Hiper PAVs

2008-03-12 Thread gsg
What are Hiper PAVs and are they better than Dynamic PAVs? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Execution job class restriction

2008-03-12 Thread gsg
Is there a way to restrict jobs from running it a particular job class? Is there more than one way and if so, what is the easiest? TIA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Delete noscratch

2008-03-12 Thread Mohd Shahrifuddin
Dear Lister, I try to delete noscratch a dataset and found this error: Environment z/OS 1.7. VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 90 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLFO-54 Looking at the message manual reason code up to 52. What is reason code 54? Thanks an advance who response.

Re: Delete noscratch

2008-03-12 Thread R.S.
Mohd Shahrifuddin wrote: Dear Lister, I try to delete noscratch a dataset and found this error: Environment z/OS 1.7. VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 90 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLFO-54 Looking at the message manual reason code up to 52. What is reason code 54? Mohd, My hint: provide whole

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-12 Thread R.S.
gsg wrote: Is there a way to restrict jobs from running it a particular job class? Is there more than one way and if so, what is the easiest? TIA Yes. I don't know the ranking of the methods, but I would suggest to use exit IEFUJI with calls to RACF. You can even find free samples. --

Mike Poil is out of the office on holiday.

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Poil
I will be out of the office starting 12/03/2008 and will not return until 13/03/2008. I will respond to your message when I return. Stephen Flavell is my team leader should you need to contact someone in the JTC before my return.

Re: Delete noscratch

2008-03-12 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Mohd Shahrifuddin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Dear Lister, I try to delete noscratch a dataset and found this error: Environment z/OS 1.7. VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 90 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLFO-54 Looking at the message manual reason code up to 52.

z/OS 1.4 Running on 9672 CPU

2008-03-12 Thread Jason To
Hi, I've just joined a new company recently and discovered that they are still running z/OS 1.4 on a 9672-Z87 CPU with both central (2G) and expanded (4G) storage defined. My question is - I thought that starting z/OS 1.2 and above, expanded storage is all gone and running in pure 64-bit??

Re: z/OS 1.4 Running on 9672 CPU

2008-03-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
My question is - I thought that starting z/OS 1.2 and above, expanded storage is all gone and running in pure 64-bit?? Up to 1.5 (iirc), there is/was bi-modal support for z/OS. So, 31-bit still works with 1.4. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: z/OS 1.4 Running on 9672 CPU

2008-03-12 Thread Jason To
Hi Ted, Thanks for the prompt reply. I have another question, if we have central storage constraint, can we increase the central storage to more than 2GB? Or should I need to do something else to be able to do this? I am not sure whether the 9672-Z87 allow 64-bit. TIA, Jason -Original

NCACMG Seminar Thursday, March 13th 2008 System z Update and more

2008-03-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, If you are in the Metro Washington DC area Thursday you might want to consider to attend the National Capital Area CMG. NCACMG http://www.ncacmg.org is a regional chapter of the national Computer Measurement Group http://www.cmg.org Registration is open for the next NCACMG Seminar which

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-12 Thread Brian France
We do it with ACF2 resource calls just in case your an ACF2 user. At 04:04 AM 3/12/2008, you wrote: gsg wrote: Is there a way to restrict jobs from running it a particular job class? Is there more than one way and if so, what is the easiest? TIA Yes. I don't know the ranking of the

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Justice
That is excellent news, glad to hear it. - Original Message - From: Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 10:14 PM Subject: Bob Richards Update Barring any sudden changes, Bob will be discharged from

Re: z/OS 1.4 Running on 9672 CPU

2008-03-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
can we increase the central storage to more than 2GB? Or should I need to do something else to be able to do this? I am not sure whether the 9672-Z87 allow 64-bit. You need to be on a z/900, or later, machine and on OS/390 2.10 (or z/OS) to run 64-bit. Otherwise, you can only support 2GB of

Re: Delete noscratch

2008-03-12 Thread Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/ITSO) (CTR)
From the 1.9 manuals: 54 Explanation: DELETE failed because the data set is being renamed but it has not completed. Programmer Response: Rename the data set with the IDCAMS ALTER command and then delete it. There were vertical bars beside this entry, so it was added via PTF after the manual

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/11/2008 at 01:30 PM, Eric Bielefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: My first thought when I read Seymour's original post was that he was being humourous. I'm sure we'll find out when he logs on again. No, Spring forward, Fall back is a common mnemonic in the USA. --

