ABEND=SFCA during IMS10 installation (

2009-09-10 Thread SrinivasG
Hi, I am getting the following error while Initrcon step(Initialize RECON / Register Data Bases) of IMS IVP installation. This is the abend I get: ICH70001I IBMUSER LAST ACCESS AT 11:21:24 ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2009 $HASP373 IV3F102J STARTED - INIT 1- CLASS N - SYS MVS1 IEA995I

Re: ABEND=SFCA during IMS10 installation (

2009-09-10 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:06:20 +0530 SrinivasG sriniv...@infosys.com wrote: :I am getting the following error while Initrcon step(Initialize RECON / Register Data Bases) of IMS IVP installation. This is the abend I get: :ICH70001I IBMUSER LAST ACCESS AT 11:21:24 ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

T-Rex replacement

2009-09-10 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, We are planning two replace two z890 with one z10BC with a capacity equivalent to the two z890’s. T-Rex is currently licensed on only one z890, and Dino software want a hefty upgrade fee. Can anyone recommend a replacement for T-Rex. We use it for catalog backups and for getting rid of

Re: z/VM GDDM install

2009-09-10 Thread J D Cassidy
Hello Alan, appreciate the advice, thank you. Bloody hard way to get a manual though... Regards, JC = On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:43:57 +0200, J D Cassidy s...@jdcassidy.net wrote: = =I am looking for a document with the title How to activate GDDM-REXX =LY33-6080. = =The various references to

Re: ABEND=SFCA during IMS10 installation (

2009-09-10 Thread SrinivasG
I have already IPld. No clues from the NIP messages. Regards, Srinivas G -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 12:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ABEND=SFCA during

Re: ABEND=SFCA during IMS10 installation (

2009-09-10 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:05:50 +0530 SrinivasG sriniv...@infosys.com wrote: :I have already IPld. No clues from the NIP messages. Did you CLPA? Show the NIP messages Go to TSO and do TEST 'SYS1.LINKLIB(IEFBR14)' l 10.?+c8?+84?+650? xc l(256) END :-Original Message- :From: IBM Mainframe

Re: ABEND=SFCA during IMS10 installation (

2009-09-10 Thread Lizette Koehler
Just a simple question. In SVC00 I am not sure, but should the SVC numbers be in order? I always have mine from 200 to 255 in sequence. Your display looks like they go in reverse order 255-200. What version of IMS are you running? What version of operating system? z/OS Vxxx And to clarify,

Re: ABEND=SFCA during IMS10 installation (

2009-09-10 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you have Mark Zelden's REXX IPLINFO you can look at the system after the IPL and see whether or not MLPA was used, what SVCs are there, and so on to ensure the parts are correct at IPL. Next verify the Nuc Attention: The SYS1.NUCLEUS must not have secondary extents. z/OS cannot recognize

Re: ABEND=SFCA during IMS10 installation (

2009-09-10 Thread SrinivasG
Hi, Thanks everyone. There was a syntax error in the IEASVC00 Member. I removed the last line with *** and IPLd. I am now able to do the INITRCON. Thanks everyone who replied. Even the local IBM folks could not help. Special thanks to Lizette and Binyamin !! Regards, Srinivas G

Re: ABEND=SFCA during IMS10 installation (

2009-09-10 Thread Knutson, Sam
IGC203 is in SYS1.NUCLEUS dataset. That is not enough. If you just copied it in there you still need to get it loaded. We use NUCLSTxx in .IPLPARM i.e. BROWSESYS2.IPLPARM(NUCLST00) Command === * INCLUDE IGC236

Re: ABEND=SFCA during IMS10 installation (

2009-09-10 Thread SrinivasG
I have found this error during IPL: IEE252I MEMBER IEASVC00 FOUND IN CPAC.PARMLIB IEA826I IEASVC00: SVC215: TYPE 6 ROUTINE DFHHPSVC NOT FOUND. IEA826I IEASVC00: SVC203: TYPE 2 ROUTINE IGC203 NOT FOUND. IEA823I IEASVC00: SVC202: SYNTAX ERROR AT . IMS is 10.1 and ZOS is 1.10

Re: ABEND=SFCA during IMS10 installation (

2009-09-10 Thread Lizette Koehler
And one last thought. Why did you code the SVC statement in 2 lines. I was not aware you could do that, I did not see any information on continuation lines for SVCxx. In the MVS Init and Tuning it states If you use multiple SVCPARM statements for the same SVC number, the first valid

Re: Library Lookaside

2009-09-10 Thread Peter Relson
For those who have played with directory caching of non-load libraries, you must not be using PDSEs. It would not work. I can't speak for what someone who does not own this component stated about its behavior in the past, I can only speak towards what its (unchanged) implementation is.

