Re: Re : Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-26 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
>If the OP actually wants to write to spool, and is not necessarily >running under BPXBATCH, he can do: I can't see where the OP ever said he wanted to write to the spool. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscrib

Re: REXX to delete all members of a PDS... serverpac CPPEDELM

2010-01-26 Thread Roger Bolan
Victor's Rexx works fine. I just tested it. On my system there is a PDS utility installed, and this also works. I just tested it from a batch TSO job: //TSO EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * PDS 'BOLAN.JUNK.JCL' FIX RESET /* On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 6:12 AM, Stock

Re: Enormous redbook

2010-01-26 Thread P S
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Thompson, Steve wrote: > In my opinion, FrameMaker causes problems for cut and paste. At least it > does in manuals that I have to review. Are you sure it's Frame? I think it's just PDF. -- For I

Re: Used Sharks

2010-01-26 Thread Jim Phoenix
Ron, I don't really know when the SSA interface production stopped. All I do know is that all of the drives that kicked out as defective were like that, both 36G & 72G drives alike. We took delivery of the unit new in December 2002. Ron Hawkins wrote: Jim, Thanks for correcting me. I was

Re: Used Sharks

2010-01-26 Thread Ron Hawkins
Jim, Thanks for correcting me. I was told by many sources that when IBM/Hitachi stopped making SSA interfaces that the ESS drives were FCAL with an SSA bridge. I stand corrected. Ron > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > J

Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg

2010-01-26 Thread Chris Hoelscher
so i have been informed ... well - i did what I could to assist ... oh well .. Chris Hoelscher Senior IDMS & DB2 Database Administrator Humana Inc 502-476-2538 choelsc...@humana.com you only need to test the programs that you want to work correctly From: "Pommier, Rex R." To: IBM-MAI

Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg

2010-01-26 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Chris, But.unfortunately.the publib link points to a z/OS 1.10 messages and codes book. The book doesn't contain the message. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Hoelscher Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:1

Re: Used Sharks

2010-01-26 Thread Jim Phoenix
Ron, The 2105-800 that we replaced in December 2008 used SCSI disks with a small SSA- SCSI bridge circuit board on the back of the drive. The mounting rails had slots in them that held the CB in place on the drive's SCSI connector. We routinely connected these SCSI drives to a PC when the d

Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg

2010-01-26 Thread Chris Hoelscher
i goog'ed ADR261I and got 2 hits: what appears to be a SHARE presentation from 2008 - What's New in z/OS 1.10 DFSMSdss also in the following publication http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r10.e0zm100/dssmsgs.htm Chris Hoelscher Senior IDMS & DB2

Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg

2010-01-26 Thread Staller, Allan
Can't find it either. In z/OS library or the IBM search DB. Seems pretty self-explanatory though. Either it's already one extent, or there is no space to consolidate the extents. Guess it's PMR (or RCF) time. HTH, Anyone know where I can find ADR261I? It's not in the manuals on the Web, that I

Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg

2010-01-26 Thread Schumacher, Otto
The smphold dataset is a PS file. Are you trying to do an IEBCOPY? If so you can't do it. Regards Otto HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS & Capacity Technical Support P.O. Box 6462 2000 Wade Hampton Blvd. LC1-302 Greenville, South Carolina, 29606 Cell: 864

Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg

2010-01-26 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schumacher, Otto > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:27 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg > > The smphold dataset is a PS file. Are you trying to do an > I

Re: RLSE pipe dream (was: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE)

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Peplinski
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:55:44 -0800, Ron Hawkins wrote: You can't blame a golf club for your slice, < Some of us don't need to hear that :) P -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lis

Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg

2010-01-26 Thread Schumacher, Otto
Are you running on zOS 10. This message should be in the messages and code for DFSMS It came in with zOS 10. I think the dataset is an extended multi volume dataset. Check with you storage Admin support. Regards Otto HP Enterprise Services Infrastructure Specialist Ahold Account CICS & Capac

Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg

2010-01-26 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
It isn't in the 1.10 documents I have. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schumacher, Otto Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg Are you running on zOS 10. This message

Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg

2010-01-26 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schumacher, Otto > Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 3:46 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: undoc'd DFDSS msg > > Are you running on zOS 10. This message should be in the > me

Re: 878-10 abend in IPCS

2010-01-26 Thread Hardee, Charles H
Hi Tony, That would work as long as the dump format never changed down the road. While it is pretty straight forward to do, and I have done it as a test, I don't want to get into something I have to check on each new release of z/OS. Couple that with the fact that after I find an occurrence of the

Re: Used Sharks

2010-01-26 Thread Ron Hawkins
SCSI Disks in a 2105-800? That never happened. The ESS used SSA disk drives, or FC-AL drives with a SSA/FC-AL bridge. And there is no way EMC, STK or HDS are going to let you plug pull apart a HDD assy and plug an FC-AL drive from an ESS into it to use as a spare. If the vendor doesn't stop you th