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/11/2008 at 12:18 PM, Schwarz, Barry A [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: While all true, it doesn't address the question. Yes it does, because -(A-B) = (B-A); in particularar, (CDT-CST) = -(CST-CDT). -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position;

Re: Legal Issues with WEB

2008-03-12 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Legal Issues with WEB Anyone see this or run into such issues? What is your point? What does

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Doc Farmer
Aw, the HECK with this. I hereby declare that from now on, daylight savings is banned and all clocks shall be set to GMT only, worldwide. Signed, Doc Farmer Benevolent Dictator and Confirmed Horophile (stop snickering, I'm *not* a NY Governor) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:10:59 -0500, gsg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to restrict jobs from running it a particular job class? Is there more than one way and if so, what is the easiest? TIA ...didn't we just answer this (not really..similar question) :-) Yes, there is more than

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:55:44 -0400, Brian France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do it with ACF2 resource calls just in case your an ACF2 user. You need an optional exit for this correct? But ACF2 supplies it ... or at least used to. I believe they called this (and other optional exits) MVS

Re: Hiper PAVs

2008-03-12 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 02:09 -0500, gsg wrote: What are Hiper PAVs and are they better than Dynamic PAVs? See: http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/mayjune07/focusonstorage/14208p1.aspx Sam Knutson (not speaking for him, just reporting what I heard) said at SHARE that his installation is

Re: Legal Issues with WEB

2008-03-12 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Legal Issues with WEB I'm not familiar with the specific patents in question, but it should be obvious by now

Re: Recatalog a GDG - accidentally deleted the base

2008-03-12 Thread Sivakumar, Manikandan
Sam, You can try creating the GDG Base and try to catalog. I guess it will work. Good Luck ! Regards, Mani -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pushparaj, Samuel S Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Howard Brazee
On 12 Mar 2008 06:09:21 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doc Farmer) wrote: I hereby declare that from now on, daylight savings is banned and all clocks shall be set to GMT only, worldwide. Signed, Doc Farmer Benevolent Dictator and Confirmed Horophile (stop snickering, I'm *not* a NY Governor)

SE2D U1477 Abend

2008-03-12 Thread Francois Guillez
On executing an IMS conversation I'm getting this abend: SE2DCompiler noted E-level error in program. Any idea what it means? Thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip--- I hereby declare that from now on, daylight savings is banned and all clocks shall be set to GMT only, worldwide. Signed, Doc Farmer Benevolent Dictator and Confirmed Horophile (stop snickering, I'm *not* a NY Governor)

SV: SE2D U1477 Abend

2008-03-12 Thread Thomas Berg
In our MVS/QuickRef I found: E2D Explanation: A program requested an overlay. In answer to the request, the overlay supervisor was using program

getting gmake on z/OS Unix

2008-03-12 Thread Warren Taylor
Hi, we are a group using z/OS Unix and have been given an HFS (USS?) we can install gmake ourselves as per our z/OS sysprog have downloaded and unwound gmake.pax.Z.bin from IBM and it looks to be EBCDIC already. The unwind created folders bin, share, info, and man and put all the data

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Edward Jaffe
Doc Farmer wrote: Aw, the HECK with this. I hereby declare that from now on, daylight savings is banned and all clocks shall be set to GMT only, worldwide. I have no issue with time zones. But, I really don't like the semi-annual confusion caused by switching between Daylight Saving and

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Tom Harper
Ed, Actually, latest studies show it causes an additional one to four per cent increase in energy use: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87991839 Tom Harper IMS Utilities Development Team Neon Enterprise Software, Inc. Sugar Land, TX -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
snip I have no issue with time zones. But, I really don't like the semi-annual confusion caused by switching between Daylight Saving and Standard Time. Yes, it's been proved to save energy. However, it's also been proved to cost more in the end. -- Edward E Jaffe /snip Ed, Here in

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Howard Brazee
On 12 Mar 2008 08:13:22 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Fochtman) wrote: I disagree. Let all HARDWARE clocks be set to GMT and use PARMLIB OFFSET values to adjust to local time. Better than nothing. But in the U.S. lots of people are learning ESPN time. Maybe it will result in a country like

