SMS - change a status of a SG volume

2011-03-14 Thread Matan Cohen
Hi , I'm looking for a way to change a status of a Storage Group volume: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r9.idas200/dsmvs.htm i review the SYSTEM commands but couldn't found one.

Re: IBM Service Request (SR)

2011-03-14 Thread Barbara Nitz
I have searched the IBM Service Request (SR) Support Team ticket history and could find no submission from you. Let's just say that I am tired of providing feedback to IBM through the regular channels. I have done that too often to bother this time around, too. I am also tired of IBMs general

Re: Backup OFFLINE disks

2011-03-14 Thread Arye Shemer
Hello dear forumers, Thanks for the help and offering. After some reading, FDRINSTANT seems to answer our needs. IBM DFDSS requires backup to same device (disk), we need to backup to tape. Thanks again, Arye. On 14 March 2011 07:09, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.comwrote: I also

Re: Stack - another misnomer

2011-03-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Chase, John wrote: Unfortunately, the use of the term protocol stack seems to be universal. It's not a misuse of the common English word stack, but it does lend itself to confusion with the unrelated CS term stack for a FILO queue. You need to be familiar with the terms to avoid those

Re: Cheryl's List #148

2011-03-14 Thread Scott Chapman
The one thing that I think is decidedly true is that the plethora of IBM pricing metrics makes it very difficult for customers to understand and optimize their costs. Of course that may be intentional--IBM needs to have their revenue stream of course. On the other hand, at least IBM is fairly

Re: SMS - change a status of a SG volume

2011-03-14 Thread Lizette Koehler
I'm looking for a way to change a status of a Storage Group volume: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.z os.r9.ida s200/dsmvs.htm i review the SYSTEM commands but couldn't found one.

Re: SMS - change a status of a SG volume

2011-03-14 Thread McKown, John
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2g1a0/4.61.19 V SMS,SG(...),ENABLE -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com *

AUTO: Witold Scislak/Poland/IBM is out of the office. (returning 03/30/2011)

2011-03-14 Thread Witold Scislak
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Re: SMS - change a status of a SG volume

2011-03-14 Thread Matan Cohen
thanks you all , how can I forgot 'V SMS' ! On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:08 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2g1a0/4.61.19 V SMS,SG(...),ENABLE -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services

Re: Backup OFFLINE disks

2011-03-14 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-03-13 19:14, Arye Shemer pisze: Hello forumers, Are there any known options (in z/OS environment) to backup offline ECKD disks ? Yes. Usually it's performed, because of duplicate volser (such disk cannot be varied online). However your backup software must support it. AFAIK

How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Knigge
All, I need to change the attribute (in my case, the TITLE) of an OUTPUT-Statement at runtime. I've digged around a little bit in the IBM Manuals (Auth. Assember, ...) but I did not find the information I need. If I understand the docs correctly, it is not possible to modify an

Re: How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-14 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:43:54 +0100 Michael Knigge michael.kni...@set-software.de wrote: :I need to change the attribute (in my case, the TITLE) of an :OUTPUT-Statement at runtime. I've digged around a little bit in the IBM :Manuals (Auth. Assember, ...) but I did not find the information I

Re: How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Knigge
Well, you can certainly free the existing file and descriptor and allocate new ones. If I understand you right, I should deallocate the output-file (DD) and the OUTPUT-Statement and then re-allocate new ones?!? But then I need to get *ALL* information about the both - right? Or you can

This is a TCP/IP USS Issue

2011-03-14 Thread Donald Likens
I have created a TCP/IP Socket Server that runs in Unix System Services. In the TCP/IP Socket server I attempt to open a UDP port (specifically 514) and get a Cannot Bind message. I am guessing that I cannot bind to another port since I already have a port open. Does this seem correct?

TCP/IP Socket Server connection problem

2011-03-14 Thread Donald Likens
I have a recurring problem with a TCP/IP Socket Server connection that I do not understand and I am hoping someone can help me. I summary I have seen a problem where I am sending data from the client successfully but the server is not getting the data. This problem starts when I start two clients

Re: This is a TCP/IP USS Issue

2011-03-14 Thread Rob Schramm
Donald, Was there any additional message(s)? Opening multiple ports is not specifically restricted .. mostly because there are many example of address spaces that bind to multiple ports... DB2 is a perfect example. Although 514 falls in the below 1024 category which means for additional

Re: This is a TCP/IP USS Issue

2011-03-14 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Donald Likens Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: This is a TCP/IP USS Issue I have created a TCP/IP Socket Server that runs in Unix System

Re: This is a TCP/IP USS Issue

2011-03-14 Thread McKown, John
s/you're/your/g accursed time-change weekend. I'm tired! -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality

Re: This is a TCP/IP USS Issue

2011-03-14 Thread Scott Ford
What does a netstat -a show on Unix Systems Services, does tha Donald: What does a netstat -a show on Unix Systems Services, does that port show listening or maybe connected to ..also what language are you writting in ? There should be a return code back for the failure on the bind , what is the

