Peter Relson wrote:
Please don't give up on bringing these situations to our attention.
Are there any official or formal IBM announcement(s) or notes related to your
personal note? This is to clarify the word 'our'.
On this and other discussion lists, IBMers regurlarly state that only official
Alex, The solution I described goes on covering existing and new data sets as
long as you run with EDGUX100 and have the special VRS MV VRSes defined to
RMM - no matter what mode you run in.
Verify that the data sets using special EXPDTs list something like this
Data set name =
Hi
Thank you very much .
I could generate a new IODF and I could IPL the RESCUE system
- I used as STEPLIB the sys1.linklib from RESCUE
- I used the sys1.maclib also from the RESCUE
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I spent the whole day reviewing my understanding about the concept of
virtual storage and found something I cannot figure out. I hope experts here
can give me some hints.
Maybe I should start from GETMAIN. I have used GETMAIN/FREEMAIN for some
time in my programming exercises and
Hi Mike. Ok i understand now. My problem now is to convert these TLMS's
RMF defs. to RMM :
EXPDT=990cc Cycle control (cc specifies the number of cycles)
EXPDT=991dd Catalog control and date control(Volume will not be sent to
scratch unless the dataset's is not cataloged and there has gone dd
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that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
Choice Overload In Parallel Programming
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/07/10/03/0021253.shtml
from above:
And then we show them the parallel
In a message dated 10/3/2007 5:15:58 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On this and other discussion lists, IBMers regurlarly state that only
official
methods (as stated in formal contracts) are to be used when complaining
about problems.
Yeah, but that's the
In a message dated 10/3/2007 6:57:31 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So GETMAIN/FREEMAIN has no direct relation to virtual storage backing up:
when you GETMAIN, it doesn't mean OS will try to back up that area and
FREEMAIN doesn't mean that area will be released like
Johnny,
This is an extremely complicated process, based on a number of factors,
many of which your program has no control. However, your guess is
usually correct, in that if the page returned has never been allocated
to your program, then no real or aux storage will be allocated. On the
first
Does the 2 week internal course still exist? I remember taking it from
Amdahl in their education center in Columbia Maryland back in 1982. I
don't think IBM gave the class anymore, or else they quit shortly
after. I think about 5 teachers taught the Amdahl class when I took
it. It was very
My reason for saying what I did is that outsourcers can offer major price
benefits to a company (ABC) running it's own system by bringing ABC on board
it's huge Processing complex and then (if needed) aggragating the sysplex
MSUs together and thus reducing the licence fees of ABC (as well as
In a message dated 10/3/2007 9:39:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the
first reference, the hardware will recognize an 0C4, which will be
handled by the OS on your behalf and RSM and ASM will get involved to
locate a page for you. Your program will NOT see this
Does anyone out there know whether two LPARS in A capacity group, would
steal resource from each other first, or form white space if it were
available?
Let's assume LPAR Prod = 200 MIPS LPAR Dev =100 mips. There is white space
available of 100 MIPS.
Prod reaches 100% and starts sneaking above
That is true, and it is also the reason that in the MVS System Commands
manual, in the chapter on SLIP, it strongly recommends never setting a
global slip for 0C4's.
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
JME Software LLC
NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.
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In a message dated 10/3/2007 9:39:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the
first reference, the hardware will recognize an 0C4, which will be
handled by the OS on your behalf and RSM and ASM will get
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 10/03/2007
10:58:42 AM:
That is true, and it is also the reason that in the MVS System Commands
manual, in the chapter on SLIP, it strongly recommends never setting a
global slip for 0C4's.
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
JME
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:58:42 -0400, Wayne Driscoll
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That is true, and it is also the reason that in the MVS System Commands
manual, in the chapter on SLIP, it strongly recommends never setting a
global slip for 0C4's.
No. The PIC 4 page fault is not processed by RTM.
In a message dated 10/3/2007 10:19:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Just to nit pick a little... It is not a 0C4, but a PIC 4. 0C4 is not an
interruption, but the abend code that MVS produces when it is unable to
resolve the program interruption.
Ah, good
Does anyone know how to get a high water mark for a particular HLQ.
Meaning how much space this HLQ (application) is using?
TIA
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In a message dated 10/3/2007 9:39:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On the
first reference, the hardware will recognize an 0C4, which will be
handled by the OS on your behalf and RSM and ASM will get involved to
locate a page for you.