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Doc Farmer
Uh, what part of Benevolent Dictator did you not understand? ;D -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:14 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: clock, daylight savings time

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Birger Heede
Rick Fochtman wrote: ---snip--- I hereby declare that from now on, daylight savings is banned and all clocks shall be set to GMT only, worldwide. Signed, Doc Farmer Benevolent Dictator and Confirmed Horophile (stop snickering, I'm *not* a NY Governor)

Re: Recatalog a GDG - accidentally deleted the base

2008-03-12 Thread John Kington
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pushparaj, Samuel S Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Recatalog a GDG - accidentally deleted the base Hello Required help! Unfortunately I deleted the GDG Base and I have 2

Re: GRS concurrent enqueue limit

2008-03-12 Thread Ed Holt
The QCB chain that was pointed of the RIBE has been removed in Z/OS R9 - RIBQCB. Any ideas how I can search the QCB's? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread John Mattson
Programmers have been deleting for years using BR14 (MOD,DELETE), and IDCAMS DELETE. I am finding that we are spending ever more time on HSM Migrated ds being recalled just to delete them. Is there an EASY way to convert these deletes into HSEND DELETE?

Paging Subsystem -- Comfortable Size and Configuration?

2008-03-12 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, In preparation for z/OS 1.9 we're re-evaluating our paging subsystem configurations. Currently we're using the same size and configuration carried forward from time immemorial, mainly because it still works: Three (3) page datasets of 2,000 cylinders each, with one in reserve (available

Share your GRSRNLnn member?

2008-03-12 Thread McKown, John
With a poor, starving z/OS sysprog? [grin] I'm still working on our MONOPLEX to basic sysplex. We have another test this Sunday, but it is only 4 hours. And they expect it to be perfect. One problem that I am encountering is that I am having problems finding all the product documentation to

Re: WLM and DB2

2008-03-12 Thread Glen Gasior
IIRC DB2 SPAS may not be the best practise anymore with the latest versions of DB2. On 1/14/08, Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is probably the wrong forum to post this but I know I'll be told where to go if it is. I am about to setup WLM for DB2 SPAS; I know, I know, it should

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Mattson Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 11:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE Programmers have been deleting for

Re: GRS concurrent enqueue limit

2008-03-12 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ed Holt wrote: The QCB chain that was pointed of the RIBE has been removed in Z/OS R9 - RIBQCB. Any ideas how I can search the QCB's? I believe the intent of this change is to discourage customers and ISVs from looking at QCBs directly. (This allows them to be eventually moved into 64-bit

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Edward Jaffe
John Mattson wrote: Programmers have been deleting for years using BR14 (MOD,DELETE), and IDCAMS DELETE. I am finding that we are spending ever more time on HSM Migrated ds being recalled just to delete them. Is there an EASY way to convert these deletes into HSEND DELETE? I thought

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread William Bishop
The problem is that if you perfrom an IDCAMS DELETE and specify nonvsam, HSM does a recall. Without the nonvsam, he does an HDELETE if the dataset is migrated. I am trying to figure a way to convert my deletes without having to go thru a massive change process to remove the nonvsam entries.

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Tom Sipusic
John Mattson wrote: Programmers have been deleting for years using BR14 (MOD,DELETE), and IDCAMS DELETE. I am finding that we are spending ever more time on HSM Migrated ds being recalled just to delete them. Is there an EASY way to convert these deletes into HSEND DELETE? CBT File 673: A

Re: CA-SYSVIEW

2008-03-12 Thread gsg
Are you saying that CA-Sysview can replace MQ on z/OS? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Adams, Rick
DTS has a product, ACC, that can handle these for you. We use it and it works great. It cut out our recalls for BR14 deletes completely. ThanksRick -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Mattson Sent: Wednesday, March 12,

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Edward Jaffe
William Bishop wrote: The problem is that if you perfrom an IDCAMS DELETE and specify nonvsam, HSM does a recall. Without the nonvsam, he does an HDELETE if the dataset is migrated. This sounds APARable to me. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd,

Re: WLM and DB2

2008-03-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
IIRC DB2 SPAS may not be the best practise anymore with the latest versions of DB2. For at least 5 years. I would also recommend that you try the DB2 List, where the DB2 experts hang out. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Fw: SE2D U1477 Abend

2008-03-12 Thread Bill Klein
What was the E-level message (at compile-time)? Given the other reply to the note, if it was a COBOL program with an error related to SEGMENTATION - that would certainly seem relevant. If so, which compiler are you using? Francois Guillez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL

Re: Share your GRSRNLnn member?

