Exporting MVSCP

2010-01-18 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, I am creating a new IODF for a new computer. How do I copy the MVSCP information (EDT, Generics, Esotrics) for my current IODF to the new IODF. TIA Gadi לשימת לבך, בהתאם לנהלי החברה וזכויות החתימה בה, כל הצעה, התחייבות או מצג מטעם החברה, מחייבים מסמך

Re: Enterprise COBOL printer control char.

2010-01-18 Thread Chris Mason
John Plus you could raise the print cover and sound alarms with machine chars The fact that Wayne Bickerdike managed to repeat my joke about the printer cover - in possible ignorance of the parent thread - reminded me to mention how to overcome the disaster of having deleted a post form your

Re: Exporting MVSCP

2010-01-18 Thread פנינה קוניגסברג
Hi Gadi In the HCD - 2 Activate or Process Configuration Data - in 10 Build I/O Configuration Statements - you can build input for the new iodf -edt generics esoterics - it's a combination of that + the standalone that you probably will send to IBM - is this what you had in mind ? Penina

Re: Exporting MVSCP

2010-01-18 Thread Itschak Mugzach
gadi, U need to load the IOCP only. the rest of information comes from IODF. ITschak 2010/1/18 גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com Hi, I am creating a new IODF for a new computer. How do I copy the MVSCP information (EDT, Generics, Esotrics) for my current IODF to the new IODF. TIA Gadi

Re: Exporting MVSCP

2010-01-18 Thread גדי בן אבי
Thanks Penina, That's exactly what I needed. You have to specify 'Operating System' in the ' Build I/O Configuration Data' screen. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of פנינה קוניגסברג Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:37

Re: PDSE allocated and used space

2010-01-18 Thread shridhar shukla
-- ZDSPAGU Pages used (PDSE) Character13 ZDSPERU Percent used (PDSE) Character13 -- CALL ISPLINK('VDEFINE','ZTERMCID',TCCSID,'CHAR', LENGTH(TCCSID)); CALL ISPLINK('VGET ','ZTERMCID','SHARED '); - CALL ISPLINK

Re: DFSORT memory used paging

2010-01-18 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
R Hey sys...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:listserv%201001172116542347.0...@bama.ua.edu... Thanks guys. When we get a few big sort jobs running, our page DS %use increases. Which cause workflow to drop. Why does workflow drop from %use? Page %USE doesn't drop much, but it can go

Re: since 1 year mainframeoperator

2010-01-18 Thread Roger Bowler
On Jan 15, 5:30 pm Sebastian Pflug sebastian.pf...@gmail.com wrote: I'am since 1year a Mainframeoperator at the T-Systems Oparting in Magdeburg-Germany. There is so many stuff that beginners must learn, so I'm lucky to find this group. Does anybody have some important informations, IBM

Re: RACF Protection for Initiiators - JES2

2010-01-18 Thread Penny Kay
Historically at our site we checked the jobcard in Exit 2 which had time specifications in the accounting field and then added time and class according to those specifications. Finally, we are moving from z/os 1.6 to 1.8 and have to either recode exit 2 to include and add exit 52 or better

JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ?

2010-01-18 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Do we need a JES COLD start to changed some classes to WLM managed ? (according the book yes we need) -- Miklos Szigetvari Development Team ISIS Information Systems Gmbh tel: (+43) 2236 27551 570 Fax: (+43) 2236 21081 E-mail: miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com Info:

Any idea how a batch pgm (fetchable routine) can find out by which program it was fetched?

2010-01-18 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Hi, Question wholly contained in the subject: Any idea how a batch pgm (fetchable routine) can find out by which program it was fetched? By chance no sample or skeleton sample available somewhere? Jan -- For IBM-MAIN

Skills boom fueled by soaring growth of mainframe

2010-01-18 Thread Roger Bowler
Apparently the IBM line is that there is no mainframe skills problem: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/migratetoibm/getthefacts/mainframe.html#2 Some quotes from the above page: Mainframes dramatically reduce overall IT staff requirements versus distributed environments. The fact is there is a

Re: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ?

2010-01-18 Thread פנינה קוניגסברג
No - Penina Koenigsberg P 972-2-5602354  972-50-5665891 9 penin...@education.gov.il -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 11:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: JES cold

Re: Skills boom fueled by soaring growth of mainframe

2010-01-18 Thread Barbara Nitz
Apparently the IBM line is that there is no mainframe skills problem: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/migratetoibm/getthefacts/mainframe.html#2 Taking the above post as ironic, here's my comment: I am probably blind (and the find function is, too), but where on that page does IBM talk about

Re: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ?

