Hiperbatch on ZOS 1.10

2010-08-24 Thread Sarel Swanepoel
Thanks Ron. Do you perhaps have a link to updated documentation for this seems difficult to find any. Kind Regards, Sarel Swanepoel Infrastructure Hosting Services: Capacity Management South African Revenue Services -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: EBCDIC-ASCII translation and vendor products

2010-08-24 Thread Timothy Sipples
DB2 is a heavy Unicode Services (UCS) user. For example, beginning with DB2 8, the parser operates in Unicode. DB2 certainly isn't the only UCS user, by any means. - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect STG Value Creation Complex Deals Team IBM Growth Markets (Based in

Re: Hiperbatch on ZOS 1.10

2010-08-24 Thread Ron Hawkins
Sarel, I believe this is the latest version. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea5j700/CONTENTS ?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0KDT=19990208095033#FRONT_2 It's still in the MVS bookshelf, third from the top after Batch LSR. Document title is MVS Hiperbatch Guide. Ron -Original

Re: Announcement/FCS dates for IOCP and MVSCP

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201008201054137834.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 08/20/2010 at 10:54 AM, Joe D'Alessandro joseph.d'alessan...@fiserv.com said: I recall MVSCP coming into usage with MVS/SP 2.2.0 . That sound about right. Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
I just went through the archives looking for generic information on 3270 emulators. There is a lot but no specific to my requirements. So here goes. What are - say - the top 5 emulators everyone uses out there. I have in my list so far Hummingbird Bluezone HOD (Host on Demand -

Re: Anybody used SDSF / REXX in HTTPD CGI pgm?

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201008191847300157.1...@bama.ua.edu, on 08/19/2010 at 06:47 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: This works if the CGI program if written in any language other than Rexx; No; it only works in two situations * The source code starts with a shebang * The path designates

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 002d01cb42cf$384d88e0$a8e89a...@org, on 08/23/2010 at 10:26 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Not sure that I understand the question but perhaps the answer is that unlike machines you may have used in the past, standard OS architecture and linkage does not use a stack, It's

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In blu0-smtp1480c2e4f6169b7c0c0cebaa0...@phx.gbl, on 08/24/2010 at 07:47 PM, Ram Study rambal...@chennairocks.in said: Can anyone explain me why we are using Entry and Exit conventions in Mainframe assembler. Because the vendor documented them. Because it helps to promote interoperability.

3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
I just went through the archives looking for generic information on 3270 emulators.  There is a lot but no specific to my requirements. So here goes. What are – say - the top 5 emulators everyone uses out there. I have in my list so far Hummingbird Bluezone HOD (Host on Demand – IBM) – an I am

Re: z10 temperature logging

2010-08-24 Thread Jim Elliott, IBM
On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:29:48 -0400, Scott Rowe scott.r...@joann.com wrote: Does anyone know if there is any place where z10 CEC temperatures are logged? The data is now available on the SAD in real time, but is it logged anywhere? IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager for Linux on System z

Re: EBCDIC-ASCII translation and vendor products

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 00d101cb42b2$08a0d100$19e273...@org, on 08/23/2010 at 06:57 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: most favorably disposed to a product that Uses standard system services instead of rolling its own. - used z/OS Unicode Services and gave you the ability in the vendor products parameter

Re: z196 sysplex question

2010-08-24 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2010-08-23 23:04, Rick Fochtman pisze: ---snip- Obviously this is my humble opinion, but even IBMers used to admit that there are very few customers who need more than two (TWO!) CPCs - of course having in mind

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2010-08-24 12:42, Lizette Koehler pisze: I just went through the archives looking for generic information on 3270 emulators. There is a lot but no specific to my requirements. So here goes. What are - say - the top 5 emulators everyone uses out there. I have in my list so far

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Martinez, Frank J
We use two: PowerTerm by Ericom Software and QWS (QuickWorkStation Secure) by Jolly Giant Software Frank J. Martinez Technical Support Supervisor IT System z Tel.: 305-284-3919 Cell: 305-987-8281 Fax : 305-284-3872 e-Mail: fjm...@miami.edu -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Charles Mills
Um, don't the descendants of the 8086 -- you know, those pesky PCs -- have a stack implemented in hardware? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 7:00 AM To:

