performance of dynamic memory allocation in linkage section

2010-07-29 Thread Amlan Prasad
We are developing a big batch COBOL program which uses lot of storage. There are many arrays which are loaded from DB2 tables. The number of occurrences for all these arrays which vary from run to run. Hence we thought instead of using working storage section for these arrays, we will use

memory/address sharing in batch mode

2010-07-29 Thread Amlan Prasad
hi, Has anyone come across or heard of or actually worked on technical design in mainframe where memory/address/data can be passed or shared in parallel by two different jobs? E.g. scenario is Job A executes program A and job B executes either program A or another program B. Both jobs are

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2010-07-29 Thread Daz
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Re: memory/address sharing in batch mode

2010-07-29 Thread Edward Jaffe
Amlan Prasad wrote: hi, Has anyone come across or heard of or actually worked on technical design in mainframe where memory/address/data can be passed or shared in parallel by two different jobs? Yes. We do this with shared 64-bit virtual storage obtained via IARV64 REQUEST=GETSHARED

Re: performance of dynamic memory allocation in linkage section

2010-07-29 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:02:28 -0500 Amlan Prasad amlan...@msn.com wrote: :We are developing a big batch COBOL program which uses lot of :storage. There are many arrays which are loaded from DB2 tables. The :number of occurrences for all these arrays which vary from run to run. :Hence we thought

Re: memory/address sharing in batch mode

2010-07-29 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:03:51 -0500 Amlan Prasad amlan...@msn.com wrote: :Has anyone come across or heard of or actually worked on technical :design in mainframe where memory/address/data can be passed or :shared in parallel by two different jobs? :E.g. scenario is Job A executes program A and

Re: Encryption Software products

2010-07-29 Thread R.S.
Meganen Naidoo pisze: Hi everyone, One of our smaller clients, running on a Z9-BC, encryption requirements is for encryption of data at rest, encryption of tape data, support the OpenPGP format and usage of digital certificates. IBM's Encryption Facility for z/OS V1.2 has all of the required

Re: zEnterprise announcement

2010-07-29 Thread Timothy Sipples
John McKown speculates: From what little I understand about the zBX is that the supported software can use all the proprietary interfaces (like the high speed IP transport between xSeries / pSeries / zSeries systems). I would __guess__ that any x86 software OS (*BSD, Linux, Windows, VMWare, ...)

Re: remove() of PDSE member leaves PDS locked

2010-07-29 Thread David Crayford
Barbara Nitz wrote: Do you happen to know if SAS/C had access to the PDSE macro interfaces ()? That may be how SAS/C does it. As far as I know, these interfaces allow you to replace or delete a member, as they provide the equivalent services to the (PDS) macros like STOW. Yep,

Re: remove() of PDSE member leaves PDS locked

2010-07-29 Thread Barbara Nitz
Yep, they have a low-level I/O library for BSAM etc http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/sasc/doc/lr2/lrv2ch3.htm. Pretty simple stuff. Most vendors that use IBM C/C++ have written their own similar low level I/O library. PDS's low-level access method is called BPAM, and that is not

Re: CFRM Structure Names

2010-07-29 Thread Zaromil Tisler
On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:31:08 -0400, Richards, Robert B. wrote: Thanks for the pointers. So far, my best source is the reason I am documenting them now: the paper called System-Managed CF Structure Duplexing. I am in the process of identifying what should/should not be duplexed and thought I would

Re: remove() of PDSE member leaves PDS locked

2010-07-29 Thread David Crayford
Barbara Nitz wrote: Yep, they have a low-level I/O library for BSAM etc http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/sasc/doc/lr2/lrv2ch3.htm. Pretty simple stuff. Most vendors that use IBM C/C++ have written their own similar low level I/O library. PDS's low-level access method is

Re: remove() of PDSE member leaves PDS locked

2010-07-29 Thread Barbara Nitz
In the above link you will notice functions called osbldl (which does a BLDL) and osfind (which does a FIND) and osstow (which does a STOW). So they handle PDS(E) just fine. I stand corrected. But I really hate when BPAM is named BSAM (or QSAM). (I didn't read further than the first two