Re: Are compression services (CMPSERVS) eligible for zIIP/zAAP execution?

2009-09-10 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Russell Witt Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Are compression services (CMPSERVS) eligible for zIIP/zAAP execution? Peter, Just

Re: Library Lookaside

2009-09-10 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote in message news:of0f711657.9d415525-on8525762d.003f1e10-8525762d.00470...@us.ibm.c om... For those who have played with directory caching of non-load libraries, you must not be using PDSEs. It would not work. I can't speak for what someone who does not

Re: Seperate LPARs for Prod and Test or a single LPAR for both

2009-09-10 Thread Enrique Montero
Hi team, There are more PROs when having separated LPARs for Test and Prod, the most important is that you can test products, configurations, home made applications and more in the TEST Lpar without disturbing the customer service in the PROD Lpar, also you can migrate/upgrade the OS without

Re: SMS migration concern 1.9 and 1.10 mixed level SMS translate, validate, activate on 1.9 caused storage leak in SMS leading to IPL

2009-09-10 Thread Knutson, Sam
PTFs are available now http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA28998 Thanks, Sam -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Traylor, Terry Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMS

User-written ISPF-Editor line commands

2009-09-10 Thread Michael Knigge
All, I've been googl'ing for a while now but in vain so far: Is it somehow possible to write user-defined line commands? I want to enter FOO in front of a line in EDIT and then a self-written routine should be fired up that handles the line... Any way? Thank you, Michael

Re: User-written ISPF-Editor line commands

2009-09-10 Thread John P Kalinich
Michael Knigge of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 09/10/2009 09:53:51 AM: All, I've been googl'ing for a while now but in vain so far: Is it somehow possible to write user-defined line commands? I want to enter FOO in front of a line in EDIT and then a

Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-10 Thread Ken Porowski
For a non-IBM vendor that does sub-capacity licensing how do you get the data to them? Send them the SCRT .csv file? Send them a number and hope they trust you? Do they actually alter the charges on a monthly basis? If using SCRT data is it product specific (e.g. for a DB2 tool you use SCRT

Re: Startup of All STCs After IPL

2009-09-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 22:55:01 -0500, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com wrote: Sorry for the blatant plug, but there also is SyzCmdZ which contains all of the features of each of the command scripting products mentioned and many more. Info at WWW.SyzygyInc.NET Brian

TIM/TAM - using reports for Role adminisitration

2009-09-10 Thread Bruce Wheatley
Wondering what report I can use that will capture any administraion done to roles, e.g., adding, deleting etc. Note, I need the report that shows the administration of the role itself not the one that shows when users are added or removed from roles. TIA

TEST geographically separate from PROD

2009-09-10 Thread Frank Swarbrick
The whole combined versus separate TEST and PROD LPARs was interesting. I can't imagine not having them separate (with shared DASD for at least the load libraries), but then it's just what I'm used to. So here's a question... Anyone out there have DEV/TEST not only in a separate LPAR, or

Re: User-written ISPF-Editor line commands

2009-09-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:08:48 -0500, John P Kalinich jkali...@csc.com wrote: Michael Knigge of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 09/10/2009 09:53:51 AM: All, I've been googl'ing for a while now but in vain so far: Is it somehow possible to write user-defined line

Re: T-Rex replacement

2009-09-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:41:25 +0300, #1490;#1491;#1497; amp;#1489;#1503; #1488;#1489;#1497; gad...@malam.com wrote: Hi, We are planning two replace two z890 with one z10BC with a capacity equivalent to the two z890’s. T-Rex is currently licensed on only one z890, and Dino software want a hefty

Re: TEST geographically separate from PROD

2009-09-10 Thread Staller, Allan
So here's a question... Anyone out there have DEV/TEST not only in a separate LPAR, or even a separate machine, but in a separate data center? We have our primary data center in Lakewood, CO (near Denver) and our alternate data center (DR site) in Scottsdale, AZ. So about 1000 miles apart.

