Re: Copy/restore OMVS.ROOT - what about defrag?

2009-04-16 Thread R.S.
Edward Jaffe pisze: Mark Jacobs wrote: We have a problem when a hfs/zfs grows to a huge size and since partial release doesn't work on these files to recover the allocated but unused space we have to perform a copy process to a new dataset. We have the same issue here. Our daily backups

Is Xrc a reasonable solution between two databases created separately(in DB2)?

2009-04-16 Thread Sanaz Pourdarab
Hi All, Does anybody have exprience to use of XRC as a solution in DB2 for replicating data between 2 databases (on different lpars) which have been created separately? I want to replicate data on a different database which I created like my production database with similar objects names. I

Re: Is Xrc a reasonable solution between two databases created separately(in DB2)?

2009-04-16 Thread R.S.
Provide us some details. In general, yes, there are scenarios where XRC can be used to replicate DB2. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr

Using HSM DASD backup volumes

2009-04-16 Thread Bri P
Hi folks I've been trying to get HSM to backup to DASD daily backup volumes in a large pool on our SAN. The benefit is that we get instant remote replication to the DR site over Global Mirror, instead of messing around with replicating virtual tape images and keeping those in sync, which has

Re: Program MCNVTCAT

2009-04-16 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Van : Shane [mailto:ibm-m...@tpg.com.au] Is MCNVTCAT available with the server/pak orders? If not, what is everyone using to define new entries into a new master catalog? Use RCNVTCAT from the cbt. It has the same format/reports as MCNVTCAT plus extras - all in REXX. Shane ... Hi Shane,

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Knutson, Sam
Kem do you have an APAR/PTF # for that? We currently run MOBIUS MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC. InfopacABS 1.5 and it has not been tested anywhere we would have exposed this yet. Best Regards, Sam Knutson, GEICO System z Performance and Availability

Re: Using HSM DASD backup volumes

2009-04-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
What parameter did you use - Markfull or Reuse? If for some reason you feel you need to use Markfull, then you need to recycle on a regular basis to avoid running out of available output volumes. SETSYS - PARTIALTAPE(BACKUP(REUSE) - MIGRATION(REUSE))

Re: mainframe software

2009-04-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am not sure if there is CBTs that can teach JCL or CICS. However, universities like Marist College do provide some web based education in these areas. What specifically are your requirements? Application programming? System Programming? Student taking classes? Are you trying to get

Re: Is Xrc a reasonable solution between two databases created separately(in DB2)?

2009-04-16 Thread Sanaz Pourdarab
I 'm trying to do this and I have some problem to have data everytime available there. I 'm doing this for a large table defined as partitioned , some of Its Indexes were extended on 2 volumes selected from its storage group on db2 in source side . I have to define them in the target system

Re: Using HSM DASD backup volumes

2009-04-16 Thread Bri P
Sorry Dave, I should have made clear that the Spill volumes are DASD volumes as well, so MARKFULL, recycle etc doesn't apply (I'm not using any tapes at all, everything's DASD). Brian -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

SDSF info in Rexx

2009-04-16 Thread Hans Visser
Hi listers, I want to extract column information from SDSF in a REXX. F.i. pagedef and formdef. I can get and see a lot of data and columns but NOT pagedef and formdef. How can this be done? Regards, Hans

Re: Using HSM DASD backup volumes

2009-04-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Your use of Markfull explains why you have volumes that you can't use although they are 99% empty. Reuse would make more sense. But that's just my opinion. Why not open an ETR with IBM and get a definitive answer? Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: IBM

SV: SDSF info in Rexx

2009-04-16 Thread Thomas Berg
They are found in the JDS (Job Data Set) panel, with column names PAGEDEF and FORMDEF. (And OD panel.) Regards, Thomas Berg __ Thomas Berg Specialist IT-U SWEDBANK -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Program MCNVTCAT

2009-04-16 Thread John Kelly
snip What about IBM's GENERATE command unsnip Is the GENERATE function/command a Tivoli only function? I don't see it in 1.9 or 1.10 but I've not found things before. Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Program MCNVTCAT