Re: CFRM Structure Names

2010-07-29 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Zaromil, I get errors 99% through the download. I'll get it by other means. Thanks for the pointer. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Zaromil Tisler Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 5:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: remove() of PDSE member leaves PDS locked

2010-07-29 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 05:44:13 -0500 Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: :But I really hate when BPAM is named BSAM (or QSAM). There is very little difference (from the programmers view) between BSAM and BPAM. QSAM and BSAM, on the other hand, are quite different. -- Binyamin Dissen

easy access to the current cpu-peak-time status or cpu load

2010-07-29 Thread Dr. Stephen Fedtke
hi all, we need to know in realtime how close the system is to its cpu peak interval/time (meaning that peak time representing the z user's major invoice factor). does anybody have an idea on how to EASILY determine key information in the field of cpu load etc., such as via reading control

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-29 Thread J Ellis
also, as some very wise people on this list and other lists/papers have pointed out Know thy data some of our worst dasd response time issues were eliminated by simply looking at the logical volume placement and the data sets there on. Moving some DB2 indexes into different array groups and/or off

Re: easy access to the current cpu-peak-time status or cpu load

2010-07-29 Thread Itschak Mugzach
This invoice factor is a number that is caluleted reading milions of SMF recods. Why don't you just keep this number in your product DB ad let your customer enter this once a month? ITschak On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Dr. Stephen Fedtke max_mainframe_...@fedtke.com wrote: hi all, we

Re: zEnterprise announcement

2010-07-29 Thread R.S.
Timothy Sipples pisze: While the X86 blades are in the Statement of Direction category, there's quite a bit more information already about the Power blades. They are exactly the same PS701 Power blades that are available for IBM's BladeCenter, same AIX, same PowerVM. If you've already got PS701

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: easy access to the current cpu-peak-time status or cpu load

2010-07-29 Thread Paul Gillis
What? Millions of type 89 SMF records. Nah, about 12,000 a month. Or report on SMF70LAC field in type 70 records, I do this daily for one of my customers. Cheers, Paul Gillis -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Itschak

Re: remove() of PDSE member leaves PDS locked

2010-07-29 Thread Etienne Thijsse
It seems the symptoms have led me to draw wrong conclusions. The fact that ISPF reports the PDSE *in use* the moment I stepped over remove() in the debugger led me to believe that remove() was causing the PDSE to be locked and the following fopen() to fail. But some experimentation shows that

Re: ***SPAM*** Re: easy access to the current cpu-peak-time status or cpu load

2010-07-29 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Ok. Suggest him to read those 12K records on product startup ;-) On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Paul Gillis pgil...@pc-link.com.au wrote: What? Millions of type 89 SMF records. Nah, about 12,000 a month. Or report on SMF70LAC field in type 70 records, I do this daily for one of my

Re: IBM Is Hiring

2010-07-29 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:33:34 -0500, Jim Marshall jim.marsh...@opm.gov wrote: IBM is Hiring! Interview with us on July 27th in McLean,VA. ... As the planet becomes smarter, we have a chance to create meaningful progress and change the way the world works – for the better. At IBM Global Business

Multiple Personality Disorder

2010-07-29 Thread Mohammad Khan
That may be true but someone else is displaying signs of MPD switching between Anton and Mohammed. No wonder the recruiter just freaked out. Mohammad On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:31:20 -0600, Anton Britz antonbr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Somebody in IBM is trying to generate a false perception of

JWT

2010-07-29 Thread Hal Merritt
I seem to recall the JWT (job wait time) parameter was an IPL only type of change. However, I see some evidence ( a redbook) that it can be changed on the fly with a SET SMF=xx command. This seems to have been the case for some time. Anyone recall when this happened? Thanks NOTICE: This