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-10 Thread Kelman, Tom
It would depend on the vendor. I assume that you are currently on VWLC (i.e. sub-capacity) pricing with your IBM software, so you're alreay sending the SCRT reports to IBM. We also have a sub-capacity pricing license with one of our vendors and we just copy them on the SCRT reports. Since the

Re: Sub Capacity Reporting for non IBM Vendors

2009-09-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ken Porowski wrote: For a non-IBM vendor that does sub-capacity licensing how do you get the data to them? Send them the SCRT .csv file? Send them a number and hope they trust you? Do they actually alter the charges on a monthly basis? If using SCRT data is it product specific (e.g. for a

Re: TSSO use of NETVIEW

2009-09-10 Thread Chris Mason
First of all I should say thank you to Gerhard Postpischil for providing some helpful background as to what TSSO is all about. Gerhard has sent me a private message expressing umbrage over my post and accusing me of not reading his post - the usual symptom of someone who has actually failed to

Re: CONVERTV to NONSMS error

2009-09-10 Thread Neil Duffee
On 2009-09-09 at 12:17, concerning CONVERTV to NONSMS error, Jim McAlpine ji..mca...@gm..com wrote to IBM-Main: I'm getting the following error converting a volume to nonsms - ADR497E (001)-CATLG(05), A CATALOG ERROR OCCURRED WHILE CONVERTING CLUSTER DB2C.DSNDBC.DSNDB06.DSNOFX02.I0001.A001

Re: TEST geographically separate from PROD

2009-09-10 Thread Enrique Montero
Hi Frank, Usually and is the way i've used, in the same location, separated machines for prod and test. But, having them in separated location, maybe due to costs or DR, i mean, DR locations are normaly used only when the main location is being affected due to a disaster, so the DR machine is

Re: TEST geographically separate from PROD

2009-09-10 Thread Doc Farmer
I think we did that at one place I worked in the ME. There were TEST and PROD LPARs in the main centre, but there were other TEST and DR LPARs located a few hundred kliks at our secondary data centre. Generally, I don't think you have to have that much separation for pure TEST/PROD, but I

SHARE in Denver Wrap-Up Article

2009-09-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
http://www.share.org/www.share.org/Events/PastConferences/DenverWrapUpArticle/tabid/519/Default.aspx -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/

Re: User-written ISPF-Editor line commands

2009-09-10 Thread Michael Knigge
Thank you guys! That's exactly what I'm looking for! Bye, Michael -- 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

Re: How often IPL a production LPAR (any good practice)

2009-09-10 Thread Jim Mulder
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 11:08:49 -0500, Steve R Wolf srw...@ra.rockwell.com wrote: We are a IMS TM shop. IMS has many dependant regions (each in it's own address spaces). Each night we bounce the regions for DR purposes and some twice for another purpose. Because the regions use cross

NEON zPrime Business, Legal and Technical Facts Webinar

2009-09-10 Thread Ken Porowski
I guess IBM's letter generated some FUD http://now.eloqua.com/e/es.aspx?s=1331e=328elq=afd32854d7c047509a3a5e1 65b96bd5a -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with

Re: Startup of All STCs After IPL

2009-09-10 Thread Mark Pace
I can't seem to find VTAMAPPL. Where is this program located? On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wayn...@gmail.com wrote: There is VTAMAPPL. We use that, it has PAUSE nn etc. Use it to start all our STCs and put appropriate PAUSEs in the commands. Also used to automate

Re: Startup of All STCs After IPL

2009-09-10 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
I'll have to search my LINKLIST, when we ran a FLEX it came from the ADCD libs. I'll get back unless other posters know the origin. On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com wrote: I can't seem to find VTAMAPPL.  Where is this program located? On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:08

CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-10 Thread Rick Fochtman
I'm involved in a discussion (read argument) with co-workers where I'm currently doing a consulting gig. Which is more effieient for CLIST/REXX libraries? the choices are RECFM=FB, LRECL=255 or RECFM=FB,LRECL=80? I lean toward the VB-format, btt I have at least one person here insisting

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-10 Thread Scott Ford
Never seen a problem with either format. Been around Rexx sin Ricck, Never seen a problem with either format. Been around Rexx since 1984   Scott J Ford www.identityforge.com   From: Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday,

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-10 Thread Hayim Sokolsky
The rational choices are (IMHO) FB/80 or VB/255. 1. FB/255 makes no sense. 2. I tend to stick with FB/80 due to the use of ISPF edit -and- Mod 2/3/4 3270 emulation. Hayim _ Hayim Sokolsky, CISSP Mainframe Security Architect DTCC Corporate

