Re: X-memory POST question

2010-12-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:31:37 -0500 Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: :At 14:28 -0500 on 12/20/2010, Gerhard Postpischil wrote about Re: :X-memory POST question: :On 12/20/2010 11:28 AM, Charles Mills wrote: :A task in address space A issues a WAIT on an ECB in CSA (SP 241). :A task

Error connecting to new system(vtam tcp)

2010-12-21 Thread Larry Macioce
I am trying to connect to my test lpar(where I have installed z/OS1.9) so I can install 1.11. I have moved all tcp and vtam related parms over to 1.9(so it should look like the test lpar 1.6) I have the OSA devices online, I have vtam connecting and I thought I had tcp correct also. The reason

Re: Error connecting to new system(vtam tcp)

2010-12-21 Thread Larry Macioce
FYI I can ftp into the new system and use the default userid/password and list datasets thanks Larry -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: Error connecting to new system(vtam tcp)

2010-12-21 Thread Rabbe, Luke
Is the TN3270 server running in its own address space? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Larry Macioce Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 6:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Error connecting to new system(vtam tcp) I

Re: Error connecting to new system(vtam tcp)

2010-12-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Larry Macioce wrote: 1)Local socket is connecting to remote server/host xx.xxx.xx.xxx using port 23 2)Failed connecting to remote server/host timeout has reached using port 23 3)Hostname not specified or found I then have a black screen with a lightening bolt 658. What is NETSTAT HOME and PORTL

z/OS 1.12 coexistence ptfs

2010-12-21 Thread Lopez, Sharon
We are running z/OS 1.10 and will be migrating to 1.12 next year. I'm in the process of trying to apply the coexistence ptfs and I'm continually getting PTFS that are in error and the fixes are still open. Is everyone else experiencing this also? I've been doing this for a lot of years and

Re: z/OS 1.12 coexistence ptfs

2010-12-21 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Let me guess: UA56854 UA54819 UA52928 UA51215 and UA50081. If there are others, I am unaware of them or they are not applicable to my environment. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lopez, Sharon Sent: Tuesday,

Re: z/OS 1.12 coexistence ptfs

2010-12-21 Thread Cergol, Jerry
Doesn't matta what versions are involved. Open and PE Coexistence maintenance has become the norm. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lopez, Sharon Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: z/OS 1.12 coexistence ptfs

2010-12-21 Thread Jousma, David
I don't show UA56854, ua54819, ua52928, ua51215 or UA50081(sup'd by UA51215) as outstanding PE situations. All my 1.12 maint went on just fine, with the caveat that I applied a bunch of it a couples months ago, and is in production, and could have PE'd since then, but we aren't seeing the

Re: Error connecting to new system(vtam tcp)

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Mason
Larry I have moved all TCP and VTAM related parms over to 1.9 (so it should look like the test lpar 1.6) This implies that your definitions have been in essence copied from a system at level z/OS V1R6 to a system at level z/OS V1R9. I couldn't quite remember exactly when the change happened

Re: Meaning of SDSF Field PhaseName

2010-12-21 Thread Gates, Guy
I found this by hitting PF1 on the Status Screen. I am running z/OS 1.10. PhaseName Name of the job phase. Tab to Phase and press F1 for details. Phase Number of the job phase I do not know what AWAIT MAIN SELECTION means. Are you

Re: z/OS 1.12 coexistence ptfs

2010-12-21 Thread Richards, Robert B.
David, Check out OA34586. It points to UA50081 and UA51215. Now I *do not* have UA50081 on my system, so I am okay. But the fact remains that the error chain is as shown below...all caused by UA51215, which is still PE and prevents the others from being applied. Am I missing something here?

Re: z/OS 1.12 coexistence ptfs

2010-12-21 Thread Dennis Trojak
So APPLY UA51215 with a bypass and do the local fix #2 as documented in OA34586. Dennis -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS

Re: Error connecting to new system(vtam tcp)

2010-12-21 Thread Larry Macioce
Thank you all who replied The CoD didnt say anything about the change so I missed it I am currently going through all my current parms and parsing them, then I will place them where needed. Again thank you Larry -- For

Re: z/OS 1.12 coexistence ptfs

2010-12-21 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Dennis, My original answer to Sharon was about PE PTFs. I do not need the local fix because I have not applied UA50081 (which will eventually be sup'd by UA51215). Why would I apply UA51215 when it is still PE? For now, I can afford to wait a little while to see if it is fixed, resolving the

Re: z/OS 1.12 coexistence ptfs

2010-12-21 Thread Jousma, David
Yea, I saw that. We are not running PFA at all, and do not have health checker active anywhere outside our tech systems. _ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids,

