Tony,
this is what I did in SHOWzOS
ICM R1,B'',FS_CLONETIME_TVSEC epoch time
JZUSSF182_M
BRASL R14,EPOCH2TOD convert EPOCH TO TOD
EPOCH2TOD BAKR R14,0
1)make the assembler routine re-entrant. Successive LOADS will up the
use count, but not actually bring in a new module.
This will not help. I don't know how LINKMVS is implemented but from the
word LINK in its name I would comclude that it is supposed to work like
the LINK SVC: Load-give
Eric Bielefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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Is there a way to scratch expired datasets without DFHSM or some other
storage manager? We create SMS datasets in DB2 that have an expiration
date automatically set. When the datasets expire, we want to scratch
them.
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From: Arun Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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The cloned images does not participate in sysplex.
Arun,
in this case you need to allocate also the JES Spool and Checkpoint datasets
for the image being created.
Walter Marguccio
z/OS
Hi Eric,
In respect of your question:-
Is there a way to scratch expired datasets without DFHSM or some other
storage manager? We create SMS datasets in DB2 that have an expiration date
automatically set. When the datasets expire, we want to scratch them.
I will assume these are disk based
Hi John,
In response to conundrum:-
But, in my JCL parser, how would I process such a thing? If subsystems can
dynamically add what appear to be control statements, what should be done
with them? In this case, the easiest thing would be to process them more
like instream data than JCL. Is that
Hi.
I'm working with migrating a customer to z9 hardware, and when it comes to
the PR/SM setup I have a few questions, which pops up from time to time I
believe.
When it comes to assignning Logical Processor to an LPAR, do we still have
a ROT of 2:1 ratio between Logical and Physical
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:22:27 +0200, Flemming Sigvardt
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Hi.
I'm working with migrating a customer to z9 hardware, and when it comes to
the PR/SM setup I have a few questions, which pops up from time to time I
believe.
When it comes to assignning Logical Processor to an
snip
Is there a way to scratch expired datasets without DFHSM or some other
storage manager? We create SMS datasets in DB2 that have an expiration
date
automatically set. When the datasets expire, we want to scratch them.
/snip
There are several utility programs to do this on the CBT tape. I
Am just in the throws of a VTS-B18/3590E, 2-ESCON, to a VTS-B20/3592-
J1A, 4-ESCON upgrade. True it is not the latest and greatest but it moves us
forward. You question has actually two parts to explain; front-end and back-
end.
In my case the 2-ESCON channels were running almost to 100%. The
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:48:16 -0500, Brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could some one please help me mt to get the mainframe id when i execute the
cobol program, this id will hen be inserted in a table to see who has inserted
the record.
Your question leaves out one critical piece of information
If the module is linked RENT, you could have the assembler program issue a
LOAD macro for itself on the open call. For a RENT module, all this will do
is increment the use count. Then, when the program terminates, the use
count will be decremented, but since it is non-zero, the module will not
as we heard that upgrading from a 2086-230 to a 2086-270 would cost us
350.000 Euro, we abandoned our consolidating project on the mainframe. The
price is, at least for a small company like us, too high, and doesn't take
into
account the higher sw licence costs which would come along due to
Mike,
Since I surmise that the supplied assembler module isn't your own code,
you are going to have to write an interface module between the REXX
program and the bespoke database module.
Your interface module should use one of the techniques others have
described (I prefer the name/token method
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:20:33 -0500, Roland Schiradin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tony,
this is what I did in SHOWzOS
SNIP Affine transformation /SNIP
Ummm. UTC? GMT? Local civil time? Daylight Saving Time?
Leap Seconds?
(Tourist info - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_time )
My
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From: Sabo, Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, 19 September, 2008 15:41:57
What are other people using as a tape solution at the various datacenters?
Frank,
you may want to look at http://www.bustech.com/ and their MAS (Mainframe
Appliance for Storage)
To perhaps put it back on topic, at least a bit Isn't this email
list mirrored on usenet?
Comcast quietly eliminated news support as well. So, if you have
comcast and read the usenet version of this list, you're going to lose
access in the middle of October unless you find a new source.
On 29 Aug 2008 09:32:46 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (P S) wrote:
This is indeed OT, not that that stops anyone on this group :-) . The
real killer here is that Comcrap doesn't provide any way to measure
your usage -- so now we'll have Yet Another category of software we
have to buy for a stupid
The idea is to start at address 16H (CVT) and use variables defines as USAGE
POINTER to travel on the control blocks chain to the TCB. The is a good
sample here, as they already mapped the DSECTs to Cobol for you. See below:
This is in response to several replies.
