I have received a private e-mail with a question which ought to be asked in
the list, the reasons being
1. A question and answer in the archives potentially helps anyone
2. We who generally answer questions do *not* participate in the list in order
to be identified as consultants for private
We also have LOGR and WLM CDS data sets, and making new versions of
these is not so easy.
Can anyone reliably advise whether the LOGR and WLM data sets have the
same sort of time checks as the XCF ones do, or can we expect them to
happily accommodate the clock going backwards.
You may run into
For below
the line you should reserve at least a few hundred KiB and above the line
you could reserve several MiB without hurting anyone's feelings.
Says he. I was expressly forbidden to 'decrease region size' via IEFUSI by my
management. To the tune of 878, 80A, scheduled dumps for whatever
IBM has accepted apar OA32676 for this problem. We did not agree to a FIN
closure as that would mean release 13 or later with no local fix.
Thanks to all that got involved and made it A LOT easier to get the problem
across!
Best regards, Barbara
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:28:32 -0400, Joe Reichman
joereich...@optonline.net wrote:
Are there any rules for doing math on
Usage is pointer
Only one: Don't do math on a pointer.
Jantje.
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On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 20:33 -0400, Clark Morris wrote:
The more interesting question is why use a
pointer when reference modification works well
for playing with the SMF30 records?
'splainey? (That was the first COBOL I'd written in a very long time,
and I was delighted to find pointers at
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On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 20:33 -0400, Clark Morris wrote:
Try one of these. The first is a standard dataset and the second is a
linear dataset.
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
DEFINE CLUSTER -
(NAME(|) -
VOLUMES(Z9CI32) -
INDEXED RECATALOG) -
I restored the dataset from a DFDSS full-volume backup. DFDSS won't allow a
rename for a VSAM dataset coming from a full-volume backup and won't catalog
the dataset when the catalog name from the backup didn't match the catalog I
now have it's high-level alias pointing to. IDCAMS DEFINE with
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 09:06 -0400, McKown, John wrote:
MOVE LARGEST-INPUT-RECORD (UNSTRING-OFFSET:
LENGTH OF SMF30ID)
TO SMF30ID
I dig now; you're moving the segments to a separate segment-defining
record in order to gain field
I have been using EDGRRPTE Report 14 for a few years. I now want to
print the report and I find that the print control characters appear to
be in 2 and not column 1 where I would expect them to be. Can someone
help me understand what I am doing wrong
Crispin Hugo
Systems Programmer
Macro 4
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On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 09:06 -0400, McKown, John wrote:
... and the IBM defaults are assumed to be right until they are proven
wrong; right?
is a line taken for the thread FTP to z/OS Problem which I think deserves
wide airing.
I always used to tell my students - principally when teaching SNA topics and
products such as VTAM - that defaults
Frank
EZY2640I Using 'PROD.FTP.DATA' for local site configuration parameters.
The search order for the file FTP DATA is given in Table 3, TCP/IP
configuration data sets in a section of the same name under Configuration
data set naming conventions under Understanding search orders of
Last August I worked with Chris Mason on a USS table issue. A brief recap:
TCPIP provides symbol substitution in USS messages which contain system
symbols and certain defined character strings that start with two or more '@'
characters. VTAM also provides symbol substitution for defined
I believe using USAGE COMP-5 removes all truncation issues.
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Subject: Re: Arithmetic on COBOL usage is pointer
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 11:28 -0400, Joe Reichman wrote:
Also be aware that I recently shot a bug for a compatriot where having an
unsigned binary number defined made a If numeric fail. never went to root
cause but it seemed there might be an issue of moves between binary fields
being handled by cobol using MVC instead of ZAP.