Re: easy access to the current cpu-peak-time status or cpu load

2010-07-29 Thread Blaicher, Chris
In the RCT are the following variables. RCVUICA DCH'0' - UIC AVERAGE RCVCPUA DCH'0' - CPU AVERAGE RCVCPUAA DCH'0' - processor usage average I think these will meet your needs. Chris Blaicher Phone: 512-340-6154 Mobile: 512-627-3803

Re: easy access to the current cpu-peak-time status or cpu load

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:38:45 +0200, Dr. Stephen Fedtke max_mainframe_...@fedtke.com wrote: hi all, we need to know in realtime how close the system is to its cpu peak interval/time (meaning that peak time representing the z user's major invoice factor). does anybody have an idea on how to

Re: CICS - KICKS (Re: PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et al.)

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a30a9f528e618748a8ef5199e80c4a1c04cfc...@wkpp1infmb03.cbsh.com, on 07/23/2010 at 03:48 PM, Kelman, Tom thomas.kel...@commercebank.com said: I believe that the KICKS you're talking about is designed to run on Hercules an MVS/zOS emulator No, Hercules is not an MVS/zOS emulator; it is a

Re: Encryption Software products

2010-07-29 Thread Hal Merritt
Actually, you might find that the crypto card is a less expensive option. I am told that software encryption/decryption is very costly in terms of CPU which is why IBM offered the 'specialty engine' (crypto card). Not sure where so many get the bizarre idea that encryption is cheap/easy. It

Re: EMC Timefinder Snap and Dealloc

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2016465832-1280165760-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-5717886...@bda026.bisx.prod.on.blackberry, on 07/26/2010 at 05:36 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said: I worked on the last MVS 3.8 (before qualifiers such as SE, SP, XA, ESA, etc), before SE1 came along. No. You've garbled

Re: EMC Timefinder Snap and Dealloc

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In bay145-w59e6c32ada4a649eed894ba3...@phx.gbl, on 07/26/2010 at 05:00 PM, J R jayare...@hotmail.com said: Also, ISTR that when someone deleted procedure S, the process still worked. In other words, the proc not found JCL error was still good enough to drive allocation. But perhaps I'm

Re: CICS OPENAPI

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4c4afae2.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com, on 07/24/2010 at 02:38 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com said: I've been told that CICS on z/OS (we just migrated from VSE) inherantly utilizes multiple CPs That is correct; CICS has multiple tasks performing various overhead functions.

Re: CICS OPENAPI

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4c4b0f3e.4090...@acm.org, on 07/24/2010 at 11:05 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said: Prior to relatively recent CICS support for multi-threaded transaction code and prior to DB2 applications all transactions under one CICS region were single threaded under one TCB effectively limiting

Re: JWT

2010-07-29 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip--- I seem to recall the JWT (job wait time) parameter was an IPL only type of change. However, I see some evidence ( a redbook) that it can be changed on the fly with a SET SMF=xx command. This seems to have been the case

PDSs or libraries in other OSs was Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's

2010-07-29 Thread Clark Morris
On 28 Jul 2010 21:07:47 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: In ahir46pl6pf37rnd70alkbiutp8vv4h...@4ax.com, on 07/26/2010 at 11:47 AM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu said: I don't even like ordinary PDS. Other operating systems don't need them. ITYM that they call them

Re: JWT

2010-07-29 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 7/29/2010 8:27:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time, hmerr...@jackhenry.com writes: JWT (job wait time) parameter was an IPL only type of change. However, I see some evidence ( a redbook) that it can be changed on the fly with a SET SMF=xx command. This seems to have been the

Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's

2010-07-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:49:34 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In ahir46pl6pf37rnd70alkbiutp8vv4h...@4ax.com, on 07/26/2010 at 11:47 AM, Howard Brazee said: I don't even like ordinary PDS. Other operating systems don't need them. ITYM that they call them something else. I see it

Re: Encryption Software products

2010-07-29 Thread R.S.
Hal Merritt pisze: Actually, you might find that the crypto card is a less expensive option. I am told that software encryption/decryption is very costly in terms of CPU which is why IBM offered the 'specialty engine' (crypto card). That's absolutely untrue! Crypto cards are for secure key

