Re: DASD Compression Question

2007-05-28 Thread R.S.
Clark Morris wrote: [...] Depending on your actual spinning DASD, compression may be counter productive for actual disk utilization. It can save logical space and cache space but if the controller is compressing the data in cache to store it on disk, this may foul up the compression algorithm.

Re: WSA and Friends (was: IEBCOPY ...)

2007-05-28 Thread Dave Salt
From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if I want to assemble (or COPY from SYSLIB), compile (or #include), Bind, execute, or serve as web page that file on the other platform, does WSA make that seamless also? (To be fair, for some of these operations, even with NFS, I perform a copy

Re: OSA Card: Definition MAC ADDRESS

2007-05-28 Thread Chris Mason
Francis On page 4 of Open Systems Adapter-Express Customer's Guide and Reference, Chapter 1. Introducing OSA-Express and OSA-Express2, section OSA-Express Characteristics, we find quote Each OSA-Express is shipped with a world-wide unique, or universal, Media Access Control (MAC) address.

CBPDO versus ServerPac for DB2 maintenance

2007-05-28 Thread William Walsh
I searched the archives, but didn't see this question discussed. I'm wondering about advantages/disadvantages of using ServerPac versus CBPDO for applying maintenance to an existing DB2 system. Our SysProg uses ServerPac for everything, but I'm wondering if it's possible to get a report of

Re: EDC5111I message

2007-05-28 Thread Ulrich Krueger
On Sun, 27 May 2007 17:50:00 +0300, Shmuel Koller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We operate a started task - which fails in socket initiation. Any idea what permission can be given and how - to avoid this message? Shmuel Koller (query cross posted also on RACF-L) Socket init error: EDC5111I

Re: How to Specify the FTP source IP address ?

2007-05-28 Thread Chris Mason
Len As you say, what Laurence really seems to want is to ensure that his *outbound* traffic selects the route he considers most suitable. This is not done simply by coding the local interface address in the IP packet source IP address field which one can be tempted to think is what his

Re: How to Specify the FTP source IP address ?

2007-05-28 Thread Chris Mason
John You appear to consider that Lawrence is worried about setting the source IP address but, in fact, he's concerned about performance and is interested in which interface will support his *outbound* traffic. Of course his preferred OSA interface may not always be working so it may be

BPXBATCH and DSNAME ENQs

2007-05-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
(Cross-posting to IBM-MAIN and MVS-OE) Motivated by recent ENQ discussions on IBM-MAIN, I used the job step in an experiment: //PAUSE1 EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,PARM='pgm /bin/sleep 120' //SYSUT1DD DISP=OLD,DSN=SYSUID..FOO.BAR, // UNIT=SYSALLDA,VOL=REF=SYS1.SAMPLIB The job log, shows,

Re: How to Specify the FTP source IP address ?

2007-05-28 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
Chris, I monitor the listserv traffic though the news group and my ISP seems to have issues keeping up with posts. The posts that talked about performance did not show up on the news server I use until after I resonded, even though based on timestamps those posts occured 10 hours before I

Re: BPXBATCH and DSNAME ENQs

2007-05-28 Thread Big Iron
The write-up for OA11699 says: BPXBATCH has logic in it to detect when it is running from JCL. By default, BPXBATCH sets up the stdin, stdout, and stderr file descriptors and then calls the exec callable service to run the requested program. The exec service ends the current job step and creates

Adduser with Turnkey MVS

2007-05-28 Thread Paul Anderson
I'm running the Turnkey MVS with the hercules emulator. I'm attempting to add a user to TSO, but having some difficulties. I modified the JCL in SYS2.JCLLIB(ADDUSER) to this: //ADDUSER EXEC ADDUSER,HLQ=JBROST,UTYPE=SYSP But it never seems to add the user. I am submitting the job as herc01,

Re: CBPDO versus ServerPac for DB2 maintenance

2007-05-28 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
On Mon, 28 May 2007 16:12:24 +0100, William Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched the archives, but didn't see this question discussed. I'm wondering about advantages/disadvantages of using ServerPac versus CBPDO for applying maintenance to an existing DB2 system. The question is not DB2

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not

2007-05-28 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
I suspect something similar would happen if I used the file as SYSIN to assembler or SYSLIN to Binder. Simply, programmers editing on ASCII platforms habitually use tab characters to format their programs. If the transfer scheme translates those TABs to '05'x, many things will not work as

Re: GSF - is well known

2007-05-28 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
and I have to say I still didn't understand all of his coding, but I'm working on this :-) I visit GSF years ago just before I was adopt as the main developer of showmvs/zos. Well he still gets the beta and hopefully he enjoy to see his work will continue. Perhaps in 20 years I'll also look for

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-28 Thread Henry Willard
Mohammad Khan wrote: Well, C on UNIX is really assembler - just one step removed from the bits and bytes of the underlying CPU. No, assembler is assembler on Unix. C is a high level language used as a system programming and implementation language on Unix just as PL/I was the implementation

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 28 May 2007 17:48:37 -0700, Henry Willard wrote: [1] C seems to be particularly well suited to writing code susceptible to buffer overrun bugs which have often made Unix systems easy prey for attackers. Much of this is due to the reliance on null-terminated strings, which are not

Re: Adduser with Turnkey MVS

2007-05-28 Thread Alan Brown
Paul: There is a discussion group on Yahoo! dedicated to Hercules. I think it is called HERCULES-390. There are also lists dedicated to Hercules VM, MVS, etc. You might get more help on one of those lists. Alan Brown Princeton Softech (609) 627-5598 -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: IEBCOPY Unloaded dataset to PC and back again...not

2007-05-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 28 May 2007 18:06:28 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: We can whine the mainframe does not work like the PC or we can whine the PC does not work like the mainframe. Be fair and whine both ways. Or write and FTP exit to exand tabs for them. I don't think we're whining. We're just adding

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Gilmartin) writes: Much of this is due to the reliance on null-terminated strings, which are not peculiar to C, but are rooted in the

Re: Adduser with Turnkey MVS

2007-05-28 Thread Chris Mason
Paul Since you're a turnkey user, you probably want the following: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/turnkey-mvs/join Chris Mason - Original Message - From: Alan Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 4:10 AM

Java batch on z/OS

2007-05-28 Thread Kong Chuang ONG
Hi All, Currently, we are running batch programs written in COBOL and SAS to generate reports and update data (VSAM, DB2,sequential file) on the mainframe z9-BC). We also run java applications in Websphere application server in Linux platform (z9 and Intel servers). As in most organizations,

Re: Java batch on z/OS

2007-05-28 Thread Timothy Sipples
Kong Chuang ONG: Currently, we are running batch programs written in COBOL and SAS to generate reports and update data (VSAM, DB2,sequential file) on the mainframe z9-BC). We also run java applications in Websphere application server in Linux platform (z9 and Intel servers). As in most