Re: sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-15 Thread Tidy, David (D)
As regards the HLQ part, we have successfully used a non-SYS1 SMS managed 4xm27 dataset for the non-prompt AUTOIPL Sadump: AMDSADMP IPL=D3390,VOLSER=SD, OUTPUT=(DBD36,PXSYS.OPER.SADMP), DDSPROMPT=NO, MINASID=ALL,

Re: sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-15 Thread Jim Mulder
> I love it when you guys do that to me! :-) Especially as I was too > fast to remedy the situation by reallocating everything before I had > figured out what I should have answered those prompts with! Jim > Mulder must be on vacation - I had hoped he could confirm this for me. Vacation? Not

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Jim Mulder
> >it runs with only a subset of it's LCPs enabled for interrupts > I have a definite problem with the wording of this. 'Enabled for > interrupts' in my book is quite independent of the logical/physical > cp distinction. 'enabled for interrupts' is a 7 at the appropriate > point in the psw (inst

Re: Dedicated vs. Shared CPs

2012-02-15 Thread Timothy Sipples
Barbara Nitz writes: >And coming from a z9 presumably to a z196, chances are very >good that you would loose physical cps to keep money down. It's not clear yet which z9 the original poster has. Moving from a z9 BC to a z114, no. There are more capacity models in the z114 and more configurable eng

Subject: SV: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Jones
Hi I havent had a problem with this /* REXX */ "FREE F(INDD1)" "FREE F(OUTDD1)" "FREE F(SYSIN)" "ALLOC FI(INDD1) DSN('x..aaa') SHR" "ALLOC FI(OUTDD1) DSN('x..bbb') SHR" "ALLOC FI(SYSIN) DSN('x..ccc') SHR" "NEWSTACK" V1 = " C I=((INDD1,R)),O=OUTDD1" V2 = " SELECT M

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Timothy Sipples
Rob Schramm writes: >If you upgrade to z10 / z114, you can use GCL (group capacity limits). It >allows for better flexibility without having to "hard cap". Though there are many excellent reasons to upgrade to a z114 or z196, LPAR group capacity limits (group "softcaps") are available on z9 or lat

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
>The channel requests an I/O interrupt. It must be processed by a specific >LPAR, but not a specific CPU. With regard to cpenable, I believe you've missed the fact cpenable only comes into play when you're dealing with *pending* interrupts. Using the TPI (test pending interrupt) means that you

Re: sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-15 Thread Skip Robinson
I trade blonde jokes with a blonde friend. A recent gem from her (nothing personal!): A gorgeous young redhead goes into the doctor's office and said that her body hurt wherever she touched it. 'Impossible!' says the doctor.. 'Show me.' The redhead took her finger, pushed on her left shoulder

Re: Dedicated vs. Shared CPs

2012-02-15 Thread Skip Robinson
I checked out an MVS Image profile on my (brand spanking new!) z196. It looks the choice is between dedicated or shared CPs. A CF LPAR offers more choices, but oddly fewer choices than the z10 it replaced. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler

Re: sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
>As to whether a null reply in the reported case would have reverted SAD to >the original values, I think we're all looking to Barbara to answer her >own question. ;-) I love it when you guys do that to me! :-) Especially as I was too fast to remedy the situation by reallocating everything before

Off friday, back monday

2012-02-15 Thread John Stevenson
I will be out of the office starting 16/02/2012 and will return on 20/02/2012. For anything urgent contact the Mainframe Services support number, x79371 or 04 924 9371 or email BNZ Mainframe Services. CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for

Re: Dedicated vs. Shared CPs

2012-02-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
>Is it possible to mix shared and dedicated CPs on the same LPAR? No. Not on a z9 and not the way you mean. The RMF report deals with what an lpar can look like when it uses Hiperdispatch. That is not available on a z9. Hiperdispatch semi-dedicates logical processors to physical processors depen

Re: CICS vs IMS

2012-02-15 Thread Ken Brick
On 16/02/2012 11:04 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: We are a CICS shop with IMS DB (DBCTL), but I've been curious for a while about the differences between how CICS works and how IMS TM works. I couldn't find anything on the web. Anyone have a link to a good reference? Thanks, Frank