Wayne,
Thanks a lot. That's the confirmation I need.
Acutally everything in MVS world is complicated than I expected. So many
factors, so many variations. Thus learning it is a never-ending process.
Johnny
On 10/3/07, Wayne Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Johnny,
This is an extremely
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 10:48:47 -0500, gsg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how to get a high water mark for a particular HLQ.
Meaning how much space this HLQ (application) is using?
Lots of ways. DCOLLECT, products like MXG, MICS, etc.
I have used the VTOC command from the CBT file 112
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I spent the whole day reviewing my understanding about the concept of
virtual storage and found something I cannot figure out. I hope experts here
can give me some hints.
Maybe I should start from GETMAIN. I have used GETMAIN/FREEMAIN for some
In a message dated 10/3/2007 9:41:17 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does the 2 week internal course still exist? I remember taking it from
Amdahl in their education center in Columbia Maryland back in 1982. I
don't think IBM gave the class anymore, or else they
Good afternoon,
I have a user getting this message. Does anyone on this list have any
idea what #XAAINTR is and what might be calling it???
Bruce Barcome
Pitney Bowes Software
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Bob,
There is a series of metrics known as the Halstead Complexity Measures.
While there seems to be significantly differing opinions as to how valid
these are, you might want to check them out.
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It's a very complex relationship and not always easily
understood. When is a SLOT assigned? A FRAME? When is a page
STOLEN? SWAPPING versus PAGING?
That's AbendAid from Compuware.
Brian
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 12:17:03 -0400, Bruce wrote:
Good afternoon,
I have a user getting this message. Does anyone on this list have any
idea what #XAAINTR is and what might be calling it???
Bruce Barcome
Bruce,
#XAAINTR is an Abend-Aid routine...
Hope this helps,
Gary
On 3 Oct 2007, at 12:17 PM, Bruce wrote:
Good afternoon,
I have a user getting this message. Does anyone on this list have
any idea what #XAAINTR is and what might be calling it???
Bruce Barcome
Pitney Bowes Software
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:53:12 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
Tom Marchant wrote:
Just to nit pick a little... It is not a 0C4, but a PIC 4. 0C4 is not an
interruption, but the abend code that MVS produces when it is unable to
resolve the program interruption.
And, to nit pick a bit more, PIC
Compuware ABEND-AID
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Subject: #XAAINTR not found
Good afternoon,
I have a user getting this message. Does anyone on
Tom Marchant wrote:
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 08:53:12 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
Tom Marchant wrote:
Just to nit pick a little... It is not a 0C4, but a PIC 4. 0C4 is not an
interruption, but the abend code that MVS produces when it is unable to
resolve the program interruption.
The load module #XAAINTR cannot not be loaded.
Check the STEPLIB/LOADLIB or it's not on the LINKLIST.
If you need further assistance, customers can open a call on at
http://frontline.compuware.com
Thanks.
Good afternoon,
I have a user getting this message. Does anyone on this list have any
I am just starting to have to added support for VSAM EF in our environment. I
was wondering if there was any consensus as to what to do with them.
Do you have them in their own pool?
Do you combine them in a common pool?
I have the data class already set up. I am having the users code the
APAR Identifier .. OA19194 Last Changed 07/10/03
NEW FUNCTION - AMATERSE, ALIAS TRSMAIN, IS A SUPPORTED SERVICE
AID FUNCTION
Symptom .. NF FUNCTION Status ... CLOSED UR1
Severity ... 4 Date Closed . 07/09/14
Component
Hi Lizette.
We place them in a combined pool in our environment and have had no
issues doing so. We have been doing this for quite some time now.
ThanksRick
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Apparently the smart money's on continuing to use TRSMAIN with the
existing DDs if you have pre-existing jobs as the new entry point uses
different DD names. I'm not sure if anything else is different. (This from
a session at Expo by the Stand-Up (z/OS) Philosopher. :-)
Cheers, Martin
Martin
Lizette,
My recommendation is a common pool, especially if you are using logical
volume sizes greater than 3390-9s. I cannot think of a good reason for a
separate pool. Also, assuming KSDS here, I would work on the goal of
making VSAMEF the default. Otherwise, you remain in the filtlist
updating
Does anyone know of any product can take old cobol/vs load modules and
recreate the source code for it.
I heard of something called 'Source Recovery' but it is very expensive.
