This poll has served to confirm my concern about the aging workforce and the
effect of that on the future of the mainframe.
I watched with interest what discussions the poll provoked on the lists. It
certainly seems that there are a lot of valuable people working on the
mainframe. There are
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Okay,
Give me the 3270 version back! Three calls to
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:29:54 -0700, Ulrich Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John,
Did you look at tuning recommendations from IBM:
http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10526
Since he had it set so high to start with, I assume he has.
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And they still haven't learned!
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.But that was typical of CA of that era.
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Who's your biggest CPU cycles hog? Any unusual events?
Who's your biggest memory hog? Again, anything looking unusual?
Of course, eventually you will have to face the music and upgrade your hardware
to get another CPU.
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…our little z800 V1R4 was running along with overhead numbers of 11-17
percent and RMPTTOM at 15K…
…Tuesday our overhead number went to 24 and RMPTTOM at 15K
…Wednesday overhead was 24 and 15K; set RMPTTOM to 10K
…Thursday overhead was 27 percent with 10K
…we are now running
Instead of altering the SCDS you can just vary the device disnew, eg
v sms,vol=(volser,all),d,n
and when there's no more data on it, init it.
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SNIP
If I read the documentation correctly, I
I am curious why you think that GSKSRVR has to be running. We are
running TN370 without it and running secure port 992 (TLS/SSL).
Certificate was put into Top Secret on the keyring for TN3270 address
space.
snip
-Rob Schramm
This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential
I thought that gskkyman no longer exists on z/os (not since 1.5 or 1.7
anyway). You need to use RACF keyrings to hold certificates for ssl.
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Sam,
snip
Where did you see that? Is this something you ran into using
SA/390 or some other product that exploits an interface to the HMC?
snip
For last few years we have used exclusively GDPS Standard actions to manage
all our z/OS systems/lpars (IPL, stop, reset,...).
An SA/390 command
SNIP
If I read the documentation correctly, I cannot use OPSWAIT in a MSG
rule. It says it can only be used in a REQ rule, or a OPS/REXX program
(started via the OI or OX function?).
/SNIP
John my original answer was a bit incomplete There is a two step process
for this. Here's one example
This has been an interesting discussion. Two observations I'd like to add to
the solera are:
1: This is a nearly identical suit to the one CA filed against Quest two or
three years ago just as Quest was gaining momentum in the DB2 space. After the
appropriate money got spent on legal fees
Can you not have your WTOR rule use the $TA command to setup an
automatic reply in 3 minutes ?
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Yes, alter the volume status to Disnew, don't forget to activate the SCDS.
After the next delete/define the volume should be free of that pesky VSAM
dataset.
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Hi Zaromil,
Where did you see that? Is this something you ran into using SA/390 or
some other product that exploits an interface to the HMC?
Thanks, Sam
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I am doing some work using SDSF. I have a single spool file of about 1M
records.
I have done a max down and got there. Now I do a find prev for a
non-quoted string. 15 minutes later the TSO session is still clocking,
it has used (per SDSF) more than 4 CPU minutes and has done enough I/Os
to have
Lizette Koehler wrote:
I am not VTAM or TCPIP savy, so if someone could guide me in the right direction.
What is the best way to send a page from the mainframe to a pager?
What equipment?
What software?
Do I need to send it to a midrange/server device?
I am hoping to see if we can create
In a message dated 8/10/2007 2:16:28 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
now, I use XMITIP and send the e-mail to my cell phone's text messaging
service (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) and the messages show up on
my cell phone.
What was it? the Open Relay thingy from
I am not VTAM or TCPIP savy, so if someone could guide me in the right
direction.
What is the best way to send a page from the mainframe to a pager?
What equipment?
What software?
Do I need to send it to a midrange/server device?
I am hoping to see if we can create a stronger roll of the
John,
Did you look at tuning recommendations from IBM:
http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10526
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Okay,
Give me the 3270 version back! Three calls to IBM Registration, 2
calls to Service Link, and 2.5 hours later I am now waiting to talk to a
Level 2 guy at IMBLink. Doesn't IBM understand that I have customers that
expect problems to get resolved in a timely manner. Maybe they
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, CICS Guy wrote:
My thought exactly, 4:50PM was the last message I got until 9:50 this
morning.
'Nuf said.
Listserv's mailer was constipated last night.
I gave it some Ex-Lax this morning. That got
things flowing.
Darren
Mark Zelden wrote:
snip
BTW, when can I re-write my JES2 exits in SYSREXX? :-)
snip
You mean you don't want to use Metal C for this? (g, d, r)
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John,
In your Ops/MVS command that gets run
One of the easiest ways to do this is to use SMTP to send the page to the
users pager e-mail address. Nearly all (all that I know of but there may
be some paging providers that don't) have the ability to send text to a
pager (or cell phone enabled with text paging) via SMTP.
