Peter,
as far as I know the restart interrupt from the HMC with options
abend-resume-repair are supposed to correspond to the
spin(resume)-retry(repair)-term(abend) options of automatic exspin recovery.
If you ever want to test this again, put your PHUNLOOP job into sysstc -
improves the
You'd need to count the number of idle BPXASs and decide then
if and how many to create. Idle ones are those which show
up as BPXAS in a D A,BPXAS. Haven't thought about how to
get that information in the keep-alive program, I admit.
And Johns suggestion to use modify
There goes the 'simple
There goes the 'simple fork() program'! :-)
Well, the fork() program is still quite simple, isn't it :-)
I'd be interested in the what and how of your solution, once
it is in place. And also, how much it helped to improve
the responsiveness of that workload.
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Credit Suisse
as far as I know the restart interrupt from the HMC with options
abend-resume-repair are supposed to correspond to the spin(resume)-
retry(repair)-term(abend) options of automatic exspin recovery.
No, there is no connection. Abend/Resume/Repair for the restart
interrupt key was introduced
[snip]... (Peter was faster than I on this!)
I beg your pardon, Barbara. I usually let ladies go first.
Hope you're gonna have a good day, anyway ;-)
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(I do have a bit more influence now).
This a candidate for Under-Statement of the Year.
Rob Scott
Rocket Software, Inc
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Newton, MA 02466
617-614-2305
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No, there is no connection.
lots of good info snipped
My apologies if I confused anyone! I just *knew* Jim would jump in once I
strayed (Actually, I wondered why he hadn't participated in this earlier:-)
Actually, all of that (including excessive spin recovery) was a bit 'between my
1) When using the DEVSTAT option with EDTINFO CHKUNIT, the doc. seems to
imply that you must define enough storage of 2-byte entries for the same
amount of device numbers in your DEVLIST before calling EDTINFO. Correct?
2) These 2-byte entries correspond to each device # entry. What is meant by
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field/col definition for 12-2-9 TXT card:
col
1 12-2-9 / x'02'
2-4
(1) Yes
(2) I take that to mean that there is no UCB for that unit address - ie that
unit address has not been defined in HCD.
Bit 1 is the indicator if the unit is associated with the unitname.
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What I don't understand is pre sorting a deck that will be used as
input to the computer--couldn't the computer
Is there a way I can code a parm (* * * * * * * * * * * * ) for the volsers for
an output PS dsn (as available when defining a VSAM cluster) ? I have a
problem with space abends - IEC030I B37-04. The dsn is SMS managed. I am using
a primary of 2000,500 since it is a huge file. The job is
Try
//anydd DD DSN=..,
// VOL=(,,,nn)
where nn is the number of volumes the dataset is allowed to
reside on.
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Thanks Peter. I will give it a try.
Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try
//anydd DD DSN=..,
// VOL=(,,,nn)
where nn is the number of volumes the dataset is allowed to
reside on.
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Is there a way I can code a parm (* * * * * * * * * * * * ) for the volsers
for an output PS dsn (as available when defining a VSAM cluster) ? I have a
problem with space abends - IEC030I B37-04. The dsn is SMS managed. I am
using a primary of 2000,500 since it is a huge file. The job is
Sorry Dave,
Nothing there about how to do scrollable menus or dynamic areas.
Scrollable menus take the work out of your hands for handling different
number of rows in the display. Dynamic areas put the work of defining the
actual format of the panel in your code. The IBM provided SISPPENU
The question is: *Can* CSV recognize that the data set
is SMS managed when it does the IPL progxx-members?
The answer is No. APF processing does not, and will not be changed to, do
anything with the actual data set. And during IPL it really is not in a
position to do so. The APF entry is merely a
On 10/24/07, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think what the manual says is the same as what you said. In a MP
system, a
disabled loop is observed as a spin loop by other processors.
This is not exactly true:
A disabled loop by itsself will not generate a problem.
