Re: Data Masking - 3270 Sceens

2011-02-09 Thread Erik Janssen
Cris, The workstation agent can do that for you. I use it to automatically open excel on my pc whenever my sasjob has created my excel with ods. Little sas example that creates an ASCII excel (with TRANTAB=ASCII) on z/OS. (RECORD_SEPARATOR=NONE and RUN; are neccesary to make it work): ODS

REXX + DB2 question

2011-02-09 Thread karolf Gazeta.pl
Hi! I have a Rexx script where I run DB2 applications by DSN+CALL commands: ret_codes.='' do i=1 to . q1 = RUN PROGRAM(pgmname) PLAN(planname) q2 = PARM('parm_txt') queue (q1)(q2) queue END DSN SYSTEM(DB2X) ret_codes.pgm.i=pgmname ret_codes.plan.i=planname

Re: What is address spec terminates in context of LOAD EOM=YES?

2011-02-09 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:16:05 -0800 Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: :Yeah, LOAD, DELETE, LOAD offends me too. :It is a single assembly so I am hoping I can figure out a way to automate :knowing the length. The LOADing program is huge so it would not be out of :the question to include the

Re: What is address spec terminates in context of LOAD EOM=YES?

2011-02-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:16:05 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: Storage is cheap. I can pad my 1K+ by 50% and it won't be the end of the world. Allocating 50% more common storage than you need is IMO a bad idea, particularly if it is just so you won't have to change your LOAD to CSVDYLPA. CSVDYLPA is

Re: What i s address space (sp ec) termin ates in c ontext of LOAD EOM=Y ES?#8207;

2011-02-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 01:51:04 +, john gilmore wrote: Jim Mulder writes: begin snippet CSVDYLPA will create a CDE so that things like IPCS WHERE and SLIP can identify the module name. LOAD to address will not create a CDE. For that reason, I strongly recommend CSVDYLPA over LOAD to address.

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:54:58 +1100, Stephen Mednick ibmm...@css.au.com wrote: Not quite correct as far as the use of FDRCOPY goes. On the COPY statement there is the keyword HFS=QUIESCE which to quote from the manual: HFS= QUIESCE – Invokes special processing when Hierarchical File

Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Haynes, Stan
We run a 4-system production sysplex using z/OS/JES2 1.11 augmented by Thruput Manager. As a result of an application area reporting one of their critical jobs abending S822 (issue since corrected), we found ourselves noticing a very old parm value: default REGION size for all classes via the

How many MSUs would this be?

2011-02-09 Thread McKown, John
OK, it's not about the z. It's about IBM's latest announced supercomputer. 750,000 cores Blue Gene, 10 Petaflops. Now, if this were a z, how many MSUs would that be? And could anybody in the world afford the software bill?

Re: What is address space (spec) terminates in context of LOAD EOM=YES?

2011-02-09 Thread john gilmore
Tom, Another of these so soon? Consult the relevant z/OS MVS Authorized Program Services volume, ALESERC-DYNALLOC, where you will discover that users of CSVDYCPA must [also] be authorized. Do you want to shoot for three? four? If so, be my guest. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread McKown, John
We ignore it entirely by overriding via the IEFUSI exit. REGION is basically useless in this day and age, especially for batch. For UNIX work, it may be needed. And for some types of started tasks, such as DB2 (which we don't have), it can still be very necessary. -- John McKown Systems

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 09:04:27 -0500, Haynes, Stan stan.hay...@cra-arc.gc.ca wrote: We run a 4-system production sysplex using z/OS/JES2 1.11 augmented by Thruput Manager. As a result of an application area reporting one of their critical jobs abending S822 (issue since corrected), we found

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Larry Macioce
What about region=0m?? From what I remember it will take what is needed, the down side is if you have something run away(loop) you might be in trouble. Mace -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-09 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Linda, we do a DSS Dump/Restore to increase an HFS when it's out of extents. Our job has a step to unmount, one to DSS Dump, one to alter to a different name, one to DSS Restore with a new/catlg of the old name, and then a step to remount. We only use Alter to addvolumes. Not sure if you can