2008-03-12 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:30:32 -0500, McKown, John wrote: With a poor, starving z/OS sysprog? [grin] I'm still working on our MONOPLEX to basic sysplex. We have another test this Sunday, but it is only 4 hours. And they expect it to be perfect. One problem that I am encountering is that I am

Re: Paging Subsystem -- Comfortable Size and Configuration?

2008-03-12 Thread John Laubenheimer
As a Rule of Thumb (and thumbs come in various shapes and sizes ... yours may vary): 1 PLPA dataset 1 COMMON dataset 4 (or more) LOCAL datasets LOCAL datasets should peak at no more that 30 (or so) percent utilization, else the block paging algorithm starts to have problems (the probability of

Re: Paging Subsystem -- Comfortable Size and Configuration?

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:57:55 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All, In preparation for z/OS 1.9 we're re-evaluating our paging subsystem configurations. Currently we're using the same size and configuration carried forward from time immemorial, mainly because it still works: Three

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
For a person who demands absolute precision and accuracy from others (USS is not unix, directory blocks are not 256, etc), your insistence that CST can be 7 hours off of GMT appears very much out of character. Your attempts to justify this with algebraic gibberish are unbelievable. Has someone

Re: Share your GRSRNLnn member?

2008-03-12 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:30 -0500, McKown, John wrote: I'd appreciate any GRSRNLnn member you'd like to share. At the Orlando SHARE, Sam Knutson and Brian Peterson talked about their RNLs in detail. Here's a pointer to this great session:

CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-12 Thread John Dawes
Hallo To All, Is there a way of telling if a USER CAT is near full or full? Thanks. - Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-12 Thread Jakubek, Jan
You may try to run KSDSPACE from CBT file 394 against the catalogue and see what it shows. Current z/OS catalogue support issues a warning message when a catalogue approaches its extents limit. I do not remember the message/ details though. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Share your GRSRNLnn member?

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:38:14 -0400, David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 11:30 -0500, McKown, John wrote: I'd appreciate any GRSRNLnn member you'd like to share. At the Orlando SHARE, Sam Knutson and Brian Peterson talked about their RNLs in detail. Here's a pointer to

Re: Paging Subsystem -- Comfortable Size and Configuration?

2008-03-12 Thread Knutson, Sam
John, IMHO You should try to stick with no paging even with memory object sorting. Buy more memory if you need it at $8K/G on z9 it's cheap and getting cheaper on z10 at $6K/G I think. If you are adding to your above the bar exploitation and paging already that does not make sense to me. It

Custompac

2008-03-12 Thread Matt Dazzo
When using custompac to view an existing installed order I find that some of the options like 'Installation' have an asterisk next to them and are not able to be selected for viewing. Any body know why this might be? Thanks Matt

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-12 Thread Imbriale, Donald
Command F CATALOG,ALLOCATED will show message IEC348I. The last column: The percentage of allocated extents for each catalog in the list. This percentage indicates the extent usage by either the data or index component, whichever is higher, for that particular catalog. For catalogs

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:14:22 -0400, Brian France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:20 AM 3/12/2008, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:55:44 -0400, Brian France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do it with ACF2 resource calls just in case your an ACF2 user. You need an optional exit for this correct?

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-12 Thread Brian France
At 09:20 AM 3/12/2008, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:55:44 -0400, Brian France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do it with ACF2 resource calls just in case your an ACF2 user. You need an optional exit for this correct? But ACF2 supplies it ... or at least used to. I believe they called this

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-12 Thread Kelman, Tom
That's great news about Bob. I worked with Bob and have known him from CMG, but I've never met Becca. She sounds like someone who'll lay down the law to him now about healthy eating and not smoking. I know he'll be feeling better than ever once this is all over. Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-12 Thread John Laubenheimer
First, the good news. A catalog can have up to 123 (if I recall correctly) extents. If you haven't reached this limit, you should be OK. If you are at (or near) this limit, it gets a bit fuzzy. If, by creating a new entry in the catalog, you cause a CI split, which in turn causes a CA split,

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:20:23 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:14:22 -0400, Brian France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:20 AM 3/12/2008, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:55:44 -0400, Brian France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do it with ACF2 resource calls just

Re: Execution job class restriction

2008-03-12 Thread Brian France
At 03:20 PM 3/12/2008, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:14:22 -0400, Brian France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:20 AM 3/12/2008, you wrote: On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:55:44 -0400, Brian France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We do it with ACF2 resource calls just in case your an ACF2 user. You need

Re: Paging Subsystem -- Comfortable Size and Configuration?

