Hi Peter,
There are a number of ways - a lot depends on what info you want. Assuming
that you just want to filter a quick list, QuickRef has a very handy DASD
screen for immediate - or almost immediate, depending on how big your farm is
:) display that you can filter by many different crit
W dniu 2012-06-13 07:14, mf db pisze:
Hello All,
We know pretty well that Mod - 3 , Mod - 9 . Mod - 27 has a Cylinder
of 3K , 9K and 27k, but in a environment where we have mixture of all these
type it becomes hard to know by each Volume serial. Are there any ways to
scan only the Volumes c
Hi Tim,
It is pretty easy in the ServerPac dialogs to change the name of the mount
point to a unique name , such as /service13 . That prevents any confusion as
to what gets mounted to what for what.
/snip
MOUNT FILESYSTEM('ZOS13.OMVS.VAR.ROOT') +
/esnip
This is your VAR root. There a
Hello All,
We know pretty well that Mod - 3 , Mod - 9 . Mod - 27 has a Cylinder
of 3K , 9K and 27k, but in a environment where we have mixture of all these
type it becomes hard to know by each Volume serial. Are there any ways to
scan only the Volumes corresponding to MOD 3 or MOD 9 ?
Any su
1027 was a test case and the data is arbitrary. I think the point of round
trip is supposed to be that *every* character is "recoverable."
A good write-up in of all places the Glossary of the Z Unicode manual.
Emphasis is mine.
Round trip. Encoding that occurs when *every* code
point in the sour
On my last 1.11 system, the mount point was /SERVICE.
We also had the alternate root system normally mounted there (for any SMPE
work). You may need to confirm the mount point is free before issuing the
mount command.
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Don,
I suggest that you look into your vendor's implementation of encryption of data
at rest.
If you have HDS then all RAID schemes and disk types are supported (HDD, SSD
and
SATA) and there is no performance impact. I believe EMC and IBM also support
Encryption of data at rest.
With encrypt
That would be RAID 3.
Parity and striping and compression are like shredding documents. It makes it
hard to assemble and read the whole page, but there are substantial chunks of
data in the clear tha may serendipitously contain a few credit card numbers and
the zip code in the clear. That's eno
> and I spend two days optimizing it
What is your time worth? Are you an employee whose salary is already a sunk
cost, or are you a $250/hour consultant?
You don't have to answer that question, but my point is that the value of
your time figures into the question "Am I gaining money or loosing ti
Maybe it will turn out that "round trip" only applies to the characters that
are defined in the Source CCSID (and I'm not sure if "defined" is the right
word). When I look at a chart of CCSID 1027 here:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP01027.pdf
I see that al
Or, to expand on R.S.'s remarks, if your installation software charges
are based on peak 4-hour MSU* average during the month and this
application not only must run during the peak time but is sufficient to
raise that peak, then your software license charges will go up for that
month and there
Not sure what you mean. Here's the PMR:
Problem Details
.
Product or Service: Support for Unicode
Component ID: 5752SCUNI
On 12 June 2012 18:55, Charles Mills wrote:
> I have opened a PMR.
For the doc, or the behaviour of the service? Or did you choose the
"let us decide for you" option...?
Tony H.
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I have opened a PMR.
Charles
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Thanks. I thin
Thanks
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From: Joe Connally
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Sent: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 21:29:12 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system
I did the same thing recently on a CustomPac. Step1 of the RESTORE job is a
I think you are not getting an answer -- actually as I recall you got
several answers to this effect -- because the question is effectively "how
long is a piece of string?"
I use several LPARs for development. For various business reasons a CPU
second costs me and my employer nothing.
OTOH if you
I did the same thing recently on a CustomPac. Step1 of the RESTORE job is a
REXX exec and mounts the file system and then loads. Look at the exec and you
should see the mount logic. I think the exec is CPPEHFS.
Joe Connally
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W dniu 2012-06-12 23:13, Salva Carrasco pisze:
Apart from the syntax error "How many" vs. "How much", My question is not
having much success.
In other terms:
If I have a STC consuming 25,000 cpus / secs per month, and I spend two days
optimizing it to reduce to 15,000.
Am I gaining money or lo
Apart from the syntax error "How many" vs. "How much", My question is not
having much success.
In other terms:
If I have a STC consuming 25,000 cpus / secs per month, and I spend two days
optimizing it to reduce to 15,000.
Am I gaining money or loosing time ?
--
They are saying that if you go from Linux to z/OS to Linux then '%' might
become '?' and then back to '%'. (Those are just example characters -- don't
take them literally.)
But if you go from z/OS to Linux to Java then '?' might become '%' and then
'!'.
They are saying that round-trip does not m
During the serverpac for zos 1.13 I believe there is a step where you mount the
new systems root system
on the driving system at the /service point.