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Rob Schramm
I worked at a place that had a similar setup with 8M. It was set artificially low because there were a bunch of assembler programs in the shop that did a variable getmains to give them everything below the line. By setting it to 8M, it meant that they couldn't get everything below the line and

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
The only problem with not limiting the region below is if you have a job that does a variable length getmain to take all available storage and then opens a lot of datasets you can get errors due to not enough below the line space for LSQA for the dataset control blocks. -Original

Re: Is there a way to have SMPE indicate if an LMOD is changed?

2011-02-09 Thread Arthur Gutowski
On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:18:08 +0200, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: I would like to detect if an LMOD gets changed. Obviously I can UCL UMID every CSECT, but that will not let me know if a new CSECT is added. So far, everyone seems to have missed that the OP wants to be able

Re: Custom programmability for 3270 emulators (Was RE: Data Masking - 3270 Sceens)

2011-02-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0b6301cbc7df$0a6c8670$1f459350$@org, on 02/08/2011 at 02:25 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Anyone remember SNA? It's still around. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We don't

Re: What i s address space (sp ec) termin ates in c ontext of LOAD EOM=Y ES?

2011-02-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In snt113-w35f2970674647bba2f488bc6...@phx.gbl, on 02/09/2011 at 01:51 AM, john gilmore john_w_gilm...@msn.com said: This is a worthy point, but a directed LOAD followed by an appropriate IDENTIFY macro will achieve the same result in a shorter path length. Will it? Won't it allocate the

Re: What is address spec terminates in context of LOAD EOM=YES?

2011-02-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In AANLkTikwt-Of=p639k6eeg5u6sbka-6ce288m5qba...@mail.gmail.com, on 02/08/2011 at 09:00 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: There is also the matter of figuring out how much storage you need to obtain. BLDL. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Data Masking - 3270 Sceens

2011-02-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In aanlktini-0ugkkch3c8hp2o0g2dy0nfxuvlykfacv...@mail.gmail.com, on 02/08/2011 at 05:35 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com said: Surprise Shmuel hasn't castigated you publicly for it. It's not my dog. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: What is address spec terminates in context of LOAD EOM=YES?

2011-02-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0aef01cbc7ca$6a5fde20$3f1f9a60$@org, on 02/08/2011 at 11:57 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: My interpretation of the address space terminates was the address space being forced or something like that. However what I am seeing seems to be that the module is deleted when the job --

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Zelden
Yes. And no issue these days on probably 95% + of all systems with above the line either. 2G ain't what it used to be and with the size of today's systems and paging subsystems, even if more than a few of these ill-behaved programs all did the variable length getmains at the same time you

Re: What is address space (spec) terminates in context of LOAD EOM=YES?

2011-02-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:18:34 +, john gilmore wrote: Another of these so soon? Yes, I know, I was very wrong the last time. Consult the relevant z/OS MVS Authorized Program Services volume, ALESERC-DYNALLOC, where you will discover that users of CSVDYCPA must [also] be authorized. I

Re: How many MSUs would this be?

2011-02-09 Thread Mike Schwab
If those were Duo Core Hyper threaded running Linux Hercules you could run 50 MIPS per CPU, * 4 CPUs * 750,000 cores = 3,000,000 cores 150,000,000 MIPS. 4 core or 6 core would double or triple that. I assume the Blue Gene processor would be even faster. On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:18 AM, McKown,

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Haynes, Stan We run a 4-system production sysplex using z/OS/JES2 1.11 augmented by Thruput Manager. As a result of an application area reporting one of their critical jobs abending S822 (issue since corrected),

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Veilleux, Jon L veilleu...@aetna.com wrote: The only problem with not limiting the region below is if you have a job that does a variable length getmain to take all available storage and then opens a lot of datasets you can get errors due to not enough below

Large Page Question

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Jacobs
Are there any operator commands or other mechanisms to identify who's allocated 1MB pages? -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: How many MSUs would this be?