2009-04-16 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/ITACMzOS/SC23-7973-00/en_US/HTML/ckm_ugtfrm.htm Van : John Kelly [mailto:john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.gov] snip What about IBM's GENERATE command unsnip Is the GENERATE function/command a Tivoli only function? I don't see it in 1.9 or 1.10 but I've not

Re: Rexx

2009-04-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%200904032002232455.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 04/03/2009 at 08:02 PM, gsg gsg_...@yahoo.com said: I need to learn REXX and fast. Assuming that you're talking about MVS, start with the REXX documentation in the TSO/E bookshelf. You might want to read my Safe REXX article at

Re: Rexx

2009-04-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 49d70005.6030...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 04/03/2009 at 11:36 PM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: The worst thing about REXX is that is has no interface to IKJPARS. It also doesn't support the full functionality of the TSO stack. However, a package called XPROC provides an

Re: Program MCNVTCAT

2009-04-16 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Well, well, well, John, did you see what I saw??? SC23-7973-00 ITACM V2R1 ? Copyright Rocket Software Inc., 2007 ! Never payed attention to it ... jan Van : John Kelly [mailto:john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.gov] snip What about IBM's GENERATE command unsnip Is the GENERATE function/command a

Re: z/OS 1.10 Enhancement: Predictive Failure Analysis

2009-04-16 Thread Karla Arndt
Where are you seeing two versions? Please let me know so that we can clean that up. Also, the correct spot in the book is Part 2 instead of Chapter 2. My apologies for that error. Here are direct links to the book: PDF: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/e0z1k122.pdf BookManager:

Re: Downloading IBM manuals

2009-04-16 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Alcock Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 12:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Downloading IBM manuals Every time a new z/OS operating system level comes along I go to the IBM

Re: Program MCNVTCAT

2009-04-16 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 11:02 +, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi Shane, What about IBM's GENERATE command to generate IDCAMS control statements, based on existing records in the specified BCS(s)? This command is a complete replacement for the IBM utility, MCNVTCAT, which indeed is no longer

Re: z/OS 1.10 Enhancement: Predictive Failure Analysis

2009-04-16 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 07:59 -0500, Karla Arndt wrote: Also, the correct spot in the book is Part 2 instead of Chapter 2. My apologies for that error. That was the source of my concern - I withdraw my allegation ... :p Shane ...

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Ron Wells
would also like the apar number as well was there a asg ticket number as well?? -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, which may be legally privileged information.

Re: SDSF info in Rexx

2009-04-16 Thread Visser, Hans (PinkRoccade Infrastructure Services Technisch Specialist)
Thomas, I know, but how to GET that info. See REXX below: / REXX / /**/ /*TRACE R

Re: IP address for testcase.boulder.ibm.com will be changing on April 26 2009 to 170.225.15.31 from 207.25.253.31

2009-04-16 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
Two servers of interest to many on this group were missing from the previously posted list: Old IP address New IP address External Hostname (DNS) Date -- -- --- - 207.25.253.62 170.225.15.62 inetsd01.boulder.ibm.com May 10

test - please ignore

2009-04-16 Thread Craig Schneiderwent
test -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

SV: SDSF info in Rexx

2009-04-16 Thread Thomas Berg
Initiate variable isfcols with (at least) pagedef and formdef, e g: isfcols = 'DDNAME STEPN PROCS PAGEDEF FORMDEF' immediately before: ISFACT ST TOKEN('token.jidx') PARM(NP ?) (PREFIX J_ Regards, Thomas Berg __ Thomas Berg Specialist

Re: PDSE Load Module Format?