Re: CICS vs IMS

2012-02-15 Thread Fred Hoffman
They both have their +s and -s, The logging for IMS is very good. Easy to use in recovery. I thought that CICS was quicker and also had a pretty good log system. Some of it depends upon the application you are using. I'm a CICS bigot but, I'm also an IMS DBA. It's you pick and how expe

Re: Dedicated vs. Shared CPs

2012-02-15 Thread Joe Owens
Is it possible to mix shared and dedicated CPs on the same LPAR? I thought it wasn't, but a note on the RMF partition data report implies it is; On WGT Either the partition's current weighting of the shared processor resources or one of the following indicators: DED Indicates that the partition

IEBCOPY with I/O error on SYSIN

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
I was testing running from Rexx z/OS 1.13 IEBCOPY, which doesn't require authorization: 0IEB1021E OMVS,*,SYSIN ,GET ,WRONG LEN RECRD,00,QSAM 17.52.11 STC09793 +IEB1021E OMVS,*,SYSIN ,GET ,WRONG LEN RECRD,00,QSAM \216^A\220÷Ù¯ç"\2370"\2370"\2370"\2370"\2

Re: 5 Byte Device Addresses?

2012-02-15 Thread Dan
Thanks Radoslaw & Bob. I figured there must be some explanation for the additional byte other than some new extended device ranges. This is still a DOC problem as the manual simply states these are device addresses. Radoslaw, are you saying there is a way of creating an IPLable device with a

Re: CICS vs IMS

2012-02-15 Thread Roberts, John J
>>We are a CICS shop with IMS DB (DBCTL), but I've been curious for a while >>about the differences between how CICS works >>and how IMS TM works. I >>couldn't find anything on the web. Anyone have a link to a good reference? Try Google for "IMS DC". The IMS Transaction Manager used to be cal

Re: CICS vs IMS

2012-02-15 Thread Mike Schwab
I have programmed with both systems. IMS TM seems to be a bit cleaner to me. CICS seems to be more susecptible to other program's errors. Both feature 3270 screen handling, storing information between screen actions, updating databases, sending updated screens. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 6:04 PM,

CICS vs IMS

2012-02-15 Thread Frank Swarbrick
We are a CICS shop with IMS DB (DBCTL), but I've been curious for a while about the differences between how CICS works and how IMS TM works.  I couldn't find anything on the web.  Anyone have a link to a good reference? Thanks, Frank -

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Skip Robinson
I believe that IEBCOPY (and some/all? of the old DFP utilities) consider anything in column 1 to be a label. Hence actual control keywords have to start in column 2+. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread Lindy Mayfield
There are not too many options to do something authorized from Rexx. I should have a list somewhere... Anyway, I was curious about that part. It was once an interest of mine. Regards, Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Beha

OT - SMS Invision question

2012-02-15 Thread Richard Pinion
As a system programmer I have been assigned the task of taking a customer's SMS Invision system, PA, AP, GL, etc., and restoring it to our system. We have restored all of the data sets. Now, I have been asked to identify and run only the PA (Patient Accounting) part of their batch schedule. A

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Joe Owens
Hi thanks for all the replies so far. I've just read the the z/os abcs vol 10 about I/O processing and have some thoughts about CPENABLE First we are running (10,30) which seems to be IBMs current recommendation for Z9. So is this what happens? The channel requests an I/O interrupt. It must be

PRINT (NOCC for z/OS?

2012-02-15 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Group, We found the issue with this. The MVS Spool can hold binary PDFs. The leading x'40' is NOT a problem. We added more of them to prove it. The problem is with the PDF viewer. Thank you for all your input on this matter, Dave Dave Hansen Eagan Software Systems Branch 651-406

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:42:08 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: > >I rhink the word "select" must start in column 2 > ??? I thought it could start any where from 2 through 16. But I haven't checked the manual. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Ed Gould
Dave: I rhink the word "select" must start in column 2 Ed On Feb 15, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN wrote: Still no luck: FCO105I COPY1 COPY INDD=INDD1,OUTDD=OUTDD1 FCO105I SELECT MEMBER=DBOK62 FCO411A UNIDENTIFIED COMMAND OR KEYWORD "NEWSTACK" V1 = "COPY1 COPY INDD=INDD1,OUTD

