Re: SV: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-12 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote in message news:1323450663.14671.yahoomailmob...@web161404.mail.bf1.yahoo.com... Gil, It sounds like production is not fully implemented in the company. JCL, maybe but not where execution source resides. I have wired in places like that and it can be a

Re: TSO on z/OS 1.12 with LOGONHERE and multisystem logon

2011-12-12 Thread Tidy, David (D)
Hi Jon, To address the Console issue here, we force the SDSF variables on the way in with this code: sysname = mvsvar('SYMDEF','SYSNAME') isfcons = userid()||RIGHT(sysname,1) isfsysid = sysname Address ISPEXEC VPUT (ISFCONS

Parallel Virtual tapes

2011-12-12 Thread Munif Sadek
Hello Listers We have virtual tapes, virtual drives and I am submitting a batch job to read data from 40+virtual tapes but our MTL - RMM - zOS 1.13 system is not mounting / using more that 11 tapes in parallel. We have got 120+ virtual drives and available and system is not busy.. regards

Re: Parallel Virtual tapes

2011-12-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2011-12-12 09:25, Munif Sadek pisze: Hello Listers We have virtual tapes, virtual drives and I am submitting a batch job to read data from 40+virtual tapes but our MTL - RMM - zOS 1.13 system is not mounting / using more that 11 tapes in parallel. We have got 120+ virtual drives and

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-12 Thread Gibney, Dave
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 2:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: JCL sheesh! for today In 9480536010373504.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on

Re: TSO on z/OS 1.12 with LOGONHERE and multisystem logon

2011-12-12 Thread John McKown
Nice little snip of code. Thanks. I was thinking of something along those lines, but hadn't really looked into the details. On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 08:13 +, Tidy, David (D) wrote: Hi Jon, To address the Console issue here, we force the SDSF variables on the way in with this code:

Re: Parallel Virtual tapes

2011-12-12 Thread Munif Sadek
Thanks Radoslaw, yes all vurtual devices are online and data volumes available job reads data from different systems / components - CMF / RMF / TMON / IMS/ DB2 / data collectors etc and then sort them. IBM RMM HSM OAM and LUMINEX MTLs defined as Storage class / storage group in SMS.

Re: LDAP for z/OS with long name

2011-12-12 Thread Geoff Rousell
It doesn't require DB2. Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group You're right of course Rob, but I wanted to point out the potential restriction. Also note that the SMF logging for LDAP events only has 512 bytes set aside for DN values. Geoff Rousell IBM System z, UK

zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-12 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Currently studying the migration guide for z/OS 1.13 (we're running 1.11 now), and note that 1.13 delivers zFS with a default of sysplex=filesys. Earlier releases default sysplex=off. We do NOT run any shared file systems, and do not anticipate doing so in the foreseeable future.

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-12 Thread Mark Jacobs
I would expect that if you initiailize OMVS with SYSPLEX(NO) in BPXPRMxx whatever you specify in IOEPRMxx for sysplex= would be ignored. Mark Jacobs On 12/12/11 11:18, Chase, John wrote: Hi, All, Currently studying the migration guide for z/OS 1.13 (we're running 1.11 now), and note

Possible impact of VTS on batch I/O times (also posted to IMS-L)

2011-12-12 Thread Doug Johnson
Thanks to those who responded. Turns out IMS specifies OPTCD=W in the DCB used for the IEFRDER DD (log file) when allocated to tape in an IMS batch (DLI) job, and this disables the VTS buffering that provides the performance benefit of the VTS. Some of our application developers have figured out

Re: TSO multi-logon on multi-system, restricting to specific users?

2011-12-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 19:54:01 -0800, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: On 12/11/2011 9:28 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: As long as you don't enable ISPF profile sharing (which I never did because it is a kludge anyway - see past posts on ISPF-L), it is simple. IBM says profile sharing

Re: Parallel Virtual tapes

2011-12-12 Thread Mike Schwab
Probably limited to 1 or 2 drives per DDNAME. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Munif Sadek munif.sa...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Radoslaw, yes all vurtual devices are online and data volumes available job reads data from different systems / components - CMF / RMF / TMON / IMS/ DB2 /  data

Re: Parallel Virtual tapes

2011-12-12 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Munif, To really determine why your job doesn't allocate 40+ drives, one would have to see the complete Joblog, JCL and Allocation messages. Depending on how the JCL is written and how the datasets are spread over the individual tapes, the job may not need more than 11 drives to get the job done.