2008-03-12 Thread Staller, Allan
snip What would be a comfortable paging subsystem configuration, especially for the Production LPAR, as to individual size and (especially) number of page datasets? /snip IMO, the largest needed paging subsys can be determined as follows: 1) Determine actual working set in use. This is easy if

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-12 Thread Anthony Saul Babonas
Other posters have responded with good, practical solutions. We had a solution years ago that was neither. We kept several hundred dummy aliases in a user catalog in order to keep it full, artificially. If we needed to define a few new ones, we deleted some dummies. Excusing my failing memory,

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am curious. Do I care if it is full or if it has a lot of splits (CA/CI)? I had one catalog in my past we called a database because it was over 700,000 entries. We reorged it every weekend because it performed poorly due to the splits, not the size. Lizette Other posters have responded

Re: Custompac

2008-03-12 Thread Jack Kelly
If it's anything like Service Pac, you have to complete, at least do, the preceding item before it'll let you start the next one. If that's what you're talking about. Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office) Matt Dazzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-12 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 16:05 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote: I am curious. Do I care if it is full or if it has a lot of splits (CA/CI)? I had one catalog in my past we called a database because it was over 700,000 entries. We reorged it every weekend because it performed poorly due to the

Re: WLM and DB2

2008-03-12 Thread Martin Packer
Glen wrote IIRC DB2 SPAS may not be the best practise anymore with the latest versions of DB2. That's right... DB2 9 no longer supports SPAS. Martin Packer, IBM Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598.

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Robert Justice
sounds good here too, changing the clock twice a year is absurd - Original Message - From: Doc Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 9:07 AM Subject: Re: clock, daylight savings time Aw, the HECK with

Re: getting gmake on z/OS Unix

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Post
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:22 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Warren Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, we are a group using z/OS Unix and have been given an HFS (USS?) we can install gmake ourselves as per our z/OS sysprog have downloaded and unwound gmake.pax.Z.bin from IBM and

Re: getting gmake on z/OS Unix

2008-03-12 Thread Big Iron
Those are the instructions for an install from source. It sounds as if you have the precompiled binaries. For that situation, I think that what the Redbook attempts to say is that the unloaded files should be copied into the corresponding directories under /usr/local: so the file from bin is

Re: Hiper PAVs

2008-03-12 Thread Mark Post
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 9:27 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip- If you're a Linux-on-z shop, then you should know that HyperPAV support has been submitted to upstream for inclusion in the kernel. So soon Linux will have PAV support too. To be a

Re: Hiper PAVs

2008-03-12 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 15:15 -0600, Mark Post wrote: Linux for System z has had support for PAV since late 2006 Thanks; I wasn't aware of that. I haven't seen any indication that HyperPAV support has been submitted just yet. It would have gone through the git390 server if it had been. My

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/11/2008 at 08:28 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: No, Spring forward, Fall back is a common mnemonic in the USA. They say that the memory is the second thing to go; I don't remember the first thing. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/12/2008 at 09:44 AM, John Mattson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Programmers have been deleting for years using BR14 (MOD,DELETE), and IDCAMS DELETE. IEFBR14 doesn't delete the data set. By the time IEFBR14 gets control the data set has already been recalled. But I

Re: UDB JDBC procedure call causes S04E in DB2

2008-03-12 Thread Neil Duffee
At 2008.03.12 15:23, Serenity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to IBM-Main about UDB JDBC procedure call causes S04E in DB2: I'm trying to call a z/OS stored procedure from Win UDB and am getting a SQLCODE: -444, SQLSTATE: 42724. On the the z/OS system log, I see - DSNL027I [snip]

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
I always heard it was the knees. On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:43:50 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They say that the memory is the second thing to go; I don't remember the first thing. -- -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
The buzz on the radios in Idaho explain that while you are saving money in the spring, you get home earlier in the summer and run those air conditioners longer. Thus you spend more overall. And those old urban legends it was for the farmers, well the animals and crops can figure out when the

Re: Rexx bug?