2010-01-18 Thread Walter Marguccio
Subje From: Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com Subject: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ? Do we need a JES COLD start to changed some classes to WLM managed ? (according the book yes we need) this should work: $t jobclass(w),mode=wlm Walter Marguccio z/OS

Re: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ?

2010-01-18 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi We have in this way, but we would like to make it permanent . Walter Marguccio wrote: Subje From: Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com Subject: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ? Do we need a JES COLD start to changed some classes to WLM

Re: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ?

2010-01-18 Thread Walter Marguccio
Subje From: Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com Subject: Re: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ? We have in this way, but we would like to make it permanent . Oh, in this case I would also say you need a COLD start. This is what the book says: Modification: $T

Re: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ?

2010-01-18 Thread פנינה קוניגסברג
Sorry - about the lack of clarity - a cold start is unnecessary if everytime you ipl add to your automatic operations or even commndxx the command Penina Koenigsberg P 972-2-5602354  972-50-5665891 9 penin...@education.gov.il -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ?

2010-01-18 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Why can't you just change the definitions in the JES2 parmlib member? Kees. ? ? penin...@education.gov.il wrote in message news:6bc1d65d2efe004c8852b8036bf0d12005593...@owa.education.gov.il... Sorry - about the lack of clarity - a cold start is unnecessary if everytime you ipl

Re: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ?

2010-01-18 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi We have changed in the parmlib , restarted a member in the SYSPLEX with WARM start and the CLASS remained in JES mode, (as it was on the other member in the SYSPLEX). Till now, o.k. We have normally only one SYSTEM in the SYSPLEX, and I wanted to be sure, if I restart the JES , it will

Re: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ?

2010-01-18 Thread Lizette Koehler
When the manual says $T command or cold start, I use the $T command to make the change and then update the JES2 parms to reflect my change. That way it is permanent. It will only go away the next time you cold start JES2, otherwise it is always there. At startup (WARM, QUICK, or HOT) JES2 will

Re: JES cold start to get WLM managed classes ?

2010-01-18 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Thank you. Lizette Koehler wrote: When the manual says $T command or cold start, I use the $T command to make the change and then update the JES2 parms to reflect my change. That way it is permanent. It will only go away the next time you cold start JES2, otherwise it is always there.

Timestamp comparison

2010-01-18 Thread Ron Thomas
Hello. I have a table Customer_Order, where one of the coloumns is a order entry which is of type time stamp, i need to sql to pick all the records which are 2 yrs old , could some one please let me know how we can do this? Regards Ron

Re: Timestamp comparison

2010-01-18 Thread Lizette Koehler
There is a DB2 Newsgroup that this might be better posted to. Go to this link and join (its free) if you have not already. The IDUG DB2-L Listserv is only part of your membership in IDUG. If you are not already an IDUG member, please register here http://www.idug.org/register Lizette

Re: timestamp comparison

2010-01-18 Thread john gilmore
There is certainly a sense in which Lizette Koehler's response to the OP---Ask your question in the appropriate DB2 forum---is the right one. On the other hand, the CONVTOD macro converts date-and-time data into the equivalent STCK[E] value, in this case that of a date-and-time value for

Re: WLM BATCH rules

2010-01-18 Thread Staller, Allan
snip I know WLM JES inits should not use the same SC, but what would be the 'cost' of doing so? /snip The results are unpredictable, and most likely detrimental to defined performance specifications. Under WLM managed inits, JES queue delay samples are part of the calculations used to

Re: DFSORT memory used paging

2010-01-18 Thread Staller, Allan
Is %use page dataset percent used (page slots) or page dataset percent busy (paging IO)? Page slot percent used should have no impact on performance unless there is significant demand paging (page in from DASD) occurring. Check the RMF post processor reports. 25% page slot utilization is not a

Re: RACF Protection for Initiiators - JES2

2010-01-18 Thread Staller, Allan
There is an old IBM manual that has a sample exit to do exactly this. I don't have the reference handy, but check the IBM-MAIN archives. It checks the JOBCLASS userID against a dummy RACF facility class. I'm sure it can be modified as needed. HTH, snip Subject: Re: RACF Protection for

Re: Timestamp comparison

2010-01-18 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
it would be better to ask at DB2-L, but the answer is something like SELECT ... FROM CUSTOMER_ORDER WHERE TS_COLUMN = CURRENT TIMESTAMP - 2 YEARS; Specify the columns you want in the result in the select list (replacing the three dots), the correct table name and qualifier after FROM and the

Re: Any idea how a batch pgm (fetchable routine) can find out by which program it was fetched?

2010-01-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jan Vanbrabant Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 3:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Any idea how a batch pgm (fetchable routine) can find out by which program it was fetched?

