Re: REXX fails accessing SDSF console

2011-10-13 Thread Mark Zelden
/ /* NTBL OBATCH - IDS FOR SDSF IN BATCH */ /* THAT HAVE OPERATOR AUTHORITY */ /**/ NTBL NAME(OBATCH) NTBLENT STRING(CA7PROD),OFFSET(1) NTBLENT STRING(CA7TEST),OFFSET(1) Regards

Re: Connect Direct on a separate LPAR

2011-10-12 Thread Mark Zelden
y allowed LPAR pricing. This is similar, although not a separate box. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems

Re: REXX fails accessing SDSF console

2011-10-12 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:20:27 +, Uriel Carrasquilla wrote: > >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] on behalf of Mark >Zelden [m...@mzelden.com] >Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 9:03 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.e

Re: RSU Order using Shop zSeries Website

2011-10-12 Thread Mark Zelden
es the existing file in the package directory. -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://exper

Re: USS - file can't be deleted.

2011-10-12 Thread Mark Zelden
this meant to be a joke? I didn't see the smiley. What does that have to do with a full /tmp file system? And why is all the prior context removed. If this is an attempt to start another acronym war, it's a waste of everyone's time and bandwidth and very unprofessional. -- Ma

Re: USS - file can't be deleted.

2011-10-12 Thread Mark Zelden
ou tried growing it if zFS or using CONFIGHFS if HFS. Your only option may be to unmount / remount /tmp. Or maybe unmount with the remount option would work too. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: REXX fails accessing SDSF console

2011-10-12 Thread Mark Zelden
ities (JCL, OPER, ACCT) and TSOAUTH is automatically set to JCL for a batch SDSF job (regardless of what authorities the USERID actually has). This is the documented behavior. " Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: REXX fails accessing SDSF console

2011-10-11 Thread Mark Zelden
owledge willing to share? >I did open a ticket with CA. > >Thanks. Does your SDSF console work when you use it via TSO and / or ISPF SDSF? Are you already using a console with that name via TSO/ISPF when you execute the exec? Are you running this exec in batch of interactively?

Re: DSLIST-like output for Non-VSAM Files in Batch

2011-10-10 Thread Mark Zelden
T LISTID(LISTID) LEVEL(&L) ISPEXEC LMDLIST LISTID(&LISTID) OPTION(SAVE) STATS(NO) GROUP(&G) WRITE COMPLETE!! RETURN CODE WAS &LASTCC ISPEXEC LMDFREE LISTID(&LISTID) -- Mark

Re: CA MSM v4 on z/os 1.9

2011-10-07 Thread Mark Zelden
zed. zFS far out performance in most cases and RAS is much better. Are you thinking of PDSE? Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities

Re: EMC DLm SMS or not

2011-10-07 Thread Mark Zelden
opy older ones to tape or let HSM manage them. Again, the DLm User Guide is the place to start here... Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark'

Re: AUTOIPL (was Re: Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-10-04 Thread Mark Zelden
ion to also update the load address in the HMC when you used DIAGxx for the REIPL, then I would do it. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: h

Re: AUTOIPL (was Re: Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-09-30 Thread Mark Zelden
se that IMHO there is no reason not to do the SADUMP based on the codes in the table. Unless it takes too much time in your environment (FSVO "too much time" compared to losing an SADUMP and another possible outage). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Servic

Re: AUTOIPL (was Re: Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-09-30 Thread Mark Zelden
S, VARy XCF,sysname,OFFLINE,REIPL is not valid. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://experta

Re: AUTOIPL (was Re: Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-09-30 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:41:13 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: >On 9/30/2011 10:17 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: >> On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:11:07 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote: >> >>> Let's see if the rest of the autoipl function is as bad. >> Use it, love it. Long time co

AUTOIPL (was Re: Health Check (IBMSVA,SVA_AUTOIPL_DEFINED)

2011-09-30 Thread Mark Zelden
now. My DIAGxx parm looks like this: AUTOIPL SADMP(cuua,SMSYSC) MVS(LAST) Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.ht

Re: RES: How to dumps all the SMF datasets automagically evertime

2011-09-22 Thread Mark Zelden
a z9 system with 16CPs (single image) 99.9% of the SMF records were type 102 records But even if it is optimal, this is still better compared to "20 year old technology" (words used in the presentation). Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MV

Re: How to dumps all the SMF datasets automagically evertime

2011-09-22 Thread Mark Zelden
sets, resulting in greater efficiency in I/O. 3) Even when duplicating records to multiple log streams, the effect of SMF recording was insignificant compared to the workload. -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Cons

Re: Getting CEE3796I AN ATTEMPT TO DYNAMICALLY TAKE A DUMP WAS NOT SUCCESSFUL.