Re: Backup OFFLINE disks

2011-03-14 Thread Don Bolton
Arye, I'm a little confused about this statement; IBM DFDSS requires backup to same device (disk), we need to backup to tape. DFDSS can Flash source disk to online volumes using the Dump Condidtioning then the target volume can be backed up to tape. Even using a product like Timefinder there

Re: IBM Service Request (SR)

2011-03-14 Thread Christian Gilmore
Hi, Don. This is something I will address with the entitlement exception handling team. They handle exceptions in general and are not necessarily versed on the electronic front-ends. However, I should be able to get them the appropriate material for inclusion in their procedures. Thanks,

Re: This is a TCP/IP USS Issue

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Mason
Donald Congratulations: 2 of my principle bugbears in one Subject line! Is this a record?[1] I'm glad you qualified your incorrect use of USS by mentioning UNIX System Services in the first line of your text.[2] And I'm also going to have to make the routine translation of issue to problem.

Re: Is RMF Better?

2011-03-14 Thread Jeff Gross
Shane, For the CA doc, all you have do is register with your Email and you can get access to the documentation. As for problem/fix info, yes, you still need a customer site id. Hope this helps a bit. Jeff -- For

Re: TCP/IP Socket Server connection problem

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Mason
Donald This is your second initiation of a thread in a short period of time. If you are going to be specialising in problems related to the IP component of z/OS Communications Server or TCP/IP for VM, you may like to use the following list rather than IBM-MAIN: For IBMTCP-L subscribe /

PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread McKown, John
The documentation that I can find is not really very helpful. Or I just don't understand it. But I'm wondering what, if any, is the relationship between PSAAOLD and either the home address space or the primary address space. I know that a PC can do a space switch. In that case, the primary

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread Rob Scott
John PSAAOLD points to the *HOME* ASID (HASN). When space switching occurs it is the control registers that are updated to contain the new values of PASN and SASN. There are instructions to extract the values for both PASN and SASN (EPAR and ESAR) on the fly or just look at the control regs

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Scott Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 11:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated? John PSAAOLD points to the *HOME* ASID (HASN). When

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread Staller, Allan
ZOSV19RULES? snip I don't think so, but could be wrong. It's a monitor tool. I can't say more. We continue to use the product under a permanent use license that we got many years ago. But we dropped the support license in order to save money. /snip

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 12:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated? ZOSV19RULES? Isn't that for VSM and GETMAIN? Or

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread Shane Ginnane
Hmmm - not wishing to be rude John, but I'll have a quiet two bob each way on Rob. Shane ... On Tue, Mar 15th, 2011 at 4:10 AM, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Scott ... From what you are saying it sounds like the products

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread Binyamin Dissen
PSAAOLD is ALWAYS the home address space. A PC-SS causes the SWITCHED TO address space to become the PRIMARY. The secondary is set based on the PC definition, but is typically the previous primary. PSAAOLD is NOT changed by the hardware (other than setting it directly). The fixed by architecture

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 12:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated? Hmmm - not wishing to be rude John, but I'll have a

Re: How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Knigge
Binyamin, Or you can internally issue $TO Well, finally I've found the right manual for the $T command Well, I guess $TO also won't work because it can't update the TITLE attribute... (or I was too stupid) ;-(Furthermore, it seems to me that T$O sets characteristics for a complete

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 12:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated? PSAAOLD is ALWAYS the home address space. A

Re: How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-14 Thread Scott Ford
Michael, You also can do it with BPXWDYN , i do that way without a hinch, either in COBOL,Assembler or PL/1 or Rexx  .   Scott J Ford   From: Michael Knigge michael.kni...@set-software.de To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Mon, March 14, 2011 8:43:54 AM Subject:

CA doco - (was: Is RMF Better?)

2011-03-14 Thread Shane Ginnane
Thanks Jeff - I just took the opportunity to do so. Much better. I see a request for feedback on the Documantation page - I may just accomodate them. Shane .. On Tue, Mar 15th, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Jeff Gross wrote: For the CA doc, all you have do is register with your Email and you can get

Re: CA doco - (was: Is RMF Better?)