Re: JWT

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:13:44 -0500, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: -snip--- I seem to recall the JWT (job wait time) parameter was an IPL only type of change. However, I see some evidence ( a redbook) that it can be changed

ISO oldtimers willing to edit or write Wiki articles

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
I've written some articles (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Chatul#My_contribs) for Wikipedia and part of their process is for assessment. They don't have a lot of editors familiar with old IBM hardware and software. In the short term, I'm looking for people with the background to review or

Re: performance of dynamic memory allocation in linkage section

2010-07-29 Thread Hal Merritt
Many times the amount of storage actually needed greatly exceeds expectations and often sets a scalability cap. More, these kinds of programs are often a huge PITA to run and keep running. Of course, in storage table lookups with a good lookup strategy can be very fast. But, then, a well

Re: PDSs or libraries in other OSs was Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's

2010-07-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I don't see anything comparable in either Unix/Linux or Windows. DLL's are comparable. - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! Kimota! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Finding the procedure name from a program

2010-07-29 Thread Bruce Richardson
I'm looking for the control block and field name that contains the name of the procedure (or the member name of the PROCLIB) used in a step. I have an assemble program that displays the following for a job step: JobName, StepName, ProcStep, ProgramName, UserID And I would really like to round

Re: memory/address sharing in batch mode

2010-07-29 Thread Chris Craddock
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 1:39 AM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.comwrote: Amlan Prasad wrote: hi, Has anyone come across or heard of or actually worked on technical design in mainframe where memory/address/data can be passed or shared in parallel by two different jobs? Yes. We do

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-29 Thread Ron Hawkins
J, This is what Pat describes as SIBLING PEND and it is easy to spot the symptom because it shows up as Disconnect Time. I sure IBM and EMC have something like HDS's Performance Monitor. It's a GUI with exportable data that you can use to monitor skewed activity across the parity groups that

Re: share mainframe disk experience

2010-07-29 Thread Guy Gardoit
I don't work for HDS but have worked with all three DASD types and agree that HDS with Truecopy or BSM is your best bet. 2010/7/28 Ron Hawkins ron.hawkins1...@sbcglobal.net Tommy, I have a suggestion. I would suggest that the USP-V is better than either VMAX or DS8700. But I work for HDS,

Re: performance of dynamic memory allocation in linkage section

2010-07-29 Thread Mohammad Khan
Unless you have to output all this data e.g. write it to a file, print it to a report etc. DO NOT move all this data to the program. The cross memory move from DBM1 to program address space can be prohibitive and that's not even accounting for the processing cost. If there is something to be

Re: IBM Is Hiring

2010-07-29 Thread Graham Hobbs
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Split OMVS file

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Steely
I have a ZFS file which is larger than a 3390 mod 2 volume. I would like to split this file to fit on 2 3390 mod 2 volumes. What would the best way to do this. We are z/OS V1R11. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You *** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE *** This e-mail message and

Split OMVS file

2010-07-29 Thread Mark Steely
Correction. I have a ZFS file which is larger than a 3390 mod 3 volume. I would like to split this file to fit on 2 3390 mod 3 volumes. What would the best way to do this. We are z/OS V1R11. Any help would be appreciated. Thank You *** CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE *** This

Re: Split OMVS file

2010-07-29 Thread Chris Craddock
On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Mark Steely mark.ste...@wnco.com wrote: I have a ZFS file which is larger than a 3390 mod 2 volume. I would like to split this file to fit on 2 3390 mod 2 volumes. What would the best way to do this. We are z/OS V1R11. Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Split OMVS file

2010-07-29 Thread Riedel, Alexander
Just allocate a ZFS as multivolume enabled. Ask your SMS-Administration for the correct dataclass. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Craddock Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: IBM Is Hiring

2010-07-29 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
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Re: Split OMVS file

2010-07-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:08:05 -0500, Chris Craddock wrote: Just make a bigger volume? Seriously, most USB memory sticks are way bigger :-) Yes, but z/OS doesn't support them. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Split OMVS file