2011-09-20 Thread Mark Zelden
ee the discussion of DYNDUMP LE option: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/CEEA51A0/2.3.2.16?SHELF=CEE2BKA0&DT=20090601161821 Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: TN3270 Session Hangs

2011-09-15 Thread Mark Zelden
h my statement about "15 years" was that back then much of the access was just TCP/IP and TN3270 was coming from a CISCO router. I still see that today at some shops (as opposed to using the z/OS telnet server). There's no way to know what the OP's configuration is / was

Re: TN3270 Session Hangs

2011-09-15 Thread Mark Zelden
15 years on a regular basis and longer than that at some clients of mine. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems

Re: A Set and B set of z/OS system

2011-09-08 Thread Mark Zelden
was 6 months old just to back off that one PTF that had already been running 6 months (or more) in my production environment, then try to reapply everything else to get the next sysres set up to the same level I was at excluding that one PE? Besides, security APARs don't tell you what the i

Re: A Set and B set of z/OS system

2011-09-08 Thread Mark Zelden
uction for 6 months I just live with that and wait for a fixing PTF to be available. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Sys

Re: A Set and B set of z/OS system

2011-09-08 Thread Mark Zelden
, the details are in chapter 6 - "Preparing for future installations". HTH, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html

Re: LE issue: RPTOPTS and RPTSTG - no output

2011-09-06 Thread Mark Zelden
> >Regards, >Tom Conley > > Binyamin, you aren't showing the JCL you used so Tom is probably correct. My sample uses SYSOUT. I think the parm Tom is referring to is MSGFILE.Also, it probably doesn't matter (and I'm too lazy to RTFM - you can if not s

Re: MVS SYSLOG

2011-09-01 Thread Mark Zelden
nd TIME fields. > If you have access to the macro libraries of those systems, you can look at SYS1.MODGEN(IHAHCLOG) Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http:/

Re: JCL Changes and SMS and Not Cataloged Datasets

2011-08-27 Thread Mark Zelden
s on a single volume. Besides that, it is not the documented way to do so. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/HAS2A380/3.1.1.3?SHELF=HAS2BK90&DT=20090605223609 Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: SDSF REXX question

2011-08-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:35:46 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >> >>I haven't run a test, but I'm pretty sure that SDSF requires TSO in >>order to function. We normally run it in ISPF, but you can also run it >>with TSO SDSF. IRXJCL only works for Rexx execs that don

Re: SDSF REXX question

2011-08-26 Thread Mark Zelden
27;t require TSO and IRKJCL is fine. However, ULOG probably does. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at

Re: IEW4000I FETCH FOR MODULE IDCLC01 FROM DDNAME -LNKLST- FAILED

2011-08-26 Thread Mark Zelden
C is region. Do you have an IEFUSI which is limiting your REGION=0M? >> It does look like a region size issue. What I have done to see the effects of IEFUSI is to use my REXXSTOR exec. See my web site for the exec and sample JCL (REXXSTOJ) to execute it with various region sizes and see the

Re: alter dataset blocksize

2011-08-26 Thread Mark Zelden
d (currently PDS86). Do yourself a favor and download / install it from http://www.cbttape.org. File 182. Another tool on the CBT that will do this is (and a few things PDS86 can't) is CDSCB (File 300). Some functions of CDSCB need to be APF authorized. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Z

Re: SDSF REXX question

2011-08-26 Thread Mark Zelden
mmand is issued, but no >output returned in the isfulog. stem. > > Run it under the TMP in batch (TSO) instead of IRXJCL (IKJEFT01 / IKJEFT1A / IKJEFT1B). Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: COPY commands under JCL vs. under Unix System Services