The datasets I want to expire are DB2 log files. They are on disk, and are
just PS files. I also don't have ADRDSSU, which would make life very easy.
Allan Stallar (I think) mentioned SuperScratch on the CBT tape. I found that,
and will download it
Check your sys1.linklib for the program ADRDSUSU.
It is part of the basic system and it is used in the CBPDO Installs.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:17 AM
To:
Thanks for all the ideas and replies.
We weren't seeing a problem with the tapes. We were looking at something
else and happened to notice the channel utilization on the VTS virtual
drives. We were thinking that the virtual tape performance was ok.
We will do some more investigation and will
I searched my linklist and I don't have any ADRDSUSU programs. I also searched
my 1.7 serverpack doc and didn't find ADRDSUSU.
Eric
Cebell wrote:
Check your sys1.linklib for the program ADRDSUSU.
It is part of the basic system and it is used in the CBPDO Installs.
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Eric Bielefeld
ADRDSSU, note original poster had it wrong
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:30
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Subject: Re: Scratching Expired Datasets
I searched my linklist and I
My typo
ISB //COPY1 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=4M
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Subject: Re: Scratching Expired Datasets
I searched my
OK. But as I said in one of my posts, we don't license DFSMSDSS, which is
ADRDSSU. I think the reason for IBM charging separately for DFSMSDSS is that
long ago FDR came out with their backup product, so IBM had to charge for
DFSMSDSS. The same thing happened with SYNCSORT and IBM Sort.
I would check your SYS1.PARMLIB(IGDDFPKG).
This should indicate which level of SMS you are using.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 11:44 AM
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Subject: Re:
Cebell, David wrote:
Check your sys1.linklib for the program ADRDSUSU.
It is part of the basic system and it is used in the CBPDO Installs.
snip
That's ADRDSSU. ADRDSSU is the program name for DFSMSdss, included in
one of the priced features of z/OS. While always installed, it is not
Yes, you will have the program, but unless of the site is licensed for DSS,
it cannot be used.
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.
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Sent:
Actually, if they look in the IFAPRDxx parmlib member, it will indicate if
DFSMS/dss is enabled, if disabled, which is what Eric states, then they
cannot use it.
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:34:20 +0300, Itschak Mugzach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The idea is to start at address 16H (CVT) and use variables defines as USAGE
POINTER to travel on the control blocks chain to the TCB. The is a good
sample here, as they already mapped the DSECTs to Cobol for you. See
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Two examples come to mind right away when talking about this: The
Rexx/DB2 interface and Rexx Sockets for TCP/IP communication. Do you
think that this is the method that they use, or does it really depend on
the application?
Could much be determined by doing some initial calls and dumping the
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I have been asked to help an internal customer with a dump problem.
They want to use a SYSABEND DD to get a dump of a job that they have
using above the bar storage (ATB).
Well, I've looked in a few manuals (INIT TUNE, DIAG Tools Srvc, MVS
Diag), and I can't find anything that needs to be set
Useful references
IBM White paper WP100925, Managing CPU-Intensive Work on
Uniprocessor LPARs by Kathy Walsh 2006
http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP100925
Managing Workloads on a Uniprocessor by Linda August 2007
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:34:35 -0400, Knutson, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Managing Workloads on a Uniprocessor by Linda August 2007
http://regions.cmg.org/regions/ncacmg/downloads/mar082007_session2.pdf
Gee... wasn't reduced preemption with MVS/ESA V5.1 (not MVS/SP 3.1)?
Mark
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Okay. So
1. IF I have CF Links between all of the CEC's
2. IF 3 of the 4 CEC's have Ethernet connections from the Service Elements in
order to get to NTP
3. The 3 CEC's will act as Primary, Backup, and Aribiter
Does the 4th CEC need an Ethernet connection from its Service Element.
Thompson, Steve wrote:
I have been asked to help an internal customer with a dump problem.
They want to use a SYSABEND DD to get a dump of a job that they have
using above the bar storage (ATB).
Well, I've looked in a few manuals (INIT TUNE, DIAG Tools Srvc, MVS
Diag), and I can't find
Hello,
I am having what appears to be a TCP handshake issue. One of our clients
recently upgraded to z/OS 1.7. Since the upgrade, we have not been able to
establish a connection for FTP's from our mainframe (z/VM TCPIP level 430).
1) We send a SYN to open the connection.