Re: 878-10 abend in IPCS

2010-01-26 Thread Tony Harminc
2010/1/26 Hardee, Charles H : > Without going into details, what I am attempting to do is read every > page in a dump in order to scan the page for a particular string. > > I am using a REXX (found at the end of this note) that simply starts ad > address x'' and issues an EVAL for each add

undoc'd DFDSS msg

2010-01-26 Thread McKown, John
Anyone know where I can find ADR261I? It's not in the manuals on the Web, that I can find. ADR261I (001)-DFRGD(01), UNABLE TO FURTHER CONSOLIDATE EXTENTS FOR SYS5.DATACOM.V11R0M2.SMPHOLD, 01 John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26

Re: RLSE pipe dream (was: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE)

2010-01-26 Thread Ron Hawkins
Gil, All your extents can be contiguous so there is no fragmentation whatsoever. You are hitting a boundary on the number of extents. You don't know, or care if those extents are fragmented. Extent = Space or degree to which a thing is extended Fragment = A small part broken off or detached. I'm

Re: IPCS Starttup issue

2010-01-26 Thread Rick Fochtman
--- According to: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.i bm.zos.r9.ikjb700/inurp.htm error 23 indicates: " Processing unsuccessful; the IKJURPS service was invoked in an environment in which the TSO/E

How to modify the CICS DB2ENTRY resource Table

2010-01-26 Thread Alvaro Quintupray Burgos
Hi. I need a CPSM COBOL piece of code to modify the content of some counters of DB2ENTRY resource table. If anyone can help me or give me some link to join a CICS forums. Thanks. Atte. Alvaro. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: SMS and OAM commands

2010-01-26 Thread Lizette Koehler
Nigel, With SMS it can only issue certain commands. There is not "CMD" function that I know of is SMS. So it needs to be able to Modify OAM so it can sync things like TAPE It needs to be able to activate an SCDS or ACDS data set. You also need (as a person) the ability to issue V SMS comman

Re: 878-10 abend in IPCS

2010-01-26 Thread Hardee, Charles H
The EXEC is literally this simple (at the moment): Issue EVAL command for an address, length of 4k Increment address by 4k If address > x'7FFF' exit loop Loop So, why do I need to increase my storage? I'm processing 1 4k page from the dump at a time. I'm not building any type of stem variable

Re: 878-10 abend in IPCS

2010-01-26 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe > > Hardee, Charles H wrote: > > Has anyone ever experienced an 878-10 abend in IPCS while processing a > > dump? > > > > I used to get out-of-space conditions from both IPCS and z/XDC many > years ago be

Re: SMS and OAM commands

2010-01-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>The reason for the question is that the Modify commands are done under the RACF userid of the SMS address space - and it is not currently authorised to do these commands. You may think it is easy to authorise these commands to SMS - but our security dept is concerned about what other commands m

Re: TLS..FTP

2010-01-26 Thread Scott
At the end of my RDATALIB diatribe, I post three links which are good references for using it and protecting KEYRINGs, etc. Oh, I hit $10 with Google AdSense yesterday. I am ordering the check and my life is now complete. There is nothing else that I could possibly accomplish, at this point. Sc

Re: 878-10 abend in IPCS

2010-01-26 Thread Edward Jaffe
Hardee, Charles H wrote: Has anyone ever experienced an 878-10 abend in IPCS while processing a dump? I used to get out-of-space conditions from both IPCS and z/XDC many years ago before I changed my TSO/E logon "size" to: Size ===> 524288 -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software Internat

Re: RLSE pipe dream (was: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE)

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:55:44 -0800, Ron Hawkins wrote: > >The problem here is number of extents, not fragmentation. No-one gives a >toss about fragmentation on a PDS or PDS-E since the 3990-3. > This seems to be a quibble about definition. In my view, a secular growth in the number of extents, dis

Re: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE

2010-01-26 Thread Hal Merritt
Thanks all for the great information!! We have elected to use a storage group that is not SMS managed so that the management class release does not apply. Again, thanks!! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Se

Re: TSO Exit IKJEFLD3 & IEFPRMLB Service

2010-01-26 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Andrew, Instead of coding the exit, how about this: In a shop I once worked for a few years ago, I used to put saved TSO Logon Messages into the BRODCAST dataset to indicate the system you logged on to, e.g., (now this is an old example ...) se 'z/OS 11 44

Re: RLSE pipe dream (was: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE)

2010-01-26 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: "Paul Gilmartin" Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:08 AM Subject: RLSE pipe dream (was: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE) On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:30:27 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote: Since the program repeatedly opens and closes t

Re: RLSE pipe dream (was: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE)

