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Sorry, some formatting was wrong because I have cutted the code out of an
another REXX and forgot some formatting. I have also inserted a check
whether we found a lpar/partition. When not, do not create a report and give
only a information that the HMC - security option switch - GLOBAL
PERFORMANCE
Thanks to all who contributed to this. IBM posted this on the PMR:
The diagnostic phase is complete. We have opened APAR OA34546 to
prevent the result of the sequence of events. If you like, please visit
IBMLINK to recieve notification of the APAR's progress. Let me know if
you would
Dave Kopischke pisze:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 06:37:18 -0400, Jousma, David wrote:
A quick look at the HMC book on resource link, I find:
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A quick update: A colleague of mine had his Java release updated to _13 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Bnx84hcDA
Interesting. Still hard to tell whether it's viable or not, but it's more
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In
77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca343c7e...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com,
on 10/05/2010
at 01:47 PM, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com said:
Also a long time ago, when IBM used to distribute their source code,
one could find working code that used STARTIO in the JES3 and IMS
source, I believe.
I know the OP got another solution. But I wanted to see how to use Unicode
services with FTP. And since it was definately a learning experience for me, I
decided to share. If somebody wants to put this information on their z/OS web
site, that would be nice. I don't have a web site. Now, can
When my old employer went bankrupt and closed down, I was lucky enough to
get a job at a new company (for a lot less money of course). Over the last
few months I have been trying to implement some things that I had done in
the past to make things easier to maintain. One of the things was the
Amdahl's sample program used the Miscellaneous I/O Driver (IOSMISID = X'01').
Bill Fairchild
Rocket Software
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 8:00 AM
To:
Wouldn't it be easier to create a SYS1.PARMLIB.SHARED to house members you want
to share and leave the IBM default members in SYS1.PARMLIB?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Neal Eckhardt
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 8:45
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 07:44:40 -0500, Neal Eckhardt wrote:
... it looks like PARMLIB cannot be
moved off of the IPL volume if you need to use a system symbol to resolve
the VOLSER for SYS1.PARMLIB.
Why do you want to move SYS1.PARMLIB? SYS1.PARMLIB is one of your
SMP/E maintained data sets and
H - more real ?.
Runs under z/VM - what is real. I seem to recall having this
(somewhat metaphysical) discussion with Allan Altmark a couple of
years ago.
Shane ..
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 05:20:06 -0700
Phil Smith wrote:
Interesting. Still hard to tell whether it's viable or not, but it's
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[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 8:56 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Moving SYS1.PARMLIB
Wouldn't it be easier to create a SYS1.PARMLIB.SHARED to
house
I do not know the DDNAME that TSO CALL uses for the pgmlib allocation, but
these
routines may be used to find all of the PDS' allocated to the TSO address
space.
***routine LOCDEBS locates the DEB for all datasets allocated to the region and
saves the addresses in a table along with the
I'm getting ready for a z/OS upgrade from 1.4 to 1.10, and as part of
that we[1] will be going from SAS 8 to SAS 9.2. SAS 9.2 works fine on
z/OS 1/10, but we get an 0C4 trying to use it on our 1.4 system. I did
notice that the 1.4 system is still ARCLVL=1 (ESA/390 mode), but don't
know whether
In
1513982670-1286370603-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-4517029...@bda011.bisx.prod.on.blackberry,
on 10/06/2010
at 01:10 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said:
Can't anyone do their own research anymore?
The answer seems to be NO.
If someone has looked, couldn't find the
In aanlktinnadwcwqouexpk6novfznckqdg5yvvzxgcd...@mail.gmail.com, on
10/05/2010
at 02:42 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said:
Have you ever actually tried to use QEDIT and STOP/MODIFY on a TSO
session?
Il va sans dire.
It has indeed worked the same way for 4 decades, but that doesn't
mean
In listserv%201010042257331476.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 10/04/2010
at 10:57 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
CLIST makes it real hard to even know what the value in a
variable is.
CLIST makes a lot of things real hard; Rexx is a much better language.
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In listserv%201010051134580220.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 10/05/2010
at 11:34 AM, Paul Edwards mutazi...@gmail.com said:
I have been told that telnet is effectively TN3215, even though it's
not called that.
There is no TN3215. The Telnet NVT is modelled after a Teletype®, and
uses ASCII rather than
A colleague and I were talking as we feel the powers to be are looking
at options other than the mainframe. The talk went to dollars and cents I
stated the price of a z box has dropped big(for our size shop) but the cost of
purchasing dasd is still high along with maint.
