Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-27 Thread Cobe Xu
hi list, any one is willing to answer a rookie's question: How WLM recognize TSO's workload? like trivial TSO transaction, because I can not see there's a *classification rule* defined for TSO. like batch, stc, they have a rule...

Re: IBMLink, again

2008-03-27 Thread Jousma, David
I've got the same problem with two currently open etr's that contain a sting of hex data. It is entirely viewable on 3270 IBMLINK however. ___ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President Mainframe Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] 616.653.8429

Re: IBMLink, again

2008-03-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:01:13 -0400, Jousma, David wrote: I've got the same problem with two currently open etr's that contain a sting of hex data. It is entirely viewable on 3270 IBMLINK however. Is that: tn3270://ibmlink.advantis.com ... ? That tells me my ID has been revoked. I guess

Re: Displaying multiple volumes allocated from DSLIST

2008-03-27 Thread John Kington
Ted, It's just showing that you have 2 additional candidate volumes allocated. They have not yet been assigned. It's a control block thing. It doesn't cost anything; it can protect you from future growth problems. The last two shops I worked at had 20 volumes allocated in most dataclasses.

Re: z/OS 1.4 to 1.7 upgrade differences question

2008-03-27 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:22:35 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: Assuming it is not intentional for some reason (panel ISRUAIP still exists in hlq.SISPPENU) they should if the customer pushes for it. z/OS 1.7 doesn't hit EOS (end of service) until September 2008. But there could be a reason that IBM

Re: z/OS 1.4 to 1.7 upgrade differences question

2008-03-27 Thread George Davis
It appears on the 1.7 system I am working on now, after getting a Data Set List (=3.4) of a non-SMS dataset, that an S (Information - short) brings up panel ISRUAIES and the **NONE** in MC and SC. However, I (Information) brings up panel ISRUAIPO which does not display any SMS information. Under

Re: Enhanced PSP Compare Program

2008-03-27 Thread Cyrus Goodriver
A question for IBMers who posted on this subject: Why the nice feature of informing PARM=* to PSP tool to screen all target zones defined to the Global CSI has been dropped from the new version ? (it ends in error). -- For

Re: z/OS 1.4 to 1.7 upgrade differences question

2008-03-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 07:15:18 -0500, Norbert Friemel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:22:35 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: Assuming it is not intentional for some reason (panel ISRUAIP still exists in hlq.SISPPENU) they should if the customer pushes for it. z/OS 1.7 doesn't hit EOS

Re: Link for I-Series?

2008-03-27 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 5:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Link for I-Series? Is there an equivalent list server for the AS/400 systems as we have here

Re: IBM C/C++ compiler cost?

2008-03-27 Thread Mohammad Khan
With no business need it might be a difficult sell at any price (other than zero) but you can possibly use GCCMVS. It runs on MVS3.8j so it should run on z/OS as well. It might be just producing 24 bit code but being open source you can improve it. Mohammad On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:47:26 -0500,

Re: Displaying multiple volumes allocated from DSLIST

2008-03-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:47:36 -0500, Greg Shirey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to this (somewhat old) redbook, the same amount of space is used. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246979.pdf From the SMS enhancements chapter: If a data set, with one primary and five candidate

Re: IBMLink, again

2008-03-27 Thread Jousma, David
You can get your ID unrevoked if you call the 800 number. They just wont create new ID's anymore. Since the text was cutoff, I had to resort to updating the PMR via the 3270 interface. As a side-note, I attended the IBMLINK SHARE presentation, and the IBM Program manager that owns IBMLINK

EMC Dasd and Performance Issues

2008-03-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am supporting the DMX3 Disk Array from EMC. We have been experienceing some performance issues with our Timefinder Snap process. According to EMC this issue occurred due to microcode level 5671. We did this upgrade 18 months ago and just now saw this issue and got it resolved. I am just

Re: SVCDUMP processing question

2008-03-27 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:16:15 -0400, Jim Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Are all SVCDUMPS synchronous? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2A870/20.1.2?SHELF=EZ2ZO10IDT=20060620155240 ... Thanks. That helps. But now, to really understand this, all I have to do

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-27 Thread Kelman, Tom
There should be an entry available for the subsystem TSO in the 6. Classification Rules of the WLM application unless someone at your shop has deleted that entry for some unknown reason. Tom Kelman Commerce Bank of Kansas City (816) 760-7632 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-27 Thread Kelman, Tom
I should have entered this on my previous response. When I go to 6. Classification Rules on my WLM application I see the following. Note the TSO entry at the bottom.