GOKW
IBM Mainframe
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Also be aware that I recently shot a bug for a compatriot where having
an
unsigned binary number defined made a If numeric fail. never went to
root
cause but it seemed there might be an issue of moves
Ok, I am puzzled. Whether there is or is not an I/O appendage routine hidden
away inside of dear old IEBCOPY seems immaterial. APF authorization is not
something that just comes and goes within a step. Every new step can be
authorized or not, but if the JOBLIB, STEPLIB or application specific
Andy, thanks for the info. That's one of my apars. :) Right now it's looking
like
the Hiperdispatch hang is related to a two-cp LPAR and running an OEM
product that we are just now trial-ing.
FYI, I didn't say the install was a problem. On the contrary, install was
smooth, and testing was
Thanks to all for the input.
We do use the checkregionloss option in diag. We set up a monitor the
activity initiated by the checkregionloss parm and in our shop it restarts
inits
on a regular basis. I always check anytime these type of things show up to
ensure that it is still actively
Good Morning Gentle Readers,
Because of incessant problems with tapes (3590-1) we are looking at using DASD
for ML2 migration as well as BACKUP. Besides changing the following commands
is there something else I could have overlooked?
SETSYS ARECOVERUNITNAME(3590-1)
SETSYS
Crispin, The reports are LRECL=133,RECFM=FBA - so first char is a ANSI
print control character when the records are written by the exec EDGRRPTE.
If you are creating a DASD data set then subsequently printing that, be sure
the utility you use understands there is an existing print control
Because of incessant problems with tapes (3590-1) we are looking at
using DASD for ML2 migration as well as BACKUP. Besides changing the
following commands is there something else I could have overlooked?
If anybody has been down this road I would appreciate it if you could
warn me of any
Darth,
Yes, we are aiming to maintain both levels of migration. Is this doable?
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Subject: Re: DFHSM QUESTION - MOVING TO DASD FROM TAPE - ML2
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snip
Have you considered if a web
Darth,
We're looking at doing the exact same thing as Esmie. As to your asking
why, here is our reasoning. All we have left on the 3590s is DFHSM
processing. We have moved our system backups to TS1120 media, but don't
want to use the same library for DFHSM as our backups. If we can move
the
I am trying to understand what this message is telling me and if it is serious.
IOS581E LINK FAILED REPORTING CHPID=11 328
INCIDENT UNIT TM=0MDS9K/509 SER=CSC00-0989C3 IF=00E4 IC=03
INCIDENT UNIT LIF=E4
I, alas, started on a much slower
machine, the 650, about which I feel *no* nostalgia. I do, however,
have fond memories of the 7094.
Nice. My first job as a coop student at IBM was to convert a 650 SOAP
program that ran the Toronto plant to a 1401 card system Autocoder
program. I think I
That's a great story. My first job was with a service bureau, with the main
client being Grove Press in NY. I was an operator working on a 360/20, 360/30
and 360/40. About 25 years ago after a Share meeting in Boston, a friend and I
went to their Computer Museum and I saw all 3 systems on
The group that handles the Cisco says they are not seeing any errors on the
Cisco. Some fluttering, but no failures.
I would call fluttering a failure (albeit one which was recovered). My
opinion.
Ask your Cisco team to show you the FICON log from the MDS 9509 devices
(both local and
McKown, John wrote:
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Have you
Darth,
The ML1 and ML2 are usually cheaper and lower performance than Primary
Storage. ML1 cost efficiency is usually achieved through compression,
whereas ML2 is a change in media.
ML2 Tape can easily be replaced with Tier 2 disk using internal SATA,
external virtualized midrange storage, or
On 04/19/2010 05:06 PM, Tom Russell wrote:
I, alas, started on a much slower
machine, the 650, about which I feel *no* nostalgia. I do, however,
have fond memories of the 7094.
Nice. My first job as a coop student at IBM was to convert a 650 SOAP
program that ran the Toronto plant to a
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Yes to all of that Puzzled me too ... Never seen it before I am
aware of the concatenation restriction on APF authorised load libraries
(and the integrity reasoning behind it), but there are no steplibs in the
job and the Joblib is, obviously, the same for all steps.
I will chase it
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