2009-04-16 Thread Don Poitras
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:53:11 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: AFAIK, all C compilers from ISVs require a prelinker step which, in turn, is highly hostile to processing performed by SMP/E. Certainly it is, but I'm not sure why compilers need such a step. Can you give an

Re: IP address for testcase.boulder.ibm.com will be changing on April 26 2009 to 170.225.15.31 from 207.25.253.31

2009-04-16 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Did anyone find an official notification? This is all well and good, but I can't take an email from a listserv to the firewall guys. :( MA On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Kurt Quackenbush ku...@us.ibm.com wrote: Two servers of interest to many on this group were missing from the previously

Re: IBM Journals availability

2009-04-16 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
Agreed this is not good.. There are still far too many ignorant managers out there who subbornly refuse to understand how important it is, especially for the z plattform, to get new interested people aboard. Freely available documentation is one pile of that. Too bad the bean counters are

Re: SDSF info in Rexx

2009-04-16 Thread Visser, Hans (PinkRoccade Infrastructure Services Technisch Specialist)
Thomas, Result: SAY j_ddname.didx pagedef pagedef.didx j_pagedef j_pagedef.didx SYSUT2 PAGEDEF PAGEDEF.4 J_PAGEDEF J_PAGEDEF.4 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Berg Sent: Thursday, April 16,

Re: XMITIP Socket failure (was: Batch E-Mail)

2009-04-16 Thread Lionel B Dyck
Do you perhaps have LDAP enabled? That is the only other possibility for the SOCKET issue. Run the TESTCU exec and see what it reports for ldap and ip addresses/dns names and ensure they are all set properly in XMITIPCU. good luck Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform

Re: PDSE Load Module Format?

2009-04-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:36:25 -0400, Don Poitras sas...@sas.com wrote: I guess you're saying that you need to use the binder to create Program Objects. I think it would be difficult for an ISV to create their own. I'm not sure why they would want to. There's certainly enough documented info to

Re: problem in using a new page segment

2009-04-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/16/2009 9:14:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time, delac...@gmail.com writes: Any suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Hard to say w/o seeing results of OGL. One keyword is REPLACE on OVERLAY. You should get a confirmation in output. This would update

TMM with CA-1 and STK Silo

2009-04-16 Thread Mike Myers
I am looking for information on how I can do virtual tape using the capabilities of DFSMS in an environment where we have CA-1 as our tape management system and are using a StorageTek silo for our automated tape library. Currently we are using a StorageTek VSM unit, which we would like to get

Re: Is Xrc a reasonable solution between two databases created separately(in DB2)?

2009-04-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
Sanaz, From what I read of your intent you may be better of using DB2 Data Propagator from IBM, or RRDF from ENET Corp. These products are working with the Database rather than the volumes, so that dataset allocation and extensions will be transparent. Ron -Original Message- From:

Re: Program MCNVTCAT

2009-04-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Well, well, well, John, did you see what I saw??? SC23-7973-00 ITACM V2R1 ? Copyright Rocket Software Inc., 2007 ! Never payed attention to it ... Rocket acquired Mainstar. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los

Re: Program MCNVTCAT

2009-04-16 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Yeah, I know, Ed. My point was that you ''© Copyright Rocket Software Inc., 2007'' is indicated in this IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Mgt User's Guide: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/ITACMzOS/SC23-7973-00/en_US/HTML/ckm_ugtfrm.htm jan Van : Edward Jaffe

JES2 XMIT Data Lost

2009-04-16 Thread John P Kalinich
Our JES2 system was receiving a large transmit file but it never got stored on spool. Any ideas? $HASP540 RUNHSTAX ON L50.SR1 FROM AXMO031 AT AVSCOM1 2,354,384 RECORDS Regards, John K -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Program MCNVTCAT

2009-04-16 Thread Richard Pace
On Thursday 16 April 2009, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Yeah, I know, Ed. My point was that you ''© Copyright Rocket Software Inc., 2007'' is indicated in this IBM Tivoli Advanced Catalog Mgt User's Guide: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/ITACMzOS/SC23-7973-00/en_US/HTML/ck m_ugtfrm.htm jan

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Kem King
Ron Sam, The official response from IBM was to fix the application code and clear out any GETMAIN'd storage before using it. I found the IBM APAR OA27291 from a previous post by Sam. This APAR only provides a new workaround to the GETMAIN macro change. The ASG incident was # 674406 and was

Re: PDSE Load Module Format?

