David Andrews pisze:
[...]
- Shared catalog volumes kill you. Don't have
multiple catalogs on the same volume. Don't have
catalogs on shared volumes, period. In the latter
case every catalog lookup requires a VVR read,
regardless of whether the
Yes, understood.
Check with your IBM representative, but financially I don't think you
would see an IBM difference between warm and cold standby. So why not warm?
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we have a z01-BC model K03, 4 LPARs, equipped with 4 OSA E
Hello list,
we have a z01-BC model K03, 4 LPARs, equipped with 4 OSA Express-3 1GB Ethernet
SX
(CHPID OSD) and 2 OSA Express-2 (CHPID OSC).
Last Sunday we had to swap our network switch with a new one, and after we
connected the cables
Michel Castelein wrote:
Note that z/OS includes a ready-to-use SLEEP program.
Yeah, the BPX1SLP. It is using the STIMERM macro.
Or use this without all those SYSCALL and SYSCALLS things:
/* REXX */
SAY 'ZZZ AT ' TIME()
CALL SLEEP 5
SAY 'YAWN AT ' TIME()
Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
[ ... some rubbish ... ]
Please disregard my previous post, the sleep function in my rexx is not the
correct one as intended.
Michel, you are 100% correct and thanks for your post and the SUBCOM
statements.
Sorry to all
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
To my knowledge there are two ways in rexx to sleep :
/* REXX */
/*
How to make rexx wait for 5 seconds
ILBOWAT0 is an LE supplied program
*/
X=5
PARM=D2C(X,4)
ADDRESS LINKPGM ILBOWAT0 PARM
/*
Alternatively you can use a USS program as follows
*/
bpxbatch pgm /bin/sleep 5s
I agree, I don't see any reason to not put the catalogs on the same drive.
Maybe when there were still real drives, it might have made a difference,
but with the arrays that most people are using, I would imagine that it's
not really going to make a difference.
I actually have some issues with
Hi all
I submit the following JCL
//LOGWDSJ JOB CLASS=A
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSUT1 DD DUMMY,DCB=(LRECL=133,RECFM=FB)
//SYSUT2 DD DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE),RETPD=366,VOL=(,,,1),
//
Jason Cai wrote:
The cataloged procedure cann't allocate the GDG
BKTST.SYSLOG.PLEXH1.BH01.WEEKLY(+1) ,but the return code is zero.
What messages are you receiving?
1.I wonder why the cataloged procedure cann't allocate the GDG but the JCL
can do it.
Perhaps RACF could block the proc?
Jason Cai wrote
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSUT1 DD DUMMY,DCB=(LRECL=133,RECFM=FB)
Why are you using empty SYSUT1 with IEBGENER in both jobs? Is something
wrong with using IEFBR14?
Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht
Hi,
I choose this sleep option cause I though that Ravi wasn't looking for a
way to make it rexx to go to sleep in this case SYSCALL is always a better
way in saving CPU .
what i undestood from Ravi question ( maybe I was worng ) is that the rexx
is still preforming actions and he is want it to
Jason,
My bet is it's security (Started task has a different security ID than your
batch job submit). Did you check the SYSLOG to see if there were any
messages around the time of your proc executing? When your proc starts,
Getting more output: Started tasks may have a different MSGCLASS
For tape, yes. IEFBR14 will not create an EOF marker.
MA
On Tue, 18 May 2010 05:25:47 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht
Why are you using empty SYSUT1 with IEBGENER in both jobs? Is something
wrong with using IEFBR14?
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With a STC your msgclass is defined in JES. Depending on your z/OS level
you can start your STC as follows
S LOGWDSJ,MSGCLASS=?? Change ?? to the class that allows the Output to be
held on JES or at least not printed/purged.
Then you can see what is going on.
When you use SYSOUT=* in an STC it
Howard Brazee said this:
I need to find a PDS member, and I know it starts with QA05.
Trouble is, I don't know the name of the PDS.
(The person who created it retired).
I suspect the PDS is archived off.
What do you recommend?
SCANPDS may be exactly what you need, and it's
As VSE has been dying since I was an operator 30 years ago I have not
much bothered with it, but now I've been asked to 'port' some MVS
routines to VSE.
I'm investigating porting a z/OS server address space to z/VSE. The
server address space creates PC-ss routines that client address spaces
Getting back to the oringinal topic:
As the article notes, there is a lengthy test that the IRS has to determine if
one is indeed an independent contractor. As someone who has seasonally
worked as a tax preparer (and who is an IRS Enrolled Agent), I have seen a lot
of people who have been (in
There is no SRB type facility in VSE. Look into using the XPCC facility
for communicating data between address spaces.
It also does not support a System LX for your PC routine though it does
support PC-ss. I generally use XPCC in VSE instead of PC routines if
you need to provide cross-partition
This came with my latest Compuware upgrade. I have no idea what it really does.
And I don't seem to be able to find any manuals on it in my downloaded
material. Does anybody use this? What does it buy me? We don't use any desktop
based development at present - we are still stuck in the 1970s
Is there a font available to allow printing 220 characters per line ..