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0377b9a583fd0e4aacd676ee33ee994b2abbc...@sdkmail13.emea.sas.com, on 01/17/2010 at 05:29 AM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com said: Does anyone know where I can find the source code for early s/360 operating systems, Unless you have a 704 simulator or a 7030 simulator, you may want

Re: Skills boom fueled by soaring growth of mainframe

2010-01-18 Thread P S
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: I am probably blind (and the find function is, too), but where on that page does IBM talk about z/OS? It *does* talk about Linux, though. And the 'mainframe' these days isn't just z/OS anymore. Right -- where does the *post*

Re: sysout using machine control instead of ANSI control

2010-01-18 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com writes: my gcard.html ... was qd conversion of (CMS) IOS3270 file that was widely available internally, I wasn't the original

Re: Any idea how a batch pgm (fetchable routine) can find out by which program it was fetched?

2010-01-18 Thread Charles Mills
Is the name of the jobstep program available somewhere? The name from EXEC PGM=? That might satisfy the OP. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 6:20 AM To:

Mainframe console issue

2010-01-18 Thread Chokalingam Thangavelu
Hi, We have lost our ICC console connectivity and we are getting below error while trying to connect again. V 6E1,CONSOLE IEE936I CONSOLE SD0112 INITIALIZATION ERROR - RC:01 - 3277-2 IS ASSUMED

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Do you think I could do the install on a z/VM system? I imagine that it is as difficult as on Hercules. Or is it? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: 17. tammikuuta 2010 17:56 To:

Re: Mainframe console issue

2010-01-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chokalingam Thangavelu Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Mainframe console issue Hi, We have lost our ICC console connectivity and we are getting

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Source code for s/360 Do you think I could do the install on a z/VM system? I imagine that it is

Re: Any idea how a batch pgm (fetchable routine) can find out by which program it was fetched?

2010-01-18 Thread McKown, John
Perhaps. In most cases. Find the excuting TCB from the PSATOLD field of the PSA. From that TCB, find the JSTCB by looking at the field TCBJSTCB of the executing TCB (in a subtasking environment). From the job step tcb you just got, look at the field TCBRBP to find the executing RB. Now, using

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Lindy Mayfield
That's right! There is no SIO on z/VM. I ran into that a year or so ago. Ahh, it's good enough for me just to peruse the source. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: 18. tammikuuta 2010 18:38 To:

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Source code for s/360 That's right! There is no SIO on z/VM. I ran into that a year

Re: Has anyone installed CA-ESP Scheduler

2010-01-18 Thread John Mattson
We have had ESP Scheduler for quite a few years, been a while since I last installed it. Good product in general. Our APPLFILE is 20 cyl of 3390, and has never required maintenance or space changes. We run about 1000-1500 batch jobs a night. Drop me an eMail and we can exchange

Re: Mainframe console issue

2010-01-18 Thread Chokalingam Thangavelu
Hi, We are getting the below error while connecting the console thru IBM PCOM. PCSTLNET013 - an unknown error occurs during device type negotiation. Regards, Chokalingam Thangavelu TWUL Project Thames Water IS In Partnership with Wipro Technologies Mobile: 07515520914 -Original

Re: Timestamp comparison

2010-01-18 Thread Ron Thomas
Thanks a lot.. -- 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: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread P S
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com wrote: That's right!  There is no SIO on z/VM.  I ran into that a year or so ago.   Ahh, it's good enough for me just to peruse the source. Though CP SET 370ACCOM ON might help with that. But the BCMODE PSW is probably

FW: Mainframe console issue - urgent

2010-01-18 Thread Chokalingam Thangavelu
One console is working fine with LU-ID - ACN06C1 but other consoles not. Do we need to do anything in HMC configurations? Also we are getting the below error while connecting the console thru IBM PCOM. PCSTLNET013 - an unknown error occurs during device type negotiation Regards, Chokalingam

Re: RACF Protection for Initiiators - JES2

2010-01-18 Thread Clark Morris
On 18 Jan 2010 01:36:51 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Historically at our site we checked the jobcard in Exit 2 which had time specifications in the accounting field and then added time and class according to those specifications. Finally, we are moving from z/os 1.6 to 1.8 and

Re: Enterprise COBOL printer control char.