Re: Link for I-Series?

2008-03-27 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Link for I-Series? SNIPAGE Try this: http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/ Very good people there!

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-27 Thread Cobe Xu
Thanks Tom, yes, I can see the same thing in my shop,too. But, when I Browse the rule, there's nothing inside. Take JES as example, when I browse it inside, there will be rules, I know, they are for different type of batch, some will be indentified by TN, some maybe PFG, or others Identifier. Can

Re: IBM C/C++ compiler cost?

2008-03-27 Thread Gee, Norman
At one time I calculated the cost to be the same as the COBOL compiler. We could not justified the cost of either compiler, so we route all of compiler jobs to another data center that has all the compilers. They charge us for both processor time and DASD, but that still only amounts to pennies

Multivolume Dataset Question

2008-03-27 Thread Dean Montevago
Hi, If a dataset spans multiple volumes, can you move one piece of it to another volume ? or must you reorg the entire file ? TIA Dean Dean Montevago Sr. Systems Specialist Visiting Nurse Service of New York (212) 609 - 9608 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can forked/spawned address spaces be identified as such?

2008-03-27 Thread Peter Hunkeler
On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:04:44 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the rule correct that every case - with no exceptions - of a forked/spawned address space has a single digit from 1 to 9 appended to the job name? No. Eight character jobnames are truncated to 7, and then the digit is

SRM_constant SU/sec

2008-03-27 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Hi, Basic question. When looking at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/srm/ Processor version codes and SRM constants Processor Model STIDP Type STSI Model Name #CPSU/SEC 2094-701 2094 (z9)701 129520.2952 2094-702 2094(z9)702 2 28368.7943 2094-7032094(z9)703 327538.7263 I conclude

Re: SRM_constant SU/sec

2008-03-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi, Basic question. When looking at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/srm/ Processor version codes and SRM constants Processor Model STIDP Type STSI Model Name #CPSU/SEC 2094-701 2094 (z9)701 129520.2952 2094-702 2094(z9)702 2 28368.7943 2094-7032094(z9)703

Help with TSO parsing?

2008-03-27 Thread McKown, John
I admit that I have no experience with this. I am attempting to modify a TSO command processor that I downloaded from IBM. I am adding a new keyword at the end. I am failing at execution time with the messages: IKJ56293I RACSEQ2 FAILED - PARSE SERVICE ROUTINE HAD AN INVALID INPUT PARAMETER BLOCK+

Re: Help with TSO parsing?

2008-03-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27/03/2008, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I admit that I have no experience with this. I am attempting to modify a TSO command processor that I downloaded from IBM. I am adding a new keyword at the end. I am failing at execution time with the messages: IKJ56293I RACSEQ2 FAILED -

Re: Help with TSO parsing?

2008-03-27 Thread McKown, John
sigh talking to myself and feeling old... I found the problem. I had a parse validation check routine which was returning an invalid return code, causing the PARSE to fail. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services

Re: SVCDUMP processing question

2008-03-27 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:16:15 -0400, Jim Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Every SVCDUMP sets the tasks in an address space nondispatchable while dumping that address space. But for an asynchronous dump, this is asynchronous with repsect to the unit of work which issued the SDUMP macro. ...

Re: Help with TSO parsing?

2008-03-27 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:30:34 -0500, McKown, John John.Mckown wrote: sigh talking to myself and feeling old... I found the problem. I had a parse validation check routine which was returning an invalid return code, causing the PARSE to fail. Earlier the same day, he wrote: Any TSO gurus left

Re: Help with TSO parsing?