2010-07-29 Thread McKown, John
Just make it SMS managed and go with multiple volumes. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com

Re: IBM Is Hiring

2010-07-29 Thread zMan
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Re: Encryption Software products

2010-07-29 Thread Robert Steiskal
Hal and RS, I thought you might be interested to know that many of our customers use the software based encryption and compression capabilities of SecureZIP to significantly reduce the size of their encrypted files in storage. In order to achieve this benefit, there is a need for the file to

Re: Split OMVS file

2010-07-29 Thread Hal Merritt
Splitting a logically related file such as a ZFS might complicate your backup/recovery strategy. Without some planning, you may incur a risk of useless backups. Going with a single, larger volume may be the easiest and safest. Of course, no size fits all and YMMV. HTH and good luck.

Re: Split OMVS file

2010-07-29 Thread Scott Rowe
z/OS may not support USB, but it certainly supports larger volumes, as does any recent DASD subsystem. Using small volumes for other that certain specific uses (XCF CDSs, etc) is a waste of space, IMHO. Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com 7/29/2010 12:16 PM On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:08:05

Re: Encryption Software products

2010-07-29 Thread Greg Boyd
The Crypto card is not required, if you're using OpenPGP, however the work that would be done on the card is done in software, which may or may not provide acceptable performance. It really depends on your requirements. The Crypto card is required if you're using the z Format and the RSA

Re: Encryption Software products

2010-07-29 Thread Phil Smith
Hal Merritt wrote: Actually, you might find that the crypto card is a less expensive option. I am told that software encryption/decryption is very costly in terms of CPU which is why IBM offered the 'specialty engine' (crypto card). Not sure where so many get the bizarre idea that encryption

Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread McKown, John
OK, it's probably a stupid thought. But we are losing our laptop with the air card. So we won't have a way to access our z system when not at home or where there is wifi (assuming I take my own laptop around with me). So, with all these new smartphones such as the Droid, I was wondering if that

Re: Encryption Software products

2010-07-29 Thread Hal Merritt
We don't seem to have much to go on when evaluating the cost/benefit/scalability of hardware vs software based solutions. All I was able to find was this quote: While low-volume traffic could be protected with software-based encryption, the demand for fast hardware-accelerated encryption gave

Re: PDSs or libraries in other OSs was Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's

2010-07-29 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Ted MacNEIL wrote: I don't see anything comparable in either Unix/Linux or Windows. DLL's are comparable. - I'm not sure I follow this - just how are DLL's comparable to PDS's? - Dave Rivers - -- riv...@dignus.comWork: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe

Re: IBM Is Hiring

2010-07-29 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
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Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread Rich Smrcina
Assuming you have no firewall issues... Finding a 3270 emulator for Android will be the biggest problem. I've been looking for one since I got an Android based phone without luck. The form factor will be the next hurdle to get past. Granted, you won't be doing heads down data entry, but it is

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread Natarajan Mohan
John, There are VPN client software for windows mobile based phones. There are TN3270 and telnet clients for most phones windows mobile, blackberry, iphone, android etc. There are also VNC/RDP clients for most of these phones. Though all these exist, its very hard to use from handheld devices.

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread Wissink, Brad [ITSYS]
Here is a redbook on just this topic. It has support for iPhone and Droid. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedbookAbstracts/sg247836.html?OpenDocument System z on the Go: Access z/OS from Smartphones. Brad Wissink Information Technology Services Iowa State University 515-294-3088

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread J. D. Cassidy
John, acquired a Nokia N900 telephone last week and have been SSH and telneting to my heart's content. C3270 (sister of X3270) works also. = OK, it's probably a stupid thought. But we are losing our laptop with the = air card. So we won't have a way to access our z system when not at home

Re: EXTERNAL: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)
Take a look at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ24A5kE6XM VMware View on iPhone Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Facilities Design and Operations Contract Strategic Technical Engineering NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058

Re: Finding the procedure name from a program

2010-07-29 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Bruce Richardson wrote: I'm looking for the control block and field name that contains the name of the procedure (or the member name of the PROCLIB) used in a step. I have an assemble program that displays the following for a job step: JobName, StepName, ProcStep, ProgramName, UserID JobName -

