Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Symbol substitution (was: Compuware installs get an F)

2007-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 May 2007 08:08:35 +0200, Robert Bardos wrote: Don't we all - symbolics in sysin (in general) that is, not just the specific case you highlight. Add to that a feature that most scheduler products have. Something like 'substitute off'/'substitute on'. I had assumed that in the DD

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Jim McAlpine
OK, I've now got the batch ISPF set up and working and the program now looks like this - CBL DYNAM IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. CCSID. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. CONFIGURATION SECTION. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 ISPLINK PIC X(8) VALUE

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 8:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers? As usually in mainframe world, we have a lot of proofs that

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Kurt Gramling
Like I said before, the ZTERMCID value should be TCCSID. OK, I've now got the batch ISPF set up and working and the program now looks like this - CBL DYNAM IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. CCSID. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. CONFIGURATION SECTION. DATA DIVISION.

Re: Technical Support magazine

2007-05-21 Thread Ken Porowski
Try http://www.naspa.com/tsm0207a You may have to log in to see some of the content Check the bottom on the webpage -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth E Tomiak Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:04 PM To:

Re: Technical Support magazine

2007-05-21 Thread Jeffrey Deaver
I agree, the website it extremely difficult to navigate. When did they change it from the classic 'red' web pages. I found the pubs at the following URLs once I was logged on... http://www.technicalsupport-digital.com/technicalsupport/200704/

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Gary Green
Jim, I know I am late to this party, so forgive me if I mention something that has been mentioned already or not related to the original question. But, it looks like you want ISPF-Cobol. If so, have you looked at using ISPF's built-in MODEL's? If not, they provide a great jumping off point to

Re: VTAM question (***)

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/21/2007 7:02:03 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: just thought if he needed more detailed help on how to you ISPVCALL or ISPF TEST, it might clutter the list a bit too much. I am more than happy to keep the list updated on discussions.

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/21/2007 9:23:18 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know I am late to this party, so forgive me if I mention something that has been mentioned already or not related to the original question. Yeah he's in the debugging phase now. Guess the

Re: Technical Support magazine

2007-05-21 Thread Steve Comstock
Jeffrey Deaver wrote: I agree, the website it extremely difficult to navigate. When did they change it from the classic 'red' web pages. I found the pubs at the following URLs once I was logged on... http://www.technicalsupport-digital.com/technicalsupport/200704/

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Jim McAlpine
Kurt, I've changed that value but I'm still getting the same errors. The VDEFINE gets rc=0 but the VGET returns rc=8. Jim McAlpine On 5/21/07, Kurt Gramling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I said before, the ZTERMCID value should be TCCSID.

Re: Technical Support magazine

2007-05-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 9:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Technical Support magazine SNIP I'm not able to get in via any of the links. For

Re: Technical Support magazine

2007-05-21 Thread Jim McAlpine
It's intermittent from where I am. Jim McAlpine On 5/21/07, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not able to get in via any of the links. For http://www.naspa.com/tsm0207a I get: Fatal error: Call to undefined function user_access() in

Re: VTAM question (***)

2007-05-21 Thread Chris Mason
Ed I'd be amazed - quite utterly astounded - at this stage in its existence if VTAM was causing problems with changes in mode table (LOGMODE) internal format. I very, very much doubt that could be in any way anything to do with the reported effect. In any case, Debbie may be using the

Re: Alias

2007-05-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/17/2007 at 11:55 AM, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The IBM utility IEBUPDTE says it can assign aliases in a PDS or PDSE but they don't provide any examples. You can't use IEBUPDTE to update a load module. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Jim McAlpine
I've changed that back to a value of ZTERMCID and it's now returning rc=0 for both calls. I was sure I had tried that before at Dave Salts' suggestion, but maybe not. Now I just need to find out why the ccsid is blank. Thanks for all your help. Jim McAlpine On 5/21/07, Kurt Gramling [EMAIL

Re: Technical Support magazine

2007-05-21 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I just talked to my friend Scott Scherer, who used to run Naspa, and now just works there. He was glad to know about the difficulties. They just went from a format of having a monthly magazine, to putting the articles on their site as soon as they were written. He assured me that someone

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL I've changed that back to a value of ZTERMCID and it's now returning

Re: Is there a way to Remove BOOK from PF6 in SDSF?