2008-03-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip--- I admit that I have no experience with this. I am attempting to modify a TSO command processor that I downloaded from IBM. I am adding a new keyword at the end. I am failing at execution time with the messages: IKJ56293I RACSEQ2 FAILED - PARSE SERVICE

RES: WLM and TSO

2008-03-27 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
When you look at your own TSO address space in SDSF, what SERVICE CLASS is showed ? SYSOTHER ? Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Ituriel do Nascimento Neto Banco Bradesco S/A 4254/DPCD Alphaville Engenharia de Software - Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes Tel: 55 11 4197-2021 Fax: 55 11

Re: Help with TSO parsing?

2008-03-27 Thread Robert Wright
McKown, John wrote: sigh talking to myself and feeling old... I found the problem. I had a parse validation check routine which was returning an invalid return code, causing the PARSE to fail. You might think of removing explicit aliases DDN and DSN. IKJPARS will recognize them as

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-27 Thread Kelman, Tom
Cobe, If there are no rules specified then it appears your shop never set up service classes for the TSO workload. Or else their there but were never placed into the classification rule. That's not good. The system will recognize the work as TSO and when it doesn't find a rule that specifies a

Re: Help with TSO parsing?

2008-03-27 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Wright Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 2:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Help with TSO parsing? McKown, John wrote: sigh talking to myself and feeling old... I

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/26/2008 at 08:13 AM, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I know the feeling. But we gotta' learn how to do the new stuff on the mainframe, and let management see it. First you have to get management's permission. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Error access CICS

2008-03-27 Thread HELIO
Hi, I am trying to make a cics access via terminal 3270, and I am receiving the following error message. DFHZC6907 I 03/27/2008 15:57:39 CICSDES Autoinstall starting for netname L05DDE83. Network qualified name is RTST.L05DDE83. DFHZC6908 I 03/27/2008 15:57:39 CICSDES Autoinstall

Re: Enhanced PSP Compare Program

2008-03-27 Thread Cyrus Goodriver
A question for IBMers who posted on this subject: Why the nice feature of informing PARM=* to PSP tool to screen all target zones defined to the Global CSI has been dropped from the new version ? (it ends in error). -- For

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-27 Thread Scott Rowe
I don't really see where the problem is here. If there is only one TSO service class, then no selection rules are needed, the default service class needs to be specified, but no selection rules. That's how we are setup here. Kelman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/27/2008 3:20 PM Cobe, If there

Re: Enhanced PSP Compare Program

2008-03-27 Thread Edward Jaffe
Cyrus Goodriver wrote: A question for IBMers who posted on this subject: Why the nice feature of informing PARM=* to PSP tool to screen all target zones defined to the Global CSI has been dropped from the new version ? (it ends in error). Weird! It appears I received this same message

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-27 Thread Hal Merritt
Not sure, but that may have been Steve's point ;-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Is IT becoming extinct? In [EMAIL

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-27 Thread Kelman, Tom
Yes, I agree. However, the default service class would also be specified in the classification rule. Maybe I misunderstood, but I got the impression that Cobe didn't see anything in his TSO classification rule. Cobe, is there a default service class specified in the TSO classification rule? If

Re: Enhanced PSP Compare Program

2008-03-27 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:55:59 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: Cyrus Goodriver wrote: A question for IBMers who posted on this subject Weird! It appears I received this same message exactly 7 hours and 40 minutes ago. Is there something going on with a mail and.or list server? It's in the

Re: Long translate (TR) instruction?

2008-03-27 Thread Art Celestini
William: Thank you for taking the time to give this a try. I had heard some horror stories about TR performance being disappointing on some earlier Z/Arch machines and I was wondering if it was pervasive. Obviously not. Not to be a nit-picker, but the OP (Kirk Wolf) said, I'm looking for the

Re: Enhanced PSP Compare Program

2008-03-27 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I don't know about the timing, but this is the second time I received this message! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -Original Message- From: Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:55:59 To:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Enhanced PSP Compare Program

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-27 Thread Steve Comstock
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/26/2008 at 08:13 AM, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I know the feeling. But we gotta' learn how to do the new stuff on the mainframe, and let management see it. First you have to get management's permission. Easier to

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-27 Thread Kevin Mckenzie
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 03/27/2008 10:27:40 AM: Thanks Tom, yes, I can see the same thing in my shop,too. But, when I Browse the rule, there's nothing inside. Take JES as example, when I browse it inside, there will be rules, I know, they are for

Re: EMC Dasd and Performance Issues

2008-03-27 Thread Ambat Ravi Nair
Liz, just how were the SNAPs affected ? do you have SRDF/A involved ? - ravi. On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:29:51 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am supporting the DMX3 Disk Array from EMC. We have been experienceing some performance issues with our Timefinder Snap process.