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Steve,
You should try to contact Jerry McCarthy at QMSI (je...@cmpg.com). He wrote
some amazing code that uses z/OS like PC calls on z/VSE. He coded the internals
of QMSI's postal software (CASS software, a replacement for Group I's
mainframe) to run on z/OS or z/VSE and it uses PC calls.
I believe our solution was 18CPI using green bar paper on the IBM 6500.
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Is there a
IEBGENER will create a real dataset with an end of file that can be
successfully opened and read. IEFBR14 creates only a 'null' file. Most programs
trying to open and read a 'null' file will fail.
I can think of several scenarios where an empty, readable file is needed.
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Hal Merritt pisze:
IEBGENER will create a real dataset with an end of file that can be successfully opened and read. IEFBR14 creates only a 'null' file. Most programs trying to open and read a 'null' file will fail.
I can think of several scenarios where an empty, readable file is needed.
I
Here's a variation that works for me:
ADDRESS TSO BPXBATCH sh sleep 30
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To my
Matt
was that gt18??
as was there a for/page def that went along with it??
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Date: 05/18/2010 09:20 AM
Subject:Re: PSF IBM 6500 printer
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I believe our
On Tue, 18 May 2010 09:36:23 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote:
IEFBR14 creates only a 'null' file. Most programs trying to open and read a
'null' file will fail.
Depending on SMS, whether DSORG can be determined, etc.
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IBM offers features and pricing options that should fit your needs perfectly. I
think the feature/pricing you want is called CBU.
HTH and good luck.
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On Tue, 18 May 2010 09:45:11 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote:
Here's a variation that works for me:
ADDRESS TSO BPXBATCH sh sleep 30
And why would you prefer to:
o Issue a TSO command, which
o Executes a load module, which
o Forks an address space, which
o Execs a shell process, which
o Forks an
Norman, I did open an issue in March of 2009. I received the run-around
from CA for three months and that combined with the fact that many third
party vendors stopped supporting CATCPaccess is what put the nail in the
coffin to goto the IBM CS software.
I have been running this software on the
Well, one reason could be that the poster noted that 'sleep' was a locally
installed function. While superior, not all shops would have that available.
The *nix function I used should be availble to all.
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just tried gt18 on printer setup...chars=gt18...
chopped off at 128 ??
missing something ??
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Date: 05/18/2010 09:20 AM
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Yeap gt18 it is. I used SYS1.SAMPLIB(APSUX08X) The exit reads the FCB and
calculates the forms length from the FCB. Also had to set up a separate PSF
proc to steplib the library where the exit was stored.
If you would like I can send you (off line) the printer definition for this
form.
sure
??had to setup an exitbummer.did not think it would be that
complicated to print past 123char. on a line..
not uncommon any more...
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I am trying to take a DCOLLECT output and not only convert it to fixed
block, but do some reformatting at the same time. All seems well until
I use the IFTHEN verb.
I can only guess that either the syntax to perform the convert changes
or you just can not do the
Walter Marguccio pisze:
we have a z01-BC model K03, 4 LPARs, equipped with 4 OSA E
Hello list,
we have a z01-BC model K03, 4 LPARs, equipped with 4 OSA Express-3 1GB Ethernet
SX
(CHPID OSD) and 2 OSA Express-2 (CHPID OSC).
Last Sunday we had to swap our network switch with a new one, and
Hello all,
sorry for asking this question on IBM-Main, but the C370 list is so silent
that I doubt that anyone is actually listening.
We observed a sort of problem today which showed up as a 0C4 abend
due to a not proper initialized pointer component of a C structure.
Further examination
John,
When I issued the command D SMS,vol(volser) returned the following
-D SMS,VOL(FR0369)
CBR1180I OAM tape volume status: 311
VOLUME MEDIA STORAGE LIBRARY USE W C SOFTWARE LIBRARY
I have a job that creates a LRECL=7104 record.Most of this a
variable length comment.It gets FTPd to a Unix machine and loaded
into a database.They want the extra spaces removed.
I doubt if the optimal solution would be to make it variable length,
and wonder if I should create a
The term to use is uninitialized. It matters not what DSORG, etc. appears in
the catalog and/or VTOC entries.
I don't know if it still applies, but an uninitialized dataset opened for input
by a COBOL program would be automatically closed and reopened for output.
Other run-time environments
Coleagues
Somebody knows a utility/technique or algorithm that meets whit the purpose to
data masking inside zOS?
Thanks.
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 14:39:59 -0400
From: dba...@ups.com
Subject: Re: What is the difference between starting a cataloged procedure
and
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I have a job that creates a LRECL=7104 record.
On Tue, 18 May 2010 14:39:59 -0400, Dave Barry wrote:
The term to use is uninitialized. It matters not what DSORG, etc. appears
in the catalog and/or VTOC entries.
