Re: Installing a z10 EC Processor

ame thing as fixcat, just a few more manual steps. I think I recall from SHARE that the tool extract files will be supported until the end of December 2010 (yes, next year, not this year). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Gr

Re: INCREASING SIZE OF VIR - VTOC INDEX RECORD

27;s "due to a large VTOCIX". You also added some other parameters into the equation here since you have a very large VVDS and are talking about VSAM - the Very Slow Access Method. :-) But as a disclaimer, I will state that I have never done any of my own studies on this nor looke

Re: CA MSM

see that changing. Be open to change. Adapt or become extinct. Unfortunately, it's probably too late for the mainframe already, but at least there are some out there who believe it isn't and are trying to change it regardless. I for one really hope they succeed. Cheers,

Re: INCREASING SIZE OF VIR - VTOC INDEX RECORD

I want some of what they're smokin'.It's either full, or it's not and there is no performance difference that I ever heard of. Actually, if you could measure it, perhaps a (grossly) over-allocated VTOCIX would probably perform worse. Are you sure it wasn't a disab

Re: CA MSM

available. With a few mouse clicks I downloaded it, deleted SP0 (which I had installed for the "team demo" I did last week but wasn't in use) and installed SP1 all before I finished my cup of coffee. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zuric

Re: JES SPOOL "quota" by user?

CREATOR= (owner/userid) is a valid selection criteria as you suggested. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http

Re: Movin' on Up!

tion and is it moving, or is it already in the new location? Or is there some "duplicate" equipment staged at the new location for the move like the "big boys" do? Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farm

Re: JES SPOOL "quota" by user?

age used of those volumes and if over some percentage (IIRC 80%) it would set a bit in JCTUSERn and EXIT3 would then fail the job based on that bit. Fencing (SPOOLDEF) must be active for this to work. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America

Re: SMF30 record length

t; SP230 growth issue, and DDCONS=NO eliminates the CPU spike, so you > can continue to write SMF type 30 interval records for your DB2 > that is designed to "never end". > > > >Barry Merrill > -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS

Re: API to rename dataests other than calling IDCAMS

bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2S350/ Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark'

Re: LLA and FREEZE status

f-list or in the newsgroup but not the listserv? It helps if some prior text is quoted. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at ht

Re: JES2 Deck and JOBCLASS parm definitions

another part of the manual since ranges apply to many statements. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter

Re: LLA and FREEZE status

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:13:53 +0100, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: >When you start LLA without LLA=xx, the default is LLA=00, so CSVLLA00 >member is activated. > There is no default member. There is a default action of managing the LNKLST as frozen. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software an

Re: LLA and FREEZE status

As far as displaying the status of libraries, there is a "D LLA" command. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at htt

Re: ICKDSF QUESTION - BUILDIX

hat most people use, but is not required. As a matter of fact, the LLQ doesn't have to match the volser at all. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/O

Re: zos exit

o assume it wasn't pickup by the system. does anyone has a >clue what else i'm missing ? > Either put the exit in a library in the LPA concatenation, load it into MLPA via IEALPAxx, or include DSNAME(USER.LINKLIB) in your PROGxx EXIT statement. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and

Re: CA MSM

On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 14:58:27 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:46:55 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >> >>You are entitled to your opinion and you don't have to use it. I assume it >>will always remain optional to use it or not. I see it as being a big

Re: CA MSM

CA's web site, download the file to my workstation, upload to z/OS, then run SMP/E RECEIVE and APPLY. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programmin

Re: CA mainframe install software

for us. To use ShopzSeries, I must use DownloadDirector on my Linux desktop to get the data to it. I then use NFS to get the data to the mainframe. > Yes. For those who haven't seen it in action, I thought the demo during the keynote from Scott Fagen was on the web (SHARE web site?)

Re: CA MSM

ger? It also comes with every product I try to download now (just like CA Common Services). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Progra

Re: IEFUSI and LSQA

thing there for the system and termination routines, but your dead either way and you have to guess about what the ELSQA requirements are and set either a one size fits all settings or different settings for whatever address space you are concerned about (CICS, DB2, whatever). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Soft

Re: IEFUSI and LSQA

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 08:29:36 -0600, Arthur Gutowski wrote: >On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 11:43:12 -0600, Mark Zelden > wrote: > >>The LDA contains what the sizes are, but I've never updated those >>control blocks directly via IEFUSI. >> >>FWIW, I look at the GDA and f

Re: IEFUSI and LSQA

quot;ALL-512K" and region size to "ALL-64K". There is no real reason to reserve LSQA above. Whatever isn't in use for extended private can be used for LSQA. When those 2 boundaries hit each other is when your address space will die. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Syste

Re: Tool for identifying mount points?