Thanks list
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I am just starting to have to added support for VSAM EF in our
environment. I was wondering if there was any consensus as to what
to do with them.
Do you have them in their own pool?
Do you combine them in a common pool?
I never saw any reason to treat them differently than any
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:12:50 +0100, Martin Packer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Apparently the smart money's on continuing to use TRSMAIN with the
existing DDs if you have pre-existing jobs as the new entry point uses
different DD names. I'm not sure if anything else is different. (This from
a session
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:35:59 -0400, Peter Relson
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...
However dumb a behavior might be, there is usually a pretty good
chance
that changing that behavior will break someone. We thus tend to
make such
changes in the next release where feasible (and highlight the
change
Nuff said...
Thanks, Sam
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We are almost ready to go live with zos 1.7.
Is there a way to keep racf password upper/lower all
Upper like it is under 1.4.
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We are almost ready to go live with zos 1.7.
Is there a way to keep racf password upper/lower all
Upper like it is under 1.4.
That is the default behavior. To get different behavior, you must
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Lucy,
How do you like CA-Allocate? What are you using it for? We are looking at it
to possibly replace StopX37 and to provide reports on the absolute HWM by
HLQ. What were you using before?
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Is it the authentication service again?
If you were already logged in, are you affected?
Just trying to figure out if I should automatically log in at the
beginning of each day and stay on, even if I might not need IBMLink that
day.
Don Imbriale
We are almost ready to go live with zos 1.7.
Is there a way to keep racf password upper/lower all
Upper like it is under 1.4.
Do nothing, the default is NOMIXEDCASE.
Thanks,
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There is a series of metrics known as the Halstead Complexity
Measures.
While there seems to be significantly differing opinions as to how valid
these are, you might want to check them out.
...
I'd been meaning to ask
I was logged on and can no longer get to my ETRs.
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:35:59 -0400, Peter Relson wrote:
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However dumb a behavior might be, there is usually a pretty good
chance
that changing that behavior will break someone. We thus tend to
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We are almost ready to go live with zos 1.7.
Is there a way to keep racf password upper/lower all Upper
like it is under 1.4.
Sure: Do nothing.
-jc-
Does anyone else following this list contribute to the mainframe-related
pages on Wikipedia? For instance, I just added the page for Unit Control
Block, pointed to by the disambiguation page for UCB.
Wikipedia might not be the right forum for such material (and I'd be the
first to admit that
I think you asked this question before.
I've used the TALLY exec which can be found on file 183 at the CBT tape
site. www.cbttape.org
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:45:22 -0500, gsg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how to get the absolute HWM for a HLQ. Standard tools,
ISV tools etc...
More specifically, I'm looking at this from a maintenance
perspective.
If I
give a programmer an existing program to modify, how long on average
will it
take, per line of code, to analyze the program to then be able to
then
make
necessary changes.
No way to predict.
It all
Thoughts interspersed below:
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we just moved from V1R4 to V1R7 29SEP07
we had a Test LPAR executing V1R7 and a Prod LPAR executing V1R4
these two happily coexisted with GRS as PLEXCFG=MONOPLEX, and system
logger files
Reminds me as well of a bank's audio teller code (Assembler) I was made
responsible for when I was about 20 and the comments were in German :-)
Bob
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What do you mean by High Level Water mark?
There is no limit to the number of files that can be created on the mainframe
unless there are exits or processes put in place.
Please provide a clearer statement of what you are looking for or supply
examples.
Bassically all datasets created in an
Hi ,
This is bouncer for me ... but any one who can help ...
Does anyone an idea about QTP (Quick Test Professional) which can be used to
create MACROS from mainframe emulator screen which can be reused ?
JAcky
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Does anyone else following this list contribute to the
mainframe-related pages on Wikipedia?
Opinions?
Wikipedia is an absolutely AMAZING knowledge base. I love the way it
works. I realize there will be nay-sayers that will mention its not always
accurate, but ultimately, its self-healing.
I am FTPing a fixed record length file from the mainframe to a Unix box
where a vendor has access to pick up that file and FTP it to his
machine. I don't know what kind of machine he has, but he's saying
that he's missing my space fill for the shorter records.
The first thing I verified is
Martin Packer wrote:
Does anyone else following this list contribute to the mainframe-related
pages on Wikipedia? For instance, I just added the page for Unit Control
Block, pointed to by the disambiguation page for UCB.