Is anyone still not using FORMAT=DYNAMIC for their APF list? It isn't the
default so you'd have to have the proper statement in your PROGxx to get
it. Maybe some day we'll change the default, though it's not a really big
deal since if you start as STATIC you can always switch to DYNAMIC if you
You can use an extended format dataset for it. You have to define an
data class
in which you add an value to the volume count parameter en specify DSN
TYPE EXT.
In the jcl you have to specify the data class and then your data set
will be spreaded over
the number of volumes you've set in the
Try opening a requirement and providing a business case, then get your
family, friends and neighbors to do the same. Otherwise IBM is not going to go
off and pioneer this solution based on some mutterings on a listserv.
If your employer is not a member of SHARE, contact IBM directly. They have
Peter,
I tried out your suggestion and it worked. Thanks for your help.
Thanks to all for responding.
Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try
//anydd DD DSN=..,
// VOL=(,,,nn)
where nn is the number of volumes the dataset is allowed to
reside on.
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:12:05 -0400, Walter Bushell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
And what was the sorter? Ah, the beauties of the radix sort. This beast
put cards into 10 output slots, based on the digit in a specified
column, thus enabling sorting with tab cards and no computers.
Lots of labor,
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:25:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I don't understand is pre sorting a deck that will be used as
input to the computer--couldn't the computer sort it faster than a
person could? The machine sorted strictly sequentially, while the
computer had bubble or shell sorts
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You'd need to count the number of idle BPXASs and decide then
if and how
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:38:17 -0500 Tom Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:38:03 -0400, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
:What PCF did well was protect APF authorized CPs.
:You could not circumvent PCF unless you had the ability to write into an APF
:library, which if you can - you
We are getting a sporadic S028 in a job that uses the ALET returned by
the privileged ALESERV used to access a public dataspace (the privileged
ALESERV is issued through a PC). The public dataspace is DSPSERV
CREATEd by another address space and has been ALESERVed in that address
space so it can
I'm still looking at the break our single image into two images
question. I am having problems understand what all I can do with SDSF in
a sysplex (basic or parallel) environment. I know that I can set up the
two systems to each have its own SDSF server address spaces. They can
communicate via
Be nice to novices. :)
I tried FTP'ing a large file to directory /u/ on our z/OS system. This failed
because there was not enough space.
However, the DASD volume itself has plenty of free space. What needs to be
done to allow more volume space to be allocated for directory /u/, a.k.a.,
Just curious if anyone has looked at DTS Software's EASY-EXIT to handle many of
the system exits like IEFUSI, IEFUTL, TSO LOGON/LOGFF, etc???
Lizette
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TSO runs from an APF Library itself.
The TSO command CALL *(PROGRAM) can run an APF service directly as TSO
is already an Authorized Product.
Only a CALL statement from a program whose load member is not in an APF
library is blocked from calling one that is in an APF library.
In other wards,
Let me further expand:
I do a EDTINFO RTNDEVN,UNITNAME=,DEVNLIST=DEVNLIST
to (for example) get the list of device numbers associated with
UNIT=SYSALLDA. All of these device numbers will have a UCB associated with
them, but many are 'dummy' UCB's that have no real volume associated with
What do you mean by radix sort? Also, all the sorters I've ever seen had 12
pockets, not 10. The person Howard quoted said the machine was the size of
a wall. I've never seen a sorter I'd call that big, except a check sorter
when I worked for a bank.
I did lots of sorting the 8 years I was
Good Day,
A problem was reported regarding read checks on a 3390. I ran an ANALYZE
(using parms SCAN SPEED) and ALL DATA 'MACHINE READABLE' WITHOUT ERRORS. I
executed an INSPECT and received a FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE
WAS 0.
Could it be the parms I used were not
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:02:42 -0400, Dan Espen
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Lots of shops, no disk.
Even with a disk, the sort program was loaded from cards.