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:36:36 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:28:12 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >> >>> 7 *-* j=s.stfs_avail * s.stfs_blocksize >>> >L>"S.STFS_AVAIL" >>> >L>"S.STFS_BLOCKSIZ

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:07:14 -0600, David Long wrote: >On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:55:25 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:23:40 -0600, Chuck Arney wrote: >> >>>Mark, WS_FTP 12 Pro displays the stats (and sorts the modified column) >>>just fine fo

Re: Tool for identifying mount points?

fs_blocksize > >L>"S.STFS_AVAIL" > >L>"S.STFS_BLOCKSIZE" > 7 +++ j=s.stfs_avail * s.stfs_blocksize >IRX0041I Error running U#TST, line 7: Bad arithmetic conversion > Are you running it from a shell? (hint: that is a requirement

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

ine. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

ible I could get a newer version by opening a help desk ticket. I have Bluezone (Seagull), but since I've used WSFTP LE since my first days of using an FTP GUI, I've always been more comfortable using WSFTP Pro. It is also integrated with my workstation that my employer provides. Mark

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

n 6 characters, the size shows 0K and the modified information is blank. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.t

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

; HFS = HFS files When using a gui like WS_FTP, you have to tell it that unix is the target environment and also set the initial directory to somthing valid (I set it to /u/myuserid). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 07:38:12 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:32:25 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: > >>I've been using WS_FTP Pro between Windows XP and "conventional" z/OS >>datasets for some time now with no problems. >> >> >> &g

Re: Ipswitch WS_FTP Pro 12 not displaying OMVS directories correctly

>their names (e.g., a folder named source is displayed as a binary file named >source: ) and the cd command no longer works. I can't find a relevant >option. Has anyone else seen this? What am I doing wrong? > > Is the host type set to automatic or unix? If set to automatic, try uni

Re: CA-MSM (was Re: Now is time for banks to replace ...)

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009 15:10:57 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >>>On Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:58:23 -0600, John McKown wrote: >>>>CA is adopting this type of process as well with their Mainframe 2.0. I >>>>was at the demo and was impressed. >>>> >>>I saw t

Re: Jes2 Converter abend d37

nverter exit Or could be something likes JES2 exit 44. >and it is that product that is bombing off (vanilla >conversion does not write to temp datasets). > I think it may when processing procedures (search IBM's APAR database). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Archite

Re: Date / Time simulation?

temporary data set unprotected: A system failure An initiator failure or initiator termination by the FORCE command An automatic restart--between the failure and the restart In these cases, if the TEMPDSN class is active, only users with the OPERATIONS attribute can scratch any residual DFP

CA-MSM (was Re: Now is time for banks to replace ...)

d from CA (not a CA rep coming in and installing it pre-GA) and gotten it to work correctly? I'm fairly sure I can go on with the install process regardless. I've already done some of it and have customized the "setup properties" file and am ready to use the install script, bu

Re: Tool for identifying mount points?

reports back what it finds: > /* rexx */ >address syscall 'getmntent m.' >numeric digits 12 >do i=1 to m.0 >address syscall 'statfs' m.mnte_fsname.i 's.' > j=s.stfs_avail * s.stfs_blocksize > say m.mnte_path.i' 'strip(m.mnte_fsn

Re: Date / Time simulation?

I think I am TicToc-ing and Hourglass-ing back to just a couple of weeks ago when this same issue was discussed. OP: Google and the archives are your friends. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO

Re: Jes2 Converter abend d37

definitive answer. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flas

Re: Jes2 Converter abend d37

Glad to hear. BTW, what device type is gen'd for VIO in your IODF? And can you tell me if there was an in-stream PROC being executed? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mar

Re: Jes2 Converter abend d37

). Is there a PROC / instream proc in use? Can it be converted to just execute without a proc instead? Can you reduce the number of statements (get rid of comments etc.) and try? Otherwise you may have to open a PMR with IBM. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team

Re: Tool for identifying mount points?

I was going to reply the other day with "D OMVS,F" in combination with IEBIBALL, but I figured that was sort of obvious. What may be easier parse or compare is a "df" command under z/OS Unix since it produces one line of output per file system / mount point. Mark -- Mark

Re: SMF30TME / SMF32TME / SMF33TME defination

icer" Java code. But BL4 seems >to be more popular. >> >> OK, rant mode off. >> >> -- >> John McKown > >I don't see where it's CL4? According to the SMF manual it is binary, >length 4 and a number in 1/100th seconds from midnight with possible &

Re: Changing SYSPLEX name

SYSTEM) or SYSPLEX name (SYSGRP) or a combination. If it is being done by sysplex, you want to add the new name prior to changing the sysplex name. I've had to go through this when renaming an LPAR (which is actually worse than renaming a sysplex). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and S

Re: 'i...@prim' is not a valid 'selection' panel.