2007-05-21 Thread Alan Scott
Tom, I would whole heatedly agree with you, except in this case. An ISPF table that has been modified to suite the personel needs of the site is only valid as long as its based upon the current itteration of the module. Were this table to be updated via maintenance (little chance) then the

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Jim McAlpine
We only use logmodes D4C32XX3 and those beginning SNX3270* all of which have the query bit set so I'm now presuming its is an emulator issue. Thanks Jim McAlpine On 5/21/07, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the book: quote CCSID coded character set identifier of the terminal.

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Miller, Pat
Thanks to all who have commented. It's been an education. SNTPD started task. Seems simple enough. Howsomever, neither the IP Config guide nor Reference tells you much more than the name of the procedure, where to find the sample, and what it does. I.e., neither tells you how it works or

calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Lynd, Eugene (Contractor) (J6C)
I'm trying to convert the following pseudo code to run under COBOL 01 CHAR PIC X(4) VALUE 'CHAR'. is incorrect. When you define a character value with a length less than 8 you need a trailing blank: 01 CHAR PIC X(5) VALUE 'CHAR '. Gene Lynd

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Field, Alan C.
Pat, It is that simple. My guess is that SNTPD task queries the time in the processor clock (think TIME or STCK macro) and I presume formats the result in an appropriate NTP format and makes it available on the appropriate port (123?) to all requesters. If you have an ETR AND you set and correct

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread John P Kalinich
Jim McAlpine of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 05/21/2007 08:51:56 AM: OK, I've now got the batch ISPF set up and working and the program now looks like this - CBL DYNAM IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. CCSID. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.

Re: VTAM question (***)

2007-05-21 Thread Debbie Mitchell
On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:11:41 +0200, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't say I'd ever performed this sort of research but isn't the need to regenerate - including reassembly - customized tables one of the sorts of issues covered by the documentation a systems programmer goes through when

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/21/2007 12:18:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can compile and execute the above program in ISPF with no modifications. Out of curiosity, which Emulator and Logmode are you running? ** See what's free

Re: 3350 failures

2007-05-21 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 5/17/2007 3:30:41 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 17 May 2007 15:01:48 -0400, William Donzelli wrote: I have a lead on a few 3350s - obsolete, but that is the point What point its that? By today's standards they are very slow. And

Re: VTAM question (***)

2007-05-21 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/21/2007 12:20:03 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: be a priority. And, since posting my original question, I have noticed that the behavior is not consistent -- which leads me to believe that it is, indeed, related to changing screen sizes. If

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Fri, 18 May 2007 18:19:20 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote: But then, my experience with TOD drift against a known standard has been rather remarkable. Quite seriously, it has been only a few seconds over a year's period of time. Our old z800 would drift a few seconds every month. I haven't had

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 21 May 2007 10:00:21 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lynd, Eugene , Contractor, J6C) wrote: 01 CHAR PIC X(4) VALUE 'CHAR'. is incorrect. When you define a character value with a length less than 8 you need a trailing blank: 01 CHAR PIC X(5) VALUE 'CHAR '. Gene Lynd Why does he

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread John P Kalinich
Ed Finnell of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 05/21/2007 12:25:02 PM: In a message dated 5/21/2007 12:18:31 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: can compile and execute the above program in ISPF with no modifications. Out of curiosity,

Re: 3350 failures

2007-05-21 Thread Craddock, Chris
Bill Fairchild writes Yes, they were kludgy way back then and absurd now, but it seems he wants to get one or more working and attached to a mainframe for reason(s) he has not divulged. Even though their 635MB can be replaced by a more modern device that fits in your pocket, I don't think

Vista Tn3270 (was: Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL)

2007-05-21 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John P Kalinich Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 12:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL snip Emulator: Vista tn3270 1.6. Logmodes: SNX32702, SNX32705,