Re: z/OS 1.12 coexistence ptfs

2010-12-21 Thread Dennis Trojak
Bob, My answer was for Sharon who it seemed was stuck on her co-existence migration to z/OS 1.12 and the bypass would resolve it. I've got UA51215 and UA50081 applied and I don't even run PFA so it is not hurting anything. Dennis -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

2010-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201012201051032933.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 12/20/2010 at 10:51 AM, Larry Macioce mace1...@gmail.com said: Subject: Problem with an edit command in tso ITYM ISPF -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html

Re: X-memory POST question

2010-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p06240850c935e9b77...@[192.168.1.11], on 12/21/2010 at 12:31 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: I assume that this is safe since you can not stop being the running task between the test and your updating the ECB There is no between; CS is atomic. -- Shmuel (Seymour

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

2010-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In m38vzks0ex@garlic.com, on 12/20/2010 at 02:35 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said: note that folklore is that unix was simplified version of multics In the sense that a canoe is a simplified version of a tug boat. The initial hardware for Unix did not have segmentation; dynamic

Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

2010-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201012201120430565.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 12/20/2010 at 11:20 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Whose moronic design fails to treat a command delimiter surrounded by quotes as plain text? Someone who understands the law of unintended consequences. That's what quotes

Re: X-memory POST question

2010-12-21 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
hal9...@panix.com (Robert A. Rosenberg) writes: I assume that this is safe since you can not stop being the running task between the test and your updating the ECB (and there is not compare swap was invented by charlie at the science center when he was working on fine-grain locking for cp67

Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

2010-12-21 Thread zMan
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: No. What would you expect ISPF to do with an input of   C /'//;C /C/C'/ Heh, similarly, in XEDIT, typing: LOCATE SYSLOG when you meant LOCATE /SYSLOG/ will do something suprising. Points for telling

Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

2010-12-21 Thread Larry Dinwiddie
LOCATE SYSLOG Simple: Finds Y, then issue LOG, which will log you off (30 years of VM) Larry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 10:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Problem

DCB open exit(IFG0EX0B) - how to install?

2010-12-21 Thread Johnny Luo
Hi, I have coded an IFG0EX0B exit and bring it to DLPA. But it doesn't seem to run cause I cannot see the WTO messages placed at the beginning of the program. Is it required to be in PLPA? Or I should define the exit to system? DFSMS manual doesn't say much about that. D

Re: DCB open exit(IFG0EX0B) - how to install?

2010-12-21 Thread McKown, John
It appears to not be a stand-alone module. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2c780/2.6.1 quote See Replacing an Existing Exit in topic 1.2.1. Your routine must have an entry point name that matches the exit name. Your CSECT is linked together with certain system

LPAR Optimization

2010-12-21 Thread Ken Hansen
I have a 2096-Q04 that I recently inherited performance responsibility for. It has three active LPARs: SYSA (Weight 300, 3 LPs) SYSB (Weight 200, 1 LP), and SYSC (Weight 400, 3 LPs). It is a shared processing environment that runs up to 93% busy overall with some frequency. But for reasons, I

Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

2010-12-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:24:16 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In listserv%201012201120430565.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 12/20/2010 at 11:20 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: Whose moronic design fails to treat a command delimiter surrounded by quotes as plain text? Someone who understands the law of

Dynamic Allocation 1.9 - 1.11?

2010-12-21 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, We've uncovered a difference in Dynamic Allocation behavior between z/OS 1.9 and z/OS 1.11 in our location. A vendor software package does dynamic allocation from a program - for an //ERRORS DD in this case. This batch job works fine under under 1.9, but abends under

Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

2010-12-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 20 Dec 2010 15:01:31 -0800, chrisma...@belgacom.net (Chris Mason) wrote: My security problem arose because I was in the habit of keying a userid, then tabbing and keying in the password. All the time I would be looking at the keyboard - as poor typists do! All of the solutions that shops

Re: Dynamic Allocation 1.9 - 1.11?

2010-12-21 Thread Doug Henry
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:19:31 -0700, Lester, Bob bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: We've uncovered a difference in Dynamic Allocation behavior between z/OS 1.9 and z/OS 1.11 in our location. A vendor software package does dynamic allocation from a program - for an //ERRORS DD in this

Re: Dynamic Allocation 1.9 - 1.11?