2011-08-25 Thread Mark Zelden
ET IS ALLOCATED TO ANOTHER JOB OR USER >RC(12) > >Why the dataset appears to be "in use" ?? It DOES NOT EVEN exists! > >I get this message whenever my script uses 'cp' or 'oget'... > Are you sure something isn't allocated to your TSO ses

Re: MFNetDisk feedback

2011-08-24 Thread Mark Zelden
hops using your product for "production" and are married to it. You can start to charge now and make big bucks. :-) Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http:

Re: iasxwr00

2011-08-20 Thread Mark Zelden
single daily GDG. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://ex

Re: Co: Z Toolkit for z/OS Install

2011-08-19 Thread Mark Zelden
bove 2G :10G (64-bit MEMLIMIT) MEMLIMIT Source: SMF Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: Copy z/OS USS pax format file to another z/OS system without FTP

2011-08-18 Thread Mark Zelden
UT and IND$FILE also and that should work. I don't think AMATERSE supports z/OS unix files as input, but I haven't checked for that since it replaced TRSMAIN. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.co

Re: SMP/E REPORT SYSMODS mistery

2011-08-18 Thread Mark Zelden
x27;t like ISPF compare where it shows all differences regardless of the 2 targets of the compare.Read the description of the command carefully.The report shows SYSMODS where ARE IN the input zone (INZONE) but NOT IN the COMPAREDTO zone. So order does matter. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden

Re: SHARE Attendance

2011-08-12 Thread Mark Zelden
Did that sound skeptical? Funny how email works.I wasn't making an assertion one way or the other. I'm just curious if the numbers support what the hotel situation was. I also hope attendance is up. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/3

SHARE Attendance

2011-08-12 Thread Mark Zelden
>Wow! SHARE sold out its room allocation at the Dolphin. Overflow at the Swan >also sold out. Some people are staying at an off-site hotel. So did it appear that attendance was up for this SHARE? Any real numbers? Or was there just lack of hotels for other reasons. Regards, Mark -

Re: batch job as non-swappable

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Zelden
I was referring to coding the PPT entry. The job step program just has to be in an authorized library. I wasn't referring to using SYSEVENT in a program. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelde

Re: batch job as non-swappable

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 10 Aug 2011 18:25:27 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>If you identify the jobstep program name (and you *always* want it to run >>non-swap), then an entry in SCHEDxx PARMLIB member should do it - see MVS >>Init+Tuning > >It also has to be authourised. >- No, you

Re: batch job as non-swappable

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Zelden
Then use the "T SCH=xx" command to update the ppt. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mv

Re: Co: Z Toolkit for z/OS Install

2011-08-10 Thread Mark Zelden
Which was how I originally determined what Kirk wrote about where the region size came from for TSO OMVS (and ISHELL).But it is also documented somewhere in the manuals. Using my exec was just a lot easier than trying to find where it is documented. :-) -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting

Re: Creating a multi-volume compatibility mode aggregate, zFS

2011-08-09 Thread Mark Zelden
ions for aggregate ZFS.Z112S.CPAC altered. New value >is (3,3) > > > >I am a newbie in this SMS and zFS stuff. >Does the above messages meant I have a total of 323 8K blocks >allocated ? About 25GB space I can use for a filesystem ? > >Regards Lim ML > Yes. 324 *

Re: Growing an extent (was: Creating a multi-volume ...)

2011-08-08 Thread Mark Zelden
s with out of extent abends. They are 2 separate things to worry about. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mv

Re: Creating a multi-volume compatibility mode aggregate, zFS

2011-08-08 Thread Mark Zelden
rd. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ On Mon, 8 Aug 2011

Re: Creating a multi-volume compatibility mode aggregate, zFS

2011-08-08 Thread Mark Zelden
//STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=* //CEEDUMP DD SYSOUT=* -- Mark Zelden

Re: Creating a multi-volume compatibility mode aggregate, zFS

2011-08-08 Thread Mark Zelden
Why is your secondary allocation only 5 CYL? If you expect it to grow to more than one volume on initial format, why not something like 2000,2000 ? Multiple extents don't hurt and DFSMS has been combining multiple (new) adjacent extents into a single extent for a while now. Regards, Mark -- Ma

Re: SHARE Hotels Sold Out!