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:09:50 -0500, Joe Aulph wrote: >Maybe it's just the biggot'd Assembler flake within but wouldn't this >be much simpler with the COBOL program simply calling an DYNALLOC >routine in Assembler... no authorization needed at all for this. > I had wondered about that, from when

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:59:29 -0600, Chris Craddock wrote: >On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:55 PM, McKown, John wrote: > >> If you really want do this this: run an APF authorized TSO command from a >> COBOL program, even one which is linked AC=1. Well, you'll need to "cheat >> horribly". One way to cheat

BPX.UNIQUE.USER APPLDATA model profile

2012-02-15 Thread David Magee
I was wondering how some of you are handling the HOME field of the model userid profile specified in the APPLDATA field of the BPX.UNIQUE.USER porfile. The IBM examples I've seen all show /tmp for HOME. My current OEDFLTU userid in use with the BPX.DEFAULT.USER profile uses /tmp. Is there a

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread retired mainframer
:>: -Original Message- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On :>: Behalf Of Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN :>: Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 12:34 PM :>: To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :>: Subject: Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation? :>: :>: Still no luck: :>: :>: FC

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread Scott Ford
Yep, a Security program like RACF ... Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com   From: retired mainframer To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:12 PM Subject: Re: Authorized functions :>: -Original Message---

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread retired mainframer
:>: -Original Message- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On :>: Behalf Of Scott Ford :>: Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 11:16 AM :>: To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :>: Subject: Re: Authorized functions :>: :>: Walt, :>: :>: First , thanks for responding.. :

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Gross, Randall [GCG-PFS]
Sometimes the simple problems are the hardest to find -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 4:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuatio

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Craddock > Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 2:59 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Authorized functions > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:55 PM, McKown, John > > wrote:

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread Joe Aulph
Maybe it's just the biggot'd Assembler flake within but wouldn't this be much simpler with the COBOL program simply calling an DYNALLOC routine in Assembler... no authorization needed at all for this. On 2/15/12, Chris Craddock wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:55 PM, McKown, John > wrote: > >>

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Randall, That was it. I started the SELECT in column 2! THANK YOU!! Dave Hansen Eagan Software Systems Branch 651-406-1208 dave.l.han...@usps.gov -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gross, Randall [GCG-PFS] S

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Paul, Batch works fine because of the sysin DD: //SYSINDD * COPY INDD=MYDD1,OUTDD=MYDD2 SELECT MEMBER=(mem1,mem2,mem3)/ EXCLUDE member=(sf,df,sa) /* Just can't get the SELECT to take as a second line in REXX. The first line works great! Thank yo

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Gross, Randall [GCG-PFS]
I don't think SELECT can start in column 1.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation? Still

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread Chris Craddock
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:55 PM, McKown, John wrote: > If you really want do this this: run an APF authorized TSO command from a > COBOL program, even one which is linked AC=1. Well, you'll need to "cheat > horribly". One way to cheat is to run your COBOL program under TSO. Do I even need to p

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Scott, The example didn't show a null line. I've seen EXECIO use a null line. FCO105I S M=TRAY2LND FCO411A UNIDENTIFIED COMMAND OR KEYWORD FCO105I FCO417A PRECEDING CONTROL STATEMENT(S) INVALID FCO419A OPERATION TERMINATED QUEUE V1 QUEUE V2 QUEUE V3 QUEUE V4 QUEUE V5 QUEUE V6 QUEUE '' "EXECIO"

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:41:17 -0800, Scott Ford wrote:   Usually you need to queue a null line as the last line in the stack.. The count ("queued()") should make that unnecessary. From: "Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN" To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, Febru

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread McKown, John
If you really want do this this: run an APF authorized TSO command from a COBOL program, even one which is linked AC=1. Well, you'll need to "cheat horribly". One way to cheat is to run your COBOL program under TSO. You run IKJEFT01. Something like: //STC EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01, // REGION=0M,PARM='%

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <0369520600091673.wa.joeowensstandardlife@bama.ua.edu>, on 02/15/2012 at 07:10 AM, Joe Owens said: >My understanding of the channel program is that it moves the data >into the page fixed I/O buffer and the interupt a cp to process the >I/O. How is the candidate CP chosen? I know the z/