2011-02-09 Thread Tom Marchant
Here is the IBM press release http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/33586.wss -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: Large Page Question

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 10:37:23 -0500, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: Are there any operator commands or other mechanisms to identify who's allocated 1MB pages? On z/OS 1.10 and above RMF III shows it - STORM ( or didn't it show up until 1.11?). But I did it first and I like my

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Donnelly, John P
How was the S822 corrected? We get this occasionally and just drain and restart the failing initiator... Our JOBCLASS is set to 4M... John Donnelly National Semiconductor Corporation 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell cjp...@nsc.com

zOS Distributed Console Enablement command

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Jacobs
Is the SETCON MODE=DISTRIBUTED command sysplex wide or does it have to be entered on each system in the sysplex? The manual doesn't seem to say. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL Surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 09:04:27 -0500, Haynes, Stan wrote: As a result of an application area reporting one of their critical jobs abending S822 (issue since corrected), we found ourselves noticing a very old parm value: default REGION size for all classes via the JOBCLASS statement. It's still

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Jacobs
Is there any reason why you're not using the VSM CHECKREGIONLOSS parameter in your DIAGxx member Mark Jacobs On 02/09/11 11:26, Donnelly, John P wrote: How was the S822 corrected? We get this occasionally and just drain and restart the failing initiator... Our JOBCLASS is set to 4M... John

IBM's New Service Request App

2011-02-09 Thread Don Williams
Is the a way to automatically copy the old ETR abstract field into the new SR title field? It is annoying that the SR title field is blank for records created via the ETR system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Errno=86x The function is not implemented; Reason=05520044

2011-02-09 Thread Cifani, Domenic
Thank You Erik Domenic Domenic Cifani Technology Consultant III Network Software Canada HP Enterprise Services Telephone (905) 383-7864 HP Cell (905) 869-3279 Email domenic.cif...@hp.com 30 Sedona Court Hamilton Ontario L9B 2R1 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-09 Thread Bond, Dick (DIS)
An easy and reliable (at least I've found it so) is: /samples/copytree -a sourcedir targetdir Mount a new HFS at a targetdir, run copytree then unmount old and mount new, if that's doable in your circumstances. Whenever possible, I like to stick with OMVS copy methods when dealing with

HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Working in HCD and looking to 'Build IOCDS' to be used for the next ipl. The build ends with the 'write protect' error below. According to the IOCP message guide it states; ' ICP408I IOCDS Ax IS WRITE PROTECTED Explanation: IOCP attempted to write an IOCDS to the support element hard disk but

Re: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Matt, that needs to be done from the HMC... -- 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: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Forgot to mention I looked in the hmc, can anyone be specific? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: HCD Write Error Matt, that

Re: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Field, Alan C.
You put an E or is it a W? next to the IOCDS. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 10:57 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: HCD Write Error Working in HCD and looking to 'Build

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
Do you have CHECKREGIONLOSS set in your DIAG member? It will automatically bounce your initiators when they get fragmented. VSM CHECKREGIONLOSS(500K,5M) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Donnelly, John P Sent: Wednesday,

Re: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Sorry Matt. Select Defined CPC's and highlight your processor, then click Single Object Operations from the 'Recovery' Task. When you get to single object, click your processor again then click Input/Output Configuration on the 'Operational Customization' task. A screen comes up that has A0,

Re: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Field, Alan C.
Woops - this works if you are in HCD and have done a 2.11.I sequence. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Field, Alan C. Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 11:07 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: HCD Write Error You put

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Haynes, Stan
As Tom Marchant pointed out, it's likely LSQA fragmentation. And the S822 was misleading: the step requested 8M but turns out only needed 2M. So getting everything avail in 16M private on the job rerun worked. We (the small z/OS sysprog group) missed CHECKREGIONLOSS. Plain and simple. That