Re: SV: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-12 Thread Ed Gould
Kees, I think I would disagree with the flexibililty issue as all it takes some imagination with JCL and symbolic for the DSN in this case. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: zFS parm sysplex=filesys

2011-12-12 Thread Staller, Allan
snip Currently studying the migration guide for z/OS 1.13 (we're running 1.11 now), and note that 1.13 delivers zFS with a default of sysplex=filesys. ...snippage Q1: Has anyone here IPLed a z/OS 1.13 system into a supported back-level sysplex WITHOUT shared file systems AND without having

S402 ABEND upon cross-memory POST

2011-12-12 Thread Justin R. Bendich
I am attempting a cross-memory POST and receiving a S402 ABEND, RSN=0. Here is the environment: The code is running in key zero, AMODE 31, ASC=PRIMARY, PASN=HASN=SASN . It is running out of a FRR for a SRB. The macro invocation is specified as follows: POST

Re: S402 ABEND upon cross-memory POST

2011-12-12 Thread Dave Day
I know you said RSN=0 on the abend, but the manual says R15 has a value in it for this abend, describing the reason for the abend. Have you checked logrec to see what it says? --Dave - Original Message - From: Justin R. Bendich jbend...@austin.rr.com Newsgroups:

Re: LDAP for z/OS with long name

2011-12-12 Thread Arye Shemer
Thank you all, excellent and very helpfull posts. Arye. On 12 December 2011 13:56, Geoff Rousell geoff_rous...@uk.ibm.com wrote: It doesn't require DB2. Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group You're right of course Rob, but I wanted to point out the potential restriction.

Re: S402 ABEND upon cross-memory POST

2011-12-12 Thread Ngafei Huang
-Original Message- From: Justin R. Bendich jbend...@austin.rr.com To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Mon, Dec 12, 2011 12:31 pm Subject: S402 ABEND upon cross-memory POST I am attempting a cross-memory POST and receiving a S402 ABEND, RSN=0. ere is the environment: The code is

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-12 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Sorry, Steve, I was referring not to dynamic allocation using outside services (LE or CICS), but rather the fact that (Enterprise) COBOL doesn't natively support dynamic (memory) allocation. Frank From: Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com To:

Re: S402 ABEND upon cross-memory POST

2011-12-12 Thread Rob Scott
Justin, If you look at the SYSTRACE in the dump for the S402 - can you see any 0C4 abends prior to the actual S402 abend? If your ECB is in Key-7 , I am not sure that the events table can be in Key-8. My guess is that the cross-memory post routine is going to SPKA to Key-7 to POST the ECB and

Re: S402 ABEND upon cross-memory POST

2011-12-12 Thread Ngafei Huang
Can you clarify what you mean by There is a task whose PSW key is zero which has issued an EVENTS macro whose table includes the ECB in question. Because as far as I know EVENT table does not own ECBs. It is the ECBs that reference the event table. Raymond Wong -Original Message-

Re: S402 ABEND upon cross-memory POST

2011-12-12 Thread Justin R. Bendich
Rob Scott wrote: Justin, If you look at the SYSTRACE in the dump for the S402 - can you see any 0C4 abends prior to the actual S402 abend? If your ECB is in Key-7 , I am not sure that the events table can be in Key-8. My guess is that the cross-memory post routine is going to SPKA to Key-7 to

Re: S402 ABEND upon cross-memory POST

2011-12-12 Thread Rob Scott
Justin, May I politely suggest that you have another look at the design - you have at least three storage keys involved in this scenario I would feel uncomfortable with a solution that X-memory POSTs a Key-7 ECB using ECBKEY=0 and involves an EVENTS table in Key-8. Key-7 CSA hints that this

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-12 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2011 8:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: JCL sheesh! for today snip C, for example, allows as many or as few (even only one)

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-12 Thread John Gilmore
Automatic, LIFO dynamic storage IS readily available in PL/I in the form of local storage. In my experience it is not much used because misunderstood: people who attempted, uninstructed, to use it early on were dismayed when they discovered that successive subroutine calls did not leave it in

Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-12 Thread Cosby, Bob - OCFO
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Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-12 Thread Staller, Allan
There are probably several on the CBT tape (www.cbttape.org) I recommend the DAF utility on the CBT tape (file094). You can look at the SMF 14/15 records using IEHEYEBALL. AFAIK, there is no supplied program with z/OS. HTH,