DSORG matters. If the data set is SMS managed (or is it sufficient that SMS be
active?) and DSORG is given in the DD
On Tue, 18 May 2010 12:39:36 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote:
I have a job that creates a LRECL=7104 record.Most of this a
variable length comment.It gets FTPd to a Unix machine and loaded
into a database.They want the extra spaces removed.
I doubt if the optimal solution would be to make
To make it clear:
*scp1215ein in1215 = { 0 };
STr6,a5:d272:l4(,r13,272)
MVI a5:d276:l1(r13,276),0
*scp1215aus out1215= { 0 };
STr6,a5:d296:l4(,r13,296)
Sorry for the missing line feeds.
C statement:
*scp1215ein in1215 = { 0 };
Pseudo ASSEMBLER (structure starts at 272(r13)):
STr6,a5:d272:l4(,r13,272)
MVI a5:d276:l1(r13,276),0
C statement:
*scp1215aus out1215= { 0 };
Pseudo ASSEMBLER (structure starts
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Sorry for the missing line feeds.
C statement:
*
On 18 May 2010 11:48:00 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
Trailing blanks or embedded blanks?
quote site notrailingblanks
on the ftp to remove trailing blanks, for a UNIX client (ftp initiated by
UNIX).
locsite notrailingblanks
for a z/OS client (ftp initiated by
On 18 May 2010 11:59:54 -0700, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:
Creating the data set as RECFM=V on the z/OS side and omitting any
filtering downstream seems optimum to me. What arguments favor a
more complicated process?
I'll try it.
My suggestion about going through support was to get whatever problem you
are having
resolved. You should not be getting a run-around. If you have an issue
number,
I'd be happy to nudge the appropriate folks.
znor...@ca.com
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Yes. I personally use memset all the time. But this is not the point.
We have hundreds of programs in production that use this kind of
initialization.
And we don't want to check and change them all. If the IBM people are
wrong in
their interpretation of the C language definition, they should
On Tue, 18 May 2010 10:26:17 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote:
The *nix function I used should be availble to all.
I see it much the opposite. My preference:
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Ron, before you assemble the exit you have to determine the fcb your shop is
using. Then comment out the one not being used. We happen to use fcb2.
OIXTP8FLAG,XTP8MIGSET THE MIGRATION FLAG FOR
4245 FCB (FCB2). @EXC
OIXTP8FLAG,XTP8MIG4
In listserv%201005130927305137.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/13/2010
at 09:27 AM, Robert Birdsall bsqu...@umich.edu said:
This probably belongs in the ISPF list,
Indeed, but it's still on topic here.
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I recently discovered a bug in the z/OS 1.10 PARMLIB syntax checker;
it finds no errors when you omit a trailing apostrophe on a mount in
BPXPRMxx. SETOMVS finds an error, but the error messages don't
describe it correctly. I'm curious as to whether 1.11 or 1.12 catch
the syntax error properly.
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Yes. I personally use memset all the time. But this is
SNIP
This type of article re-appears every two years..
It's suppose to make you fear and maybe you will subscribe to their
magazine.
Remember the Y2K thing'gie ?
How many of those Prophets of Doom knew what they were talking
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/05/17/ibm_future_servers_2010/
IBM, like other server makers, has rolled out a bunch of new iron this spring,
but still has a ways to go to completely revamp its product lineup in 2010, as
it plans to do.
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Howard Brazee pisze:
On 6 May 2010 13:25:37 -0700, r.skoru...@snip.it.pl (R.S.)
wrote:
I
Bad example. There is more (very sad) truth than not.
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Howard Brazee pisze:
On 6 May 2010 13:25:37 -0700, r.skoru...@snip.it.pl (R.S.)
wrote:
I wonder how many
Yes, with respect to the IBM description, it works correct.
But the IBM description is wrong with respect to the ANSI C definition.
I also checked the language references of some other compilers,
that is, SGI or Microsoft. In all other cases, the remaining structure
components
are initialized
Hi
I am sure someone posted a note that pointed to an IBM url about renting
time on a System z for development, does anyone have the url ?.
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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 7:55 PM, Gerard Ceruti gcer...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
I am sure someone posted a note that pointed to an IBM url about renting
time on a System z for development, does anyone have the url ?.
Are you sure there isn't an MVC after the MVI?
I rely on that kind of initialization all the time and have never had a
problem. A quick test program shows the correct behavior.
If this is not working as the ANSI standard I suggest you open a PMR. To
circumvent the problem compile with
Now the MVI makes absolutely no sense to me.
It makes the string initialized to the null string (), no?
Charles
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On 18 May 2010 19:55, Gerard Ceruti gcer...@gmail.com wrote:
I am sure someone posted a note that pointed to an IBM url about renting
time on a System z for development, does anyone have the url ?.
The biggest difficulty is returning the time when the rental period is
over. I suggest buying it
I will be out of the office starting 05/18/2010 and will not return until
05/20/2010.
I will be out of the office on Wednesday, May 19th. I will return on
Thursday, May 20th. Thanks.
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I am sure someone posted a note that pointed to an IBM
I have an MP3000 coming my way, unfortunately due to an error in RAID
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