His question was why
We have been using (relatively) cheap SATA disks connected to our Hitachi
USP.
IBM says that XIV for z/OS is on the road map. I do not know when this will
happen.
Mike
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Larry Macioce mace1...@gmail.com wrote:
A colleague and I were talking as we feel the powers
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Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 10:24 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd
A colleague and I were talking as we feel the powers
John, you do NOT want ICCF on z/OS. ICCF, IMHO, one of the worst editors
ever.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:39 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
wrote:
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Macioce
TSO is any better give me a break, like every thing else depends how you
know how to use it
and BTW what did ICCF have to do w/ DASD ?
Mark Pace
I believe that is an incorrect statement. SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB is maintained by
SMP/E and the PARMLIB DDDEF should point to it. A sample SYS1.PARMLIB is
supplied as part of the installation of z/OS but is not maintained by SMP/E.
Simply take your SYS1.PARMLIB data set off of the system residence
Put ICCF on z/OS. Put everything on z/OS. Those who loathe ICCF can use a
different editor. Those who love it can use it. It's still a free country.
Bill Fairchild
Rocket Software
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Mark
That link is from April 2009
They did post a new one today
http://www.youtube.com/user/MantissaCorp#p/u/0/Reo1Bm5Wom0
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Phil Smith
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 8:20 AM
To:
Well, as you know Mark, the ICCF library is not the real library system
for z/VSE. VSE uses its own library format rather than PDSes. Complete
with utility programs (mainly LIBR) and the LIBRM macro interface. It
works well.
And, John, VSE has happily supported VTOCS on FBA DASD for decades
John:
Interesting that you should mention the CMS file system and MVS.
Back around 1982 I was working for IBM in the Poughkeepsie, NY lab. Four
of us did a prototype which ran CMS in a TSO address space under SIE.
My part of the project was the implementation of the CMS file system,
which
... it looks like PARMLIB cannot be
moved off of the IPL volume if you need to use a system symbol to resolve
the VOLSER for SYS1.PARMLIB.
SYS1.PARMLIB can be moved off the sysres and shared. Don't indirectly
catalog it if you are. There does need to be a SYS1.PARMLIB somewhere
in the
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:03:56 -0500, Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net wrote:
No, SYS1.PARMLIB is not SMP/E maintained and distributed by IBM. It is
a local data set. IBM changed their parmlib to IBM.PARMLIB a long time
ago (or SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB in many shops). That is what the PARMLIB
DDDEF points
Nope... gone.
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com wrote:
That link is from April 2009
They did post a new one today
http://www.youtube.com/user/MantissaCorp#p/u/0/Reo1Bm5Wom0
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
XIV supporting z/OS roadmap? Can you point me at something official that says
this? I would like to look at the XIV but I was told by our VAR that XIV
supporting FICON and (emulated) CKD isn't in the works.
I for one would love to see it!
Rex
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From: IBM Mainframe
z86VM Booting a Linux kernel (DSL v4.4.10)
This video has been removed by the user.
C'est la vie.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Ken Porowski
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 10:58 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
ps2...@yahoo.com (Ed Gould) writes:
William:
Thanks it was interesting. What I got a big kick out of how IBM did
not mention their abandoment of education in the 80's and 90's. Their
2003 date was to late and a dollar short.
I also thought it was interesting as how they danced around some
I would like to have the option to run my code at the highest priority
possible, without going to srb mode scheduling a global srb. I added the
following entry to the PPT in the schedule member, then did a SET SCH= tp pick
it up.
PPT PGMNAME(APBEGN) CANCEL KEY(8)
NOSWAP PRIV
DB2 v9.1 is installed with quite recent service (half of Sept 2010)
I'm trying to install Admin Tool 7.2 for DB2 (which is the most recent
version).
SMP/E APPLY fails, the causers are the following APARs: AM06344 AM17999.
I tried to download fixes from ShopzSeries, unfortunately Shop told me
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:00:20 -0400, Mike Myers wrote:
Back around 1982 I was working for IBM in the Poughkeepsie, NY lab. Four
of us did a prototype which ran CMS in a TSO address space under SIE.
Our project to implement CMS in TSO as a real product was killed during
the nearly completed
Larry Macioce pisze:
A colleague and I were talking as we feel the powers to be are looking
at options other than the mainframe. The talk went to dollars and cents I
stated the price of a z box has dropped big(for our size shop) but the cost of
purchasing dasd is still high along with maint.
m...@mentor-services.com (Mike Myers) writes:
John:
Interesting that you should mention the CMS file system and MVS.