Re: 3350 failures

2007-05-21 Thread William Donzelli
Yes, they were kludgy way back then and absurd now, but it seems he wants to get one or more working and attached to a mainframe for reason(s) he has not divulged. There is no secret to why I want 3350s - it is to save, assemble, and restore old mainframe systems. There are a small number of

Re: How can I influence VTS device allocation

2007-05-21 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Fri, 18 May 2007 07:31:02 -0500, Bruno Sugliani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007 14:05:23 +0200, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello list, We have a TS7700 VTS in a grid Configuration, which consists of 2 TS7700 clusters each with its own tapeunits, coupled

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:02:52 +0200, R.S. wrote: 1. I don't know whether STP solution can use 'atomic clock' as a time reference. AFAIK, it was asked on the list, but noone answered. 2. (**) Two sysplex timers are required, because of redundancy. AFAIK if you loose ETR (sysplex timer or timer

Re: Vista Tn3270 (was: Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL)

2007-05-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 21 May 2007 11:02:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote: Emulator: Vista tn3270 1.6. Logmodes: SNX32702, SNX32705, and D4C32XX3. Hum, I wonder how long before Tom Brennan Software is sued by Microsoft over the name Vista as causing confusion in the market place? And, if he

Re: Vista Tn3270 (was: Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL)

2007-05-21 Thread Lionel B Dyck
Hum, I wonder how long before Tom Brennan Software is sued by Microsoft over the name Vista as causing confusion in the market place? Tom's product has history as it was there long before Vista was even imagined (not that that will stop M$ from attempting something if they decided to) Lionel

Re: 3350 failures

2007-05-21 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 5/21/2007 1:02:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Will a 3880 with proper microcode control 3350s? Yes. Bill Fairchild Plainfield, IL ** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Re: VTAM question (***)

2007-05-21 Thread Neubert, Kevin (DIS)
Going from z/OS 1.6 to 1.8 I have noticed similar behavior. Is it more pronounced on terminals such as Mod 3 (32X80) versus Mod 5 (27X132)? If you use IPT I found some relief with OA20772. Otherwise I opened TSO and ISPF ETRs to no avail and still have a VTAM ETR outstanding. Regards, Kevin

Re: 3350 failures

2007-05-21 Thread Patrick . Falcone
IBM 3880 - 1 or 2 (IBM DASD and Control Units Facts Folder G520-3075-2) William Donzelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 05/21/2007 02:02 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject

Re: 3350 failures

2007-05-21 Thread William Donzelli
IBM 3880 - 1 or 2 (IBM DASD and Control Units Facts Folder G520-3075-2) OK, thanks. I need to find a 3880 anyway, so now this doubles the reason. -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Internet Orders

2007-05-21 Thread Chicklon, Tom
Has anyone had any luck the last few days with electronic orders from IBM? SMPE receive order times out after two hours for me both today and last Friday. I also have a product order that shows the internet delivery portion still in 'manufacturing'. I think the physical media, shipped Friday,

Re: How can I influence VTS device allocation

2007-05-21 Thread Bruce Black
Sorry to put in a plug for a vendor product duane, my policy is to never make an unsoliited reference to an Innovation product, but when we have one that directly addresses a problem or need expressed by a poster, I feel free to mention our products. No one seems to have a problem with this.

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Jim
If I'm not mistaken, you probably should not be VDEFINING that variable at all - it already exists in the profile pool. You need to VGET it from the profile pool - I think your code was getting it from the shared pool. Jim Harrison - Original Message - From: Jim McAlpine [EMAIL

Re: How can I influence VTS device allocation

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:51:03 -0400, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to put in a plug for a vendor product duane, my policy is to never make an unsoliited reference to an Innovation product, but when we have one that directly addresses a problem or need expressed by a poster, I feel

Re: Old RAMAC 2 still viable?

2007-05-21 Thread Bruce Black
Part of the problem was that neither CVOL nor VSAM catalogs could record dates beyond 1999 (2 digit date field) -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

TN3270 emulator on Linux.