I seem to remember the sort program being huge and the input
being stuffed into the middle of the deck.
Then you had to modify the receiving
Barbara/Peter,
Thanks for the information. When I went to school(NIU) in 2000 we designed a
Student Operating system with the dispatcher running off the TCB chain. I
recently went to Diagnostics class in z/OS and there I learned about the WEB.
I wonder if there is a Bible which explains
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:29:02 -0500, Ed Gould
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wish the person this had happened to would pipe up, but to set the
record more precisely because of a bad date RACF (This is hear say)
did something to the (RACF) database that essentially rendered the
system not
I am trying to find out from anyone out there running z/OS and supporting
Java. We have multiple programming areas that are requesting we put up a
very specific version of Java or SDK.
Let me be specific we have installed a ddef SAJV15D which has a path of
1 unmount the /u filesystem
2 rename the dataset containing the unmounted filesystem (from the MVS
side of the house)
3 allocate a new dataset for the filesystem, larger and/or with
specifying secondary extents (from the MVS side)
4 copy (IEBGENER should work) the old filesystem dataset
Yes to all of the below. SDSF on LPAR1 will be able to display JOBS,
sysout, CPU, etc. on LPAR2.
IIRC SDSF uses the RMF data area for the DA display. The rest I believe
is handled by JES2.
snip
On system1/connected to server1, can I do a 'DA' to see and browse the
output of jobs running on
Barry,
The problem occurred overnight. Seems that user wanted to use the same
STORAGE CLASS name which exists in another partition - B. (Both partitions A
B are independent of each other. They do not share dasd, catalogs etc.)
This way he wouldn't have to change his jcls, procs.
I might pull LOGREC for that device and see what is flagged in there as well.
Lizette
A problem was reported regarding read checks on a 3390. I ran an ANALYZE
(using parms SCAN SPEED) and ALL DATA 'MACHINE READABLE' WITHOUT ERRORS. I
executed an INSPECT and received a FUNCTION
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:35:51 -0700 GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:TSO runs from an APF Library itself.
True.
:The TSO command CALL *(PROGRAM) can run an APF service directly as TSO
:is already an Authorized Product.
It will only be authorized if:
1. The program is defined as
Have you looked at the UCBLOOK service? See: MVS PGMMING: ASSEMBLER
SERVICES REF
I do a EDTINFO RTNDEVN,UNITNAME=,DEVNLIST=DEVNLIST
to (for example) get the list of device numbers associated with
UNIT=SYSALLDA. All of these device numbers will have a UCB associated
with
them, but many are
What kind of hardware? For emulated 3390's (such as Shark), a 'read
check' does not make much sense. Most all such activity occurs in the
cache. Real I/O errors are transparently handled in the hardware.
More reasonable might be a read past end of file, inappropriate DCB, a
null file (VTOC entry
Sorry I meant UCBSCAN
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Have you looked at the UCBLOOK service? See: MVS PGMMING: ASSEMBLER
SERVICES REF
I do a EDTINFO RTNDEVN,UNITNAME=,DEVNLIST=DEVNLIST
to (for example) get the list of device numbers associated with
UNIT=SYSALLDA. All of these device
The problem occurred overnight. Seems that user wanted to use the
same STORAGE CLASS name which exists in another partition - B. (Both
partitions A B are independent of each other. They do not share
dasd, catalogs etc.)
This way he wouldn't have to change his jcls, procs.
I
John,
Barry,
The problem occurred overnight. Seems that user wanted to use the
same STORAGE CLASS name which exists in another partition - B.
(Both partitions A B are independent of each other. They do not
share dasd, catalogs etc.)
This way he wouldn't have to change his jcls,
Paul,
Is there any reason why you are avoiding UCBSCAN and then a test for UCBONLI ?
If so, then I suppose you could consider doing the UCBSCAN once (at init) and
then use an ENF listener (codes 23/24/30) to update your table of units.