Who is TCBJSTCB

2010-08-24 Thread Micheal Butz
Hi, Just for clarafication in EXEC PGM=MICHEAL. TCBJSTCB. is not the initiator but MICHEAL Sent from my iPhone -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Peter Sylvester
On 08/24/2010 01:23 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Um, don't the descendants of the 8086 -- you know, those pesky PCs -- have a stack implemented in hardware? And there also you have entry/exit conventions. At least two, see cdecl ou stdcall. Who does the push/pop, caller or subroutine. Any

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Peter Nuttall
HI Lizette, You might want to check if any of your apps are using EHLLAPI (Screen scraping) or HLLAPI , so you can make sure the new emulator software supports that (I suspect most do, but you never know ). Extra is in use here, deployed over citrix Kind regards, Peter

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 6:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module Um, don't the descendants of the 8086 -- you know, those

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Saraco
Over the years and doing consulting work for several different companies my favorite is TN3270 Plus by http://www.sdisw.com/. It is cheap works great and with Citrix I have never seen it deployed with Citrix. I connect using Citrix to 2 different clients then use TN3270 for my emulation.

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Itschak Mugzach
I have z/Scope installed on my laptop. Be aware of the supported certificate types. Not all of the emulators supports all types of certificates, especially ARMs. ITschak On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 4:11 PM, Michael Saraco michael.sar...@baer-consulting.com wrote: Over the years and doing

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 5:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: 3270 Emulator Software SNIPPAGE However, I was wondering if there were others. My requirements are

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Charles Mills
True stack based machines don't have general purpose registers Fair enough. Remember Forth? it is superior to the PC's because you can't overflow the stack. On a PC, this overwrites memory Of course we all know the Z is superior to all other types of hardware, real or even conceived. :-) But

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread George.William
Strange, no one seems to have mentioned what I believe is one of the BEST and I've heard others state such too. Hmmm. Tom Brennan's Vista! http://www.tombrennansoftware.com/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Um, don't the descendants of the 8086 -- you know, those pesky PCs -- have a stack implemented in hardware? Don't DEC machines have them also? - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! Kimota! -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Ward, Mike S
I believe IBM has PCOMM, and there is another vendor called ERICOM they have a pretty good tn3270 client. We use OpenText Host Explorer. It used to be HummingBird. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent:

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Grinsell, Don
Lizette, We just went through a TN3270 RFP and chose Bluezone as a replacement for Attachmate. We deploy via traditional thick client, thin client, served desktop and Citrix. If you want more information on our selection criteria, contact me offline and I'll send you the technical

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Eric Spencer
1. Tom Brennan's Vista! http://www.tombrennansoftware.com/ Very small footprint, fast, supports SSL, has reasonable font selection, FTP, Macros (record/playback) The best $30 I've spent in a long time. And you have your choice of colors (really) even pink. And fantastic support, I've never had

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 007001cb437e$bb883fc0$3298bf...@org, on 08/24/2010 at 07:23 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Um, don't the descendants of the 8086 -- you know, those pesky PCs -- have a stack implemented in hardware? Well, they have something called SP, but the Devil is in the details. You're

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4c73b326.3030...@edelweb.fr, on 08/24/2010 at 01:55 PM, Peter Sylvester peter.sylves...@edelweb.fr said: And there also you have entry/exit conventions. At least two, see cdecl ou stdcall. Who does the push/pop, caller or subroutine. If you're lucky, the push and pop might be for the same

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea005d5e05...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 08/24/2010 at 07:40 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: There are not truly stack based as Shmuel was talking about. True stack based machines don't have general purpose registers. It's possible to have a

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 013e01cb4379$111dcaa0$33595f...@com, on 08/24/2010 at 06:42 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com said: There is a lot but no specific to my requirements. Are you looking for a 3270 simulator or for a TN3270 client? If the latter, have you looked at x3270. What features do you need,