Wikipedia might not be the right forum for such material (and I'd be the
OK, for those who have (rightly) pointed out the problems with LOC as a
performance measure: what can we come up with that would be better? Ted
mentioned function points. Is there anything else? Measuring stuff is
a large part of our job; do we have any worthwhile metrics?
Jon
I Love Allocate! You can do SO many different things with it. I have
never used anything else, except DFSMS which we still have. I can send you
some Copybooks that we have and my VDSPROG (ASR) if you want to see it.
Lucy Arnold
Storage Manager
U.C. Davis Medical Center
916-734-5498
As others have noted, upper case only is the default. If you haven't played
with mixed case at all, then you're good to go. Once you've turned on mixed
case, however, getting back to upper only requires several steps of back
tracking. If you miss any of those steps, some people won't be able to
Howard,
Do you have trailingblanks specified? If the mainframe is
the client, set it with
locsite trailingblanks
If the mainframe is the server set it with
quote site trailingblanks
Regards,
John
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There is an FTP TRAILINGBLANKS option that applies to fixed length
records. You can change the default setting with the SITE command:
quote site trailingblanks
IIRC.
Bill
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I am FTPing a fixed record length file from
Wikipedia contains an article on Finnish profanity, including some pages
dedicated to specific swear words (in Finnish) with still more links to
the same word in Latvian, Polish, Lithuanian, Prussian, and Slovenian.
On a scale of cat to obscurity*infinity-1, MVS related pages fit in
quite nicely,
Next weekend we are swaping out a z900 to a z9 processor. One of the
lpars that are being moved to the new processor is running several
unsupported ISV products under zOS 1.7.
Can someone list the changes in the z9 architecture whish might have an
adverse effect on these applications? I don't
Were you sending the file to the mainframe or from the mainframe? If you
were sending to the mainframe you would have to provide the DCB
information using the QUOTE SITE COMMAND to reflect record size (i.e.
recl=80) record format (i.e. recfm=f).
Regards,
Michael J Flores
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Try adding the statement:
TrailingBlanks True;
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During installation of some software, I received object code in two
formats (PDS PDSE). I beleive the objects in the PDSE are C++ programs
(there's DLL in the member names). To eliminate/reduce CICS outages is
there a way to combine the objects from the PDSE library to the PDS
library.
The
The short answer, you can't copy objects from a PDS/E to a PDS Load
Module Library.
The longer answer: In order to build a C++ DLL, the binder cannot build
a load module, instead it needs to build a program object. While a
load module can exist in a PDS or a PDS/E, a program object MUST reside
Hello
Until some time ago I had access to IBM Sales Manual at following link:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/redirect/redirect.html?buttonpressed=DET001PT099timestamp=99DET001PGL002=DET001PEF012appname=IBMLinkRedirect
But now I get a Sorry Screen
Anyone can tell me where I can
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We are planning a full file test environment to better test our
applications. Currently, our testing happens on our production lpar
with very small vsam and DB2 files. We plan on mirroring our
Thanks Wayne,
So evidently the current environment is not utilizing the DLL feature,
since the load is available without the program object. Thanks again.
Regards,
Michael J Flores
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Hi Kees,
Thanks for your reply, and yes, I mean Peer-to-Peer using B20's and not the
TS7700 grid scenario. Without going into too much depth on the commercial
trauma, the infrastructure has been literally 'sitting around' for more than 12-
months.
In case extra info is good in any case:
We
Jon,
I have little confidence that a realistic performance metric can be devised
other than on a case by case basis.
There are simply too many variables to be considered.
For example, consider the differences in complexity between a RACF security
exit and a CICS task related user exit.
Each
Marna: Thought I'll go ahead and ask, but I have the idea you will say
NO--just like someone said NO for SDSF REXX support so
Does the V1R8 web SYSREXX deliverable also support REXX checks in V1R8
Health Checker?
George Fogg
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Carlos, could it be this one you are looking for ?
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/index.wss
Birger Heede
IBM Denmark
Carlos A. Bodra wrote:
Hello
Until some time ago I had access to IBM Sales Manual at following link:
Good morning Paul,
If you are quite sure there are things wrong and you don't feel
comfortable fixing them, then you can always make the suggestion on the
Discussion page, hoping the original author or someone else fixes it.
As for the z/VM person about whom you spoke, I believe you are
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