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
SAS + MICS or SAS + MXG or DAF from CBT Lizette -- 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: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-12 Thread Ed Gould
Liz, The list you provided is OK, but in reality you really only need DAF and its free. While the others an do the job well I might add. The simple answer is usually the best. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
Liz, The list you provided is OK, but in reality you really only need DAF and its free. While the others an do the job well I might add. The simple answer is usually the best. Ed Absolutely agree. DAF is usually sufficient. However, some shops do not like freeware and this shop may

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-12 Thread Gibney, Dave
Actually, IBM does supply DFSORT which makes the answer to the question yes plus SMOP. For some complex value of simple :) Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3897078350657311.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on 12/11/2011 at 04:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: OK. Done. Does this say the right stuff? Yes. Is the example suitable?: Yes, other than using RC as a variable name. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0de6a9840123e547b061ac5b6765c026240...@exmb-05.ad.wsu.edu, on 12/12/2011 at 08:55 AM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu said: Actually, often it is difficult to know what you are replying to and the attribution requires extra clicks, windows and effort. No. If fact, until this latest exchange,

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-12 Thread Roberts, John J
Going back to fundamentals, my recollection is that this information is not in the VTOC (F1 DSCB), nor is it to be found in the catalog. So it is only to be found in the SMF data. I hope I have it right so far. One implication could be that for certain ancient datasets, there will be no

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-12 Thread Frank Swarbrick
ALLOCATE and FREE are part of the 2002 COBOL international standard (ISO/IEC 1989:2002); a standard which IBM has made no commitment to implement... While certainly useful if you would like to build linked lists, I personally would much prefer dynamic-length tables and dynamic-length strings.

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-12 Thread Gibney, Dave
Actually, even attempting to access the link provided here was unhelpful. I really don't care. Sometime your messages contain useful enough info to continue to read them long enough to hit the delete :) I would guess as much as 20% of time, there is enough context and your reply is timely.

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-12 Thread John Gilmore
I was aware of the presence of ALLOCATE and FREE in the 'new' COBOL standard This thread has wandered far from its initial topic, and perhaps it is time to let it expire quietly. Frank likes variable-length tables. I agree that self-defining tables like those achievable with the ALLOCATE and

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-12 Thread Ed Gould
Dave, Technically IBM also supplies HLASM as well but the question was phrased to let the reader to think that a canned solution. The DFSORT option (actually semi valid) requires a bit of logic and some amount of programming type logic ie packed, binary etc and of course record layouts and

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-12 Thread Ed Gould
Liz, I know what you mean, however most shops turn a blind eye to systems people running their own acquired code on their own ID. I understand and fully agree that programs like DAF and others on the CBT or other such places should not be given to applications programs . I have been burned by

Re: TSO on z/OS 1.12 with LOGONHERE and multisystem logon

2011-12-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 004901ccb6dc$d0dd5bd0$72981370$@us, on 12/09/2011 at 07:41 PM, Jim j...@thethomasresidence.us said: Somewhat of a similar experience but in the early 60's, my professors' (physics and chemical) believed that experiments were merely a course of steps (process / action) to prove or disprove

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAPD5F5piy2kkwtwSCr0B5Gpd9ZzK81oRJ=mtf_etnux7-qo...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/12/2011 at 03:26 PM, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com said: Automatic, LIFO dynamic storage IS readily available in PL/I in the form of local storage. In my experience it is not much used because

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:12:44 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Is the example suitable?: Yes, other than using RC as a variable name. As in RC = BPXWDYN( ... )? Well, RC really is a variable. It has some special behaviors, as does SIGL. (Others? None come immediately to mind.) I

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-12 Thread David Crayford
On 13/12/2011 6:48 AM, John Gilmore wrote: I was aware of the presence of ALLOCATE and FREE in the 'new' COBOL standard This thread has wandered far from its initial topic, and perhaps it is time to let it expire quietly. Frank likes variable-length tables. I agree that self-defining tables

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-12 Thread Steve Comstock
On 12/12/2011 7:06 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:12:44 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Is the example suitable?: Yes, other than using RC as a variable name. As in RC = BPXWDYN( ... )? Well, RC really is a variable. It has some special behaviors, as does SIGL.

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