2009-04-16 Thread Don Poitras
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:36:25 -0400, Don Poitras sas...@sas.com wrote: I guess you're saying that you need to use the binder to create Program Objects. I think it would be difficult for an ISV to create their own. I'm not sure why they would want to. There's certainly

Re: XMITIP Socket failure (was: Batch E-Mail)

2009-04-16 Thread Lionel B Dyck
I found the routine that is generating the error. It is the routine in XMITIPCU that attempts to query the current host domain name. Apparently you do not have your z/OS TCP/IP libraries in either linklist, lpalist or steplib. In our LPALIST we have SYS1.TCPIP.SEZALPA and in our LINKLIST we

Re: JES2 XMIT Data Lost

2009-04-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
Have you run thought syslog looking for the RECEIVE messages as well as scanning for the RUNHSTAX? When I have had issues like that I usually need to know how big is the file, what is the transmitting node. Then I have to follow the messages in SYSLOG/OPERLOG to see what happened. I am

Re: Program MCNVTCAT

2009-04-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:25:42 +1000, Shane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: I am a contractor, and can't rely on any particular commercial product being available when I arrive at a site - especially these days. RCNVTCAT does the job, and is free. I have hacked it on occasion, but that may have been

SDSF Rexx and Output queue

2009-04-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am writing my first SDSF REXX program. The process is suppose to go to specific output queues and get the tot-recs for each job. If I find a job is GT 500,000 lines, then I will need to modify the printer to accept it, then put the printer back. While reading the documentation I did not

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Ron Wells
does anyone know if this also effects SWEEP's job/pgm?? -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, which may be legally privileged information. This information is intended

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Larre Shiller
I don't know about the particular product that you asked about, but we found that this affected so many different software products in so many different ways that we threw up our hands and installed UA45583 and kept the DIAGxx default of USEZOSV1R9RULES(YES) in order to revert back to the

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
This has been discussed in great detail earlier. We discovered this issue during our 1.10 ESP, but I would like to clear up one of the statements in this post...The GETMAIN Macro did not change, what changed is the way that storage within a gotten page is allocated, top down versus bottom up. When

Re: Batch E-Mail

2009-04-16 Thread z/OS scheduler
Mark, Try xmitip, we use it to do our scrt report. It is a long time since I refreshed it, and cannot tell you on which tape it lives, but it even has a tso panel in which you can do the same as batch, the formats, if I remember - already signed off for the week, includes pdf xls. Ours come as a

Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Ron Wells
Larre the UA45583 is 1.10...we are 1.9 see no other hits for 1.9 unless a ptf is causing this that we may have picked up? - Forwarded by Ron Wells/AGFS/AGFin on 04/16/2009 12:38 PM - Larre Shiller larre.shil...@ssa.gov Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: XMITIP Socket failure (was: Batch E-Mail)

2009-04-16 Thread Mark Steely
I have all those libraries in the LNK LPA list. What domain name is it trying to query? From: lionel.b.d...@kp.org [mailto:lionel.b.d...@kp.org] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 11:25 AM To: Mark Steely; IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: RE: XMITIP Socket failure

Re: XMITIP Socket failure (was: Batch E-Mail)

2009-04-16 Thread Lionel B Dyck
It is trying to query the domain of the active z/OS system. It is possible you don't have the rexx sockets in the lpa/linklist - i don't recall the library for that. Lionel B. Dyck, Consultant/Specialist Enterprise Platform Services, Mainframe Engineering KP-IT Enterprise Engineering

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2009-04-16 Thread Rugen, Len
Better use a different one now Len Rugen -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Steffens Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 1:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: PW ADD Mahi40lb#

DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread Jaime Miranda
OS- z/OS 1.7 put RSU0809 DFHSM SETSYS MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) and DUPLEX BACKUP(N) When AUTOBACKUPSTART DFHSM is allocating two tape drives. Even though the Setsys is set to MAXBACKUPTASK (1). Any ideas why? Thanks, Jaime

Re: PDSE Load Module Format?