Re: User-written ISPF-Editor line commands

2009-09-10 Thread George.William
For some command idea, here are some I've added; If anyone else has some additional ones I'd love to hear about them. * CL - Change to case of the word under the cursor to Lower case. * CU - Change to case of the word under the cursor to Upper case. * CP - Copy line(s) to multiple

Re: Startup of All STCs After IPL

2009-09-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:32:02 -0400, Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com wrote: I can't seem to find VTAMAPPL. Where is this program located? That is an ADCD program.I have something on my web site and CBT file 434 called ACBCHECK. It's not the same as VTAMAPPL, but can serve a similar purpose.

Re: User-written ISPF-Editor line commands

2009-09-10 Thread Steve Comstock
George.William wrote: For some command idea, here are some I've added; If anyone else has some additional ones I'd love to hear about them. * CL - Change to case of the word under the cursor to Lower case. * CU - Change to case of the word under the cursor to Upper case. * CP -

Re: Use of RETAIN

2009-09-10 Thread John Laubenheimer
The originally specified JCL isn't exactly correct. If you were to call for a 2nd tape sometime before reaching file 10, the system would try to place that file on the 1st (full) tape, due to the way this refer-back is coded. Also, if allowed, there would be gaps in the file numbers (such as

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-10 Thread Lizette Koehler
I think the Lrecl80 came from the punch card days. The people I worked with back in 1980 preferred the 80 byte record because they came from punch cards. That plus the ease of seeing everything on one screen without having to scroll back and forth was great. But those days were more due to

Re: NEON zPrime Business, Legal and Technical Facts Webinar

2009-09-10 Thread Thompson, Steve
Seems that Eloqua is Firefox unfriendly, so this link can only be read from a computer system running Windows and IE. Regards, Steve Thompson -- Opinions expressed by this poster may not reflect those of poster's employer -- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: NEON zPrime Business, Legal and Technical Facts Webinar

2009-09-10 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Thanks for the posting. I signed up. At the last meeting of the Midwest Computer Measurement Group, which was held in Milwaukee a month or so ago, Al Sherkow spoke, but not on Neon zPrime. He was asked a lot of questions about it during his 2 hours, and it was very interesting. He does

Re: NEON zPrime Business, Legal and Technical Facts Webinar

2009-09-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
Thompson, Steve wrote: Seems that Eloqua is Firefox unfriendly, so this link can only be read from a computer system running Windows and IE. I read it using Firefox 3.5.2 under Windows XP SP3. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles,

Re: User-written ISPF-Editor line commands

2009-09-10 Thread George.William
Ya, guess it is. Actuall TJ is different from TF. TF - Text Flow will 'flow' the indicated line and all subsequent lines below it till the end of the paragraph. TJ - Text Join, joins the indicated line and ONLY THE ONE LINE BELOW IT and will not 'flow' to a 2nd line if the data is longer than

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-10 Thread Savor, Tom
I'm involved in a discussion (read argument) with co-workers where I'm currently doing a consulting gig. Which is more effieient for CLIST/REXX libraries? the choices are RECFM=FB, LRECL=255 or RECFM=FB,LRECL=80? I lean toward the VB-format, btt I have at least one person here insisting that

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman I'm involved in a discussion (read argument) with co-workers where I'm currently doing a consulting gig. Which is more effieient for CLIST/REXX libraries? the choices are RECFM=FB, LRECL=255 or

Re: Sytem Managed Buffering

2009-09-10 Thread gsg
Anybody have feedback on this? -- 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

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-10 Thread Bob Shannon
Clists use to parse to the end of the record. One could enter a command on a line followed by comments, and clist would still parse to the end of record. Back in the day, VB performed better. With VLF, it pretty much doesn't matter. You indicated VLF is not a consideration so it really comes

Dynamic Cache Management

2009-09-10 Thread gsg
I was reading the Implementing System-Managed Storage book and came accross Using Cache to improve performance, were it spoke about Dynamic Cache Magagement. Is there still a benefit in implementing this? PROS/CONS. Is anyone using this? Got any general guidelines for starting out? TIA

Re: T-Rex replacement

2009-09-10 Thread gsg
Catalog Recovery + by Mainstar Software, they may be Rocket Software now. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Share Denver - Presentations

2009-09-10 Thread gsg
I didn't attend Share, but was wondering if there is a site to get all of the presentations. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: Sytem Managed Buffering

2009-09-10 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Feedack on what? What is your question? --Original Message-- From: gsg Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List ReplyTo: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Sent: Sep 10, 2009 18:04 Subject: Re: Sytem Managed Buffering Anybody have feedback on this?