Re: Large Page Question

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Jacobs
On my test system I gave it 1GB for the LFAREA and system shows 1MB allocated, but I don't know if this allocation is performed by default since your RXSTOR64 exec doesn't show any user of large objects. IAR019I 12.31.04 DISPLAY VIRTSTOR SOURCE = GS TOTAL LFAREA = 1024M LFAREA AVAILABLE =

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip-- We run a 4-system production sysplex using z/OS/JES2 1.11 augmented by Thruput Manager. As a result of an application area reporting one of their critical jobs abending S822 (issue since corrected), we found ourselves

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:28:36 -0500, Haynes, Stan stan.hay...@cra-arc.gc.ca wrote: The issue with how much *low* private to allow is ensuring RTM can successfully GETMAIN, so I'm wondering: if we change the default to 128M, or 192M, etc, do we need to subtract some vstor for the low private ?

REVEDIT feature of TSO REVIEW command - ISPF-like EDIT in TSO READY mode

2011-02-09 Thread Sam Golob
Hi Folks, It was brought to my attention that there are some people who don't already know about the REVEDIT (ISPF-like editor) feature of the REVIEW TSO command from CBT Tape File 134 (source) and File 135 (load modules). This is an ISPF-like editor that works in TSO READY mode, and it

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
It would be great if IEFUSI limits could be externalized into PARMLIB. It is a pain to have to recode an assembler exit whenever we need to change how we handle these limits. Not to mention that there are not a lot of us left who know how to code in assembler. -Original Message- From:

Re: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Hal Merritt
My first assumption is that you are trying to overlay the active IOCDS. Could that be the issue? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 10:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: Large Page Question

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Zelden
I can't really answer. What does RMF III show. There have been some bugs related to the control blocks that I use not having the proper values in them. If RMF III shows the same thing for totals but doesn't list the ASID using the 1M object, open a PMR with IBM. All of the ASIDs displayed

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Rob Schramm
I think there is a product to do this kind of stuff. OESM or something along those lines. I did a quick web search and obviously I don't have the right name. Rob On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Veilleux, Jon L veilleu...@aetna.comwrote: It would be great if IEFUSI limits could be externalized

Re: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Mike Myers
Matt: You must perform this from the Service Element or logon to the service element from the HMC. Go to Groups and select Defined CPCs. Right click the desired CPC's icon, select Recovery and then Single Object Operations from the pull down lists (this assumes you are using the HMC in

Re: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Mike Myers
Matt: You must perform this from the Service Element or logon to the service element from the HMC. Go to Groups and select Defined CPCs. Right click the desired CPC's icon, select Recovery and then Single Object Operations from the pull down lists (this assumes you are using the HMC in

Re: Is there a way to have SMPE indicate if an LMOD is changed?

2011-02-09 Thread Paul Peplinski
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:50:18 -0600, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: So far, everyone seems to have missed that the OP wants to be able to detect an LMOD change with SMP/E, not via any manual or external process. I too, would be very interested in this. Customization to IBM's DT requires

Re: Is there a way to have SMPE indicate if an LMOD is changed?

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:27:02 -0600, Paul Peplinski paul.peplin...@wpsic.com wrote: On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 08:50:18 -0600, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: So far, everyone seems to have missed that the OP wants to be able to detect an LMOD change with SMP/E, not via any manual or external

Re: Default REGION Size

2011-02-09 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
OSEM - from Trident Services Jerry Whitteridge Design Engineer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Schramm Sent: Wednesday, February

Re: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
HCD 2 - 11 then / on the processor line and then option 1 allows control of the IOCDS's. No need to access the HMC Jerry Whitteridge Design Engineer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: How many MSUs would this be?

2011-02-09 Thread zMan
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: If those were Duo Core Hyper threaded running Linux Hercules you could run 50 MIPS per CPU, * 4 CPUs * 750,000 cores = 3,000,000 cores 150,000,000 MIPS.  4 core or 6 core would double or triple that.  I assume the Blue

Re: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Dazzo, Matt
That was it, thanks Mary Anne. Tks to all who responded. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mary Anne Matyaz Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 12:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: HCD Write Error Sorry Matt.