Is the command for this
MOUNT FILESYSTEM('ZOS13.OMVS.VAR.ROOT') +
MOUNTPOINT('/service') +
TYPE(ZFS) MODE(RDWR)
I believe we had done
The term 'bijective' is a fairly old one, the earliest reference I
found in a Mathematical Reviews index was for 1939.. Anyone who has
had a college course in mathematical logic or, yes, set theory is
likely to know or have forgotten its meaning.
It does, however, have a bad reputation because o
I would say that bijection (a one-one correspondence) is not exactly the
same as "roundtripping".
For example:
IBM-1047 (single byte EBCDIC) -> UTF-8
- you can round-trip this, since you can take any character in the source
code page, and get a UTF-8 character. If you take any of *those* 256
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:59:13 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>" A round-trip conversion works only in a two-tier homogenous environment
>where the data makes the complete round trip. For example, if you pass data
>from DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows to DB2 for z/OS and then back to DB2
>for Linux,
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> Why does IBM have this compulsion to be different from everyone else
> and invent its own terminology rather than using a conventional,
> well-understood word such as "bijective"?
>
Harumph. It may be an established and well-defined term, a
Peter's original question was
"The subject is the question. Obviously I can insert a WORKING-STORAGE
switch that is off by default and a "Debugging line in the PROCEDURE
division to turn "on" that switch when "WITH DEBUGGING" is in effect, but
this seems clumsy to me.
If there is another way, I'
>Why does IBM have this compulsion to be different from everyone else
and invent its own terminology rather than using a conventional,
well-understood word such as "bijective"?
Because "bijective" is not so well understood by anyone born before 1952 or so.
The term relates to SET Theory, which w
Jake,
On 2012-06-12 07:54, Jake anderson wrote:
Thanks for your reply. I presume this would need little more research and
get back to you all once I recover it.
I have done something like this in 2005(?). The XMIT file was screwed and I
could not get it back, but the contents, a PL/I library
Clark stated,
"If the statement //SYSOUT DD some parameters is missing and you have a
DISPLAY something in your program and the LE runtime option CBLQDA is
(ON), the program will dynamically allocate a temporary file with
DISP=(NEW,DELETE) and write to it. This is true for all QSAM files.
If the L
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:02:17 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:
>
>"The objective of this criterion is to send data from one system to
>another one that has different representations of character data, and
>retrieve it without loss. Often the "do not convert" choice is not
>available. For example, data sto
FYI:
" A round-trip conversion works only in a two-tier homogenous environment
where the data makes the complete round trip. For example, if you pass data
from DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows to DB2 for z/OS and then back to DB2
for Linux, UNIX, and Windows with a round-trip conversion, no data i
Thanks. I think either your and my understanding of roundtrip is flawed, or
Unicode Services understands it differently, or I am missing something.
Charles
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In
<93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3c68cc9...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us>,
on 06/11/2012
at 02:58 PM, "Roberts, John J" said:
>Also, what is the significance of the V00 part of the qualifier?
It's the version.
>I was always led to believe that it was a vestige of something
>that was neve
On 12 June 2012 13:59, Charles Mills wrote:
> Fair enough. Unicode services reports however that it supports roundtrip
> conversion in many of these cases, including for example, 37 to 850 (pretty
> basic ASCII). What does roundtrip conversion mean? That is my fundamental
> question.
The CDRA Re
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From: Shai Hess
Date: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:26 PM
Subject: Big blksize in MFNetDisk
To: shai.h...@gmail.com
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HI,
Many time I was asked if it is better to run MFNetDisk PC component in
Linux or Windows.
It seem to me that for big block size above 20K it
Right. I don't have a functional problem. There is no "fix" that I am
looking for. I have an understanding and documentation (mine!) problem.
Charles
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Sent: Tuesday, June
> I've lost the original post, what is the mapping you are trying to
achieve?
The original example was somewhat extreme.
CCSID 01027: Encoding scheme 1100 - EBCDIC, SBCS; Name JAPAN LATIN
CCSID 01208: Encoding scheme 7807 - UTF-8, UCS-2 transform; Name UTF-8 WITH
IBM
Both the Unicode manual fo
I will have to leave the answer to your fundamental question for wiser and more
experienced heads to answer. I would think you could file a PMR on this and
see what IBM has to say about it. You might only get a doc change out of it,
but at least then there would be doc on what is and is not su
On 6/12/2012 11:59 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
Peter, thanks. Believe me, I have done a *lot* of CCSID research.
CCSID 1208 is Encoding scheme 7807 - UTF-8, UCS-2 transform; Name UTF-8 WITH
IBM PUA. It is *the* basic UTF-8 CCSID.
there is no way for EBCDIC 41 to "round trip" through classic 7-bit
Peter, thanks. Believe me, I have done a *lot* of CCSID research.
CCSID 1208 is Encoding scheme 7807 - UTF-8, UCS-2 transform; Name UTF-8 WITH
IBM PUA. It is *the* basic UTF-8 CCSID.