Re: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, speaks on MS-Windows

2012-02-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <90ec2e798a22854ebf67a14ec3fe093fa74c870...@scmbxc01.bcbad.state.sc.us>, on 02/15/2012 at 10:59 AM, "Bonno, Tuco" said: >macbeth, imo, says it even better Perhaps Milton, repurposed to coercive monopolies: Yet not for those nor what the potent victor in his rage can else inflict, do I

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Scott Ford
Dave,   Usually you need to queue a null line as the last line in the stack.. Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com   From: "Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN" To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 3:33 PM Subject: Re: REX

Re: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Still no luck: FCO105I COPY1 COPY INDD=INDD1,OUTDD=OUTDD1 FCO105I SELECT MEMBER=DBOK62 FCO411A UNIDENTIFIED COMMAND OR KEYWORD "NEWSTACK" V1 = "COPY1 COPY INDD=INDD1,OUTDD=OUTDD1" V2 = "SELECT MEMBER=DBOK62" V3 = "SELECT MEMBER=DP13" V4 = "SELECT MEMBER=LAND1CPY" V5 = "SELECT MEMBER=SSTDN" V6 = "

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread Scott Ford
John:   So is this saying you can only do limited rexx functions from an application program In our case, i need to allocate a sysin and sysprint and execute a vendor's program the output queues into sysprint. My problem I ran into..is using BPXWDYN...once allocated in a running LE Cobol pro

SV: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Thomas Berg
I guess that what You want is: "NEWSTACK" V1 = "COPY1 COPY INDD=INDD1,OUTDD=OUTDD1" V2 = "S M=DBOK62" V3 = "S M=DP13" V4 = "S M=LAND1CPY" V5 = "S M=SSTDN" V6 = "S M=TRAY2LN" Queue V1 Queue V2 Queue V3 Queue V4 Queue V5 Queue V6 "EXECIO" queued() "DISKW SYSIN (FINIS" "DELSTACK" "TSOEXEC IEBCOPY"

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread McKown, John
Is this even possible? here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ikj4b780/23.4.3.2 Table 122 shows the reason codes that are found in parameter 5 if IKJEFTSR completes with a return code of 20. ... 24(18) IKJEFTSR was invoked from a non-TSO/E environmen

REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-15 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Group, I have a REXX EXEC: "NEWSTACK" V1 = "COPY1 COPY INDD=INDD1,OUTDD=OUTDD1" V2 = "S M=(DBOK62,DP13,LAND1CPY,SSTDN,TRAY2LND)" queue V1 '+' V2 "EXECIO" queued() "DISKW SYSIN (FINIS" "DELSTACK" "TSOEXEC IEBCOPY" It gets an error: FCO105I COPY1 COPY INDD=INDD1,OUTDD=OUTDD1 + S M=(DBOK62,DP1

Re: Career Watch: The most in-demand skills of 2012 - Good news the training budgets seem to be increasing

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/15/2012 12:38 PM, Ed Gould wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224116/Career_Watch_The_most_in_demand_skills_of_2012 Year-over-year changes in training spending, 2006-2011: • 2006: 7% • 2007: 6% • 2008: -11% • 2009: -11& • 2010: 2% • 2011: 9% Source: The Corporate Learnin

Career Watch: The most in-demand skills of 2012 - Good news the training budgets seem to be increasing

2012-02-15 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224116/ Career_Watch_The_most_in_demand_skills_of_2012 Year-over-year changes in training spending, 2006-2011: • 2006: 7% • 2007: 6% • 2008: -11% • 2009: -11& • 2010: 2% • 2011: 9% Source: The Corporate Learning Factbook 2012, Bersin & Associates --

Re: Any way to get the XLC compiler to list all #define symbols?

2012-02-15 Thread Charles Mills
And the answer to THAT is that I am trying it on my 1.10 system. SHOWM is not a 1.10 option. Need to more the test to 1.13, which will take a couple of days. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wedne

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread Scott Ford
Walt,   First , thanks for responding..   Let me explain:   The STC is in LE Cobol..4.2 I want to call IKJEFTSR ...to call a rexx clist that will perform authorized functions , i.e.; alloc, free The call is below:      IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

Re: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread McKown, John
My mistake. You cannot do what I was describing with the output in JESMSGLG. You'll need to use the others' suggestions to use SDSF. I do know some other ways, but they are even more "non standard" and require installing some other software. Specifically, you need Dovetailed Technologies "Datase

Re: What is CA-SRAM and what is it used for.