Re: Virtual tape questions

2008-03-27 Thread Ambat Ravi Nair
Provided there is an aggressive expiry plan set in the mgmtclas, and there's healthy status of SCRATCH tapes. in the several sites i've been, everyone's afraid to clear the archeological dust - so they pile up causing grief to TMS. - ravi. On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:25:47 -0500, Mark Zelden

Re: EMC Dasd and Performance Issues

2008-03-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
We are snapping 198 volumes. For the past several months it has been taking 20 mins to snap. As of Feb 08 it took 40 mins to snap. After EMC cleaned up some table it now runs in 14 Mins. SRDF/A is not involved. We are snapping a source volume to another volume on the string we call SNPxxx.

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip--- Easier to ask forgiveness that to ask permission. ---unsnip- A big AMEN to that! Highly unfortunate, but true. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Error access CICS

2008-03-27 Thread John S. Giltner, Jr.
HELIO wrote: Hi, I am trying to make a cics access via terminal 3270, and I am receiving the following error message. DFHZC6907 I 03/27/2008 15:57:39 CICSDES Autoinstall starting for netname L05DDE83. Network qualified name is RTST.L05DDE83. DFHZC6908 I 03/27/2008 15:57:39

Re: EMC Dasd and Performance Issues

2008-03-27 Thread Gabe Torres
Not sure of our microcode level,.. But is your DMX used only for Mainframe storage? We had an instance where our P Series processors effected our mainframe storage performance. --cut I am supporting the DMX3 Disk Array from EMC. We have been experienceing some performance issues with our

Re: IBMLink, again

2008-03-27 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hi Gil, I would assume, like on some web screens we use here, that the text input fields are not transparent. By that I mean the characters entered are treated as HTTP control characters, or something like that. I am trying to convince some of our local system builders that text input fields

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-27 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Also a good way to get fired when you have 'professional managers' more interested in following change/control procedures than getting the job done. I speak from experience. From: Rick Fochtman [Subject: Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-27 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Also a good way to get fired when you have 'professional managers' more interested in following change/control procedures than getting the job done. I speak from experience. I am sorry, but I believe in change control. If you can't follow them, it's your problem. A process exists for a reason.

Re: WLM and TSO

2008-03-27 Thread Cobe Xu
Thanks everyone's patience, I think I understand more now. We do have an only one Service class for TSO, and in the classification rule for TSO and with default SC is TSO. WLM recognizes the workload from subsystem,too... All I thought was the *Selection rule* inside is a MUST, because I thought

Re: Virtual tape questions

2008-03-27 Thread Gregory Pinkowski
Many thanks to all who responded so helpfully on-list and off-list. -- 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: Long translate (TR) instruction?

2008-03-27 Thread William H. Blair
Art Celestini wrote: I'm convinced that TRE and TR are faster but it seems that a truly fair comparison of solutions to the stated problem should have included equivalent moves in the TRE and TR solutions. I did write and run versions with the code like that. And, I said so: |

Re: Long translate (TR) instruction?

2008-03-27 Thread Art Celestini
William: Thanks (again). I found these results most interesting. Art At 11:18 PM 3/27/2008, William H. Blair wrote: Art Celestini wrote: I'm convinced that TRE and TR are faster but it seems that a truly fair comparison of solutions to the stated problem should have included

Gary Hussong is out of the office.

2008-03-27 Thread Gary Hussong
I will be out of the office starting 03/28/2008 and will not return until 04/01/2008. I will respond to your message when I return. If this is an emergency you can try send me a louts note text page. -- NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is intended by

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-27 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
You missed the point. The previous post to mine mentioned that's it's easier to say 'Sorry' than get permission. My post was meant to warn of the possible ramifications of taking that approach. If I tried to describe the change control approach at my former shop, you most likely would not