2010-12-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:19:31 -0700 Lester, Bob bles...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: :We've uncovered a difference in Dynamic Allocation behavior between :z/OS 1.9 and z/OS 1.11 in our location. :A vendor software package does dynamic allocation from a program - :for an //ERRORS DD in this

Re: Error connecting to new system(vtam tcp)

2010-12-21 Thread Chris Mason
Larry Thank you all who replied Thanks gratefully accepted - if Luke and Elardus don't mind me speaking for them. The CoD didnt say anything about the change so I missed it Well the CoD - whatever that is, and you must excuse my not knowing since I lead a sheltered life - seems to have

Disappearing Proc Parm

2010-12-21 Thread Tom Trainor
When I start the following proc (first line only shown) //SGPTSTP PROC MEMBER=LOCAL,DEST=LOCAL,INDEX=SGPTST ...with the following console start command s sgptstp,member=hp9050,dest=HP9050,msgclass=q,msglevel=(1,1) the following is the o/p in the JESJCL DDNAME: 1 //SGPTSTP JOB

Re: Disappearing Proc Parm

2010-12-21 Thread Ron Wells
use different name for symbolic in proc...like dest1=hp9050 From: Tom Trainor thomas.j.trai...@exxonmobil.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 12/21/2010 03:10 PM Subject:Disappearing Proc Parm Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu When I start

Re: Disappearing Proc Parm

2010-12-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:59:44 -0600 Tom Trainor thomas.j.trai...@exxonmobil.com wrote: :When I start the following proc (first line only shown) ://SGPTSTP PROC MEMBER=LOCAL,DEST=LOCAL,INDEX=SGPTST :...with the following console start command :s

Re: Disappearing Proc Parm

2010-12-21 Thread Tom Trainor
YES!!! -- 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 http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

2010-12-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Brazee On 20 Dec 2010 15:01:31 -0800, chrisma...@belgacom.net (Chris Mason) wrote: My security problem arose because I was in the habit of keying a userid, then tabbing and keying in the password. All the

Re: Disappearing Proc Parm

2010-12-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:17:39 -0600 Tom Trainor thomas.j.trai...@exxonmobil.com wrote: :YES!!! Then you have your answer. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect

Re: Disappearing Proc Parm

2010-12-21 Thread Tom Trainor
Why would it create the //IEFPROC.IEFRDER DD DEST=HP9050 statement for DEST=HP9050 and NOT for any OTHER parms passed to the PROC? Is there something special about the DEST= parm? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

2010-12-21 Thread Howard Brazee
On 21 Dec 2010 13:19:51 -0800, jch...@ussco.com (Chase, John) wrote: That said - I never understood how a computer professional doesn't decide that it would be a valuable skill to learn to type and take the time and effort to do so. Sure it's some up front work - but it saves so much work

Re: Disappearing Proc Parm

2010-12-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:42:13 -0600 Tom Trainor thomas.j.trai...@exxonmobil.com wrote: :Why would it create the //IEFPROC.IEFRDER DD DEST=HP9050 :statement for DEST=HP9050 and NOT for any OTHER parms passed to :the PROC? Is there something special about the DEST= parm? It creates it for any

Re: LPAR Optimization

2010-12-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I wouldlike to take advantage of the unused 7% for the SYSA LPAR. My fist instinct is to assign a 4th LP to SYSA. But should I be doing something else? Do you want resource usage for resource usage's sake? Do you have workloads waiting? Is the bottleneck real, or just lack of work. Try

Re: Disappearing Proc Parm

2010-12-21 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/21/2010 4:02 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:42:13 -0600 Tom Trainor thomas.j.trai...@exxonmobil.com wrote: :Why would it create the //IEFPROC.IEFRDER DD DEST=HP9050 :statement for DEST=HP9050 and NOT for any OTHER parms passed to :the PROC? Is there something special

Re: DFRMM confusion

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Wood
Just final close-up of the problem. The problem cause was incorrect definitions to TCPIP, preventing the host name being resolved to IP address. Now rmm uses IPV6 compatible interfaces the configuration for TCPIP seems to need to be better. DB2 also was hit by similar problems with IPV6 and they

Re: SAS installation questions

2010-12-21 Thread Michael Seeman
My installation experience of the basic deployment of SAS 9.2 was awkward due to lack of direct experience with UNIX System Services, but I muddled through it. I was suprised that the HFS DASD space requirements were nearly a full 3390-9 (ordered on 3590-1 distribution tape). The biggest

z/OS 1.12 coexistence ptfs

2010-12-21 Thread Lopez, Sharon
We are running z/OS 1.10 and will be migrating to 1.12 next year. I'm in the process of trying to apply the coexistence ptfs and I'm continually getting PTFS that are in error and the fixes are still open. Is everyone else experiencing this also? I've been doing this for a lot of years and

Re: Meaning of SDSF Field PhaseName

2010-12-21 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 12/21/2010 7:20 AM, Gates, Guy wrote: I do not know what AWAIT MAIN SELECTION means. Are you in WLM Mode and possibly this means that a resource that is required is not available and job/step initiation is held up? This is JES3 terminology that is now making its way into the JES2 world

Re: z/OS 1.12 coexistence ptfs

2010-12-21 Thread Michael Seeman
We've had clean toleration maintenance up to z/OS 1.10. We're also moving from 1.10 to 1.12 and are hitting a GRS wait state X'082' when attempting to IPL our 1.12 system into the Plex. Have an open PMR with IBM. -- For

Re: Dynamic Allocation 1.9 - 1.11?