2012-02-15 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I'm not from CA, but I believe that (at least a portion of) SRAM is shipped with the CA common services product. Rex On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Thomas Lawrence wrote: > We've had SRAM from CA going back to the DOS days. In those day's we actually > had CA-Sort. We are now Z/os and man

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:34:01 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: >All, >I understand that authorized programs have been talked about before, buti >don't understand and I want to make sure I do before I start a design .. > >What I want Long running STC >... Invoke a rexx cli

Re: What is CA-SRAM and what is it used for.

2012-02-15 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.cconceptsinc.com/2008cci/webport/CA_corp_collateral/CA_for_brian/CA_Product_Brief.pdf On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Thomas Lawrence wrote: > We've had SRAM from CA going back to the DOS days. In those day's we actually > had CA-Sort. We are now Z/os and  management is questioning

Authorized functions

2012-02-15 Thread Scott Ford
All, I understand that authorized programs have been talked about before, buti don't understand and I want to make sure I do before I start a design .. What I want Long running STC ... Invoke a rexx clist performing alloc, calls to a program ..

Re: Any way to get the XLC compiler to list all #define symbols?

2012-02-15 Thread Charles Mills
Got a few minutes between con calls to play with this. I am a little mystified. The *only* options I am specifying are PPONLY and SHOWM. I get the error CCN0049(W) The option "SHOWM" is not supported. SYSUT10 has a listing that is mostly blank lines, but does seem to be the #include-expanded sou

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Ron Hawkins
Kees, My recollection is the first WSC flash mentioning this on the 3090s was to use CPENABLE(0,0), and it has switched between 10,30 and 0,0 at least twice since then. http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/032f6e163324983085256b79 007f5aec/80154cc31e2cc90d86256fa9000766e7/$FILE/CPE

Re: What is CA-SRAM and what is it used for.

2012-02-15 Thread Chuck Arney
IIRC it stands for Sort Random Access Method. It is a product that is called by user written programs like an internal sort. However, it can perform multiple sorts at once. I don't believe it uses any part of CA-Sort so you could have programs that are still using it and you might not know. You

What is CA-SRAM and what is it used for.

2012-02-15 Thread Thomas Lawrence
We've had SRAM from CA going back to the DOS days. In those day's we actually had CA-Sort. We are now Z/os and management is questioning why we still have it since we use IBM Sort. We have other CA products but no longer have CA-Sort. Anyone from CA know? --

Re: Any way to get the XLC compiler to list all #define symbols?

2012-02-15 Thread Charles Mills
Believe me, I am the world's biggest fan of static const as opposed to #define. I almost never use #define in my own work. I don't even like #ifdef and its cohorts -- who needs a second "layer" of program logic to debug? Except where performance is a big issue, or where a particular line of code wi

Re: Any way to get the XLC compiler to list all #define symbols?

2012-02-15 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. Will give that a try. Today is not the day. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Klaeschen Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 11:33 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Any way to get the XLC compiler t

Re: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, speaks on MS-Windows

2012-02-15 Thread John Gilmore
I'm not at all sure that I want to rub off on anyone. Mr Tuco's quotation is apposite, although what Macbeth had in mind was the totality of human experience, which is the sense in which Faulkner cribbed the same text for his title. The Tennyson pastiche is another matter. The original version o

Re: sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-15 Thread Skip Robinson
We also define SYS1.SADMP DSNTYPE=LARGE w/o benefit of SMS. I don't think it matters what you name the data set. We just use the 'well known' name (I love that open systems wriggle out of the 'standard' trap). When you IPL SAD, it goes to the DSN pointed to by SYS1.PAGEDUMP.Vxx on the IPL v

Re: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, speaks on MS-Windows

2012-02-15 Thread Bonno, Tuco
Careful! Gilmore is rubbing off on you. :-) = oh no, oh no; believe me, I come by that quite naturally on my own, w/o any need for mentoring ... /s/ tuco -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bonno, Tuco Sent: W

RES: RES: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Sérgio Lima Costa
Thanks Greg, -Mensagem original- De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] Em nome de Greg Shirey Enviada em: quarta-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2012 12:48 Para: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Assunto: Re: RES: Question about XDC BATCH and automation Sergio's original question