Re: Soft Cap

2010-08-24 Thread Silvio Camplani
I have 4 lpars in a group. SCRT reports the group value in the E5 section (PRODUCT SUMMARY INFORMATION) which is what appears when I upload the report to LMS. The N5 section (DETAIL LPAR DATA SECTION) does show a total for the CPC as group+1. Silvio Camplani zSeries Sr. Analyst, Systems Support

BLSR

2010-08-24 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
Hi all, Does any of you know if there is a tool named BLSR Aid ? If it exists where can i find it ? TIA Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Ituriel do Nascimento Neto BANCO BRADESCO S.A. 4254 / DPCD Engenharia de Software Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes Tel: +55 11 4197-2021 R: 22021

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread zMan
Folks, read her post -- she mentioned Vista in her query. But consider this another vote for a good, solid piece of software. I've seen and used dozens of tn3270 clients. Most are pretty well the same, though you'll learn to hate specific features in some of them. I would thus STRONGLY recommend

Re: BLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Aled Hughes
Try this Cisco website: https://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/optical/ps2006/products_command_reference_chapter09186a0080950dbf.html -Original Message- From: ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO 4254.itur...@bradesco.com.br To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tue, Aug 24, 2010 4:06 pm

Re: BLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Scott Rowe
Why? Aled Hughes aledlhug...@aol.com 8/24/2010 11:16 AM Try this Cisco website: https://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/optical/ps2006/products_command_reference_chapter09186a0080950dbf.html -Original Message- From: ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO 4254.itur...@bradesco.com.br To:

Re: BLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Marco Gianfranco Indaco
IBM Redbooks SG246105 VSAM Demystified 2010/8/24 Scott Rowe scott.r...@joann.com Why? Aled Hughes aledlhug...@aol.com 8/24/2010 11:16 AM Try this Cisco website: https://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/optical/ps2006/products_command_reference_chapter09186a0080950dbf.html

LP:PP ratio?

2010-08-24 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Has the recommended ratio for Logical to Physical processor changed in the last 10 years or so? There was a time where a ratio above 2:1 led to something called Short Engine Syndrome or generally sluggish CPU performance. A colleague in the office now maintains the WSC has changed the

Re: BLSR

2010-08-24 Thread Aled Hughes
Scott Because it refers to 'BLSR Aid'. If it does not refer to the particular BLSR Aid requested, I apologize, I was merely trying to be helpful. Cheers ALH -Original Message- From: Scott Rowe scott.r...@joann.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tue, Aug 24, 2010 4:18 pm Subject: Re:

Re: Who is TCBJSTCB

2010-08-24 Thread Stephen Donaldson
For which TCB? IEAVAR00 is JSTCB for IEAVAR00 region control. IEAVTSDT is JSTCB for IEAVTSDT DUMP task. IEESB605 is JSTCB for IEESB605/IEFSD060. MICHAEL is JSTCB for MICHAEL and (usually) children. Stephen R. Donaldson, Code Magus Limited (England reg. no. 4024745) Number 6, 69

Re: EBCDIC-ASCII translation and vendor products

2010-08-24 Thread Charles Mills
issues with customers that don't have it running/configured properly Anyone? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 1:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: EBCDIC-ASCII

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 008101cb4392$d0c24570$7246d0...@org, on 08/24/2010 at 09:46 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: But I do recall that the 8086+ family has an SS register that normally points to the end (lower memory extremity) of the stack. The SP grows toward 0 has I recall and causes a program

Re: simple JCL question

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201008191837506477.1...@bama.ua.edu, on 08/19/2010 at 06:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: You generally laud JCL for embracing Assembler's syntactic conventions. Another it spurned was order-independence of keyword arguments. WTF? Keyword arguments in JCL are

Re: LP:PP ratio?