However, this might seem a little extreme just to avoid
Technically sounds good, except I don't think IEBGENR is the right tool
for that job; I'd go with DFDSS. More, other users of the /u system
might be a little annoyed :-)
I'd vote for setting up a separate file system with a mount point in /u
to receive the large file.
Do keep in mind that I can
On Oct 25, 2007, at 9:19 AM, David Long wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:29:02 -0500, Ed Gould
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wish the person this had happened to would pipe up, but to set the
record more precisely because of a bad date RACF (This is hear say)
did something to the (RACF) database
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:14:36 -0400 Gary Weinhold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:We are getting a sporadic S028 in a job that uses the ALET returned by
:the privileged ALESERV used to access a public dataspace (the privileged
:ALESERV is issued through a PC). The public dataspace is DSPSERV
:CREATEd
Thanks, Rex. Quick and hopefully last question: where do I enter the unmount
and mount commands and where are they documented?
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:42:43 -0500, Pommier, Rex R.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1 unmount the /u filesystem
2 rename the dataset containing the unmounted filesystem
Paul,
You could use IDCAMS DCOLLECT to extract the volume information (V record)
for all online
devices. It should have everything you would want or care to know. The
record layout is
documented in the Access Method Services for Catalogs in Appendix F (z/OS
1.7).
Regards,
John
IBM Mainframe
Personally, I'd view this as a management issue, not a technical issue.
The root problem in my opinion was the need for an operator to issue the
command in the first place. When you require human intervention, errors
are to be expected and therefore tolerated.
There are a number of such commands
I use EDTINFO to obtain only the device #'s that belong to a particular unit
(like SYSDA or SYSALLDA or DISK100 or whatever). UCBSCAN does not have that
granularity--it gets all of the UCB's for DASD, which could contain many I
am not interested in.
Thank you.
Paul
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007
If RB3 is pointed to by TCBRBP, RB3 is newest and is the top RB. TopRB get
executed first when the TCB is given control. The way it’s chained is
RB3-RBLINK field points to RB2. RB2-RBLINK points to RB1 and RB1-RBLINK points
to the TCB.
I think to obtain a spin lock (unconditional
Hal had a couple good points that I failed to mention. (See, I said
that if I said something wrong, it would be corrected! :-) )
Here's what he said so I can comment on them.
snip
Technically sounds good, except I don't think IEBGENR is the right tool
for that job; I'd go with DFDSS. More,
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SNIP
Repressible or Exigent?
Do you have VM or Flex-Es?
Otherwise, it
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/24/2007
at 02:45 PM, John Eells [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
What documentation are you looking at?
The dead tree manual tailored to the ServerPac order.
I think Appendix A.7 in ServerPac: Using the Installation Dialog
(the command reference part of the book) pretty
David Long wrote:
In 1989 I was working in a shop where the operator accidentally entered the
ipl date as yy/mm/98 instead of yy/mm/89. This was not noticed until all the
jobs that read tapes started failing because the tape datasets had expired.
I ended up writing a little program to make
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/24/2007
at 03:14 PM, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Which documentation? ServerPac manual or ISPF help screens?
The former, specifically the tailored manual that comes with the order.
The text uses the term forced, which implies more than just a default.
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Staller, Allan wrote:
IIRC SDSF uses the RMF data area for the DA display. The rest I believe
is handled by JES2.
SDSF requires MQSeries (an extra cost option) for full multisystem support.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/24/2007
at 03:26 PM, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
When I posted my response I wrote: To get the list down to just the
CPAC dsns... list by LVOLUME
I used HLQ and there was only the one data set, so that didn't affect me.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,
I have written a program that reads in 80 byte cards and performs
symbolic variable substitution at execution time. This program allows
us to create control cards that are environment generic and has
greatly reduced the number of redundant control cards than need to be
maintained. It can even
The card sort program for the 360 Mod 20 was about 3/4 of an inch high, and
you did put the sort control card if I remember right in the middle. We had
a 4K machine with the MFCM and no disk or tape.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
I think someone covered this, but it would be best for you to have
separate mount points for different directories/users under /u/
(i.e. /u/steve/ would have it's own dataset, /u/mike/ would have it's
own dataset).