2011-08-07 Thread Mark Zelden
te since a data center move I am involved in was delayed (was to be next weekend). But I would have gladly stayed off-site anyway.Say hi to everyone for me! Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: S/A Dump issue

2011-08-03 Thread Mark Zelden
or anything else? Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at ht

Re: NFS Client Startup

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Zelden
t; >96C73ADF No default realm is specified in the configuration file. >Explanation: The Kerberos configuration file does not define a default realm. > It is NOT required. You can ignore the messages. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS

Re: IEBGENER QUESTION

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Zelden
t;NE PAY CREDIT PFS e- #104 gSR853652 a* : _ gSR853652  *  * gSR853652 a* : _  * >g >  Looks like ISPF packed data to me (whatever happened to ISPF not supporting the pack command, only doing unpack if needed?). Edit the data set in ISPF and type "prof". If you see that it is packed,

Re: Question about number of service classes in WLM policy

2011-07-28 Thread Mark Zelden
Also, the number is "active on a system". You may have 40 periods, but lets say some of those are never active on a particular LPAR in your sysplex. Then they don't count for that system. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390

Re: disclosing "business" information on the internet

2011-07-28 Thread Mark Zelden
policy as it could be considered an endorsement for IBM. I also had the author remove my company name and just put "Mark Zelden, a z/OS Consultant" or something like that. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: Search a MEMBER in the Libraries

2011-07-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:13:55 -0500, Chip Grantham wrote: >MARK ZELDEN has a nice REXX which will search a list of libraries for >mods, or the LPA, LNKLIST by default. I use it to find a member in a >captured list of DSNAMEs like DFHRPLs in CICS or large number of user >datasets.

Re: Esoteric SDSF CMD

2011-07-26 Thread Mark Zelden
/ - setup queue @ - jobs waiting to be transmitted to another queue -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.htm

Re: Esoteric SDSF CMD

2011-07-26 Thread Mark Zelden
r queue = - spin queue / - setup queue @ - jobs waiting to be transmitted to another queue Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark'

Re: Esoteric SDSF CMD

2011-07-26 Thread Mark Zelden
$POJOBQ,ALL,A>14,PROTECTED $PJOBQ,A>14,PROTECTED Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.co

Re: RES: SMPPTS Dataset

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Zelden
take some time. > In my global zone recovery options, I have all my SMPPTS(n) data sets excluded from retry. I compress them manually when I so desire (like after accepting an RSU level). Otherwise whenever you receive new maintenance you tend to see the out of space messages. Regards, M

Re: dynamic STEPLIB

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Zelden
ponding to was Mark's claim "LIBDEF doesn't >work for LINK, XCTL, LOAD, & ATTACH." > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ISPZSG80/2.22.5.2?SHELF=ISPZPM80&DT=20090611002745#HDRULLIBS -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting S

Re: dynamic STEPLIB

2011-07-22 Thread Mark Zelden
arch the archives of ISPF-L for more information as this subject comes up fairly often. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsuti

Re: After z/OS 1.12 RSU1106 IGGCSI00 returns entry error indicator for first time

2011-07-20 Thread Mark Zelden
UNKNOWN TYPE *//* MSZ */ /* UNKNOWN TYPE CAN BE CAUSED BY PARTIAL *//* MSZ */ /* CATALOG RECORD SUCH AS AN INTERUPTED *//* MSZ */ /* DELETE OR UPDATE-EXTEND (IDC11441I) *//* MSZ */ /* THIS USED TO CAUSE A LOOP IN THIS CODE*//* MSZ */ Ma

Re: SMS QUESTION - TAPE

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Zelden
> >Kees. > That is good information. Where is that documented and is it documented specifically as the reason why scratch input tapes are not allowed to be mounted? Not all SMS controlled tapes are IBM VTS. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Servi

Re: SMS QUESTION - TAPE

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Zelden
ssume it updates the OAM TCDB as well).The OP didn't say what type of system was being used. Also, I don't think that utility sets the storage group and if the OP has more than one library that probably needs to be set also. Mark -- Mark Zelde

Re: SMS QUESTION - TAPE

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Zelden
e the TCDB as well. Or you don't have to touch CA-1 at all and when you are done copying the tape you can go back into ISMF and change it to scratch again. If you don't do one of these 2 actions, the OAM TCDB will be out of sync with the CA-1 TMC. Clear? Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden

Re: SMS QUESTION - TAPE

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Zelden
APE), use option 2 to generate a list of >volser(s). When the list comes up, type "alter" in the line operator field. Change the use attribute from "S" to "P" and hit enter. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services

Re: SMS QUESTION - TAPE

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Zelden
there a way of bypassing SMS?  >  >Thanks in advance. > Use ISMF and make the tape PRIVATE (option 2.3). When you are done you can make it scratch again or give it a future expiration in CA-1 and then it will scratch it within CA-1 and the OAM TCDB at that time. Mark -- Mar

Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands

2011-07-18 Thread Mark Zelden
ced wintel or *nix was dead or would be dead by the year 2020, I think you might find the same thing. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.co

Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED

2011-07-18 Thread Mark Zelden
tement "should I have done..." implies you already did this, so it doesn't appear to be an 0 dark 30 question where you didn't understand the manual and didn't want to wait for a return call from the vendor. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting

Re: SMP/E SAF Enhancement (was Re: CEEXOPT macro ...)

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:15:58 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: >On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:22:46 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:37:29 -0400, Mark Jacobs >>wrote: >> >>>I asked IBM specifically whether the then new SAF profiles were used >>>

SMP/E SAF Enhancement (was Re: CEEXOPT macro ...)

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Zelden
and everyone has read access to SYS1. Then someone can just execute the ISPF interface and do the equivalent of LIST. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilit

Re: CEEXOPT macro ..where reside ?

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:51:42 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:23:23 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >> >>Education is nice, but probably TMI. Most likely an application type if >>they are >>using CEEXOPT and don't already know how to find it. I

Re: Language Environment and z196

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Zelden
it matters even with Enterprise COBOL 4.2. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there are any considerations beyond having zArchitecture. For C++ there is the ARCH(n) parms used at compile time and as long as you don't change your compiler options, the new in

Re: CEEXOPT macro ..where reside ?

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Zelden
into your production name > >. Education is nice, but probably TMI. Most likely an application type if they are using CEEXOPT and don't already know how to find it. If so, there could be no access to SMP/E - especially given IBM's recent (ahem) enhancement. Mark -- Mark

Re: Managing WLM manged initiators

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Zelden
ou wrote. XEQMEMBER takes a JES2 command to change (unless that was added in z/OS 1.12) $TJOBCLASS(n),XEQMEMBER(abc)=(MAXIMUM=n) Isn't SDSF a utility? Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: Bringing up OAM for 1st Time Require IPL?

2011-07-11 Thread Mark Zelden
efined / activated in SMS prior to startup or you get some CBR* error message IIRC. Another consideration might also be the HLQ for your VOLCAT(s). The default is SYS1 but can be changed in the LOADxx member. That would take an IPL if you don't want SYS1 to be the HLQ. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zeld

Re: Don't like.

2011-07-08 Thread Mark Zelden
e made a half-hearted attempt to see if this was a >known issue, but I did not turn anything up. > >Has anybody else seen this problem, and is there any reason why it would show >up more with the new version? I have never had that problem. Must be so

Re: Don't like.

2011-07-08 Thread Mark Zelden
day and play with options I'll find more. I wonder if there is a FAQ or hints/tips etc. for making the appearance more like the previous version that Darren can points us too. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: How to allocate PDSE's

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Zelden
ocedures. But then came zFS and new wrinkles. :-) Then new solutions (z/OS 1.12 indirect catalog). Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.

Re: manual tape library and external tape

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Zelden
allowed to use it) and then just exits out of the routine so the data set specified is not SMS managed. I have seen that name used often, but I've seen many others also. SCNONSMS, NULL, NOSMS, etc. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS

Re: How to allocate PDSE's

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Zelden
NULL--OVERRIDE THIS KEYWORD IF IT HAS BEEN INCLUDED VIA DATA CLASS PARAMETERS Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark'

Re: CFSIZER?