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:21:46 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] obrie...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Has the recommended ratio for Logical to Physical processor changed in the last 10 years or so? There was a time where a ratio above 2:1 led to something called Short Engine Syndrome or generally

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 245452399-1282658035-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-16452400...@bda026.bisx.prod.on.blackberry, on 08/24/2010 at 01:54 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said: Don't DEC machines have them also? Which DEC machines? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

2010-08-24 Thread Tony Harminc
On 24 August 2010 08:40, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: There are not truly stack based as Shmuel was talking about. True stack based machines don't have general purpose registers. Instructions, such as ADD, take their operands from a stack and leave their results on the

Re: Soft Cap

2010-08-24 Thread Al Sherkow
I've presented on this fact at Share conferences, z/OS Expo and CMG. The 4 hour rolling average (4HRA) often (but not always) stabilizes at a number higher than an LPAR's Defined Capacity or an LPAR Group's Capacity Limit. This has to do with the algorithms WLM uses to control the capping. When

Re: LP:PP ratio?

2010-08-24 Thread Ron Hawkins
David, I believe that the 2:1 ratio can be pretty well dead and buried, especially with enhancements like Hyperdispatch. There were two affects as I recall. One was that the excess number of LP increased CPU time through increased HSB miss, and that low weight LPARs with way too many engines

Re: EBCDIC-ASCII translation and vendor products

2010-08-24 Thread Brian Peterson
Here's my two cents. http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0708L=ibm-mainP=R22070 I wrote the above post in August 2007, and it is still true today. Every z/OS shop should do this - Unicode On Demand works great! Brian --

iEFUTL Exit...Batch job with OMVS Spawned Address Spaces

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Jacobs
We've run into a problem with our IEFUTL exit allowing a batch job to be terminated for wait time exceeded even though it has executing OMVS spawned address spaces. A fast look through the exits manual didn't spot anything in the exits parameter list where I can test for this condition. I

Re: Who is TCBJSTCB

2010-08-24 Thread Micheal Butz
When EXEC PGM=MICHEAL the initator does an ATTACH JSTCB=YES. For MICHEAL is represented by what data name of the TCB control block TCBJSTCB. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 24, 2010, at 11:27 AM, Stephen Donaldson step...@codemagus.com wrote: For which TCB? IEAVAR00 is JSTCB for IEAVAR00

Re: simple JCL question

2010-08-24 Thread zMan
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: Perhaps you are thinking of references to specific steps, but there's no analog to that in assembler. Sure there is -- the order of the instructions! (Although with OoO Execution, even THAT changes...)

Re: iEFUTL Exit...Batch job with OMVS Spawned Address Spaces

2010-08-24 Thread Larry Macioce
what about a time parm in the job card(time=1440)? mace -- 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

Re: iEFUTL Exit...Batch job with OMVS Spawned Address Spaces

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:05:20 -0400, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: We've run into a problem with our IEFUTL exit allowing a batch job to be terminated for wait time exceeded even though it has executing OMVS spawned address spaces. A fast look through the exits manual didn't spot

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Dave Salt
From: zedgarhoo...@gmail.com One anti-recommendation: Extra! has sucked pretty badly IMHO for a very long time. Buggy and flaky. I have to agree. Last year I worked at a customer's site for 2 months, and was forced to use Extra! The first thing I did after installing SimpList was to try to

Re: iEFUTL Exit...Batch job with OMVS Spawned Address Spaces

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 08/24/10 13:17, Mark Zelden wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:05:20 -0400, Mark Jacobsmark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: We've run into a problem with our IEFUTL exit allowing a batch job to be terminated for wait time exceeded even though it has executing OMVS spawned address spaces. A fast

Re: iEFUTL Exit...Batch job with OMVS Spawned Address Spaces

2010-08-24 Thread McKown, John
I can't directly help you. But what I'd do is run one of these jobs. When the step is waiting for a UNIX process to finish, I'd do a console DUMP command of that address space. I'd then look at the TCB and RB to see if there is something that I could test in my IEFUTL exit. I would guess that