Re: Finding the procedure name from a program

2010-07-29 Thread Kirk Talman
procedure name not available but * GET_SSIBJBID DS 0H jobnumber L R1,16 --CVT USING CVT,R1 L R1,CVTTCBP --TCB words DROP R1 L R1,4(R1)

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
So, with all these new smartphones such as the Droid, I was wondering if that device could be used to VPN into our LAN and then do 3270 emulation? I know absolutely nothing about these devices. Can they telnet into UNIX systems? Since RUMBA and HOD can 3270-Interface with IE, I can give a

Re: PDSs or libraries in other OSs was Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's

2010-07-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I'm not sure I follow this - just how are DLL's comparable to PDS's? They hold more than one 'member' of executable run time modules, similar to SEERUN, for example. Even the name 'Dynamic Link Library' could be comparable. But, remember 'comparable' does not mean exact. They are also more

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
John, Android apps like the free EasyTether Lite can be used to tether your laptop to the cell data network on most Android phones. The app is basically a NAT router written in Java, and doesn't require you to root the phone. The free version of the app blocks https: after a while, but other

Re: CICS OPENAPI

2010-07-29 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Thanks for clarifying for me! Frank On 7/29/2010 at 7:04 AM, in message 20100729140617.08ea1f58...@smtp.patriot.net, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 4c4afae2.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com, on 07/24/2010 at 02:38 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com

Re: PDSs or libraries in other OSs was Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's

2010-07-29 Thread zMan
Sure. Heck, a single-level subdirectory is similar to a PDS! That's how I describe them to the PC kids I work with... On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: snip Somebody stated there were no equivalents on other OS's. At the risk of being pedantic, I came up

Re: IBM Is Hiring

2010-07-29 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Bill, If you follow the link in Jim's first post (this thread) to the posted jobs, folks can still apply.  I spot checked several and could have put in an app on the spot - if I had wanted to. HTH, Linda Mooney - Original Message - From: Bill Fairchild

Re: IBM Is Hiring

2010-07-29 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Ken, You're right about the list that was contained in the original post.  However, following Jim's link brings up a more detailed list.  I didn't go all the way through that list, but within the top third was a z/OS systems programmer opening for maint and ISV product installs, etc. 

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-29 Thread Joel Wolpert
The first thing you have to determine is the breakout of the DASD RT. What is the RT and how much of it is due to connect vs. disc vs. IOSQ vs. pend. From there you can start understanding if you have an I/O RT problem and what might be causing it. Joel Wolpert Performance and Capacity

Re: Split OMVS file

2010-07-29 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2010-07-29 18:03, Mark Steely pisze: I have a ZFS file which is larger than a 3390 mod 2 volume. I would like to split this file to fit on 2 3390 mod 2 volumes. What would the best way to do this. We are z/OS V1R11. Any help would be appreciated. 1. Consider using bigger volumes

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-29 Thread Joel Wolpert
Disconnect time can also show up as synchronous remote copy (SRDF). If the links are saturated it will elongate the DISC time and therefore the RT. Joel Wolpert Performance and Capacity Planning consultant WEBSITE: www.perfconsultant.com - Original Message - From: Ron Hawkins

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread Greg Shirey
There is a TN3270 Lite app for the iPhone. Coincidentally, someone was just showing it to me earlier today. Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 1:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Access z/OS 3270

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:39:28 -0500, Rich Smrcina wrote: There is a OpenVPN client for Android, but sadly it requires rooting the device. An implementation of VNC is also available. An SSH client is available which I've used, it is quite nice. root? Would that be a synonym for jailbreak? Or

Specifics on the new Z196

2010-07-29 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/07/19/z196_mainframe_blade_interconnect/ As El Reg already reported, the System z11 machine will sport 96 cores and give about 80 of them over to running either z/OS or Linux in a single system image (rated at around 50,000 aggregate MIPS by our math) or

