Contents of CVTDCB

2010-08-27 Thread Peter Relson
I need to know what the expected setting of the CVTDCB field (CVT + X'74') is on a z/OS V1R9 system. It has been x'9B' since MVS/ESA SP3.1.0. CVTDCB DCXL1'9B' (and none of the bits are set other than by the load of the nucleus) Would you care to share with us why you need to know?

Re: Test DASD performance tools

2010-08-27 Thread Ron Hawkins
Bruce, That's a good idea, providing the customer is willing to provide accurate description of what they want to have modeled. SMF has a lot of really good averages, but very little in the way of detailed access patterns. Can you tell skip sequential access from random with a Type 74 record?

Re: Contents of CVTDCB

2010-08-27 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:21:27 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: I need to know what the expected setting of the CVTDCB field (CVT + X'74') is on a z/OS V1R9 system. It has been x'9B' since MVS/ESA SP3.1.0. CVTDCB DCXL1'9B' (and none of the bits are set other than by the load of the nucleus)

USS Processing - When are children spawned

2010-08-27 Thread Kelman, Tom
Cross posted to IBMMAIN and the MXG listserv: I'm the mainframe performance analyst at my company. We have started running our first intensive USS process. It is a package called Custom Statement Format, and our application programmers have written a front end to it. The front end is a UNIX

Re: Test DASD performance tools

2010-08-27 Thread Shane
That's a good idea, providing the customer is willing to provide accurate description of what they want to have modeled. SMF has a lot of really good averages, but very little in the way of detailed access patterns. Can you tell skip sequential access from random with a Type 74 record? Can a

CBT File 830 - Xephon MVS Update articles - fixed on Updates page

2010-08-27 Thread Sam Golob
Hi Folks, I just made some global corrections to File 830 (old XEPHON MVS Update articles) on the Updates page of www.cbttape.org to fix ASCII to EBCDIC conversion errors. Also, I tried to reformat some of the articles from 80-byte wide text to 72-byte wide text. Since there are 926

Re: USS Processing - When are children spawned

2010-08-27 Thread David Waldman
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:55:13 -0500, Kelman, Tom thomas.kel...@commercebank.com wrote: ... Also, if anyone can point me to some documentation concerning USS and specifically performance tuning of USS processing, I would appreciate it. Ths z/OS Unix System Services Planning manual is a good

COBOL/CICS Integrated Translator

2010-08-27 Thread Greg Shirey
We recently started using the Integrated Translator for our CICS/COBOL programs and came across something interesting. We apparently have some programs where some EXEC CICS statements start in Area A - the columns between 8 and 11 - and these programs had always successfully

Re: O/T Stupid Data Center tricks

2010-08-27 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:55:21 -0500, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: I still have horrible memories of a CEO that ordered me to develop and install, via ZAP, the multiple-level alias feature two years before IBM provided it. I thought he was going to fire me when I refused, flat out, to

Re: Test DASD performance tools

2010-08-27 Thread Ron Hawkins
Shane, Are you saying you aren't allowed to look at any of the performance data in your storage. I know at least one vendor that bundles it with the storage and gives you export tools so you can analyze Microprocessor usage and internal path activity to your heart's content. Ron

Re: Contents of CVTDCB

2010-08-27 Thread Don Bolton
John, From my 1.9 system: D IPLINFO IEE254I 09.07.11 IPLINFO DISPLAY 218 SYSTEM IPLED AT 09.19.05 ON 08/16/2010 RELEASE z/OS 01.09.00LICENSE = z/OS READY test 'sys1.linklib(iefbr14)' TEST l

Re: O/T Stupid Data Center tricks

2010-08-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Rick Fochtman wrote: I still have horrible memories of a CEO that ordered me to develop and install, via ZAP, the multiple-level alias feature two years before IBM provided it. I thought he was going to fire me when I refused, flat out, to meddle in Catalog Management. Did they fired you or

3270 Emulator Software (Splitv)

2010-08-27 Thread Steve Bireley
To respond to John Chase's question, BlueZone does support 62 x 160 with 4 explicit partitions to do split and splitv. The 3290 terminal size (62 x 160) is set in the 3270 Emulation Parameters Tab. Set the device type to Dynamic in the TN3270 settings Device Tab. Enable the Multiple Explicit

Re: USS Processing - When are children spawned

2010-08-27 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Children are spawned when the currently executing code invokes the spawn() or fork() functions. There probably are standard times when the system code provided by IBM does so but an application has complete control over if and when it does so. From:

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In aanlktimayq9+ses-siacmahb2np4pvgehjt6gc3fk...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/26/2010 at 09:26 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: No, this was a windows program named RJE80 (not the Dec Eclipse software). Emulated a BSC 2703 RJE device. ITYM 2780; the 2703 was a controller. I am

Re: USS Processing - When are children spawned

2010-08-27 Thread Kelman, Tom
David, Thanks. I already had a copy of the Initialization and Tuning Reference and now I've downloaded the PDF copy of the USS Planning manual. Looks like a little light bedtime reading for me this weekend. Tom Kelman Capacity Planning Commerce Bank, Kansas City -Original Message-

Re: USS Processing - When are children spawned

2010-08-27 Thread Kelman, Tom
Barry, Thanks. So then, a program doesn't necessarily need to spawn a child just to be able to access the zFS files. That is what the second job is doing. It's accessing the images on the zFS files to apply them to statements which are on a standard PS file. Tom Kelman Capacity Planning