2007-05-21 Thread McKown, John
I run Linux at home, not Windows. I use a VPN to get into work. In the past, I've used x3270 to do 3270 type work. I recently got Crossover Linux which can run __some__ MS Windows application under Linux. Just for fun, I tried an old version of QWS3270 that I purchased from JollyGiant software on

Recommend Coax-Attached Consoles?

2007-05-21 Thread Bob
Hi, We are planning on replacing some of our *very* old operator's consoles (IBM 3471's) with something a bit newer and I am trying to identify products that might work for us. We support a *lot* of separate MVS VM images (50 or more) and have switched to Visara boxes to replace most of our

Re: Vista Tn3270 (was: Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL)

2007-05-21 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Maybe Tom should sue Microsoft. They obviously took his name, which was there long before Vista. Eric Bielefeld Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer Milwaukee, Wisconsin 414-475-7434 Hum, I wonder how long before Tom Brennan Software is sued by Microsoft over the name Vista as causing confusion in

Re: Internet Orders

2007-05-21 Thread Neil Douglas
I had preventative maintenance for z/OS 1.7 do the same thing. I finally deleted the order on the IBM shopzseries website and started over with a new order. No problem on the second try. Neil M. Douglas El Dorado County Information Technologies Information Tech Analyst II 360 Fair Lane - Bldg B

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-21 Thread Dave Salt
From: Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've changed that back to a value of ZTERMCID and it's now returning rc=0 for both calls. I was sure I had tried that before at Dave Salts' suggestion, but maybe not. Now I just need to find out why the ccsid is blank. Have you tried executing the program

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Andy Wood
On Mon, 21 May 2007 09:55:13 -0400, Thompson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . Second, you most certainly can use an external time source to set the mainframe (either via Unix System Services TCP/IP, or through the HMC -- neither of which I have personal experience doing). The question is,

Re: Vista Tn3270 (was: Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL)

2007-05-21 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:25:20 -0500, Eric Bielefeld wrote: Maybe Tom should sue Microsoft. They obviously took his name, which was there long before Vista. They have an army of lawyers and he'd have to buy one (or more). They have to pay their lawyers whether they need them or not, so they

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andy Wood Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 2:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers? On Mon, 21 May 2007 09:55:13 -0400, Thompson, Steve [EMAIL

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 21 May 2007 12:33:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Wood) wrote: The magnetron in my microwave oven cycles at a sub-nanosecond rate. That does not mean it would be be suitable as a low drift clock source. Personal computers have had built in clocks forever - but they have been cheap and

IPLINFO Question

2007-05-21 Thread Kopischke, David G.
Sorry to clutter the list with this, but it might be useful for others: We just got through with a DR test. During this test, management wanted to emulate as close as possible the resources we would have available at the DR hotsite based on the current contract with a DR service provider. To do

Re: TN3270 emulator on Linux.

2007-05-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 21 May 2007 12:22:49 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote: I run Linux at home, not Windows. I use a VPN to get into work. In the past, I've used x3270 to do 3270 type work. I recently got Crossover Linux which can run __some__ MS Windows application under Linux. Just for fun, I tried

Delete invalid dataset name

2007-05-21 Thread John P Donnelly
How might we delete this little bugger? SYS1.DFDSS.DEFRAG..PRD9LF.DUMMY John Donnelly z/OS Systems Services National Semiconductor Corporation 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 PH: 408-721-5640 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Delete invalid dataset name

2007-05-21 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John P Donnelly Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 3:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Delete invalid dataset name How might we delete this little bugger?

