Re: Debugging TSO FTP command

2008-04-08 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
Thanks again John. I added an OMVS segment to the group my userid is associated with and a GID(1) to the segment, and I now have access to FTP from the ISPF option 6 command line. Just a word of caution here. It seems your environment has not been properly setup for z/OS UNIX: Your userid

Re: SMFEWTM

2008-04-08 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 04/07/2008 05:53:41 PM: Then I will have to check if this intercept routine may be the guilty one. Thanks Jim, for putting me on track. And thanks Chuck for the specific reference to a product. I am just responsible for the

Re: How to check if a job has run?

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Knigge
Rob, (1) Use the IEFACTRT exit (job/step termination exit) - however this might be overkill for you. Well, I need this functionality only for a few jobs and IEFACTRT would impact all submitted jobs... From this point of view - yes, it is overkill. (2) Write an assembler program that

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 21:08:58 -0400 Craddock, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Jim Mulder said :Binyamin said : Is there something easier than looking at the home address space :storage : off : of CR15? : CBF cr15value ASID(x'homeasid') STR(LS) :...or go to option 6 and issue summ format

Re: MPF exit to start IMS stopped programs/transactions

2008-04-08 Thread Jim McAlpine
On 4/7/08, Dave Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim, as a long time resident of the list you must know that I am going to say TSSO. It even has a mechanism to reply to the correct IMS system. Regards Dave Yes Dave, I've meant to take a look at TSSO a number of times over the years but

Need to know about Cryptography course or M.S Specialization (POSTAL)

2008-04-08 Thread Sivakumar, Manikandan
Greetings! I would like to know if there is any postal courses on Cryptography / M.S specialization. I am working as Mainframe System Programming Program Products. My sincere thanks in advance for your valuable guidance. Thanks. J Regards, Mani The information contained in this

Need Certification exam info on Mainframe Sysprog/RACF

2008-04-08 Thread Sivakumar, Manikandan
Greetings ! I would appreciate if your provide information on any Mainframe System programming/RACF certification currently available. Thank you all. Regards, Mani The information contained in this transmission may contain privileged and confidential information and is intended only

Re: SMFEWTM [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 03:39:48 -0400 Jim Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 04/07/2008 :05:53:41 PM: : Then I will have to check if this intercept routine may be the guilty :one. : Thanks Jim, for putting me on track. : And thanks Chuck

Re: SMFEWTM

2008-04-08 Thread J R
My complements. It would have been real easy to blame the ISV. Hear, hear! Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:17:05 +0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SMFEWTM [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 03:39:48 -0400 Jim Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : I

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-08 Thread Tom Harper
Binyamin, They should be formatted out towards the top of the SUMMARY FORMAT REGS display. After you do the display, FIND the following: SSD:. The SSD contains the addresses of all of the SSRBs at offset X'0018' (again, from the IPCS SUMMARY FORMAT), and the SSRBs contain the SRB plus all of the

Re: Specialty Engine Prices (Was: Another RNL question)

2008-04-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 11:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Specialty Engine Prices (Was: Another RNL question) John McKown writes: Hum, then I wonder

z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Anything special to migrate from z/800 to z9 ? (We are a small dev. shop, we would like to keep the IO and OSA config ) -- Miklos Szigetvari Development Team ISIS Information Systems Gmbh tel: (+43) 2236 27551 570 Fax: (+43) 2236 21081 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Info: [EMAIL

Fw: INACT/RE-ACT EE

2008-04-08 Thread Ron Wells
trying both listshave questions on how this is really working.. - Forwarded by Ron Wells/AGFS/AGFin on 04/08/2008 07:56 AM - Ron Wells/AGFS/AGFin 04/08/2008 07:54 AM To IBM TCP/IP List [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Fw: INACT/RE-ACT EE anyone can help?? Have more questions on

Re: IBM CEO's remuneration last year ?