2) We receive a
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Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:04 PM
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Thompson, Steve wrote:
I have been asked to help an internal customer with a dump
We are finishing up our cutover to a BusTech virtual tape appliance. We will
be de-installing our old ATL (about 12 years old) and our even older 3480
drives. We will still have a need to read and write some physical 3480 and
3490e tapes for the next several years, just not a lot of them.
From what I know of STP, I would think you are OK, no connection needed
on the 4th CEC. Even if he were somehow to become Primary, he would
simply not be able to do a periodic time check. That may cause an error
to be logged on the HMC, but there is no reason anything would stop
working.
Reduced preemption was introduced with SP3.1. I don't think that I kept the
microfiche for SP3.1, but I still have the microfiche for SP4.2 and Reduced
Preemption was alive and well in SP4.2.
Possibly you are confusing reduced preemption with the dispatcher redesign
that was available with
Hello,
I'm a student in Yildiz Technical University - Computer Engineering Department.
There is a IBM 9672 Series G6 mainframe in my department. This year is my final
year. So I want to do my senior project on my department's mainframe. Last
year i took a course about large scale computer
Perhaps your best bet would be to copy them to new media. The media
itself has a lifespan.
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Subject: 3480/3490 tape
Bruno Sugliani wrote:
No argument there about the superiority of Book
However, may i suggest you try Foxit reader instead of the usual very slow
acrobat i suspect you guys are using.
You could be amazed by the speed in reading pdf's.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
It really is *much*
Gee... wasn't reduced preemption with MVS/ESA V5.1 (not MVS/SP 3.1)?
Yes. Unfortunately, it removed MTTW (except for DISCRETIONARY), so where I/O
intensive workloads used to get in, when needed, since then they have to wait
on CPU intensive ones. This wrecked havoc on our batch service when we
Alper,
What are the specific requirements of your senior project. Is it
an essay, a working program, etc.
EdP
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Thanks, and we are going to thin down our physical tape supply to our newer
media. We actually need to be able to write new datasets to 3480 and to 3490e
physical tapes. We will have to sontinue to send out tapes to outside vendors
and customers until contracts expire and customers are
And the problem is?
Does FTP from any other platform to z/OS work? Does the FTP client from that
system to itself work?
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:55:12 -0500, Clay Hinzman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello,
I am having what appears to be a TCP handshake issue. One of our clients
recently upgraded
On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 16:59:19 -0400, Don Deese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Reduced preemption was introduced with SP3.1. I don't think that I kept the
microfiche for SP3.1, but I still have the microfiche for SP4.2 and Reduced
Preemption was alive and well in SP4.2.
Possibly you are confusing
It should be a working program or system. I will have been developing this
project for 9 months.
For example: last year, my junior project was a wireless sensor networks
simulator that written in java.
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:26:05 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:
Senior
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 09/22/2008
at 10:20 PM, Michael Munro [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
loads in a fresh version of the module on each invocation
I'd advise writing some glue code in HLA. That could be as simple as
routines to load, call and delete the routine, or REXX-aware wrappers to
do
I don't know what the purpose of your JCL parser is, but treating them
like instream data sounds reasonable to me.
I'm not PSF Development, so I don't know for sure all the details of that
interface, but I think that the subsystem does not have to parse the
JCL-like statements themselves. I
Reply sent. GJW
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I concur with the general tenor of previous comments. It rarely makes
financial sense to boost the capacity (especially significantly) of an
older model when a newer model is available.
As for what the right capacity is, it's very hard to say based on the
limited information. Users are apparently
Hi,
This is my dataset
Data Set Name . . . . : BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL
General Data Current Allocation
Management class . . : USRMGMT Allocated tracks . : 2
Storage class . . . : USRBASE Allocated extents . : 1
Volume serial . . . : DMTU08
Device
Clay,
Also do you have physical connectivity, i.e.; can you ping the origin and
Destination of the FTP ? Are they any firewalls between ? These can spell
trouble unless you have a rule in place...Can you telnet into the ftp
receiving site ???
Regards,
Scott Ford
Senior Systems Engineer
Hi,
I need make one REXX exec to enter with one year the return the day
christmas of week.
ex: year 1978
day of th week - monday
year 2000
day of the week - saturday
how meke in REXX language?
regards
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From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I need make one REXX exec to enter with one year the return the day
christmas of week.
ex: year 1978 day of the week - monday
Try this:
/* REXX to display day of the week Christmas falls on. */
/*/
arg year
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