Re: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread Gibney, Dave
I think I'll point out that you really don't want to overwrite your active IOCDS. Pick and unlock an older one :) Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

Re: Is there a way to have SMPE indicate if an LMOD is changed?

2011-02-09 Thread Mike Schwab
How about setting a security system profile for the desired datasets that audit successful updates and notify a userid? On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:18:08 +0200, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: I would like to

Re: REVEDIT feature of TSO REVIEW command - ISPF-like EDIT in TSO READY mode

2011-02-09 Thread John P Kalinich
Greg Price's REVIEW presentation from SHARE in Austin on March 5, 2009 (SHARE Session 2811) is available from http://proceedings.share.org/client_files/SHARE_in_Austin/S2811GP235506.pdf Regards, John K

Re: Is there a way to have SMPE indicate if an LMOD is changed?

2011-02-09 Thread Paul Peplinski
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:31:49 -0600, Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net wrote: Paul This is what I used for the LE zap for Hourglas if that is what you are referring to: ++USERMOD(#HRGLAS) REWORK(2010051). ++VER (Z038) FMID(HLE7760) /*

Re: REVEDIT feature of TSO REVIEW command - ISPF-like EDIT in TSO READY mode

2011-02-09 Thread Shaffer, Terri E
I love these tools, but I am amazed at how many people do not know native tso commands...And feel trapped when Logon clist breaks. At any TSO READY prompt.. Alloc fi(ISPPLIB) da('SYS1.SISPPENU') SHR ALLOC FI(ISPMLIB) da('SYS1.SISPMENU') SHR ALLOC FI(ISPSLIB) da('SYS1.SISPSENU') SHR ALLOC

Re: Is there a way to have SMPE indicate if an LMOD is changed?

2011-02-09 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:04:52 -0600, Paul Peplinski paul.peplin...@wpsic.com wrote: Perhaps it is the technique used here that causes difficulties. We have hourglass create copies of these modules and then steplib to those copies. Retrofitting for LE and DB2 updates is a manual process. This

IBM 2105 Shark decommissioning

2011-02-09 Thread McBride, Catherine
At long last we're taking down our IBM 2105. My question has to do with the fact that the 2105 shares a McData switch with another SAN, and that other SAN is live production. Powering down the 2105 and carefully removing the cables and electrical power source should have no negative effect on the

Re: IBM 2105 Shark decommissioning

2011-02-09 Thread Mike Schwab
If you have requirements for secure erasure, ICKDSF TRKFMT CYCLE(1) does 3 writes to each track, s, s, and 01010101s for 3 erasures. No problems with connecting or unconnecting any ESCON or FICON cables as each port is independent. On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:59 PM, McBride,

Re: IBM 2105 Shark decommissioning

2011-02-09 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 2/9/2011 4:09:45 P.M. Central Standard Time, cmcbr...@kable.com writes: power feeds are clearly marked, and we readily know which cables are the correct ones. Anything else we need to be concerned about? Murphy's pretty ingenious when it comes to switches. We

Re: REXX + DB2 question

2011-02-09 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
I'm still reeling from the recent realization that my ISPF skills are stuck in the dark ages (1980's) but this post went all day without being replied to, so I'll take this to work and run a few tests before saying anything other than that the RC value is set to the value of the previous

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-09 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Stephen, Tha nks for the info on FDRCOPY.  Until now, we have not unmounted or used the HFS=QUIESCE or the entry in the global options table.  I will start to use the HFS=QUIESCE coding.  So just for verification, if I code HFS=QUIESCE and ENQERR=BYPASS, I can run without unmounting the

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-09 Thread Linda Mooney
Thanks Mary Anne.  That sounds like it would do it. Any chance you could share some samples with me?  I know CA-Disk really well, FDR somewhat, but DSS by little more than the name... :-/ Linda  - Original Message - From: Mary Anne Matyaz maryanne4...@gmail.com To:

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-09 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Dick, Nobody here, me included, has ever used copytree.  None of us know much about USS at all, although I am determined to learn - if it kills me!  I need to end up with the same structure and directory names that I have now, just with more space available.  Can copytree do that? 