> there is no way for EBCDIC 41 to "round trip" through classic 7-bit ASCII
Fair enough. Unicode services report
Well, I don't have my "green card" with me at the moment, but IIRC 3F is the
EBCDIC SUB character, which means mapping it to ASCII 1A is correct. EBCDIC 41
I think is "hard space" or something like that, and classic 7-bit ASCII does
not support such a character, so there is no way for EBCDIC 41
We separate the SMF data into multiple LOGSTREAMs. Then dump each LOGSTREAM to
it's own dataset
We use the Virtual Tape Subsystem to "clone" (duplex) the datasets, then push
the data out to real tapes as soon as possible
Then we produce a bill for the cost of supporting this process. People
Thanks, Peter.
Please understand I am not criticizing or faulting z/OS Unicode Services. I
am just trying to explain to a customer the output they may expect to see
when they use our product that in turn uses Unicode Services (USS? -- LOL --
never mind).
Let's leave PCs out of it. If I were goin
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:03:55 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
>I believe that slide refers to "round trips" within the z/OS world only.
>There is no statement that CCSID conversion by a system other than z/OS (such
>as the PC ftp client in your example) will be covered in the 'round trip"
>g
I believe that slide refers to "round trips" within the z/OS world only. There
is no statement that CCSID conversion by a system other than z/OS (such as the
PC ftp client in your example) will be covered in the 'round trip" guarantee.
You have to be transmitting and receiving with the same or
Well, Peter, that's certainly consistent with what I see.
I'm looking, however, at slide 11 of
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/stgv1r0/index.jsp?topic=/c
om.ibm.iea.zos/zos/1.9/IntegratingNewAppOnzOS/zOSV1R9_Integrating_newAppl_LE
UnicodeServices/player.html . (You may have to un
This is a false assumption: "... every code point in the from CCSID translates
to a unique (possibly "meaningless") code point in the to CCSID ...".
There is no guarantee that all code points in a given CCSID map to a "unique"
code point in any other CCSID.
Peter
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Fro
My understanding of "roundtrip conversion" is that every code point in the
from CCSID translates to a unique (possibly "meaningless") code point in the
to CCSID so that if for example a customer is so foolish as to transmit, for
example, an object deck from z/OS to a PC in "text" format, and then
t
Does anyone use the MICS Capacity Planner Option?Have you found it useful?
Some of its features require SAS/STAT, which we dont have. Does anyone use
the MICS Capacity Planner Option without having SAS/STAT?
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:25:32 -0500 Dave Day wrote:
:>Michael,
:>
:> If you re executing an AESERV to add an alet, it means the alet is
:>available to all units of work in the pasn address space.
More precisely, it is available to all units of work where this address space
is the PASN.
:>On
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:04:51 +0300, John s wrote:
>I am trying to write checks(user) in IBM health checker using SYSREXX.I
>have gone through the sample -HZSSXCHK.This sample just outlines the
>skeleton for writing the user checks.
>
>My question is ...lets say for example if I want to rewrite
>"
Can I strongly suggest that you review the "MVS Extended Addressability" manual
: SA22-7614
It is a very well written guide on how to do "exotic" things in z/OS including
synchronous cross-memory, AR-mode programming and managing dataspaces and
hiperspaces.
Rob Scott
Lead Developer
Rocket Soft
Thanks
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Michael,
If you re executing an AESERV to add an alet, it means the alet is
Michael,
If you re executing an AESERV to add an alet, it means the alet is
available to all units of work in the pasn address space.
--Dave
On 6/12/2012 7:09 AM, Micheal Butz wrote:
Hi,
Does AL=PASN on the ALESERV macro mean that the ALET is available to all
address spaces
W
No. It means it is available to all Tasks within the address space.
Chuck Arney
Arney Computer Systems
On Jun 12, 2012, at 7:09 AM, Micheal Butz wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> Does AL=PASN on the ALESERV macro mean that the ALET is available to all
> address spaces
>
>
>
> Which is the same conce
Hi,
Does AL=PASN on the ALESERV macro mean that the ALET is available to all
address spaces
Which is the same concept LXRES with SYSTEM=YES
Correct ??
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There are many easy ways to serialize the entry and exiting of an ENF exit
or any other kind of hook so that you can know when it is safe to free up
the CSA it uses and remove the code. One way I have used in the past is
to increment an exit-in-use counter with CS logic upon entry and decremen
Paul,
Thanks for your reply. I presume this would need little more research and
get back to you all once I recover it.
Jake
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:23:22 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>
> >If you mean that they FTP transferred an XMIT file v
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:23:22 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>If you mean that they FTP transferred an XMIT file via an intermediate system
>which was ASCII based (such as Windows) and forgot to do a BINary transfer at
>some stage, you are out of luck. The problem is that, in general, if you do an
>
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