Re: iEFUTL Exit...Batch job with OMVS Spawned Address Spaces

2010-08-24 Thread McKown, John
Did a quick look. If you use SDSF and the PS command to look at UNIX processes, you will see that SDSF has a message on the job which says: TSH0099 STC47962 SWAPPED,WAITING FOR CHILDTSH009 1WI 0.06 83887051 8388704779 004F -sh So SDSF knows that it is

Re: VSAM question (was CICS Question)

2010-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 200800533-1279300268-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-16566119...@bda026.bisx.prod.on.blackberry, on 07/16/2010 at 05:11 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said: To cic...@listserv.uga.edu Also, you can send it to almost any list server -- if it doesn't recognise it as one of its

Re: SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER: JAVA 5.0 PTFs not found by server??

2010-08-24 Thread Brian Peterson
I opened a PMR with IBM to inquire about this. I learned two things: 1) The PTFs UK59131 and UK59134 are now available as of today. 2) It might be a good idea to wait for new PTFs UK59501 and UK59510 which are coming real soon and will replace UK59131 and UK59134 respectively. I've asked IBM to

Re: simple JCL question

2010-08-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:38:09 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: You generally laud JCL for embracing Assembler's syntactic conventions. Another it spurned was order-independence of keyword arguments. WTF? Keyword arguments in JCL are order-independent. Perhaps you are thinking of references

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Rick Fochtman
You really should look at VISTA, from TomBrennanSoftware.com It's quite good and, in my experience, very reliable. Rick Lizette Koehler wrote: I just went through the archives looking for generic information on

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread George.William
Dave We have EXTRA! and I too am not as pleased with it as a few others. However, at least with Extra! Xtreme 9 you can change the mouse's left double click to select and ENTER. HOWEVER, it is NOT in the mouse map settings but in the Global Preferences. Go figure. -Original Message-

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Gates, Guy
Hi, We use NEXUS currently, and used Reflections in the past. Thanks...Guy M. Gates Jr. TTI Z/OS Systems Programmer II -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with

Job Submission exit

2010-08-24 Thread Ward, Mike S
Hello all, I'm asking for a little help. I would like to keep TSO users from submitting jobs using class P. I am looking through the Jes2 exits, but I'm not sure which one to choose. If someone could point me in the right direction I would appreciate it. Also if anyone has a sample or knows where

Re: simple JCL question

2010-08-24 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Gil, The problem with your example is that even though it looks like it is, PGM=xxx is not a keyword argument. According to the JCL reference manual, the first parameter after the EXEC statement is a positional parm and the rest of them are keyword. The While I'm not saying I agree with

Re: simple JCL question

2010-08-24 Thread Steve Comstock
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:38:09 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: You generally laud JCL for embracing Assembler's syntactic conventions. Another it spurned was order-independence of keyword arguments. WTF? Keyword arguments in JCL are order-independent. Perhaps you

Re: Job Submission exit

2010-08-24 Thread Williamson, James R
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 3:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Job Submission exit Hello all, I'm asking for a little help. I would like to keep TSO users from

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Field, Alan C.
I don't know about favourites, but Dave Alcock has a pretty extensive list at http://planetmvs.com/tn3270/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 05:56 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: iEFUTL Exit...Batch job with OMVS Spawned Address Spaces

2010-08-24 Thread Starr, Alan
That is a very intriguing question and there were some responses that further piqued my curiosity, so I did some digging. I believe that the SDSF PS command may be using the MVS BPXEKDA service to display the waiting for child status. I took a dump of one of these waiting for child address

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Michael Knigge
Rick Fochtman schrieb: You really should look at VISTA, from TomBrennanSoftware.com It's quite good and, in my experience, very reliable. Yeah, it is! And the Font that comes with Vista is just GREAT! It is so great that I use it with SPF/SE (a SPF-like Editor for Windows) and not just for

Re: Job Submission exit

2010-08-24 Thread Starr, Alan
James, You can used JES2 exit 2 (I use JES3 but I suspect you'll find an example in HASPSAMP or HASPSRC). You can also use SMF exit IEFUJV (examples in SAMPLIB members IEEUJV and SMFEXITS). Cheers, Alan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Job Submission exit