Re: Share Denver - Presentations

2009-09-10 Thread Edward Jaffe
gsg wrote: I didn't attend Share, but was wondering if there is a site to get all of the presentations. http://www.share.org Click Proceedings. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318

Re: Share Denver - Presentations

2009-09-10 Thread Scott Ford
Thx , Ed... I appreciate the url for Share since I wasnt able to attend.   Scott J Ford www.identityforge.com   From: Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 6:21:43 PM Subject: Re: Share Denver -

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:44:12 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: I'm involved in a discussion (read argument) with co-workers where I'm currently doing a consulting gig. Which is more effieient for CLIST/REXX libraries? the choices are RECFM=FB, LRECL=255 or RECFM=FB,LRECL=80? I lean toward the

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-10 Thread Tony B.
Length schmength, it depends what's in it. I use any PDS as a clist repository and allocate it whenever I need it. Most of the time I like whatever fits on my screen but I keep a 300 lrecl around in case I have a slew of really wide RACF commands, like a full width alter of installation data.

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-10 Thread Ted MacNEIL
o Industry standard? Not any more. (But I can remember when ISPF (at the time SPF) panels were distributed as VB; IBM later switched to FB (circa 1980?). Later, IIRC. I think it came out with XA. Also, that was the same time they renamed it and split out PDF. - Too busy driving to stop

Re: Share Denver - Presentations

2009-09-10 Thread gsg
Thanks for the link. -- 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

Re: T-Rex replacement

2009-09-10 Thread Douglas Shupe
Check Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management from IBM - http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=cainfotype=anappname=iSourcesupplier=897letternum=ENUS209-285opencm_mmc=5318-_-n-_-vrm_newsletter-_-10577_127721cmibm_em=dm:0:5357837 You might be pleased with what you find 'under the

Re: T-Rex replacement

2009-09-10 Thread Traylor, Terry
Which is the same as Mainstar's Catalog Recovery Plus except that you also have access through TEP (Tivoli Enterprise Portal). Terry Traylor charlesSCHWAB TIS Mainframe Storage Management Remedy Queue: tis-hs-mstg (602) 977-5154 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: T-Rex replacement

2009-09-10 Thread Mark Zelden
That link was for Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management, which is a similar product to CA-Allocate (aka VAM, aka Vantage SRM) and BMC Resolve SRM (aka STOPX37). Try this one: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/software/toolkit/acm.html Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems

Re: Dynamic Cache Management

2009-09-10 Thread Ron Hawkins
GSG, For IBM, SUN/STK and HDS there is still a small benefit. While everything must go through cache with these controllers, DCME will influence where ICL and BC IO is placed in the LRU queue so that it will be cast out sooner than other normal IO. You don't get a choice about whether it is

Re: Sytem Managed Buffering

2009-09-10 Thread Ron Hawkins
GSG, The type 64 SMF record. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of gsg Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Sytem Managed Buffering We are looking at

Re: T-Rex replacement

2009-09-10 Thread Timothy Sipples
Some additional possible alternatives to Dino Software's T-Rex: IBM: Tivoli Advanced Catalog Management for z/OS (as mentioned) (possibly also Tivoli Advanced Audit for DFSMShsm, depending on requirements) ASPG: Catalog Information Manager (CIM) CA: CREWS Data Processing Techniques: DP Technician

Re: PDSE HELP Required.

2009-09-10 Thread Sivakumar, Manikandan
Thank you Radoslaw Skorupka So It always better to use PDSE with in the SYSPLEX boundaries to avoid any corruption. I don't understand why the vendors are populating the libraries in PDSE. Mani. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-10 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
VB 255 gives you more flexibility, I just find that long character strings are easier to code if you can use the whole 255 bytes. So many times have novices asked me why their REXX was failing and it was sequence numbers in 73-80. Can still happen for VB 255 but always seems to be that folks

Re: Use of RETAIN

2009-09-10 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
I agree with John, make the referback always to the previous step. When I was doing a lot of tape stacking, I also had a placeholder dataset for the first one on the initial tape. I would generate the JCL using a REXX to build the STEPNAME referback name and build a new job at step 255. Use of