Re: DFSORT: FILTER by STCK format

2010-08-27 Thread Victor Gil
Thanks a lot, I'll give it a try. -Victor- --- On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:44:05 -0700, Frank Yaeger yae...@us.ibm.com wrote: Victor Gil on IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 08/26/2010 10:12:01 AM: Frank, Unfortunately, the 'hhmm' format is

Enterprise Cobol

2010-08-27 Thread Guy Gardoit
We are running Enterprise Cobol 3.4.1. z/OS 1.12 which we will be ordering soon can include EC 4.2. How can one find out the IBM support expiration date for EC 3.4.1? Thank you. -- Guy Gardoit z/OS Systems Programming --

Re: Enterprise Cobol

2010-08-27 Thread Gibney, Dave
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycleapp/PLCDetail.wss?synkey =B984385H82239E03from=spf Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Guy Gardoit

Re: ssh-keygen Command

2010-08-27 Thread Leonard Sasso
Thank You, It worked for me. How can I place a copy of the key file (/u/home/sa10$/.ssh/id_dsa) in a mainframe data set ? Thank You. Len Sasso RDC Operations - Systems Administrator CSC Information Technology Infrastructure Services (ITIS) | p: 518.257-4209 | m: 518.894-0879 | f:

Re: instruction opcode

2010-08-27 Thread John Baxter
Can CBT be updated with the info for these two instructions? John Baxter Technical Consultant ATCO I-Tek Server Services, Technologies Bus: (780) 420-7455 Fax: (780) 420-3737 E-mail: john.bax...@atcoitek.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: COBOL/CICS Integrated Translator and Area A

2010-08-27 Thread William M Klein
all snipped This is in reply to the issue/question about the Integrated CICS co-processor not supporting source code that works (whether supported or not) with the separate CICS translator step. The issue being when either the EXEC CICS or END-EXEC words are in the A-margin rather than the

Re: Enterprise Cobol

2010-08-27 Thread Steve Comstock
Guy Gardoit wrote: We are running Enterprise Cobol 3.4.1. z/OS 1.12 which we will be ordering soon can include EC 4.2. How can one find out the IBM support expiration date for EC 3.4.1? Thank you. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/index_e.html -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: instruction opcode

2010-08-27 Thread Bill Fairchild
Google for these four words: b265 and ibm and z/os and instruction Then select the 7th item listed. Scan it for b265 and ... voilĂ . My apologies to Abe if he added the B265 info to that webpage just before I Googled for it. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software -Original Message- From:

Re: Enterprise Cobol

2010-08-27 Thread Jousma, David
Also, something to consider. I wouldn't roll EC 4.2 with your serverpack rollout in a multisystem environment. IIRC, the requisite LE PTF's that have to be on the downleveled systems weren't obvious(like HOLD ACTION). I had EC4.2 in DEV about 6 months ago for testing, and a program got

Re: ssh-keygen Command

2010-08-27 Thread Starr, Alan
Len, There are many ways that that can be accomplished. Here's one: //* //OGET EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=256,REGION=31M, // PARM='OGET ''.ssh/id_dsa'' DSAKEY.BIN BINARY' //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*

Re: ssh-keygen Command

2010-08-27 Thread Leonard Sasso
Alan: Thank you, is it possible to create a mainframe data set with a specific file name (ex. TEST..DSAKEY.BIN) ? Could you please provide other ways that that can be accomplished or point me to a document(s)? Thank You. Len Sasso RDC Operations - Systems Administrator CSC Information

Re: Test DASD performance tools

2010-08-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip--- That's a good idea, providing the customer is willing to provide accurate description of what they want to have modeled. SMF has a lot of really good averages, but very little in the way of detailed access patterns.

Re: O/T Stupid Data Center tricks

2010-08-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip I still have horrible memories of a CEO that ordered me to develop and install, via ZAP, the multiple-level alias feature two years before IBM provided it. I thought he was going to fire me when I refused, flat out, to

Re: O/T Stupid Data Center tricks

2010-08-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip- I still have horrible memories of a CEO that ordered me to develop and install, via ZAP, the multiple-level alias feature two years before IBM provided it. I thought he was going to fire me when I refused, flat out, to meddle

Re: Test DASD performance tools

2010-08-27 Thread Ted MacNEIL
that this sort of warranty protects the performance guy at a customer site from actually having to understand IO performance. Cheap shot - I'm a SuperHero with neither powers, nor motivation! Kimota! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Test DASD performance tools

2010-08-27 Thread Ron Hawkins
Rick, We were talking about getting vendors to model your performance on their respective offerings, not an existing IO problem. It's the sort of thing that was done by people at BGS that lived in small cells underground and they were occasionally rewarded with raw meat. The proposition is that

PoPS

2010-08-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
My unfailing gratitude to several of you ladies and gentlemen who sent me the Principles of Ops PDF. I have it now and I'm quite grateful to all that helped. Rick -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: COBOL/CICS Integrated Translator

2010-08-27 Thread Don Leahy
Not being from a CICS shop, I cannot speak to that, but we ran into similar glitches when we started using the SQL Coprocessor. In our case all of the issues were documented (see this SHARE presentationhttp://ew.share.org/client_files/callpapers/attach/SHARE_in_Denver/S1553TR141625.pdf for