2008-04-08 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Harper) writes: The point I was trying to make is that the compensation package for the IBM CEO, compared to others heading up large corporations and compared

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-08 Thread Robert Wright
Tom Harper wrote: They should be formatted out towards the top of the SUMMARY FORMAT REGS display. Minor correction REGS should be regs. The FORMAT option of the IPCS SUMMARY subcommand tolerates but ignores a REGS keyword as part of the invocation syntax. Formatting of registers is

Re: Sequential Data Striping

2008-04-08 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 09:38 +0800, Jason To wrote: David, how did you code your ACS routine to select different storage classes? Can you send me a sample? TIA. Rather than mail it to you I'll post it. Maybe someone else will see something *I've* done wrong. Our DC routine assigns a DATACLAS

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Myers, Edouard (OCTO)
What Level of z/OS are you running? Are you already using FICON for things such as CTC's? Are your consoles connected via a 2074 CU? On the z9 you can take advantage of the OSAC Edouard A. Myers Acting Manager of Technical Services Office of the Chief Technology Officer DC Government 222

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 07:06:30 -0500 Tom Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :They should be formatted out towards the top of the SUMMARY FORMAT REGS :display. After you do the display, FIND the following: :SSD:. The SSD contains the addresses of all of the SSRBs at offset :X'0018' (again, from the

Re: IBM CEO's remuneration last year ?

2008-04-08 Thread Staller, Allan
Thank you, Ed! snip If you are an IBM shareholder, unhappy with the amount of your per-share dividend, stock price/performance, and/or you believe the board to incompetent or overcompensated, please bring it up at the next shareholder's meeting ... or not. But, please keep it off of IBM-MAIN!

Re: Specialty Engine Prices (Was: Another RNL question)

2008-04-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John [ snip ] Thanks for the information. I might ask my manager. But I might not because the mainframe is going away. We don't know when ... Second Tuesday of next week is usually as good a prediction as

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-08 Thread Tom Harper
Binyamin, In every dump I've seen, all SRBs are present in the form of SSRBs. Why this is the case I'm not one hundred per cent certain. But it works for me. Perhaps it is because when the SLIP occurs, the SRB is suspended. Tom Harper IMS Utilities Development Team Neon Enterprise Software Sugar

Re: SMFEWTM [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:17:05 +0300, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My complements. It would have been real easy to blame the ISV. Another post with a strange subject line. That's the third this month, the first two from Scott Rowe. I wonder what's causing it. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Debugging TSO FTP command

2008-04-08 Thread Chris Mason
Dave This response is also taking into account other responses in this thread. I'm glad you are now working mainly with help from John McKown. I have just dealt with a very similar message-based issue, specifically relating to Language Environment codes, with a customer and also in the

z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread Stan Weyman
Hi there, At one time I had a cheat sheet holding the control blocks, their offsets from other control blocks, fields and offsets to help when traversing through IPCS. I've searched and can't seem to find it again. Does anyone have a text, PDF or whatever file that shows the MVS control

Re: Sequential Data Striping

2008-04-08 Thread Ron Hawkins
David, The Iceberg's sequential pre-fetch performance was not one of its finest moments. If you are seeing disconnect time of 10ms or more for your sequential IO then restricting your work to 8 stripes may not be the best thing for your workload. A larger number of stripes and corresponding BUFNO

Re: How to check if a job has run?

2008-04-08 Thread David Logan
You say you would process JCT and SCT control blocks, but (a), it's a last step in the job solution, and (b), what would you do with this captured information? You claim that you don't want to write an I am done file, so how does this help? What would you do with it that I am not understanding?

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Jack Kelly
I did a 1.7, monoplex z890 to z9 BC and it was rather painless, once you get the z9 maintenance applied and the HCD generated for the z9. The CE can save your LPAR and IOCDS information (at least with the z890). Making sure the re-gen doesn't change the chp to new pchp arrangement too much-or

Fw: Not Connecting

2008-04-08 Thread Ron Wells
Thought I'd re-post here too... - Forwarded by Ron Wells/AGFS/AGFin on 04/08/2008 09:17 AM - Ron Wells/AGFS/AGFin 04/08/2008 09:16 AM To IBM TCP/IP List [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Not Connecting Below is my problem I am having Just been hit with this one..thought it was

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Binyamin Dissen wrote: Why should there be an SSRB? The code running in SRB mode is active at the time the SLIP(IF) hit. Unlike a TCB, there is no control block to represent an SRB while it runs. An SSRB has to be created (acquired from an ESQA cell pool) every time the SRB waits. --

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Stan Weyman wrote: Hi there, At one time I had a cheat sheet holding the control blocks, their offsets from other control blocks, fields and offsets to help when traversing through IPCS. I've searched and can't seem to find it again. Does anyone have a text, PDF or whatever file that

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread WEYMAN, STANLEY J.
Hi Ed, My thanks for the pointers to the Data Areas manuals. I have those here already. They are good when you know the block you are looking for. I'm more interested in the relationship between the blocks starting, obviously, at the PSA. I had a short document that told me what