2010-01-18 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
It wasn't ignorance of the original thread. Freedom of speech and all that? Raising the cover is an interesting feature, not a joke... Perhaps all COBOL questions can stay in a single thread too? On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: John Plus you could

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Lindy Mayfield
i can do that on vm? create my own instruction? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: 18. tammikuuta 2010 18:57 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Source code for s/360 -Original Message- From:

Re: Mainframe console issue

2010-01-18 Thread Clark, Kevin
Did you Change the PCOM configuration? I believe there is a TRACE function for the LU session. Check that 06E1 is online and that the LU name is still valid, this LU names should match that in your HMC ICC config. Are any other ICC terminal working ? -Original Message- From:

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread P S
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com wrote: i can do that on vm?  create my own instruction? Sure, you have source code...is it trivial? Not for something like this, no. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Source code for s/360 i can do that on vm? create my own instruction? Well, sort of.

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread P S
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 3:14 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Well, sort of. Many priviliged instructions are dispatched via SIE. You can't affect those. If you have find an unimplimented priviliged instruction which is not trapped by SIE (hum is this possible?), then you

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Source code for s/360 i can do that on vm? create my own instruction? SNIPPAGE I'd suggest

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Ivan Warren
McKown, John wrote: Well, sort of. Many priviliged instructions are dispatched via SIE. You can't affect those. If you have find an unimplimented priviliged instruction which is not trapped by SIE (hum is this possible?), then you could modify the z/VM software to trap go to your own routine

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Lindy Mayfield
ok, this is way more than I can do currently, still it is a _really_ fascinating discussion. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: 18. tammikuuta 2010 22:41 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Source

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Probably you know this, but it won't assemble, giving this error: Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:54:28 a ipl1 ASSEMBLER (XF) DONE

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Ivan Warren
Lindy Mayfield wrote: Probably you know this, but it won't assemble, giving this error: Ready; T=0.01/0.01 15:54:28 a ipl1 ASSEMBLER (XF) DONE

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ivan Warren Sent: Monday, January 18, 2010 3:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Source code for s/360 Lindy Mayfield wrote: Probably you know this, but it won't assemble, giving

Re: Source code for s/360

2010-01-18 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.com (Lindy Mayfield) writes: i can do that on vm? create my own instruction? originally virtual machine system was cp40 done on a 360/40 with custom hardware modifications to support virtual memory. when standard virtual memory became available with 360/67 ... cp40

Re: DFSORT memory used paging

2010-01-18 Thread R Hey
By %USE I meant page slots used, meaning increase in page out. Why does workflow drop from %use? too much juice wasted on paging out/in. The issue is not page config, but increase in paging out/in drop in workflow. So when we look at demand paging for the month, we roughly see:

Re: Any idea how a batch pgm (fetchable routine) can find out by which program it was fetched?

2010-01-18 Thread David Stephens
I think the JSCBPGMN field of the JSCB is what you're looking for - it holds the job step program name. The JSCB of the current job step is pointed to by the TCBJSCB of the job step TCB (from TCBJSTCB as John said below). David Stephens Lead Systems Programmer d...@longpelaexpertise.com.au

Re: Mainframe console issue

2010-01-18 Thread Chris Mason
Chokalingam Thangavelu PCSTLNET013 - an unknown error occurs during device type negotiation. I suspect this is the key problem[1] and that the problem you see all derive from not having a connection in place. In principle it is unfortunate that there is no online PCOMM manual with an

Re: FW: Mainframe console issue - urgent

2010-01-18 Thread Chris Mason
Dave I disapprove of private e-mails prompted by a query in a public thread. If this post had been even a little bit helpful - which it might have been if the message explanation had actually contributed anything to the sum of human knowledge - it might save time of other list subscribers

Re: DFSORT memory used paging

2010-01-18 Thread Ron Hawkins
Reza, You should not be concerned about Page Out rates. Page out does not interrupt the flow of a program - it's being paged out because it has not been referenced recently. If there is a page fault for that page very soon after the page out and it is still unchanged then there is no actual

Re: DFSORT memory used paging

2010-01-18 Thread R Hey
Ron, Originally DBA complained about paging, how it reduced workflow (in our monitor). I had a look to find that when the big sort jobs, some also use DB2 after/before the sort, run at the the same time, the demand paging goes up. The chart was just a rough drawing to show how the demand

Tape manager comming soon.

2010-01-18 Thread Shai Hess
HI, In a few days or more, I will add a new feature to my emulated tapes. This feature is still in development but it is almost done. The new feature is MFNetDisk scratch tapes control. Currently the input to decide the retention days for tapes will be: The IP of the file creator, JOBNAME,

Re: DFSORT memory used paging

2010-01-18 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
R Hey sys...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:listserv%201001181819362886.0...@bama.ua.edu... By %USE I meant page slots used, meaning increase in page out. Why does workflow drop from %use? too much juice wasted on paging out/in. The issue is not page config, but increase in paging