2010-12-21 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Binyamin, We've jumped back to 1.9 on our sandbox system for now (to test fallback from 1.11), so I'll have to recreate the problem when we're back up on 1.11. Best as I can remember (and I don't have the output - DUH!), the error message was in the CEEMSG or CEEDUMP DD, but I don't

curiousity question: in-house doc

2010-12-21 Thread John McKown
I'm off on one of my wild hares again. Or is that wild hair? No, my hair is mostly gone, so it must be hare. All our in house documentation that we in Tech Services write is basically written ad hoc by us using MS Word and kept in a Windows LAN directory. Being an admitted anti-MS bigot, I really

Re: curiousity question: in-house doc

2010-12-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:42:10 -0600, John McKown wrote: I'm off on one of my wild hares again. Or is that wild hair? No, my hair is mostly gone, so it must be hare. All our in house documentation that we in Tech Services write is basically written ad hoc by us using MS Word and kept in a Windows

Re: curiousity question: in-house doc

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 7:16 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 18:42:10 -0600, John McKown wrote: I'm off on one of my wild hares again. Or is that wild hair? No, my hair is mostly gone, so it must be hare. All our in house documentation that we in Tech Services

Re: curiousity question: in-house doc

2010-12-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 20:00:44 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: Personally, I like the RTF Rich Text Format. No binary control codes, english key words in delimited strings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format Which begins: The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated RTF) is a

Re: DCB open exit(IFG0EX0B) - how to install?

2010-12-21 Thread Johnny Luo
Thanks. So it's difficult to maintain cause IPL is required each time we modified the exit. I'm thinking of front-ending the actual exit program: IFG0EX0B load the program and branch to it and the actual program will be added to LPA or DLPA. Here we have the overhead: each run of IFG0EX0B

Re: DCB open exit(IFG0EX0B) - how to install?

2010-12-21 Thread Johnny Luo
Or better, instead of LOAD, I can use CSVQUERY to seach LPA only. Best Regards, Johnny Luo On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Johnny Luo johnny.xingkui@gmail.comwrote: Thanks. So it's difficult to maintain cause IPL is required each time we modified the exit. I'm thinking of

UNsuscribe

2010-12-21 Thread krn...@netzero.net
Unsuscribe - please! -- Forwarded Message -- From: Johnny Luo johnny.xingkui@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DCB open exit(IFG0EX0B) - how to install? Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:45:54 +0800 Or better, instead of LOAD, I can use CSVQUERY to seach LPA only. Best

Re: DCB open exit(IFG0EX0B) - how to install?

2010-12-21 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 12/21/2010 9:25 PM, Johnny Luo wrote: Here we have the overhead: each run of IFG0EX0B will do a LOAD. Is it unacceptable for DCB open exit? I have read the past discussion about front-ending IFG0EX0B. Using name/token is more efficient but in my opinion it's a little cumbersome. Any

Re: Error connecting to new system(vtam tcp)

2010-12-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Chris Mason wrote: Thanks gratefully accepted - if Luke and Elardus don't mind me speaking for them. I really don't mind it. Actually I read all and every post from you. I assure you that I learn from all the posts you gave on these discussion lists. Again, from my side, many thanks for

Re: X-memory POST question

2010-12-21 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 12/21/2010 12:31 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: I assume that this is safe since you can not stop being the running task between the test and your updating the ECB (and there is not another running thread/task on another engine/cpu which could be dispatching Address Space A). The use of CS is

Re: Problem with an edit command in tso

2010-12-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Paul Gilmartin wrote: Whose moronic design fails to treat a command delimiter appearing in a delimited string as plain text? However, I would expect that: c 'wombat' 'foo;bar' would change every occurrence of the 6-character delimited string on the left to the 7-character delimited string,

Re: End of JCL exit?

2010-12-21 Thread Brian Westerman
Not that I want to show my age, but I actually had to do that back on MVS/SP to provide the highest condition code mods, then IBM changed things a bit and I was able to develop the exit 8/16 combination that did it, then they finally added the code themselves. At the time I was spending a lot of