Re: Delete invalid dataset name

2007-05-21 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Did you have a defrag fail on PRD9LF? Has the cause of that failure been corrected? Idcams - Delete NVR possibly with a file(dd1) where dd1 is the ddname pointing to the volume where the target dataset resides. From: John P Donnelly [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-21 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 5/17/2007 2:08:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the number is meaningless until you know what it is measuring, even if it is accurate. Of course, there's no reason to believe that it's accurate. See the 16 MAY 2007 Dilbert for additional info on

Re: IPLINFO Question

2007-05-21 Thread Neubert, Kevin (DIS)
You could look at the user directory for the primary address space size, but this can change-#CP DEFINE STORAGE size. From the guest representing your system #CP QUERY VIRTUAL STORAGE or from another guest #CP INDICATE USER userid. Regards, Kevin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Delete invalid dataset name

2007-05-21 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 5/21/2007 3:18:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How might we delete this little bugger? SYS1.DFDSS.DEFRAG..PRD9LF.DUMMY An untested suggestion: Try IMASPZAP with //SYSLIB DD DSN=FORMAT4.DSCB,DCB=KEYLEN=44,vol=ser=whatever CCHHR

Re: Recommend Coax-Attached Consoles?

2007-05-21 Thread R.S.
Bob wrote: [...] I think our requirements are very simple: o the simpler, and more traditional console-like, the better o we want consoles and no other functionality o we do not want anything Windows-based o preferably without any sort of hard drive or other failure-prone components o all of

Re: Technical Support magazine

2007-05-21 Thread Bruce Black
Naspa offered a deal for returning members, something like $20 for 20 months, so I took it. They email when new magazines are available. But I am not sure if I will renew when the 20 months are up -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300

Re: problem substituting variables

2007-05-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/11/2007 at 01:31 PM, Visser, Hans (PinkRoccade Infrastructure Services Technisch Specialist) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why is the variable vqual2a substituted by QUAL, but vqual2b not by the 2??? Because you used vqual2a as a tail

Re: Date Time in JCL

2007-05-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/17/2007 at 12:30 PM, Mark Steely [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I believe the answer is no and that's what I told the customer, but I will ask any way. Is there a way to dynamically add the current date and time to a dataset through JCL ? We are z/OS V1R7. There is no

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In !!AAAYAN4tmqr/aItLkw6fT3JvZv/[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/18/2007 at 09:55 PM, Doc Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But then again, I'm a bit of a horophile (no sniggering, it doesn't mean THAT) I don't see what else it could mean; I can't think of any other Greek or Latin word

Re: Synchronize Time Between Mainframe and Servers?

2007-05-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/19/2007 at 03:22 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As usually in mainframe world, we have a lot of proofs that mainframe is better, we can provide citations from ESA/390 Holy Principles, we can answer that we have ntp server... But the only honest answer to the

Re: VTAM question (***)

2007-05-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/19/2007 at 05:25 PM, Debbie Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Subject: VTAM question (***) Why do you believe that it is a VTAM issue? We have just upgraded from z/OS 1.4 to z/OS 1.7. There is a slight behaviour difference in ISPF, however, when navigating ISPF

Re: VTOC FULL

2007-05-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/15/2007 at 02:56 PM, Robert Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi All. We are V2R10. Can I dynamically rebuild a VTOC on a 3390? You can dynamically expand an existing VTOC. Fixing a corrupted or destroyed VTOC is much hairier. If so what utility would work? DSF.

Re: IPLINFO Question

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:06:18 -0600, Kopischke, David G. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry to clutter the list with this, but it might be useful for others: We just got through with a DR test. During this test, management wanted to emulate as close as possible the resources we would have available

Re: Delete invalid dataset name

2007-05-21 Thread Arthur T.
On 21 May 2007 13:18:10 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John P Donnelly) wrote: How might we delete this little bugger? SYS1.DFDSS.DEFRAG..PRD9LF.DUMMY In the past, I've had luck deleting datasets with invalid characters

Re: IPLINFO Question

2007-05-21 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
SHOWuOS use three methods to get the info. 1. Like IPLINFO does (unauth) 2. SYSEVENT QVS (auth) 3. SYSEVENT REQLPDAT (auth) Sample with one zIIP SRM MIPS: 923.560 (SU/sec) / 48.5 No of CPU: 5 zAAP/zIIP excl. MSU QVS: CEC: 126 IMG: 8

Re: IPLINFO Question

2007-05-21 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Mon, 21 May 2007 13:32:55 -0700, Neubert, Kevin (DIS) wrote: You could look at the user directory for the primary address space size, but this can change-#CP DEFINE STORAGE size. From the guest representing your system #CP QUERY VIRTUAL STORAGE or from another guest #CP INDICATE USER userid.