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Zelden
d to know. I hope it was specifically added to the installation checklist to go over with the client also. My sandbox CFs only had 512MB. They did activate, but that was about it. :-) Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: Ads on IBM-MAIN

2011-07-06 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 11:48:59 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote: >I suspect that the reference to a post from a software company is >referring to a post I made on Monday on a thread started by Hilary >Hurwitz with the subject "Z/OS Newbie question". > I *highly* doubt it. -

Re: Lines, Bars and ... mini-bars???

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Zelden
gt; >[;)] > Since the bar is 2G thick (or it used to be before Java started to use it), maybe it can be called "in the bar". Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: CFSIZER?

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Zelden
e has been added to take nondisruptive dumps of the CF and signal all connected images with a CRW machine check to invoke sysplex wide SVC and nondisruptive CF dumps for some CF recovery events to gather problem data." Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS

Re: PSP buckets for a z10 mainframe

2011-06-30 Thread Mark Zelden
ction, but I don't know where the SYS1.NUCLEUS restriction is documented other than the wait state codes manual. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities:

Re: PSP buckets for a z10 mainframe

2011-06-30 Thread Mark Zelden
To answer your specific question - no. Those PTFs in themselves would not cause a failure in IPLing on another zSeries or system Z box from an older model generation. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: Diagnosing Memory Leaks in z/OS

2011-06-30 Thread Mark Zelden
E0D9C80 08/23/2005 11:19:10 DATA --> E2D4C3D4 E3D6D2D5 0048 F5000B70 *BADVENDR5...* The "OG&quo

Re: RMF and DDS Options

2011-06-27 Thread Mark Zelden
LARGE SYSTEMS. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswerce

Re: No Space Left in NUCLEUS, SIOALMOD and SDITMOD1

2011-06-27 Thread Mark Zelden
e VTOC under the General Considerations and Restrictions section. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programmi

Re: OA32318 NEW FUNCTION SUPPORT FOR IMS R12 in RSU1103 causes u479 ABENDs in IMS jobs PM38517, PM38518, or PM38458

2011-06-27 Thread Mark Zelden
ast the original PTF should have been marked PE and a new PTF with a DEP or perhaps a DEP and ACTION hold should have been generated due to the potential impact. This probably doesn't qualify for Red Alert since an entire system isn't impacted. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting

TSO SDSF + Large Screen (was Re: Reduced 3270 Screen Geometry)

2011-06-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:30:39 -0500, Chase, John wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden >> >> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:34:11 +, Rob Scott > wrote: >> > >> >FYI : SDSF does support larg

Re: OA32318 NEW FUNCTION SUPPORT FOR IMS R12 in RSU1103 causes u479 ABENDs in IMS jobs PM38517, PM38518, or PM38458

2011-06-26 Thread Mark Zelden
one of my clients, including some LPARs with large IMS R9 environments and haven't heard about any problems. Too bad this sort of thing isn't caught in CST, but I suppose CST assumes you keep all your major components at current RSU levels. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Z

Re: CA-OPS MVS question

2011-06-24 Thread Mark Zelden
vices. Not true. Hasn't been for a long time. It is true that you can't code SYSOUT= in an STC started SUB=MSTR. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Util

Re: Clobbered SMPSCDS

2011-06-23 Thread Mark Zelden
first copied to the SMPSCDS as BACKUP entries, and then updated again for the SYSMOD. As a result, the BACKUP entries and the target zone entries are at the same level, and SMP/E has no record of the target zone entries before the SYSMOD was installed.

Re: FB to VB can DFsort do this?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Zelden
years to convert FB clists to VB and visa versa. http://www.cbttape.org -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programmi

Re: Reduced 3270 Screen Geometry

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Zelden
was going to point out. I would be having ISPF problems also if I didn't. It's just SDSF if TSO mode that doesn't work. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS

Re: Reduced 3270 Screen Geometry

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Zelden
produces some really interesting results of asterisks covering half my screen. > >These days I cannot imagine many people actually using SDSF too much from the READY prompt > What Bob said. :-) Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@m

Re: Antwort: Sysplex Enabled z/OS Unix File System Question

2011-06-16 Thread Mark Zelden
add R/O file systems to BPXPRMxx and I know they don't always quiesce SMP/E controlled roots before they copy them for use in production. BTW, DFDSS does the quiesce automatically (for logical copy), but FDR doesn't nor does the HFS=QUIESCE parm work for zFS (see past posts of mine i

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