Back around 1982 I was working for IBM in the Poughkeepsie, NY
lab. Four of us did a prototype which ran CMS in a TSO address space
under SIE.
I did a coporate advanced
Yes, that would all matter a lot...of course, they had the source
code, and maybe used R17?
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:00:20 -0400, Mike Myers wrote:
Back around 1982 I was working for IBM in the Poughkeepsie, NY lab. Four
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 11:31:56 -0500, Dave Day david...@consolidated.net wrote:
I would like to have the option to run my code at the highest priority
possible, without going to srb mode scheduling a global srb. I added the
following entry to the PPT in the schedule member, then did a SET SCH= tp
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
Where did you put NUCON? IIRC, there's an EXTRN for NUCON, which
implies the possibility of relocating it and using an ADCON as a
base. But IIRC also there's so much hardcoded USING NUCON,R0
that relocation would be futile. Aren't the PSWs also
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:37:52 +0200, R.S. wrote:
DB2 v9.1 is installed with quite recent service (half of Sept 2010)
I'm trying to install Admin Tool 7.2 for DB2 (which is the most recent
version).
SMP/E APPLY fails, the causers are the following APARs: AM06344 AM17999.
I tried to download fixes
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 09:55:32 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L veilleu...@aetna.com
wrote:
Wouldn't it be easier to create a SYS1.PARMLIB.SHARED to house members
you want to share and leave the IBM default members in SYS1.PARMLIB?
-Original Message-
I'm trying to cut down on the number of
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:35:39 -0500, Brian Peterson
brian.peterson.ibm.m...@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:37:52 +0200, R.S. wrote:
DB2 v9.1 is installed with quite recent service (half of Sept 2010)
I'm trying to install Admin Tool 7.2 for DB2 (which is the most recent
version).
SMP/E
So if you only want a single SYS1.PARMLIB then point to the correct
location in the Mastercat of each system. The VOLSER specified in LOADxx
is for an additional SYS1.PARMLIB to be concatenated since it will
always include SYS1.PARMLIB, as cataloged in the Master Catalog, is
added at the end of
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 10:23:38 -0500, Larry Macioce wrote:
A colleague and I were talking as we feel the powers to be are looking
at options other than the mainframe. The talk went to dollars and cents I
stated the price of a z box has dropped big(for our size shop) but the cost of
purchasing dasd
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 12:18:54 -0500, Dave Kopischke wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2010 06:37:18 -0400, Jousma, David wrote:
A quick look at the HMC book on resource link, I find:
...
v Microsoft Internet Explorer 8.0 with (at a minimum) Java SE 6, update 13.
A quick update: A colleague of mine had his
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:17:37 -0500, Dennis Trojak
dennis.tro...@radioshack.com wrote:
So if you only want a single SYS1.PARMLIB then point to the correct
location in the Mastercat of each system. The VOLSER specified in LOADxx
is for an additional SYS1.PARMLIB to be concatenated since it will
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:44:48 -0500, Neal Eckhardt wrote:
My original question was what good is allowing the specification of a VOLSER
for SYS1.PARMLIB in LOADxx if the OS immediately goes to the catalog and
the IPL fails because it can't resolve the indirect VOLSER in the catalog? It
should use
Gil:
Well, it's been a long time and I don't remember any NUCON issue.
SIE made it possible to assign the virtual origin of a space within the
TSO address space and have it represent absolute zero to the guest system.
At the time we were running on MVS/ESA but implementing 24-bit CMS, so
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
I'm getting ready for a z/OS upgrade from 1.4 to 1.10, and as part of
that we[1] will be going from SAS 8 to SAS 9.2. SAS 9.2 works fine on
z/OS 1/10, but we get an 0C4 trying to use it on our 1.4 system. I did
notice that the 1.4 system is still ARCLVL=1 (ESA/390
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:54:25 -0500, Neal Eckhardt wrote:
It appears that specifying the VOLSER for SYS1.PARMLIB in this way requires
TWO SYS1.PARMLIB datasets. One on the volume where the PARMLIB
ststement points, and one that is pointed to by the Master Catalog (if they
are not the same). It
snip---
In
1513982670-1286370603-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-4517029...@bda011.bisx.prod.on.blackberry,
on 10/06/2010
at 01:10 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said:
Can't anyone do their own research anymore?
-snip:
A colleague and I were talking as we feel the powers to be are looking
at options other than the mainframe. The talk went to dollars and cents I
stated the price of a z box has dropped big(for our size shop) but the
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:59:01 -0500, Tom Marchant m42tom-
ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote:
It doesn't immediately go to the catalog.