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi z/OS 1.8 and 1.9 , currently no FICON and we have only the HMC console. We would like to use the same CHPID as we had in z/800 ,and dump the IOCDS and OSA config in z800 and load in z9 Myers, Edouard (OCTO) wrote: What Level of z/OS are you running? Are you already using FICON for

Re: Need Certification exam info on Mainframe Sysprog/RACF

2008-04-08 Thread Mirtha Quattrochi
Mani: you can check the following from IBM website: http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/mastery_tests/ovrZ01.shtml http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/21002102.shtml Regards, Mirtha. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Do I need to generate a HCD for z9 or can I copy old to the new CPU ? Jack Kelly wrote: I did a 1.7, monoplex z890 to z9 BC and it was rather painless, once you get the z9 maintenance applied and the HCD generated for the z9. The CE can save your LPAR and IOCDS information (at least with

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:31:31 -0400 WEYMAN, STANLEY J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : My thanks for the pointers to the Data Areas manuals. I have those :here already. They are good when you know the block you are looking :for. I'm more interested in the relationship between the blocks

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of WEYMAN, STANLEY J. Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets Hi Ed, My thanks for the pointers to

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Myers, Edouard (OCTO)
If you are not changing any devices then you can work with the one you have. However to take advantage of the new console on the OSAC you will have to generate a new one. Depending on your level of HCD you might have so send a copy of you HCD to IBM and they will generate what you need on the z9,

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 4/8/2008 9:32:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm more interested in the relationship between the blocks starting, obviously, at the PSA. I had a short document that told me what blocks were tagged off of what other blocks to help in running the

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 08:32:49 -0500 Tom Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :In every dump I've seen, all SRBs are present in the form of SSRBs. Why :this is the case I'm not one hundred per cent certain. But it works for :me. Perhaps it is because when the SLIP occurs, the SRB is suspended. Well, I

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread WEYMAN, STANLEY J.
I believe it. I misspoke on the data areas not having most of the information needed to run the chain. I just had a document that had it laid out for me a fashion a bit easier to work with than running through the data areas manuals. It's my own fault for having next to no organizational

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread WEYMAN, STANLEY J.
Yup, am going through the discussion from last year now. Thanks for the response... Regards, Stan - Stan Weyman Corporate Information Services System Administrator III Amica Mutual Insurance Company 25 Amica Way Lincoln, RI 02865 voice: 1-800-992-6422 ext.

Re: How to check if a job has run?

2008-04-08 Thread Howard Brazee
On 8 Apr 2008 07:18:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Logan) wrote: If you are willing to write an I am done file, you can easily enough do something like have it download its own JES log somewhere as a last FTP step. It would write it back to (presumably) the submitting system, and it would

FCB Information

2008-04-08 Thread Matt Dazzo
Hi All, I am looking for the book that specifies what FCB's IBM provides. I need a 4248 FCB that is for forms 11w x 8.5 length, 8lpi. Would anyone know if IBM supplies one like this and what name it is? Other than that I guess I may learn to build one. Thanks Matt

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-08 Thread Tom Harper
Binyamin, Yep. Are you certain that there is actually something in the linkage stack or is the linkage stack empty? Can you at least find the SSRB? Note that they are not listed down with the TCBs and their linkage stacks, but towards the top of the SUMMARY FORMAT listing. Tom Harper IMS

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Jack Kelly
snip Do I need to generate a HCD for z9 or can I copy old to the new CPU ? snip The model will be different and pchp mapping will be different and maybe the CSS, hence you'll probably need a new one. Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office)

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Jack Kelly
.snip Do I need to generate a HCD for z9 or can I copy old to the new CPU ? .snip The model will be different and pchp mapping will be different and maybe the CSS, hence you'll probably need a new one. Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office)

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Anything special to migrate from z/800 to z9 ? (We are a small dev. shop, we would like to keep the IO and OSA config ) Starting with z990/z890, there is no longer basic mode and the I/O configuration changes drastically. You now have the CSS layer and must

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:31:31 -0400, WEYMAN, STANLEY J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ed, My thanks for the pointers to the Data Areas manuals. I have those here already. They are good when you know the block you are looking for. I'm more interested in the relationship between the blocks

Re: How to check if a job has run?