2010-01-26 Thread Ron Hawkins
Gil, The problem here is number of extents, not fragmentation. No-one gives a toss about fragmentation on a PDS or PDS-E since the 3990-3. I've used Space Release in the Management Class of several sites, and apart from the SAS Dataset problem I cited in another post I've never had a problem with

Re: PAGE datasets -- few large or more small

2010-01-26 Thread Don Williams
Ron, Thanks. It will take me some time to digest that. Don -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ron Hawkins Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PAGE datasets -- few large or more small

Re: Re : Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-26 Thread Jim Thomas
Peter / Gil .. thank you for your advice. Kind Regards, Jim Thomas 617-233-4130 (mobile) 636-294-1014 (res) j...@thethomasresidence.us -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, January 26

RLSE pipe dream (was: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE)

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:30:27 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote: > >Since the program repeatedly opens and closes the PDSe, I can watch the space >allocation via ISPF 3.4. To our concernation, the allocated space shrinks as >the number of exents rises. No matter how much space we specify, the file >shrin

Re: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE

2010-01-26 Thread John Kelly
Now, how do I override that? Is there a JCL parameter? As other have said, use a different MgmtClas (MC) is you can or make the PDSe nonSMS and piss off everyone. Lots of time you can't allocate with a different MC but you can ALTER the DSN after it's allocated. Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Offic

Re: Re : Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:15:45 +0100, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) wrote: >> I'm looking for some direction and advice on dynamically extracting >> STDOUT data from USS that I can feed into a CICS sub-system. Would a >> writer /> listener be the right direction ?. How would I extract the >>STDOUT data ?.

Re: TSO Exit IKJEFLD3 & IEFPRMLB Service

2010-01-26 Thread Don Imbriale
I know you mentioned that you were reluctant to change the logon procs, but if you have a CLIST or REXX front-end, you could change that to invoke another CLIST or REXX exec to detect the production system, issue the necessary message(s), prompt for acknowledgment, and take action as needed. Keep

Re: Enormous redbook

2010-01-26 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Marian Gasparovic Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 2:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Enormous redbook Steve, FrameMaker is used and it generates a book using macros and stuff, so jus

SMS and OAM commands

2010-01-26 Thread Nigel Wolfendale
When I enter the system command 'DISPLAY SMS,LIBRARY,DETAIL' this seems to translate into a modify command for the OAM address space - F OAM,D,LIB,L=ABC0021-Z. Similarly when I do a 'V SMS,LIB(XYZATL3),ONLINE' this translates into the command 'F OAM,V,XYZATL3),ONLINE' I say translates - somet

878-10 abend in IPCS

2010-01-26 Thread Hardee, Charles H
Hello Group, Has anyone ever experienced an 878-10 abend in IPCS while processing a dump? Without going into details, what I am attempting to do is read every page in a dump in order to scan the page for a particular string. I am using a REXX (found at the end of this note) that simply sta

Re: IPCS Starttup issue

2010-01-26 Thread Hardee, Charles H
According to: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.i bm.zos.r9.ikjb700/inurp.htm error 23 indicates: " Processing unsuccessful; the IKJURPS service was invoked in an environment in which the TSO/E TMP cannot process an IKJURPS request. For example, during LOGON pr

Re: 2010 IBM System z Technical Conferences, zExpo, Technical University

2010-01-26 Thread Barbara Nitz
>Yes, Barbara, unfortunately that is the one. Well, it was worth a try. :-) >And Mike Cowlishaw was to give a presentation but unfortunately couldn't because they found a bomb (from WW2) next to the conference center. :-( I know. I've been there! The presentation I attended in that time slot wa

Re: TSO Exit IKJEFLD3 & IEFPRMLB Service

2010-01-26 Thread Rob Scott
Andrew My preference in this case would be to keep the actual exit code as simple as possible and offload the "smarts" into some other started task. I would suggest having some sort of owner STC that starts before TSO and build a system-level name token (or SSI anchor or ENQ or... etc etc) tha

Re: 2010 IBM System z Technical Conferences, zExpo, Technical University

2010-01-26 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Yes, Barbara, unfortunately that is the one. There are some nice topics, but very few apply to my job, and not enough to justify a whole week. Some look nice. For example the technical conference in Dresdey a couple of years ago there was a presentation on the port of OpenSolaris. That was on

Re: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE

2010-01-26 Thread John Kington
>Good answer :-) > >Now, how do I override that? Is there a JCL parameter? I used release immediate on a management class *once* and quickly changed it. Your storage admin may have coded the acs routine to accept a management class value passed in via jcl but not likely. You can use idcams alter

Re: TSO Exit IKJEFLD3 & IEFPRMLB Service

2010-01-26 Thread Andrew Metcalfe
Rob For reasons I won't go into, my management have decreed that there must be a positive acknowledgement by the user that they are on a production system. I loop in the exit until I get one. Unfortunately using the broadcast facility doesn't give me this Andrew Metcalfe Global z/OS Systems Pr