2009-04-16 Thread Thomas David Rivers
... see below... Don Poitras wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:36:25 -0400, Don Poitras sas...@sas.com wrote: I guess you're saying that you need to use the binder to create Program Objects. I think it would be difficult for an ISV to create their own. I'm not sure why

Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Not according to the manual: Explanation: MAXBACKUPTASKS(nn) is an optional parameter specifying the maximum number of volume backup tasks DFSMShsm can concurrently process. For nn, substitute a decimal number from 1 to 15 to represent the number of volume backup tasks to be run concurrently.

Re: IP address for testcase.boulder.ibm.com will be changing on April 26 2009 to 170.225.15.31 from 207.25.253.31

2009-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:11:21 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: ... But, why with such short notice? To encourage use of domain names rather than IP addresses. ... A worthy goal, but not an effective technique. Access lists, NAT tables, etc., usually require IP addresses, not

Re: JES2 XMIT Data Lost

2009-04-16 Thread John P Kalinich
I just discovered that the sending node issued a $CJ command on the transmit job. Thanks for your help. Regards, John K Lizette Koehler of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 04/16/2009 11:29:12 AM: Have you run thought syslog looking for the RECEIVE messages as

Re: Batch E-Mail

2009-04-16 Thread Howard Brazee
On 15 Apr 2009 14:17:53 -0700, w...@rubin-software.de (Wolfgang Schäfer) wrote: Hello Howard, your answers are below the quote (at least in this case) ... and yes, I had to scroll down to read your answer. I only quoted a tiny bit (most everybody agrees that some quoting is good). When I read

Re: XMITIP Socket failure (was: Batch E-Mail)

2009-04-16 Thread Lionel B Dyck
From the ibm pub on rexx sockets: The EZBRXSOC load module is defined with two load module |aliases: RXSOCKET and SOCKET. When a program invokes the REXX socket function, |either the load module or an alias is called. The load module and its aliases |reside in the TCPIP.SEZALOAD data set. The

Re: XMITIP Socket failure (was: Batch E-Mail)

2009-04-16 Thread Mark Steely
Thanks for the REXX routine to verify the setup - To make the REXX routine and the XMITIP work was to add the TCPIP SEZALNK2, SEZATCP, and SEZALOAD libraries as steplibs and add the SYSTCPD dd statement. I think I had to do that because we have 2 different TCPIP stack executing (IBM CA). The

XMITIP support, etc.

2009-04-16 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
The subject is to give the false impression that this is on topic. The real topic: The status of Lionel. Lionel, you are still around with a Kaiser email addr. Is this good news or just bad news delayed? I was afraid we might have heard the last of you - especially with the disclaimer on your

Re: JES2 XMIT Data Lost

2009-04-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/16/2009 2:24:33 P.M. Central Daylight Time, jkali...@csc.com writes: just discovered that the sending node issued a $CJ command on the transmit job. Thanks for your help. No use cluttering up SPOOL with a job that's already run? **Great deals on Dell’s

Re: XMITIP support, etc.

2009-04-16 Thread Lionel B Dyck
I am still with Kaiser for the time being. The outsourcing to IBM services occurs on 5/16 at which time I will transition to their employ while still working at Kaiser. What that means for the future/support of XMITIP I can't tell you yet but I do have a request in to have a meeting with our

Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread Michael Wickman
I agree that's what the manual says. In my testing the smallest I could get it down to was two. Specifying 1 acted like 2. Since this was my sandbox and our production environment would be greater than 2 task, I did not follow up with IBM.

Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread Campbell Jay
1 task - 1 input - 1 output - 2 drives Jay Campbell IBM OS Support Section -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 3:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re:

Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Er Jay, We're talking about tape drives here. 1 Backup Task should have 1 DASD unit as input and 1 Tape unit as output. The OP specified Duplexing was turned off. Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On

Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Is any other function auto-starting at the same time? What types of tapes (backup, CDS backup, dump, or migration) is it mounting on each allocated drive? Do you set any of the DSBACKUP options (tape tasks defaults to 2)? -Original Message- From: Jaime Miranda

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Ron Wells
Another related problem...was just informed the following is occuring since we put on rsu0812.. IEF085I REGION UNAVAILABLE, ERROR CODE=20 we are readjucting the region parm to 7m from 8m to see if that works.so something has changedno word from ibm nor asg on open tickets...