Re: Any ROT for DASD Response time

2010-07-29 Thread Ron Hawkins
Joel, That's when you start looking at the Type42 subtype 6 records. Read disconnect time is reported separately, so you can establish if the problem is TrueCopy links or Sibling Pend. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf

Re: zEnterprise announcement

2010-07-29 Thread Edward Jaffe
R.S. wrote: Just curious: what is the difference? Nowadays I can have z10 and Power baldes. In the future it will be possible to have z196 and zBX. Is there any *technical* difference between z196 + zBX and z196 + regular power blades? z196+zBX is a trusted system of systems managed by the

Re: Specifics on the new Z196

2010-07-29 Thread Phil Smith
Ed Gould wrote: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/07/19/z196_mainframe_blade_interconnect/ And, yes that's zEnterprise 196 - without the characteristic slash used in IBM mainframe names since a lot of us were babies and before some of you were born. This is snide and ignorant gibberish --

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread zMan
It's the term in Android-land. On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: root? Would that be a synonym for jailbreak? Or is it from the Strine lexicon? -- zMan -- I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it

Re: easy access to the current cpu-peak-time status or cpu load

2010-07-29 Thread Edward Jaffe
Dr. Stephen Fedtke wrote: we need to know in realtime how close the system is to its cpu peak interval/time (meaning that peak time representing the z user's major invoice factor). does anybody have an idea on how to EASILY determine key information in the field of cpu load etc., such as via

Re: Another reason to hate PDSE's

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201007290954519942.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 07/29/2010 at 09:54 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I see it differently. I assume the something else in other OSes is a directory or a folder. Or something else. Enough functional differences to not consider them

Re: fopen mode w+ on PDS member fails, but w succeeds

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201007200752424694.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 07/20/2010 at 07:52 AM, Etienne Thijsse e.thij...@chello.nl said: Does anyone have an idea why fopen(//PDS(MEMBER), w+) fails, while fopen (//PDS(MEMBER), w) succeeds? Because you can't append to a member. You can update in place, but I

Re: Getting CPU busy % in program

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4c3da48f.40...@isis-papyrus.com, on 07/14/2010 at 01:50 PM, Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com said: I thought to use SDSF REXX from program, but I think it is stupid to communicate via REXX variables from a program It's stupid to do it any other way from a program that

Re: Finding the procedure name from a program

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201007291411530224.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 07/29/2010 at 02:11 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: The rest I *think* you would have to look at JES2 macros. No way. TIOT and SCT are all that you need, and JES2 doesn't track all of those data. --

Re: Finding the procedure name from a program

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201007291045372971.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 07/29/2010 at 10:45 AM, Bruce Richardson bruce.richard...@arcelormittal.com said: I'm looking for the control block and field name that contains the name of the procedure (or the member name of the PROCLIB) used in a step. Which procedure?

Re: GML (was Unix systems and Serialization mechanism)

2010-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 66388274-1278229443-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-15848985...@bda026.bisx.prod.on.blackberry, on 07/04/2010 at 07:44 AM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said: No, GML is a superset of script, by definition. A superset includes all the functions/elements of the original set, PLUS

ALTER of open VSAM cluster

2010-07-29 Thread Frank Swarbrick
It appears we can ALTER FREESPACE while a file is open to CICS (or anywhere else, I assume). Is this an OK thing to do, so the next time the file is reloaded it will use the new freespace values? -- Frank Swarbrick Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development FirstBank Data

Re: ALTER of open VSAM cluster

2010-07-29 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 5:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ALTER of open VSAM cluster It appears we can ALTER FREESPACE while a file is open to CICS (or anywhere

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-07-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:34:27 -0400, zMan wrote: It's the term in Android-land. So, a little of both, then, eh? On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: root? Would that be a synonym for jailbreak? Or is it from the Strine lexicon? Searching around, I discovered that on July

Re: ALTER of open VSAM cluster

2010-07-29 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 07/29/2010 06:26 PM, Thompson, Steve wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 5:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ALTER of open VSAM cluster It appears we can

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