2011-03-14 Thread Gibney, Dave
Very nice to know. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 11:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: CA doco

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread Rob Scott
The following could explain what you are seeing but is based on a fair amount of guesswork : (1) ISV code using some sort of BPX* service that results in new ASID being created to perform the work - one of those *OMVSEX chaps (2) ISV (or IBM) code that runs in the new ASID wants, with good

Re: How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-14 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:00:30 +0100 Michael Knigge michael.kni...@set-software.de wrote: :Binyamin, : : Or you can internally issue $TO :Well, finally I've found the right manual for the $T command :Well, I guess $TO also won't work because it can't update the TITLE :attribute... (or I was

Re: How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Knigge
Scott, if I understand the manual of BPXWDYN correctly, you can create/allocate a new DD- or OUTPUT-Statement, but you can't *modify* an existing statement right? Bye, Michael -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-14 Thread Scott Ford
Thats the way I understand it also. We do it in Cobol, wi Michael: Thats the way I understand it also. We do it in Cobol, with a Select, then build the statement dynamically and open /read/write  close the file.   Scott J Ford   From: Michael Knigge

Intermittant broken PIPE

2011-03-14 Thread John Norgauer
After our monthly IPL, our SMTP email server started getting intermittent messages about a broken pipe. What the heck is a broken pipe? Any suggestions as to how to debug or trace this? We are on 1.9 so I can not get any help from IBM. Thanks. John Norgauer Senior Systems Programmer

Re: Intermittant broken PIPE

2011-03-14 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Norgauer Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 2:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Intermittant broken PIPE After our monthly IPL, our SMTP email server started getting

ISPF print

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Pace
When I print something in ISPF/PDF do I have to exit ISPF to do the actual printing from the LOG/LIST screen? Is there a way to make the print happen with exiting ISPF? -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems

Re: ISPF print

2011-03-14 Thread Starr, Alan
I believe you want the LIST primary command. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 12:29 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ISPF print When I print something in ISPF/PDF do I have to exit

Re: ISPF print

2011-03-14 Thread McKown, John
You can enter either the LOG or LIST command, depending on which you want to print. That will put up a panel and you can select 1 Print and Delete. That should deallocate current LOG or LIST dataset and submit a job which will print it to SYSOUT, then delete it. -- John McKown Systems

Re: ISPF print

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Pace
Thats it. Thanks! On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Starr, Alan alan_st...@calpers.ca.govwrote: I believe you want the LIST primary command. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011

Re: How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-14 Thread Michael Knigge
Thats the way I understand it also. We do it in Cobol, with a Select, then build the statement dynamically and open /read/write close the file. Yeah, but I don't know the attributes that may be set of an already existing OUTPUT-Statement. That's why I need a functionality to just add (or

Re: How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-14 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Michael Knigge michael.kni...@set-software.de wrote: Thats the way I understand it also. We do it in Cobol, with a Select, then build the statement dynamically and open /read/write  close the file. Yeah, but I don't know the attributes that may be set of an

Re: How to modify/add an OUTPUT-Statement to an DD at runtime?

2011-03-14 Thread Scott Ford
Yep, thats another solution, you build your own, so they are modifable by the application .. The dynamic alloc interface has beena round awhile and I have some doc on BPXWDYN and PUTEV for example , this interface is also similar or same to SVC 99, which has been around a long time, so there

z/OS XML Parser reason code lookup exec

2011-03-14 Thread Robert Prins
Here's a small exec that might be useful to translate z/OS XML Parser reason codes into something a bit more understandable. The code requires you to extract the raw text from Appendix B. of the z/OS V1R12.0 z/OS XML User's Guide and Reference which can currently be found at

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread Stan Weyman
having been down this road on numerous occasions I think Rob has it pretty much nailed IMHO. Please send check payable to Rocket Software, etc, etc... G Stan Weyman Senior Software Engineer stan.wey...@emc.com EMC² (508)249-3966 where information lives It is wise to keep in mind that

How to easily see the contents of SDUMPX PSWREGS=

2011-03-14 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Yes, I can VERBX SUMDUMP and see PSWREGS=DATA lines, but I would have expected the register contents to be in 2.2. But 2.2 shows all registers as zero. Am I missing something obvious? -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar

Re: Cheryl's List #148

2011-03-14 Thread Taiga 54534
Yes, it is common to see different MSU values for z/OS and DB2 and CICS in SCRT reports. Its because DB2 and/or CICS isn't running in every LPAR on a box. If z/OS and DB2 and CICS is running in the same LPAR then you will always see the same 4hr peak for all three products for the month for

Re: FICON Cascade and Brocade 5000 DASD ports

2011-03-14 Thread R Hey
For the archive: Fan-in Fan-out are the way to go. Fan In-Fan Out can only be deployed when using switched-FICON see: http://www.cmg.org/measureit/issues/mit25/m_25_3.html Understanding FICON Performance SHR 7345 Rez --

Re: PSAAOLD question - when is it updated?

2011-03-14 Thread Chris Craddock
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Stan Weyman stan.wey...@emc.com wrote: having been down this road on numerous occasions I think Rob has it pretty much nailed IMHO. Please send check payable to Rocket Software, etc, etc... G yeah bright lad is our Rob. The key takeway is if you fetch

Re: Cheryl's List #148

2011-03-14 Thread Ed Gould
Timothy: Some good points. There is also a issue when you try and reduce operators. The biggest issue I have seen is that the number of IPL's goes up and small problems become large problems. On the other end I have also seen the untrained people end up calling the systems people and