2008-03-12 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
Reminds me of a problem I thought I had once, how about EXPONENTIAL form affecting e0 versus e8? On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:43:18 +0200, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:29:16 -0500 Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:09:45 +0100,

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:03:41 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: William Bishop wrote: The problem is that if you perfrom an IDCAMS DELETE and specify nonvsam, HSM does a recall. Without the nonvsam, he does an HDELETE if the dataset is migrated. This sounds APARable to me. I

Re: clock, daylight savings time

2008-03-12 Thread Scott Ford
I thought it was your hair. Scott IDF -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kenneth E Tomiak Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 7:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: clock, daylight savings time I always heard it was the

Re: Rexx bug?

2008-03-12 Thread Scott Ford
This isn't a bug in rexx.try this little clist /* rexx */ X = 00E0 + 00E8 Say datatype(x) -- this returns NUM Y = 00F0 say datatype(y) --- this returns CHAR Can't add two character together... Regards, Scott -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Rexx bug?

2008-03-12 Thread Scott Ford
Here is the output trace of the clist I showed earlier... O 0 4 *-* say datatype(x) V 0 F NUM NUM 5 *-* y = 00F0 L 00F0 6 *-* z = c2x(y) V 00F0 F F0F0C6F0 7 *-* say z V F0F0C6F0 F0F0C6F0 8 *-* say

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:03:41 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: William Bishop wrote: The problem is that if you perfrom an IDCAMS DELETE and specify nonvsam, HSM does a recall. Without the nonvsam, he does an HDELETE if the dataset is migrated. This sounds APARable to me. ... or a Requirement?

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Scott Ford
Amen brother gil..thats because most of the sys admins don't really know how to program Scott -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re:

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Rugen, Len
I've got basically the same thing with a HBDELETE first. I call it HBEGONE. Ages ago, before TSO/IDCAMS was so nearly smart, I coded in Rexx (IIRC): address 'TSO' 'HDELETE ''DATA.SET.NAME'' WAIT' if RC0 then 'DELETE

Implementing PAV on an existing DASD subsystem

2008-03-12 Thread Jason To
I just need some confirmation/clarification on implementing PAV on an existing DASD subsystem with data or DASD volumes already allocated. Will implementing PAV affect the existing data on the DASD subsystem? If no, is it applicable to both IBM and EMC DASD subsystem? How big is the risk involved

DB2 for z/OS V7.1 on z/OS V1.9

2008-03-12 Thread Bu Dante
Does DB2 V7.1 run on z/OS V1.9 and if so any PTFs required? Anybody in this situation? Bu -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Disclaimers

2008-03-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Does anybody realise that you cannot issue prior restraint? You cannot legally enforce the fact that you cannot disseminate an e-mail that was sent to you, stating you can't send it from here! If an email was sent to you, unsolicited, you can do whatever you want with it. Sending to a list

Re: Easy way to covert IEFBR14 and IDCAMS deletes to HDELETE

2008-03-12 Thread Arthur T.
On 12 Mar 2008 17:52:58 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Gilmartin) wrote: Ages ago, before TSO/IDCAMS was so nearly smart, I coded in Rexx (IIRC): address 'TSO' 'HDELETE ''DATA.SET.NAME'' WAIT' if RC0 then 'DELETE

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-12 Thread Doc Farmer
Ah, a John M. Ford fan. The Final Reflection - one of the best non-canon ST novels out there. I don't think it's an issue of prior restraint. It's an issue of no restraint whatsoever. However, taglines and disclaimers do at least provide a modicum of protection to the sender, if worded

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-12 Thread Scott Ford
Lol, outstanding DocFarmer Scott -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doc Farmer Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Disclaimers Ah, a John M. Ford fan. The Final Reflection - one of

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Ah, a John M. Ford fan. The Final Reflection - one of the best non-canon ST novels out there I don't know how you figure that out, but yes I am. I've read them all. I was 9 when startrek went on the air (TOS) and have watched them all! But, my point is still the same. - Too busy driving to

Re: Disclaimers

2008-03-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
if worded correctly, so that a message cannot be used as a legally binding agreement (and believe me, it's been tried) which can come back to bite the sender in the bee-hind. My issue was never that. It's the implied liability of the recipient. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

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