CSVDYLPA question

2011-02-09 Thread Charles Mills
Following up on the earlier thread on permanent LOAD. It appears to me that the 8-character module name(s) passed to CSVDYLPA must be unique, is that correct? That is, unlike LOAD, it is not possible for two different jobs or STCs to have access to different versions of a given module, both of

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-09 Thread Neubert, Kevin
Depending on your file system activity something like the following might be acceptable: /usr/sbin/mount -t HFS -f NEW.HFS /yyy pax -rwvCDM -p eW /xxx /yyy /usr/sbin/unmount -o normal -f NEW.HFS == z/OS 1.11 /usr/sbin/unmount -o normal /yyy /usr/sbin/unmount -o normal -f OLD.HFS == z/OS

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-09 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/9/2011 4:40 PM, Linda Mooney wrote: Hi Dick, Nobody here, me included, has ever used copytree. None of us know much about USS at all, although I am determined to learn - if it kills me! We can help that, and you'll survive just fine. Consider: Introduction to z/OS UNIX - 3 days

Re: REVEDIT feature of TSO REVIEW command - ISPF-like EDIT in TSO READY mode

2011-02-09 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/9/2011 1:03 PM, Shaffer, Terri E wrote: I love these tools, but I am amazed at how many people do not know native tso commands...And feel trapped when Logon clist breaks. I was still working at IBM when TSO was announced. Long, complex commands. I figured it would never fly! I sure know

Re: REXX + DB2 question

2011-02-09 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/9/2011 2:07 AM, karolf Gazeta.pl wrote: Hi! I have a Rexx script where I run DB2 applications by DSN+CALL commands: ret_codes.='' do i=1 to . q1 = RUN PROGRAM(pgmname) PLAN(planname) q2 = PARM('parm_txt') queue (q1)(q2) queue END DSN

Re: zOS Distributed Console Enablement command

2011-02-09 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 11:36:11 -0500, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: Is the SETCON MODE=DISTRIBUTED command sysplex wide or does it have to be entered on each system in the sysplex? The manual doesn't seem to say. The SETCON MODE=DISTRIBUTED command is syplex wide. It'll make sure

Re: CMDSYS and MSCOPE for system console (SYSCONS) in a sysplex

2011-02-09 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:57:43 -0600, Scott Fagen scottfagen...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:14:22 -0600, Patrick Kappeler pkappe...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Hi - Does anybody know if the values given to CMDSYS and MSCOPE in CONSOLxx are actually honored for the system console (SYSCONS) in a

Re: IBM's New Service Request App

2011-02-09 Thread Barbara Nitz
Is the a way to automatically copy the old ETR abstract field into the new SR title field? It is annoying that the SR title field is blank for records created via the ETR system. Don't hold your breath. I have griped about this before (also on this forum), and it went unaddressed. IBM probably

Re: REXX + DB2 question

2011-02-09 Thread karolf Gazeta.pl
Sorry, but WHEN command works only after CALL/LOADGO TSO commands, not after CALL DSN subcommand. Karol Filipowicz 2011/2/10 Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com On 2/9/2011 2:07 AM, karolf Gazeta.pl wrote: Hi! I have a Rexx script where I run DB2 applications by DSN+CALL commands:

Re: HCD Write Error

2011-02-09 Thread R.S.
Dazzo, Matt pisze: Forgot to mention I looked in the hmc, can anyone be specific? Yes. Use HCD dialogs. Option 2 - 11 - s - w 2. Activate or process configuration data 11. Build and manage S/390 microprocessor IOCDSs and IPL attributes 1. Work with IOCDSs . . . . . . . . . . (s) 1.

Re: Best (or any) practices to rewrite spaghetti or METAL/C

2011-02-09 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi If we can consider METAL/C as alternative to rewrite assembler code ? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the