Re: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE

2010-01-26 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > > On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:43:59 -0800, Ron Hawkins wrote: > > > >If your Storage Admin has PDS and/or PDS-E in a Management Class with > >Partial Release =YES_IMMED then make sure you beat him/her aroun

Re: 2010 IBM System z Technical Conferences, zExpo, Technical University

2010-01-26 Thread Barbara Nitz
Lindy, >I was so looking forward to going this year, too. But after reading the >topics there is nothing for me. you didn't by chance check the wrong conference, did you? 'Nothing there for me' applies (for me) to the former EXPO - now Technical University. The 'real' zConf (this link http:

Re: TLS..FTP

2010-01-26 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ron Wells > > Tried that--getting following...thinking something in racf that is > limiting who uses it .. > init failed with rc = 428 (Key entry does not contain a private key) http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/

Re: 2010 IBM System z Technical Conferences, zExpo, Technical University

2010-01-26 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I was so looking forward to going this year, too. But after reading the topics there is nothing for me. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Barbara Nitz [nitz-...@gmx.net] Sent: 26 January 2010 08:52 To: IBM-MAIN@bama

Re: Re : Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-26 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
> I'm looking for some direction and advice on dynamically extracting > STDOUT data from USS that I can feed into a CICS sub-system. Would a > writer /> listener be the right direction ?. How would I extract the >STDOUT data ?. Create a named pipe and have the writer send its stdout to that pi

Re: TSO Exit IKJEFLD3 & IEFPRMLB Service

2010-01-26 Thread Rob Scott
Andrew Does the broadcast dataset function in TSO not help? Rob Scott Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.2305 Email: rsc...@rs.com Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m..

Re: TSO Exit IKJEFLD3 & IEFPRMLB Service

2010-01-26 Thread Andrew Metcalfe
Thanks for the replies - they confirmed my suspicions. All I am trying to accomplish in IKJEFLD3 is to display a message (via TPUT) to warn that the user has logged on to a production system rather than development. Rather than hard-code the text of the message in the exit, I proposed to keep it

Re: Re : Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-26 Thread Walter Marguccio
> I'm looking for some direction > From > I'm looking for some direction and advice on dynamically extracting STDOUT > data from USS that I can feed into a CICS sub-system. Would a writer / > listener be the right direction ?. How would I extract the STDOUT data ?. > Could BPXWDYN be used ?. M

Re: z/OS SSHD Configuration Issue

2010-01-26 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:17:01 -0800, Anson Ye wrote: >Yes, the client is running as root > >I have no idea why the root ID needs extra setup efforts. Could you give me some clue? Thanks! No, sorry, I don't know the details. It has to do with security on the other end. That's all I seem to

Re : Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-26 Thread Jim Thomas
Top of the morning to everybody, I'm looking for some direction and advice on dynamically extracting STDOUT data from USS that I can feed into a CICS sub-system. Would a writer / listener be the right direction ?. How would I extract the STDOUT data ?. Could BPXWDYN be used ?. I'd prefer to have

Re: Receive e-mails on z/OS

2010-01-26 Thread Walter Marguccio
> I haven't tried this, but theore > From: > I haven't tried this, but theoretically you should be able to run > sendmail and a custom Perl script as a local delivery agent to > accomplish this function. It looks like the requirements for this specific case are quite trivial. E-mails sent to z

Re: PAGE datasets -- few large or more small

2010-01-26 Thread Ron Hawkins
Sorry, I missed some decimal points. Should be: CMR time is staying constant at 0.1ms, which indicates delays at the Host End. At 95% Channel MP busy I'm averaging 45-50 OE and PEND time has jumped to 45ms, with CMR at 0.1-0.2ms. > growing to 3-5ms. CMR time is staying constant at 1ms, which ind

Re: PAGE datasets -- few large or more small

2010-01-26 Thread Ron Hawkins
Don, My two cents > > I do not know what are the potential performance limiting factors are for > the following: > 1. The FICON cable/protocol [Ron Hawkins] The Microprocessors on the Host and on the storage are the first limiting factor. Saturating these usually leads to connect time and/or Pen

Re: Deactivating an EMCS Console

2010-01-26 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hi Magen, The SDSF EMCS console should be deactivated on exit. But if you change the SDSF console name before accessing ULOG you would never get the problem. I use this code, before entering ISPF:- /*==REXX=== ==*/ parse source .

Re: IPCS Starttup issue

2010-01-26 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:19:36 -0600 Rick Fochtman wrote: :>Trying to start IPCS for the first time on this system and getting a :>failure in IKJURPS, RC=20, ERROR=23 :>Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? MSGS & CODES dscreiption is :>completely useless, as are the IPCS pubs I have. I vag