That being said, another way that you can expand the size of your
dataset,
Paul
I would suggest that you compare the following and see which comes out best :
(1) Issue EDTINFO and then run UCBSCAN for DASD and then update your
device array as you loop thru the UCBs
(2) Issue EDTINFO and then run the device array and issue UCBLOOK for
required entries
Ed - You sure have a thing about firing people. Its a good thing you're not
employed now, as you can't fire anyone. Lets look at some of the costs of
firing a bunch of consultants. Lets just say there were 5 consultants who
did what you described. Say the average time they have been working
Thanks for the update. I was not aware of that requirement.
snip
Staller, Allan wrote:
IIRC SDSF uses the RMF data area for the DA display. The rest I
believe
is handled by JES2.
SDSF requires MQSeries (an extra cost option) for full multisystem
support.
--
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/snip
Looks like a hardware error, doesn't it?
028
Explanation: The system could not complete a paging operation for one of the
following reasons:
a.. A permanent I/O error occurred during a page-in or swap-in operation.
The data being paged in or swapped in is lost.
b.. A page cannot be
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:41:51 -0400, Andy White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to find out from anyone out there running z/OS and supporting
Java. We have multiple programming areas that are requesting we put up a
very specific version of Java or SDK.
Let me be specific we have installed a
Bill,
There is no problem in reading spool files, including JESJCL. If you have
SDSF, you can write a small CLIST/REXX that will run in a batch step, call
SDSF (Or what ever you use for spool browsing) to copy that file to a
temporary file and then analyze it in your program (It can be the rexx
On Oct 25, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Eric Bielefeld wrote:
Ed - You sure have a thing about firing people. Its a good thing
you're not employed now, as you can't fire anyone. Lets look at
some of the costs of firing a bunch of consultants. Lets just say
there were 5 consultants who did what you
On system1/connected to server1, can I do a 'DA' to see and browse the
output of jobs running on system2?
On system1/connected to server1, can I see the CPU utilization of jobs
on system2 on the DA panel?
Yes to both if you have SDSF set up correctly.
On system 1 you enter SYSNAME system2
Bass, Walter W wrote:
I would like to enhance this program to avoid to necessity of passing
the symbolic values through the parms. I am certain I can successfully
get the information I need by parsing the JESJCL. What I have not been
able to find out so far is where the JESJCL data is? Is
News to me and I could not find any trace in the archives.
With z/OS v1.8 and later, r15 behavior has changed for a conditional
storage obtain/getmain. For a successful request, the register may
contain: 0010_
IBM has (poorly) documented this behavior at
I need to change a number of RMM Dataset entry Catalog Status fields in
RMM from UNKNOWN to YES
However, the CHANGEDATASET command does not seem to have any options for
doing this.
Does anyone know how to do this? And no, we are not at an RMM level to
have CATSYNCH yet.
George Fogg wrote:
You only need MQ for SDSF if you wish to see system2 SDSF data, for example,
in the PR, PUN, and RDR panels.
Or if you'd like to see an active job's output grow line-by-line instead
of block by block. The in-core buffer from jobs running on other
systems is not
On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:45:49 +1000, John Dawes wrote:
The problem occurred overnight. Seems that user wanted
to use the same STORAGE CLASS name which exists in
another partition - B...
This way he wouldn't have to change his jcls, procs.
I hope this was not an ordinary user specifying
Gerhard,
Thanks for the nice explanation.
Do you know if it is possible for a running job to read the values of PROC
and/or SET JCL variables in effect for its (current) jobstep?