2008-04-08 Thread Gary Green
As other have written, writing something to walk the JCT/SCT chain will do as you ask. Run the program as the last step in the job and you can do with the information as you wish. I did something like this at a client location a few years ago. The program was called RCWALKER and could

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread R.S.
Edward Jaffe wrote: Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Anything special to migrate from z/800 to z9 ? (We are a small dev. shop, we would like to keep the IO and OSA config ) Starting with z990/z890, there is no longer basic mode and the I/O configuration changes drastically. You now have the CSS

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip Hi there, At one time I had a cheat sheet holding the control blocks, their offsets from other control blocks, fields and offsets to help when traversing through IPCS. I've searched and can't seem to find it again. Does anyone have a text,

Re: FCB Information

2008-04-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip Hi All, I am looking for the book that specifies what FCB's IBM provides. I need a 4248 FCB that is for forms 11w x 8.5 length, 8lpi. Would anyone know if IBM supplies one like this and what name it is? Other than that I guess I may learn to build

Re: How to check if a job has run?

2008-04-08 Thread Michael Knigge
David, file, so how does this help? What would you do with it that I am not understanding? Hmmm. yes... confusing... :) What I don't want is an additional STEP after every STEP in my Job. So for example: STEP01: IEBCOPY STEP02: MYTOOL -- writes STEP01 returned CC=0 STEP03: IEBCOPY STEP04:

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Kelly Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z800 to z9 migration snip Do I need to generate a HCD for z9 or can I copy old to the new

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Myers, Edouard (OCTO)
Once the CE downloads your new IOCDS the new z9 he will perform a power on reset. You will then have to update the new image profiles with the configurations that you want i.e storage, number of CP's etc Edouard A. Myers Acting Manager of Technical Services Office of the Chief Technology

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Myers, Edouard (OCTO)
The IBM Installation team should supply you with a config file of your new machine. You use this along with your IOCDS and use the CHPID mapping tool to come up with the final configuration. This can be done by you or IBM. Edouard A. Myers Acting Manager of Technical Services Office of the

Re: FCB Information

2008-04-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip Hi All, I am looking for the book that specifies what FCB's IBM provides. I need a 4248 FCB that is for forms 11w x 8.5 length, 8lpi. Would anyone know if IBM supplies one like this and what name it is? Other than that I guess I may learn to build

DB2 Upgrade

2008-04-08 Thread Mike Myers
Hi: My current client needs an upgrade from DB2 v7 to DB2 v8, and soon. Having not done one before, I am not sure if it's just another SMP/E install with all the attendant PARMLIB, PROCLIB, PPT, etc. updates that can be handled following a documented installation process or if it's something

Re: Sequential Data Striping

2008-04-08 Thread Hal Merritt
What kind of hardware? Some modern DASD is already striped. More, a 'volume' is just a logical construct that often spans physical volumes. If you are looking for performance, half track blocking (BLKSIZE=0) and lots of buffers has worked really, really well for me. -Original Message-

Re: Sort order for Generic processing

2008-04-08 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:08:29 -0500, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In RACF sorts, the generic names usually follow the more specific names. RACF treats the '' as x'FE' and the '*' as x'FF' for sorting purposes. You might try the same; a simple translate on each name will set it up and you

Re: DB2 Upgrade

2008-04-08 Thread Lizette Koehler
Mike, It is more than just SMPE. You have to run the DB2 processes to complete the upgrade. I have not installed DB2 in a few years. But there are some customization clists you need to run which will work on your DB2 Catalogs and Tables. You can do the update so long as you script the

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:04:08 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:31:31 -0400, WEYMAN, STANLEY J. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Ed, My thanks for the pointers to the Data Areas manuals. I have those here already. They are good when you know the block you are

Re: z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 12:26:13 -0400, Rob Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stan, IMI Computing produced an A2 sheet that mapped most of the important MVS/XA control blocks - I still have mine - and my wife still reminds me of the time I tried to persuade her that we could have a quilt cover custom

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Jack Kelly
snip You will then have to update the new image profiles snip coming from a z890, the ce can copy the profiles to the z9 Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

IBM announcements

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
The weekly IBM announcement letters are out. One that caught my eye: IBM System Services Runtime Environment for z/OS V1.1 From the description it looks like it might be a non-WebSphere version of Apache / Tomcat for z/OS. (Wouldn't that be a kick?) It's a no charge item, but requires z/OS 1.9.

(fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-04-08 Thread Tom Ross
(I believe this was a major factor in the demise of COBOL; I just cannot resist responding to this (sorry I am so late, I was out of the office for 2 weeks). I work on the IBM COBOL compiler, and if you could see the amount of interest, the number of compiler licenses, the sheer number of COBOL

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:33:56 +0200, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: z/OS 1.8 and 1.9 , currently no FICON and we have only the HMC console. We would like to use the same CHPID as we had in z/800 ,and dump the IOCDS and OSA config in z800 and load in z9 That won't work. You're converting to PCHIDs.

Re: Sort order for Generic processing

2008-04-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip Roughly right, Rick. He doesn't really care about (for which RACF uses x'FA' in the general case). For % we use often use x'FB' and for * we often use x'FC'. There are some subtle fine points that can change those values a little, but he

Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-04-08 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip--- COBOL is the Language of the Future! unsnip--- PL/1 is the UnCOBOL :-) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Sort order for Generic processing

2008-04-08 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:04:04 -0500, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies for my inaccuracies. The last time I even LOOKED at this was RACF 1.4, so it's been a while. Forgive me for my confusion in the details. But I think the general idea will be helpful to the OP. I certainly agree

Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-04-08 Thread Corneel Booysen
Funny thing - I was just writing about COBOL yesterday: Is COBOL like Oil? : http://www.cicsworld.com/node/559 Thanks Corneel Booysen. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Tuesday, April 08,

Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-04-08 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Ross Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct? (I believe this was a major factor in the demise of COBOL; I just

Re: IBM announcements

2008-04-08 Thread Glenn Miller
Hi Steve, I had the same thought when I read that IBM announcement letter. When I read the IBM announcement letter: 208-076, that product IBM System Services Runtime Environment for z/OS seems to fit. We don't have that IBM TPC for z/OS product. Glenn Miller

Re: DB2 Upgrade

2008-04-08 Thread Marty French
We have gone through the conversion. Half the work is done by the Systems Team and the other is done by the DBA's. It takes both sides IMHO. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: SMFEWTM [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-08 Thread Gunnar Opheim
Seems like a strange action of the e-mail program (Binyamin's?), putting the Message-ID concatenated to the Subject field in the reply. Gunnar - Original Message - From: Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, April 08,

Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-04-08 Thread Kammer, Charles
Grace Hopper would be proud...! Charles S. Kammer -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Ross Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct? (I believe this was a major

Re: IBM announcements

2008-04-08 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:50:01 -0600, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The weekly IBM announcement letters are out. One that caught my eye: IBM System Services Runtime Environment for z/OS V1.1 From the description it looks like it might be a non-WebSphere version of Apache / Tomcat for

HELP

2008-04-08 Thread Pedro M. Mari
HELP -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

z/OS-MVS Control Block Layout - Offsets

2008-04-08 Thread George Kozakos
The left side of the picture does indeed say OS/VS2 Debugging Handbook Volume 1. Yes, I still have my copy of MVS/System Product V2.2.0 - LC28-1164-5

Re: IBM announcements

2008-04-08 Thread Ken Porowski
Does this mean that things like ServerPac dialogs are going the way of the web? -Original Message- Walt Farrell Steve Comstock The weekly IBM announcement letters are out. One that caught my eye: IBM System Services Runtime Environment for z/OS V1.1 From the description it looks like

Re: IBM announcements

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
Walt Farrell wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:50:01 -0600, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The weekly IBM announcement letters are out. One that caught my eye: IBM System Services Runtime Environment for z/OS V1.1 From the description it looks like it might be a non-WebSphere version of

Re: SMFEWTM [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
Gunnar Opheim wrote: Seems like a strange action of the e-mail program (Binyamin's?), putting the Message-ID concatenated to the Subject field in the reply. Gunnar Physician heal thyself. Check out the subject in your own post. ;-) - Original Message - From: Tom Marchant [EMAIL

Re: How to format the current linkage stack for a SLIP dump taken in SRB mode?

2008-04-08 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:51:28 -0500 Tom Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Yep. Are you certain that there is actually something in the linkage :stack or is the linkage stack empty? Can you at least find the SSRB? :Note that they are not listed down with the TCBs and their linkage :stacks, but

IBMLINK/VM/Classic appears down

2008-04-08 Thread Glenn Miller
Anyone else having problems accessing the IBMLINK/VM/Classic version. I receive the following message when I select IBMLINK on the Product Selection Screen: Product selected is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. I called the IBMLINK Help Desk: 1-800-543-3912 . I'm waiting for

Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-04-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
PL/1 is the UnCOBOL When I was a UofW student in the mid-1970's, they offered a PL/I course, but (for some reason) it was a non-credit course for Math/CS students. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Your IBM reps should know about this and help you through it. We missed portions of this and it was a mess. Make sure you collect and apply all the PSP maintenance too. That will allow you to import the converted IODF/IOCDS without problems. IBM has a whole series of guides for upgrades of

Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-04-08 Thread Ted MacNEIL
COBOL is more alive today than it was 10 years ago! Demise indeed... Having recently been downsized from a COBOL shop, I agree. Some of them can create COBOL code to do things faster than I can do it in SAS. And, I have been doing SAS for almost 30 years. Long live COBOL (or for Galactica fans

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Hal Merritt
I have heard it called Systems Assurance. We go through each detail from crypto flavor to ESCON port. Includes details down to the type of connectors needed for each ESCON cable. It's not 100%. We tripped up on a gigabit cable mismatch once, for example. -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Steven Conway
Hal said: I have heard it called Systems Assurance. We go through each detail from crypto flavor to ESCON port. Includes details down to the type of connectors needed for each ESCON cable. That's what it's been forever, but my latest one, on a DS8100, it was called a Solution Assurance.

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Hal Merritt
Curious (and a bit disturbing) to hear folks asking questions that ought to have been addressed by the assurance process. Hopefully they are just doing their due diligence and double checking. We all know how infallible sales folks can be ;-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Identifying datasets in POOL with Dcollect

2008-04-08 Thread Neil Duffee
At 4 Apr 2008 16:04:02 GMT, concerning Identifying datasets in POOL with Dcollect, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (to IBM- Main): I am working on an issue where sometime between 11pm and 3am one of my SMS Pools goes from 80% used upto 97% used. I added in 4 more volumes and it is

Re: IBMLINK/VM/Classic appears down

2008-04-08 Thread Don Imbriale
The web interface returns: We are sorry. There are no ibm.com accounts associated with the IBM ID and/or password entered below. Please try again. This when attempting to log in using the same id I've been using for longer than I can remember. - Don Imbriale Anyone else having problems

Re: IBMLINK/VM/Classic appears down

2008-04-08 Thread Edward Jaffe
Glenn Miller wrote: Anyone else having problems accessing the IBMLINK/VM/Classic version. I receive the following message when I select IBMLINK on the Product Selection Screen: I've been logged on since last Thursday and it's still responsive ... -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software

Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-04-08 Thread Kirk Talman
With TRUNC(STD), I put my money on the SYSLIT AT +4 being a binary fullword with 10**8 since the ST into MYDATA is storing the remainder of the divide. With TRUNC(BIN), this is consistent w/the behaviour of IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 3.4.1 not using any 64 bit-era instruction, e.g.

Re: z800 to z9 migration

2008-04-08 Thread Bob Rutledge
Yes, and they're all covered in the SAPR guide which you should have gotten from your vendor (IBM team or Business Partner). We did a z800 to z9 BC conversion late last year and the bible was: IBM 2096 Systems Assurance Product Review (SAPR) Guide IBM System z9 Business Class SA05-028-09 Bob

Re: IBM announcements

2008-04-08 Thread Shane
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 15:52 -0400, Ken Porowski wrote: Does this mean that things like ServerPac dialogs are going the way of the web? Gawd I hope not. It took about 6 years to get Link2000 to the AP region. And how many complaints about the (web) IBMLink have there been in the last couple of

Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-04-08 Thread Ian
Tom, I was also under the impression that new development on the mainframe was few and far between. But I ran a poll a while ago and the results was rather surprising. 28% of responded that they are developing new applications in COBOL. (Natural/adabas was 48%.) I was expecting a very low new

Re: IBMLINK/VM/Classic appears down

2008-04-08 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/8/2008 4:33:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been logged on since last Thursday and it's still responsive ... That's pretty classic behavior of 'wrong mini disk attached'. Don't know if it's hardware or fingerware...should find out when

Re: IBMLINK/VM/Classic appears down

2008-04-08 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 14:31:18 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I've been logged on since last Thursday and it's still responsive ... ... Don't log off, then. A while ago I was stuck trying to get in. Now I get Product selected is temporarily unavailable. Please try again

Re: (fwd) Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-04-08 Thread Roger Bowler
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 13:25:14 -0500, McKown, John wrote: 77 MYDATA PIC S9(8) BINARY. .. ADD +1 TO MYDATA In my own code, a simple: L 6,MYDATA A 6,PLUS1 ST 6,MYDATA suffices. John, When you get your nice new z10 you will be able to simplify it even

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