Re: Is there a way to Remove BOOK from PF6 in SDSF?

2007-05-21 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
Alan Scott wrote: Tom, Using a usermod would however raise a flag to whoever was doing maintenance that some modification had been made to this module, were that person not the one who made the original update they may be inclined to just re-apply the usermod. If you were going to do

Re: LRECL of Spanned Records

2007-05-21 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 5/16/2007 5:37:42 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The 32K limit is driven by the fact this binary integer is considered Signed; so instead of 0 thru 65535 it's -32767 thru 32768 The last 8 bytes are lost to track marks and block marks reserved

Re: IPLINFO Question

2007-05-21 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Mon, 21 May 2007 15:59:21 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: My IPLINFO exec is only a rough guestimate based on the SU value in the RMCT which it converts to SUs per second: The approximate total MIPS (SUs/SEC / 48.5 * # general CPUs) This is the best I was able to do with (unauthorized) rexx

Re: PUTTING DISK OFFLINE - JES3 ENVIRONMENT

2007-05-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/15/2007 at 06:32 AM, Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's an MVS message, not a JES3 message. Your commands are not making it to JES3. $ is not the usual JES3 command prefix. * is the default sysplex scope command prefix, though your installation may have

Re: Delete invalid dataset name

2007-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 May 2007 17:08:05 -0400, Arthur T. wrote: How might we delete this little bugger? SYS1.DFDSS.DEFRAG..PRD9LF.DUMMY 1. DD statement DISP=(OLD,DELETE) with the DSN within quotes. Remember to code UNIT VOL. If there are lower case letters, you have to be careful how it's

Re: Delete invalid dataset name

2007-05-21 Thread Richards.Bob
Tom replied with the only correct answer and it has been that way for at least 15 yrs. Bob Richards -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, May 21, 2007 6:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-21 Thread Edward Jaffe
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Picking up on something Paul G. said in another thread, I realized I have never known *why* the system issues JOB scope ENQ's on DSN's. I do realize that it is most probably to avoid an ENQ deadly embrace somewhere along the line, but for the life of me (well, and

Re: Technical Support magazine

2007-05-21 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:43:48 -0400, Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Naspa offered a deal for returning members, something like $20 for 20 months, so I took it. They email when new magazines are available. But I am not sure if I will renew when the 20 months are up ... I just looked at

Re: PUTTING DISK OFFLINE - JES3 ENVIRONMENT

2007-05-21 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 5/21/2007 5:53:08 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not enough to use a JES3 prefix character; he needs to use JES3 syntax. From the IBM MVS System Commands book (SA22-7627-14): For devices managed by JES3, issue a *VARY command instead of

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:01:57 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: I've never heard of an ENQ with job scope. A quick look at the ISGENQ service shows the following scope values: OK. We were being careless, and I may be at fault for starting it. The issue is why ENQs are issued at the beginning of the

Re: Recommend Coax-Attached Consoles?

2007-05-21 Thread Glenn Miller
Hi Bob, We use VISARA's SCON-22L controllers that have both COAX and Ethernet connections. We needed the COAX attachment to connect to the SUN ( STK ) 9310 SILOs as we didn't have the budget for the STK Ethernet LMU attachments ( we have 4 STK LMU units ). When we acquired the VISARA

Re: 3350 failures

2007-05-21 Thread Rick Fochtman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM 3880 - 1 or 2 (IBM DASD and Control Units Facts Folder G520-3075-2) William Donzelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 05/21/2007 02:02 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-21 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 18:43 -0500 on 05/21/2007, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?: On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:01:57 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: I've never heard of an ENQ with job scope. A quick look at the ISGENQ service shows the following scope values: OK. We were

Re: 3350 failures

2007-05-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IBM 3880 - 1 or 2 (IBM DASD and Control Units Facts Folder G520-3075-2) old email with reference to finding bug in the 3350 support in 3880 controller (and