SYS1.PARMLIB, as cataloged in the master catalog, is always part of
the PARMLIB concatenation. If it has not been specified that way, it
is added to the end of the PARMLIB
rfocht...@ync.net (Rick Fochtman) writes:
My 2 cents worth: the cheap DASD doesn't live up to the reliability
standards that IBM demands for z/OS. Stop and think, really hard,
about the demands on z/OS DASD storage, as opposed to the standards
you enjoy with your PC DASD. How many of your PC's
Have you ever actually tried to use QEDIT and STOP/MODIFY on a TSO
session?
Yes!
It has indeed worked the same way for 4 decades, but that
doesn't mean your application program can accept commands using it.
It worked just fine for me back in the '70s.
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010
Also a hypocrite, since *you* demand that others do your work for you.
I'm not going to argue with you, but AFIK, I only did thjat once, and it was a
poorly worded query which led to a misunderstanding.
I checked the archives, and found my question almost always asked where to look
it up.
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 14:18:27 -0500, Tom Marchant m42tom-
ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote:
The system symbols that are defined where? In PARMLIB?
Perhaps you want to change the PARMLIB concatenation after the IPL
using SETLOAD. I wouldn't want to do it routinely, but it's not my dog.
You might want to
W dniu 2010-10-08 21:35, Rick Fochtman pisze:
[...]
My 2 cents worth: the cheap DASD doesn't live up to the reliability
standards that IBM demands for z/OS.
Agreed, however expensive is not equal to good.
Stop and think, really hard, about
the demands on z/OS DASD storage, as opposed to the
Rick,
We just went through an exercise in purchasing new DASD for mainframe and
*nix/windows. The price tag for adding FICON to the disk subsystems was
ridiculous. This was on top of paying extra for the frames that even supported
FICON as opposed to the ones that didn't. Everything else
W dniu 2010-10-08 19:49, Mark Zelden pisze:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:35:39 -0500, Brian Peterson
brian.peterson.ibm.m...@comcast.net wrote:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:37:52 +0200, R.S. wrote:
DB2 v9.1 is installed with quite recent service (half of Sept 2010)
I'm trying to install Admin Tool 7.2
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 22:17:51 +0200, R.S. wrote:
Just to make sure I understood it correctly:
Should I simply bypass the APARs and APPLY the function along with the
PTFs???
1) You should APPLY and ACCEPT the Base Function ONLY. Specify
BYPASS(HOLDERROR) on the APPLY and the ACCEPT.
2) Then,
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 18:37:52 +0200, R.S.
r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote:
I'm trying to install Admin Tool 7.2 for DB2 (which is the most recent
version).
SMP/E APPLY fails, the causers are the following APARs: AM06344 AM17999.
It seems strange, because HOLDDATA entry regarding AM06344 is
My SYS1.PARMLIB is empty. I keep LOADxx in SYS1.IPLPARM on the IODF
volume. I gave up on system symbols in LOADxx members. I only have a
handful. 4 monoplex LPARs. But, I like the flexibility of several
libraries in the concatenation.
SYS1.WSUMVS1.PARMLIB.ZOS111
SYS1.WSUMVS1.PARMLIB.OVERRIDE
My 2 cents worth: the cheap DASD doesn't live up to the reliability
standards that IBM demands for z/OS.
I was discussing this with a Storage Manager at a large Canadian Bank.
His biggest complaint was that the same DASD cost more if he used it under z/OS
than the case under
So put each on your SYSRES volume and use the '**' indicator so that
it gets resolved to the correct IPL volume.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Neal Eckhardt
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 3:04 PM
To:
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:03:53 -0500, Neal Eckhardt wrote:
What would make sense to me is to use the SYS1.PARMLIB dataset pointed to
by the PARMLIB statement in LOADxx. If one is specified with a volser, use it.
If somebody wants the extra SYS1.PARMLIB from the catalog they can put a
second
Rick,
Midrange storage considerably outstrips tape in the z/OS reliability
standards arena, and there are several site that have found the economies of
scale to use virtualized cheap DASD for exactly that purpose.
Ron
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It's baaack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqvU4R3iMbg
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On 10/8/2010 1:08 PM, Bob Rutledge wrote:
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
I'm getting ready for a z/OS upgrade from 1.4 to 1.10, and as part of
that we[1] will be going from SAS 8 to SAS 9.2. SAS 9.2 works fine on
z/OS 1/10, but we get an 0C4 trying to use it on our 1.4 system. I did
notice
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