It appears that those are all resolved/washed away in the system control
blocks, but I wonder if they are lost after
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:13 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
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snip
Eric:
What would you do with dishonest consultants?
snip
A clue was
I've got a few PAV question for the hardware gurus out there. I define all of
my DASD to my production LPAR (these are monoplexes) as WLMPAV=YES,
alias and base and I have WLM managing them. I have another LPAR that
accesses some of these volumes (actually it is the one accessing these
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:48:22 -0500, Eric Bielefeld eric-
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What do you mean by radix sort?
Did anybody anwer that question yet? I didn't see one.
A radix sort is one that processes each possition of the key at a
time. For a decimal key it simply separates the input
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We are getting ready to share data on our DS8300 between our two z/OS
sites. I would appreciate your collective thought on what I should be
looking out for. Our sites are about 40 km apart.
Thanks
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I guess I saw the part about turning SMF recording off, but it didn't
register. Yes, if they were stealing services or committing some act of
fraud, maybe they should get fired. I used the quote below more because I
was getting fed up with Ed Gould's constant talk of firing people. I know I
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 10/25/2007
03:20:31 PM:
News to me and I could not find any trace in the archives.
With z/OS v1.8 and later, r15 behavior has changed for a conditional
storage obtain/getmain. For a successful request, the register may
contain:
I was getting fed up with Ed Gould's constant talk of firing people.
Ed has been retired for so long that any opinion he has is not worth listening
to.
From STAR TREK (Friday's Child):
His words are unimportant, and we do not hear them!
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Too busy driving to stop for gas!
Years ago I was able to save many an IPL when QMF users would run these
huge outer joins of two databases. If I could hit the right TCB, I
would cancel the task and 90% of the time it would save an IPL (which
was my next option).
Regards,
Gary
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From: IBM Mainframe
One winter Saturday afternoon in 1985 I was working for UCCEL (down at
the datacenter) and RIGHT in the middle of upgrading our VSE platform to
VSE/SP 2.1. A squirrel had crossed our two independent power feeds and
knocked out ALL of the power in the building. We still had some 3330's
and had to
Jim Mulder said
I don't think that VSM changed the r15 behavior in z/OS v1.8.
I realise this may be a total red herring but, given RSM got a substantial
rewrite in 1.8, is there ANY possibility this might be a side effect of
that rewrite?
I think it unlikely but sillier questions have
Years ago I was able to save many an IPL when QMF users would run these huge
outer joins of two databases.
I'm still trying to figure out why these queries need to be cancelled.
I have found, most of the time, they have to run for business needs.
Usually, when you cancel them, the user just has
We didn't have any governors in place (at the time) and the system would
end up thrashing.
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 4:55 PM
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It was more or less product ignorance; once I implemented the governors
then they didn't need to run these jobs during primetime under TMP. We
had special batch classes that would accommodate their request(s). Our
CICS community was a lot more important.
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From: IBM
Leon Schwering wrote:
We are getting ready to share data on our DS8300 between our two z/OS
sites. I would appreciate your collective thought on what I should be
looking out for. Our sites are about 40 km apart.
It is feasible. Some delays can be observed due to the distance (40km).
IMHO If
Bass, Walter W wrote:
I have written a program that reads in 80 byte cards and performs symbolic variable
substitution at execution time. This program allows us to create control cards that are
environment generic and has greatly reduced the number of redundant control
cards than need to be
What would you do with dishonest consultants?
I'd be taking one really HARD LOOK at the selection process! Let's treat
the whole problem, not just the most obvious symptom!
The behavior does differ. The change is that r15 now contains something
in bits 0-31. This has been verified by clearing r15 prior to the
getmain and getting the same result. While I understand the doc change
now indicates this can happen, it is not in an obvious location. I
experienced the
A rogue oprerative may sneak in...
I think they have a few times...
But we will definitely find that person.
And... As an added bonus...
Whatever they thought they may have destroyed...
It's all recoverable.
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