SHOWZOS 720 and z/OS 1.12

Has anyone else seen the following when trying to check the LE options? This is V720 on z/OS 1.12. LE run-time options CEEPRM (CEEDOPT) CEEOCB Version not valid: 0015 LE

STCKF availability

Does anyone know which machine the STCKF instruction became available on?. It is NOT available on the z800 and z900, and is available on z9 and above, so is it available on z890 and z990? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

UCAT allocation to CATALOG task

Does anyone on the list remember advice that a change occurred with z/OS 1.11 that might result in UCATs being allocated to the CATALOG task under z/OS 1.11 early on in IPL, when this almost certainly as not happening under z/OS 1.10? We have been upgrading a 3-LPAR non-SYSPLEX system from z/OS

SMF EXITS in effect - which are they?

Does anyone know a way to determine exactly which exits SMF is taking? D SMF,O shows which exits are supposed to be being taken, but we have a disagreement as to what happens when there is a SYS list, and a SUBSYS TSO list that is different. My reading of the manual is that whatever is in SYS

ALPHACON Macro for EZYTRIEVE

Has anyone on the list heard of a macro called ALPHACON? It is apparently something that can be used either with EZYTRIEVE itself or with the IBM replacement for EZYTRIEVE. It is to convert a character representation of a number into a numeric version so that it can be used for calculations.

LINKLIST and PDSEs that expand

Readers of this list will be well aware that if a PDS is allowed to take extents, and does, modules in the additional area may not be able to be fetched because the DEB chain hasn't been updated. Is the same true of a PDSE? The method of fetching a module is different from a PDSE so this

PLPA Data set size

Is it still preceived wisdom that the size of the PLPA data set should be minimal so that the LPA flows over to the COMMON data set? If so, what was/is the reason for that? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

New zEnterprise 196 Hardware

I heard an informal comment that the zEnterprise was going to be the most significant announcement since the 360. Wasn't the highest model in the 360/370 range the 195? Maybe z196 is a logical continuation of that? Anyway of the 1 means first, does that mean the next model will be a z296, or

Re: searchdatacenter.com article

then write a second edition changing what they said the first time, and so on. Must be a good way to make money if you are able to. regards, Anthony Fletcher -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

How to find the OMVS UID in use

I have a problem on a system (ACF2 based) where some users are unable to use the OMVS command, for example, properly from TSO. The message indicates that the MAXPROCUSER number is too low but this should not be the case. What I want to know is which UID this user is running with. If there an

COUPLE DATA SET TIME STAMPS

We have a system that we have been running on its own machine with the clock set to the local time (not GMT and before GMT). We need to move to a machine that is running in GMT mode with an appropriate offset. All that is easy. However when we tried to test this we ran into a problem with the

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LLA and FREEZE status

Is there any way of finding out whether LLA was started in FREEZE mode? If the intent is to use FREEZE mode, specifications can be put in a PARMLIB member , eg as CSVLLATT, then if the command START LLA,LLA=TT is issued (ie without the SUB=MSTR), the system automatically reissues the command

Re: Blast From The Past - UCB VSCR

Andrew Metcalfe wrote: I realise that this subject is old, old, old but we have never had a requirement to move UCBs above 16M as we have been happily running with a private region of 8M and have not seen any CSA (below) issues. We are now looking at a strategy of consolidating workloads on

IBM Application Performance Analyzer and ADABAS

Anyone out there using IBM's Application Performance Analyzer (APA) with ADABAS/NATURAL applications? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

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ISPLINK invocation by IKJEFTSR

I have an authorised program from which I wish to use ISPF services. IKJEFTSR will be ued to invoke ISPLINK, and to pass the data to ISPLINK parameter 7 has to be used, but I can't see how to code it. Does anyone know of a program out there that does this that I could look at?

DWDM and IPL question

At one stage we had the following scenario (simplified) Device 1 2105-F20 - Escon CHPID 01 - Address Range 1000 Device 2 2105-F20 - Escon CHPID 02 - Address Range 2000 Both were connected to a processor with one difference, device 2 was connected through a DWDM link. The two devices were

Test Posting, please ignore

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Re: HSM AUTH DATABASEAUTHORITY

Thank you, the AUTH userid REVOKE was indeed actioned even though the message says IS NOT CHANGED regards, Anthony Fletcher - MNZCS Team Lead NZ SMM (AirNZ, Westpac NZ , TelstraClear NZ and NWM AU) IBM Global Technology Services Server Systems Operations Server Management Mainframe Global

HSM AUTH DATABASEAUTHORITY

Does anyone know whether there is a way to delete old HSM AUTH records from the HSM data sets. Removing the AUTH userid DBA(CONTROL) command from ARCCMDxx stops them being added, but they are still saved somewhere until deleted with the AUTH userid REVOKE command. Since HSM started using RACF

Re: IBM Red Alert, July 02, 2009

that this is not an oversight and that UA47631 is not PE as well? Anthony Fletcher -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

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OEM Device Support

Does anyone know how non-IBM device support modules are names? I need to determine whether a system has any device support modules in it that were not supplied by IBM. eg, how are they named to avoid conflict with IBM supplied ones. It must be documented somewhere, but I haven't found it.