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Bob Rutledge
If REGION=7M gets IEF085I, I rather expect REGION=8M will also. Has the size of your private area shrunk, say by 1M? Bob Ron Wells wrote: Another related problem...was just informed the following is occuring since we put on rsu0812.. IEF085I REGION UNAVAILABLE, ERROR CODE=20 we are

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ron Wells wrote: Another related problem...was just informed the following is occuring since we put on rsu0812.. IEF085I REGION UNAVAILABLE, ERROR CODE=20 we are readjucting the region parm to 7m from 8m to see if that works.so something has changedno word from ibm nor asg on open

SYNCSORT

2009-04-16 Thread gsg
I'm looking for some tuning recommendations when using SYNCSORT. We have been noticing some of our jobs running longer. We also noticed that on our SORTWORKS that we are doing alot of Dynamic Allocations on top of what we are preallocating. I was told that this Dynamic Allocation could add

Re: SYNCSORT

2009-04-16 Thread Reda, John
I would be happy to help. If you would send me a copy of the sort messages from one of these jobs I can take a look and see if it is something obvious. Using DYNALLOC to get SORTWK space should not have that kind of effect on performance. John Reda Syncsort, Inc. -Original Message-

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
He did lower it from 8M to 7M. In IEFUSI, I set skip availability flag so a fragmented initiator will not cause a problem. As always, protect LSQA and runaway variable getmains using limit and size. Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations

Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread Jaime Miranda
Barry, The Setsys DSBACKUP (TAPE (TASKS (1)) and backup is a DASD incremental Backup. Thanks,Jaime -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote: He did lower it from 8M to 7M. Sorry. I misread what he planned to do. Funny, so did Bob Rutledge. So, at least that means I can be embarrassed in good company. :-[ -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles,

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Richard Peurifoy
Ron Wells wrote: Another related problem...was just informed the following is occuring since we put on rsu0812.. IEF085I REGION UNAVAILABLE, ERROR CODE=20 we are readjucting the region parm to 7m from 8m to see if that works.so something has changedno word from ibm nor asg on open

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Bob Rutledge
Well, *I* can claim age as an excuse for not reading all the words. :) Bob Edward Jaffe wrote: Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote: He did lower it from 8M to 7M. Sorry. I misread what he planned to do. Funny, so did Bob Rutledge. So, at least that means I can be embarrassed in good company. :-[

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Ron Wells
Bob--we checked and private area is the same -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, which may be legally privileged information. This information is intended only for

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Ron Wells
Ed---what I have in Diagxx VSM TRACK CSA(OFF) SQA(OFF) VSM TRACE GETFREE(OFF) VSM ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(YES) -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, which may be legally

Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Ron Wells
Getting sometimes... No IMS--but we do run MQ DB2 and naturally CICS The changes in lpa/csa was minimal..but may have been enough to break camels back.. - Forwarded by Ron Wells/AGFS/AGFin on 04/16/2009 04:11 PM - Richard Peurifoy r-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu Sent by: IBM Mainframe

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Ron Wells
Below is a screenshot of current and before Virtual Storage map now (RSU0812) Menu Utilities Compilers Help ¢¢¢ BROWSEGSF Utilities - SHOWzOS R716 CHARS 'Virtual Storage' Command ===

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Bob Rutledge wrote: Well, *I* can claim age as an excuse for not reading all the words. :) But, according to Art Gutowski and others, I'm technically as old as you--though cryogenically frozen for a couple of decades. (Talk about a bad hair day.) :-D -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ron Wells wrote: Ed---what I have in Diagxx VSM TRACK CSA(OFF) SQA(OFF) VSM TRACE GETFREE(OFF) VSM ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(YES) Vsm CheckRegionLoss(512K,25M)/* Restart INITs when fragmented */ Don't know if it will help in this case or if these would be the best values for your