2010-08-24 Thread Starr, Alan
Sorry Mike. The exit that James mentioned will work fine too, as long as you're only concerned with jobs entering via the TSO SUBmit CP. There are other ways to submit jobs into the system from TSO (e.g. executing a foreground IEBGENER to INTRDR or FTPing to JES). Cheers... -Original

Re: Job Submission exit

2010-08-24 Thread Jack Schudel
We use JES2 exit 6 to restrict job classes to selected RACF groups, but is should be pretty easy to just check the origin for TSUn instead. The problem with using the TSO submit exit is that it is easy to bypass by just using any old program to send card images to the INTRDR. /jack

Re: Job Submission exit

2010-08-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:22:20 -0500, Ward, Mike S mw...@ssfcu.org wrote: Hello all, I'm asking for a little help. I would like to keep TSO users from submitting jobs using class P. I am looking through the Jes2 exits, but I'm not sure which one to choose. If someone could point me in the right

Re: Job Submission exit

2010-08-24 Thread Rick Fochtman
I've sent you, via private E-Mail, a copy of the IKJEFF10 exit we used at Board of Trade Clearing Corp. It does job-class enforcement based on userid. Enjoy. :-) Rick --- Ward, Mike S wrote: Hello all, I'm asking for a little help. I would like to

Re: Job Submission exit

2010-08-24 Thread Ward, Mike S
Got it. Right now I'm only interested in the TSO users. All of you thanks for all the feedback and help. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Starr, Alan Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 4:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: iEFUTL Exit...Batch job with OMVS Spawned Address Spaces

2010-08-24 Thread Shane
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 13:24 -0400, Mark Jacobs wrote: The problem seems to be that the submitted batch job is waiting for the spawned OMVS address spaces to complete. When the wait time limit for the batch job is exceeded IEFUTL gets control and the parameter list indicates that it's a

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Lizette, I have used Tom Brennan's Vista TN3270 and I like it very much. Some of our customer base uses Mocha TN3270 from MochaSoft,  I have not used it, but they seem to like it pretty well. HTH, Linda Mooney - Original Message - From: Lizette Koehler

Re: SDSF and z/OS 1.11

2010-08-24 Thread John Chase
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:36:22 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 08:39:17 -0500, Chase, John wrote: Here's a weird one for you: We recently upgraded two LPARs from z/OS 1.9 to z/OS 1.11. One of those LPARs is our sandbox, which is pretty well crippled (one CPU, 3GiB central

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Ivan Warren
On 8/24/2010 12:56 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: What are – say - the top 5 emulators everyone uses out there. I have in my list so far - A real 3279 Mod 3 (If I had one) - Not really an emulator is it ? But the best experience ever ! - SDI's TN3270 Plus - x3270 - c3270 ..

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/24/2010 5:43:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time, i...@vmfacility.fr writes: A real 3279 Mod 3 (If I had one) - Not really an emulator is it ? But the best experience ever ! The 3192's with the VGA ports were outstanding. Then GRAFTEK with PCI card was great, but pricey.

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Ron Hawkins
- A real 3279 Mod 3 (If I had one) - Not really an emulator is it ? But the best experience ever ! [Ron Hawkins] I often miss my 3472G. A Mainframe terminal with a mouse and supported five sessions! -- For

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Graeme Gibson
We use Tom Brennan's Vista at ASE: http://www.tombrennansoftware.com take care all, Graeme At 08:42 PM 24/08/2010, you wrote: I just went through the archives looking for generic information on 3270 emulators. There is a lot but no specific to my requirements. So here goes. What are -

Re: SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER: JAVA 5.0 PTFs not found by server??

2010-08-24 Thread Ed Gould
--- On Tue, 8/24/10, Brian Peterson brian.peterson.ibm.m...@comcast.net wrote: From: Brian Peterson brian.peterson.ibm.m...@comcast.net Subject: Re: SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER: JAVA 5.0 PTFs not found by server?? To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 2:18 PM I opened a PMR with IBM