Re: The PUT FTP not working with large files

Have you checked out APAR PK71695? regards, Anthony Fletcher - MNZCS Team Lead NZ SMM (AirNZ, Westpac NZ , TelstraClear NZ and NWM AU) IBM Global Technology Services Server Systems Operations Server Management Mainframe Global Services Delivery Australia and New Zealand NZ z/OS Software

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MXI running authorised

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GRS RESMIL SETTING

We have a GRS environment using XCF (ie not using a CF) with three LPARS connected. We had changed the RESMIL value to OFF to try and improve responsiveness. That worked, but the XCFAS address space CPU consumption went up. We decided to change the RESMIL value to 0 since that does leave the

Re: GRS RESMIL SETTING

Thanks - What I hoped for is comment from someone who had observed that GRS propagates the RESMIL value to all members even if not specified in the individual LPAR definitions. regards, Anthony Fletcher - MNZCS Rob Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM

z/OS 1.9 VSAM RLS DUMP enhancements

In z/OS 1.9, RLS was enhanced to cause better documentation when an error occurs. This is by additional system dumps in a SYSPLEX so that they occur in other members of a shared environment. The migration manual warns that additional dump space may be required. Has anyone had practical experience

GRSCNF RESMIL setting - OFF versus 0

Have been looking at apparent increased XCFAS CPU use after setting RESMIL OFF. Investigation shows that RESMIL OFF and RESMIL 0 are not the same and that OFF may not be a good setting. D GRS shows RESMIL OFF. SHOWZOS shows RESMIL(0). Question - is this due to SHOWZOS interpreting OFF the same

Re: IEBGENER is BROKEN

If you use IEBGENER in straight copy mode, it does check and enforce that the LRECLs match. That is what happens if you use SYSIN DD DUMMY If you want to change the LRECL use the SYSIN statement to put in IEBGENER control statements to do what you want. regards, Anthony Fletcher - MNZCS Team

IDCAMS REPRO ABEND

In z/OS 1.4 (and maybe prior) IDCAMS REPRO would abend the job step when an Abend was detected (eg B37, D37 913). In z/OS 1.7 it reports a problem with a message and return code 12. This is the way IDCAMS needs to operate for the Modal/functional commands to be able to work together. Does anyone

zFS Recovery via APAR OA22351

Apar OA22351 introduces an option to allow zFS to temporarily remount a R/O file as R/W so that it can rerun the zFS log. Normally a R/O file does not change, but if it is mounted R/W for maintenance, for example, and is not properly closed down, it may not be able to be mounted R/O and has to be

ISPF 3.4 ENQBYPASS

I am working on an account which gives me the ability to rename a data set from ISPF 3.4 if it is ENQd in another LPAR in the same GRSPLEX. Does anyone know whether this is as a result of an IBM feature (eg SAF call) or whether it is provided by some add-on code? If it is an IBM resource anyone

Re: ISPF 3.4 ENQBYPASS

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IEAOPTxx options in use

According to the Initialisation and Tuning Reference, from z/OS 1.3 most IEAOPTxx options are ignored. It also says that if an option is found in IEAOPTxx that is no longer used it is just ignored. It then lists quite a long list of options that are presumably recognised and used. Is there any

Re: PDS86 missing output with LIST subcommand

of FFs in a register or field)' but I could not find anything likely. The fact that the contents of the CSECT can be found by specifically specifying it with the MODule operand has resolved my immediate concern. regards, Anthony Fletcher - MNZCS Team Lead NZ SMM (AirNZ, Westpac NZ

PDS86 missing output with LIST subcommand

Has anyone experienced a problem with PDS86 leaving out a chunk of text from a LOAD module? I was looking in .SCEERUN(CEECCICS) to see what was in the CEEEXTAN CSECT. I used the LIST subcommand, and because it is quite big, the '0' subcommand, and did a FIND on CEEEXTAN. I didn't find it to my

SVC 56 (ENQ) GTF TRACE

Has anyone any documentation as to how to interpret the GTF trace of SVC 56? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

z/OS Health Check XCF exceptions

The z/OS 1.7 Health Checker is reporting two XCF settings to be corrected: 1. The recommendation to have two TRANSPORT classes with different message lengths defined. How can suitable mesage lengths be defined? 2. The recommendation for the XCF_FDI (INTERVAL) is based on the SPIN settings, and

Re: SHOWZOS

Thank you. In the meantime could you please advise how CEEOCB flags the difference between a value of NONE and an actual value - I presume that it is in flags rather than in the actual data? regards, Anthony Fletcher - MNZCS

SHOWZOS

I have been using SHOWZOS 714 to try and sort out exactly what happens to LE options under different circumstances. SHOWZOS has been very useful, but it does not always seem to interpret the settings completelyl leading me to ask whether the LE interpretation part is still WIP or whether is is