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
He did lower it from 8M to 7M. In IEFUSI, I set skip availability flag so a fragmented initiator will not cause a problem. Is that really an issue, any more? I thought IBM 'fixed' fragged inits? - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
My CSA is only 5MB leaving an almost 12MB private, but when we ran IMS, CSA was much larger. Of course that was long ago, for all I know IMS may have moved this above the line or to a dataspace by now. CSA was moved above the line, a long time ago. V3.1, I believe. - Too busy driving to stop

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Edward Jaffe
Roach, Dennis (N-GHG) wrote: He did lower it from 8M to 7M. In IEFUSI, I set skip availability flag so a fragmented initiator will not cause a problem. As always, protect LSQA and runaway variable getmains using limit and size. What about coding something above 16MB like REGION=32M? Doesn't

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:02:18 -0500, Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com wrote: Another related problem...was just informed the following is occuring since we put on rsu0812.. IEF085I REGION UNAVAILABLE, ERROR CODE=20 I would use RMF reports or health checker if you have it installed (or any other

Re: Fw: INFOPAC

2009-04-16 Thread Richard Peurifoy
Ron Wells wrote: Below is a screenshot of current and before Region V=V6000 009F 10216K 9.9M Region V=R6000 00025FFF 128K.1M PSA+System6000 6000 0K.0M This indicates you have almost 10MB for private,

Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread Traylor, Terry
What UNIT type is used for CDSVERSIONBACKUP? Terry Traylor charlesSCHWAB TIS Mainframe Storage Management Remedy Queue: tis-hs-mstg (602) 977-5154 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jaime Miranda Sent: Thursday, April

Re: SDSF info in Rexx

2009-04-16 Thread Smith, Sean M
You may need to look at using the DELEAYED or DELAYED2 option on the ISFEXEC call to get these variables. Check the ISFCOLS and ISFCOLS2 variable on return to see what variables are there for your choosing. Sean -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: TMM with CA-1 and STK Silo

2009-04-16 Thread Ambat Ravi Nair
pity -- giving up a beautiful solution. must be the $$cost$$ ... as your subject header states, use TMM - which i term as a poor man's VSM. there is a manual on Volume Mount Analyzer which will assist in identifying the potential candidates for TMM. HSM will perform the stacking for you. you'll

Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread Ambat Ravi Nair
check: 1. duplexing of tape 2. ARCCMD member for HSM activities at that time 3. any ONLYIF HSMHOST() employed in the ARCCMD 4. ARCINBAK being used by any jobs at that time - ravi. On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:43:10 -0500, Jaime Miranda jamir...@sdccd.edu wrote: Barry, The Setsys DSBACKUP (TAPE

Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread Jaime Miranda
Terry, Setsys for CDSVERSIONBACKUP SETSYS CDSVERSIONBACKUP(BACKUPCOPIES(4) BACKUPDEVICECATEGORY(DASD) DATAMOVER(DSS)) Thanks, Jaime -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Downloading IBM manuals

2009-04-16 Thread Linda Mooney
Great tip!  Thanks, Linda - Original Message - From: John P Kalinich jkali...@csc.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 5:44:35 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: Downloading IBM manuals For a given folder, select VIEW/CHOOSE DETAILS... from

Re: TMM with CA-1 and STK Silo

2009-04-16 Thread Russell Witt
Mike, Of course you can have a full-functional virtual tape solution without the hardware, its called CA-Vtape ;} With CA-Vtape, you use your existing DASD as the cache for staging the virtual volumes but how much cache you have will depend on how quickly you want to backstore to the physical

Re: z/OS 1.10 and Xpediter DB2 Stored Procedure Support Issue : PTF XTF0118

2009-04-16 Thread Robert Galambos
Xpediter users who debug DB2 Stored Procedures should download and install PTF XTF0118 before upgrading to z/OS 1.10. The PTF is available on Compuware's Frontline Technical Support website: frontline.compuware.com or by calling Compuware at 1 800 538 7822. Outside of the USA or Canada,

Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives

2009-04-16 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:49 -0400 on 04/16/2009, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote about Re: DFHSM MAXBACKUPTASKS(1) using 2 drives: Er Jay, We're talking about tape drives here. 1 Backup Task should have 1 DASD unit as input and 1 Tape unit as output. The OP specified Duplexing was turned off. Dave

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