This obviously
In a message dated 8/10/2007 1:14:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Or use XMITIP. This goes directly out from the job. The plus is that you
don't need to set up SMTP or anything else. The minus is that if the
receiving mail server is down, the XMITIP fails and you
I do this all the time, to a certain extent.
On jobs that I would-like/need to know what happens, as the last step I
execute a canned two-step proc. The first step runs some internal control
blocks to print a report of all condition codes for all prior steps. The
second step, using I*GENER,
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One of the easiest ways to do this is to use SMTP to send the
Seems like there's not much going on for a Friday.
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Is there any way to tell CA-OPS/MVS that I want to reply to a WTOR after
a delay of n seconds? What is occurring is that we occassionally get
the message:
*18 CBR4196D Job POPH302D, drive 0605, volser 260329, error code 140167.
Reply 'R' to retry or 'C' to cancel.
We want to wait about 3
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And now the really difficult question: How can one override the
COND= parameter on a single step in a PROC nested two or more
levels deep?
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The snytax is:
//STEP EXEC {PROC=}PROCNAME,COND.STEPNAME=[what you
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:55:12 +, corneel booysen
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This poll has served to confirm my concern about the aging workforce
and the effect of that on the future of the mainframe.
...
Odd. I had a very different reaction: Oh. That's not so bad. I
was afraid the 55 and
In a message dated 8/10/2007 10:50:47 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
our little z800 V1R4 was running along with overhead numbers of 11-17
percent and RMPTTOM at 15K…
…Tuesday our overhead number went to 24 and RMPTTOM at 15K
…Wednesday overhead was
If you use XMITIP without the z/OS SMTP server you need to configure
XMITIP to use the UDSMTP program (also shipped with the XMITIP package).
The UDSMTP will attempt to send the SMTP e-mail directly to a SMTP server
sitting outside the z/OS system.
By default XMITIP assumes that you are using
Does anybody know why the people who designed SMF decided to encode the
date and time as FL4'hundredths of seconds after midnight' plus
PL4'0cyyddd'? Why not just put in the STCK value? STCK is guaranteed to
be unique on a system (and on a sysplex). I ask because I want to relate
all the SMF
Greetings,
A couple weeks ago, we lost our network connection from the
HMC to the service processors in our z9. Comedy of errors. Our
Operations people were mid-IPL when they realized the HMC was
unusable.
When I went to IPL from the service processor, I had trouble
remembering how to fire
I wanted to drop a line here to let everyone know that we are still working on
bring the DB2-L Listserv back on line. We are a lot closer then we have been,
but a number of technical issues have yet to be resolved. There have been
volunteers who have been working throughout the night (aside
In your Ops/MVS command that gets run for this message, include an
'OPSWAIT FOR(180)'
before you issue the reply. This waits for 180 seconds / 3 minutes.
Tom Chicklon
If I read the documentation correctly, I cannot use OPSWAIT in a MSG
rule. It says it
My thought exactly, 4:50PM was the last message I got until 9:50 this
morning.
'Nuf said.
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Seems like there's not much going on for a Friday.
SNIP
I was rather interested this AM
Hi,
I am going to remove a DASD volume from a SMS Storage Group. But I can't
because:
1. One multi-volume VSAM was allocated at that volume.
2. This VSAM is a online dataset and it used 14 volumes.
I have tried to remove that volume from the Storage Group but the VSAM
can't be read. This VSAM
CICS Guy wrote:
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On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 20:18:17 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
And now the really difficult question: How can one override the
COND= parameter on a single step in a PROC nested two or more
levels deep?
//STEP EXEC {PROC=}PROCNAME,COND.STEPNAME=[what you want].
Of course the PROC coders were smart
(I have followed some - but not all - of this thread in both IBM-MAIN
and
comp.lang.cobol - but haven't replied yet).
As far as I can tell from the notes that I have read so far, no one has
pointed
to the performance paper comments on this. It should be noted that
Frank is
usually interested
On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:24:34 -0400, George Bly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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We found that when we provided the sort work area DD's we would S0C4.
When we took out all DD's the utility would run fine.
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HI All
We
Hopefully the pager service will page from email, then smtpnote or
higher life forms are your tool. Toss the pager, use cell text
messages
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Can you not have your WTOR rule use the $TA
John,
In your Ops/MVS command that gets run for this message, include an
'OPSWAIT FOR(180)'
before you issue the reply. This waits for 180 seconds / 3 minutes.