RES: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Sérgio Lima Costa
Hello Mr. John. Thanks very ,much for your help. Not a help, but really a lesson. I Will try do this here, but Mr. John, today, when look on CICS SYSOUT, the ABEND messagens was in another report, i.e. 10.17.35 STC03526 +DFHSR0001 CICSP1 An abend (code 0C4/AKEA) has occurred at offset X'18

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Rob Schramm
If you upgrade to z10 / z114, you can use GCL (group capacity limits). It allows for better flexibility without having to "hard cap". Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E] < anthony.sambat...@nih.gov> wrote: >

Re: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, speaks on MS-Windows

2012-02-15 Thread Tony's Comcast account
Careful! Gilmore is rubbing off on you. :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bonno, Tuco Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 10:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, speaks on MS-Windows mac

Re: bpxwdyn rc = 4294967263

2012-02-15 Thread Scott Ford
All, I thought i would provide a quick update the issue is COBOL. I will explain, Once you allocate a file using 'optional ' in the 'select' then refer to it dynamically You cannot 'free it' which makes sense. My design mistake. Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityfo

Re: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, speaks on MS-Windows

2012-02-15 Thread Bonno, Tuco
macbeth, imo, says it even better but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. /s/ tuco bonno; Graduate, College of Conflict Management; University

RES: RES: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Sérgio Lima Costa
Thanks Ron. -Mensagem original- De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] Em nome de Ron Hawkins Enviada em: quarta-feira, 15 de fevereiro de 2012 11:37 Para: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Assunto: Re: RES: Question about XDC BATCH and automation Sergio, Select the sysout

Re: Workload Manager Performance

2012-02-15 Thread gsg
WLM not a scheduler. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]
This flash from 2008 shows CPENABLE recommendation of (10,30) but says that it's for increased overall thru put: http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/5cb5ed706d254a8186256c71006d2e0a/80154cc31e2cc90d86256fa9000766e7/$FILE/CPENABLE_vz10.pdf -Original Message- From: Joe Owe

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, speaks on MS-Windows

2012-02-15 Thread McKown, John
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be; They are but broken lights of thee. -- Tennyson 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...@healthma

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Bill Fairchild
If you have TMON/MVS, you can run an I/O trace against several devices on the system that you suspect has I/O elongation and the exact amount of I/O elongation will be measured and reported on in that trace. Bill Fairchild -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:I

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-15 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
OK, I guess I didn't realize that there was some mirroring software that didn't allow a changed-only resync after updates were done on the target volumes. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Tuesday, Feb

Re: RES: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Greg Shirey
Sergio's original question was whether he could do what you described in batch. I'm sure the short answer is yes, though I don't understand the selection criterion, since STC03526 does not appear to be the most recent output data set. Sergio, have you looked at the SDSF Operation and Custom

Re: NASA closes it's last mainframe

2012-02-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <586f66d0-1da1-4a0a-ba56-e0829cb47...@yahoo.com>, on 02/14/2012 at 08:13 AM, Scott Ford said: >Very interesting article / blog, but anyone know why NASA pulled the >plug on their last mainframe? I don't know that they did. NASA has other sites besides MSFC. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) M

Re: sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:43:08 -0600, Barbara Nitz wrote: >My sadump program is coded with DDSPROMPT=NO (to enable sadump autoipl) and a >dump data set name that is NOT SYS1.SADMP (since something needed to get done >in SMS for dsntype=large, and sys1 is not sms-managed - don't ask me about >par

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Ron, Do you have a source for (0,0)? What I could find was FLASH10337, which advises (10,30) for machines up to z10. Are there later advises, especially for z196? Kees. "Ron Hawkins" wrote in message news:<002401ccebe6$70595590$510c00b0$@net>... > Joe, > > In the past %TPI was a good indicato

Re: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread McKown, John
>From reading other messages in the thread, you need a way to automatically >report CICS abends to the appropriate group. Your plan is to put this >information to a disk dataset, then process it looking for messages such as: DFHAC2236 02/14/2012 21:33:56 IMCM Transaction GC3# abend ABM3 in progr

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Staller, Allan
A lot to go through here, but let's take it one step at a time. Comments interspersed. I've got a few questions about How z hardware handles I/Os and LPAR dispatching. I've done a fair bit of reading, but still some things I don't understand. We are on Z9's We are using shared CPs. We are not us

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-15 Thread Ron Hawkins
Thomas, I don't believe this is true. There are files systems that require pre-allocation of space. In fact the use of a raw LUN is predefined space by definition. If you spent some setting up arrays for large Open Systems servers where they want 120 different LUN sizes you see the similarity.