Tom Chicklon
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…our little z800 V1R4 was running along with overhead numbers of 11-17
percent and RMPTTOM at 15K…
…Tuesday our overhead number went to 24 and RMPTTOM at 15K
…Wednesday overhead was 24 and 15K; set RMPTTOM to 10K
…Thursday overhead was 27 percent with 10K
First of all, this is
Sam,
snip
Has anyone else migrated to the z9 microcode level DRIVER 67? We are
planning on moving to DRIVER67L this weekend. This is concurrent as we have
all the requisites installed for it to be but seems to be a fairly large
bundle so I curious if anyone has had any problems.
snip
we
It says this...
*The
I've been able to set up a TN3270 sever as a separate task and successfully
put both secured and non-secured telnet in the same server. In the telnet
parms you can define setup for port 23 (non-secured) and port 992 (TLS/SSL)
secured. You also have to have the SSL task running (GSKSRVR) - I'm
More from the z/OS MVS JCL Reference, SA22-7597-08, p. 16-1:
When a stepname is needed, it must be unique within the job, including
stepnames in any
procedures called by the job.
I agree that this requirement is difficult to police administratively, but
it is also very easy to comply
Go back to around 1990 and the CA v. Altai lawsuit. CA noticed that one of
their ZAPs applied to an Altai module without change - that's how that got
started. (Google that for more info.)
I also have some knowledge, given to me by an ex-co-worker, of how CA
treated employees who moved from CA
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:10:43 -0500, McKown, John
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Does anybody know why the people who designed SMF decided to encode
the
date and time as FL4'hundredths of seconds after midnight' plus
PL4'0cyyddd'? Why not just put in the STCK value? STCK is guaranteed to
be unique on
McKown, John wrote:
Does anybody know why the people who designed SMF decided to encode the
date and time as FL4'hundredths of seconds after midnight' plus
PL4'0cyyddd'? Why not just put in the STCK value? STCK is guaranteed to
be unique on a system (and on a sysplex).
Correction: STCK is
Thank you Adam et all
...we have an IPL Saturday night which will refresh our world...
...we are heading into our quarter end and one of our divisions
surprised us with a unique combination of load...that load completed and
now we are back to normal, whatever that is...
John Donnelly
z/OS
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stamps
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:10:43 -0500, McKown,
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:18:33 -0600, Kopischke, David G.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I went to IPL from the service processor, I had trouble
remembering how to fire up the image from there. None of the
load icons were in the GROUPs section. I finally figured it out
after speed reading a
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:36:12 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
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On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 20:18:17 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
o The Requirement did not explicitly mention the need for
thorough override support, or it would not be considered
to be satisfied. So:
- Was the
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:56:35 -0400, Mark Jacobs
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CICS Guy wrote:
Seems like there's not much going on for a Friday.
We could always start a religious war type email thread if you are that
bored. :-)
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:56:35 -0400, Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
CICS Guy wrote:
Seems like there's not much going on for a Friday.
We could always start a religious war type email
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:05:45 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak wrote:
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:18:33 -0600, Kopischke, David G. wrote:
When I went to IPL from the service processor, I had trouble
remembering how to fire up the image from there. None of the
load icons were in the GROUPs section. I finally
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 17:31 -0400, Gerhard Adam wrote:
…our little z800 V1R4 was running along with overhead numbers of
11-17 percent and RMPTTOM at 15K…
…Tuesday our overhead number went to 24 and RMPTTOM at
5K
…Wednesday overhead was 24 and 15K; set RMPTTOM to 10K
Edward Jaffe writes:
Correction: STCK is *not* guaranteed unique across a sysplex. (You're
probably thinking of
STCKE.)
and his distinction between STCK and STCKE values is of course the crucial
one. Still, your systems programmer must do some work to ensure that
STCKE values are in
I remember when DB2 V4 and datasharing came out, they replaced the log
RBA with a log record sequence number (LRSN) since the RBA could be
duplicated if there are multiple systems each with its own log. The
LRSN was a truncated (to 6 bytes) STCK value. Because a) the STCK isn't
unique across a
Former CA chief reports to prison Tuesday
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I checked and 3 of our clients have upgraded to L67 so far, (5 others are
planned over the next 30 days). Only one experienced any problems at all
and that problem was not related to the upgrade, but to an error on the part
of the operator who decided to move the HMC while things were inactive
Wayne Driscoll wrote:
In addition, there is a macro STCKSYNC which does ensure uniqueness in a
PLEX.
STCKSYNC does not guarantee unique 64-bit TOD (STCK) values ... just
synchronized ones. If you want a unique value across the plex, you need
to use 128-bit ETOD (STCKE) values.
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john gilmore wrote:
... your systems programmer must do some work to ensure that STCKE
values are in fact unique; and my recent experience with several
client sysprogs is that they don't do it because they are not yet
aware that that they must.
What must they do?
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