Re: sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-15 Thread Jousma, David
Barbara, Why not non-sms DSNTYPE? We do. Data Set Name . . . . : SYS1.SADMP1 General Data Current Allocation Management class . . : **N

Re: RES: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Ron Hawkins
Sergio, Select the sysout (S) for STC03526 and open it. On the command line type PRT D and enter. Complete the dataset details and enter. When you return to the SYSOUT screen type PRT and enter. Type PRT CLOSE and enter You now have all the sysout in a dataset. This is all documented in the S

Re: Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Ron Hawkins
Joe, In the past %TPI was a good indicator that IO was arriving for an LPAR but it did not a logical CP dispatched by PR/SM to accept the interrupt. This creates a "wall of interrupts" affect when the LCP is dispatched and started finding pending interrupts with TPI process. The recommendation fo

Re: RES: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi There is a red book http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247419.pdf Here you can find several samples, how to read the SYSOUT. I mean, if the CICS is ending, you can insert a jobstep to process the CICS SYSOUT's as you need . On 2/15/2012 1:58 PM, Sérgio Lima Costa wrote: Hell

Z/architecture I/O questions

2012-02-15 Thread Joe Owens
Hi List, I've got a few questions about How z hardware handles I/Os and LPAR dispatching. I've done a fair bit of reading, but still some things I don't understand. We are on Z9's We are using shared CPs. We are not using IRD. We have 2 large production LPARs and several smaller LPARs. The 2 prod

RES: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Sérgio Lima Costa
Hello, Thanks very much for your help. Sorry about my bad explanation, below, our CICS SYSOUT, that exist now in our system : SDSF STATUS DISPLAY ALL CLASSESLINE 1-10 (10) COMMAND INPUT ===>SCROLL ===> CSR PREFIX=CICSP1 DEST=(A

RES: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Sérgio Lima Costa
Hello Lizette. We have ZOS 1.12. Can you please show me the way from how extract data from JES2, and put to a dataset please ? Our CICS production is down all days at 11:00 p.m., and return next Day near 03:00 a.m. The GDG Idea is very well, when i learn how put data from JES2 to a dataset, I W

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 13 Feb 2012 to 14 Feb 2012 (#2012-45)

2012-02-15 Thread Jim Holloway
Natasa, If as you say, you are synchronously mirroring your DASD, I would make the following suggestion. Add the new CF to your current CFRM policy at your old site and acticvate. You'll have no connectivity to it so you can't allocate it locally. Your CFRM CDS gets mirrored with the

Re: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Lizette Koehler
> > Hello List, > > We need all days here, Access the SYSOUT from CICS under SDSF , then, give the > XDC command, to save the sysout on DASD, next, Edit this file, for locate all abends, > save this file on another file, and send this information to development people. > > So, we want know, if i

Re: Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Hi With the REXX SDSF interface you can access the SYSOUT etc . What do you mean about "last CICS JOBS on SYSOUT ? If the CICS is ending you can insert maybe a STEP to do this save/edit etc actions you need . On 2/15/2012 12:59 PM, Sérgio Lima Costa wrote: Hello List, We need all days h

Question about XDC BATCH and automation

2012-02-15 Thread Sérgio Lima Costa
Hello List, We need all days here, Access the SYSOUT from CICS under SDSF , then, give the XDC command, to save the sysout on DASD, next, Edit this file, for locate all abends, save this file on another file, and send this information to development people. So, we want know, if is possible, ma

sadump (and autoipl)

2012-02-15 Thread Barbara Nitz
My sadump program is coded with DDSPROMPT=NO (to enable sadump autoipl) and a dump data set name that is NOT SYS1.SADMP (since something needed to get done in SMS for dsntype=large, and sys1 is not sms-managed - don't ask me about particulars). When we migrated to 1.12, we were on old DASD hard

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