. Just exit ISPF (to TSO READY) and get back in. Or for most, it's probably easier to just logoff and logon again. If you already tried that then I would guess that the library is defined to LLA with FREEZE, so do an LLA refresh or update first, then logon again. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Sof

Re: Changing SYSPLEX name

ay reference the sysplex name, you also have to make sure any STC JCL doesn't have the sysplex name hard coded and the same with parms (hopefully they all use the &SYSPLEX symbol). Re: Is there a __simple__ way to change the name of a SYSPLEX? http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0802&

Re: Extracting GDG Base

AT(catalog.name) the LISTC looks only in the master catalog. > The CSI (Catalog Search Interface) can be used. See IGGCSIRX sample in SYS1.SAMPLIB or CATSRCH on my web site. Run it with a key of '**' if you want to look at all data sets in all catalogs. You can modify the code to

Re: WLM Imp1

e you have posted several times about not seeing a compelling reason to use CICS transaction goals (they were never implemented at my current employer either). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-IT

Re: WLM Imp1

es, workloads. Some LPARs have very little IMP 1 and others  have a little >more. > As long as the the PI's are met and the clients are happy I go with what works. That is the bottom line - are SLAs being met. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zuri

Re: WLM Imp1

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:54:29 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:15:24 -0800, Edward Jaffe > wrote: > >>Mark Zelden wrote: >>> A well known performance expert used to recommend that. But it wasn't >>> "NO" importance=1, it was that

Re: WLM Imp1

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:15:24 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote: >Mark Zelden wrote: >> A well known performance expert used to recommend that. But it wasn't >> "NO" importance=1, it was that imp=1 should only be used or emergency >> work and your "bread and butt

Re: What's up with WTO? - solved

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:26:59 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote: >Mark Zelden wrote: >> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:54:59 -0500, Rob Scott wrote: >> >>> It worked by pure chance - the OP was "lucky" that the workarea storage was >> zeroes. >>> Once the un

Re: What's up with WTO? - solved

27;s related to the GETMAIN changes that were made? Steve, was your system running with "VSM USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO)" in DIAGxx or did it not have the APAR on that changed the behavior the equivalent of VSM USEZOSV1R9RULES(YES)? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect

Re: WLM Imp1

period 1 enclaves that support the same core applications. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.co

Re: What's up with WTO? - solved

that worked "for ages" broke? To me, that is just as important or maybe even more important. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Sys

Re: What's up with WTO? - solved

gt; >Ah! That's got it! Thanks, Keven, and Robert. Once >I added in a length modifier, it works! > >-- > Wow! I didn't know IBM-MAIN even had clairvoyant people monitoring the list. What a bonus that they understand assembler!:-) Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software an

Re: JES2 Dynamic Proclibs - Advantages?

way and I can fix it later. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utiliti

Re: What's up with WTO?

>going on with WTO? > > More details please. What OS? What is the RC? How are you issuing the WTO? when was the last time / OS you tested it on? I think console restructure changes have a caused a few wto issues here and there. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems

Re: JES2 Dynamic Proclibs - Advantages?

On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:03:52 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:55:59 -0600, John P Kalinich wrote: > >>> I know that using dynamic proclibs gives you the ability to change >>> the proclib concatenations dynamically and also the ability to >>>

Re: JES2 Dynamic Proclibs - Advantages?

dvantages, but that is a different issue than converting from static to dynamic PROCLIBs and requires JCL changes (especially if the formerly static PROCLIBs are changed to dynamic definitions in JES2!). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Far

Re: JES2 Dynamic Proclibs - Advantages?

of the application PROCLIBs were not available for a while after the base system was IPLed. Prior to dynamic proclibs a different JES2 proc was used at the start and then the application proclibs were added after they were restored and JES2 was recycled. Cheers, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Softw

Re: Setting the Date/Time on One LPAR

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:11 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:01 -0500, Baraniecki, Ray > wrote: > >>Is it possible to isolate one LPAR in a CEC and set the date/time to a >different value than the other LPARs in the same CEC? >> > >Yes. This ha

Re: Setting the Date/Time on One LPAR

or Y2K testing. Of course you have to have your CLOCKxx member set up to not use the sysplex timer. Search the archives or google for Y2K and TOD. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:ma

Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Down

aybe it was there somewhere and I just couldn't find it). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget

Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Down

; I thought this URL was supposed to give the status of the server, but it shows "green": http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/gdbm/home.html Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group

Re: IDCAMS REPRO/ENQ question

joblog/syslog. > >I've used an MPF exit to issue a D GRS in similar situations but with no >msg in the syslog this won't work in this case. > >I don't think its HSM. > >When this happens operations restarts the step and it completes >successfully. > Have

Re: Change system date

MAINWARE, was just one of these. >I'm sure that a few might still be available. You can check the internet >(google) for their web site. Else, search on "Y2K TESTING MAINFRAME" for >other related software packages. > I though HourGlass was from Princeton Softech. An

Re: WPS vs SAS & WPS on zLinux

wonder which uses more CPU resources (not taking zAAP savings into account)? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercent

Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage

hat. I guess we'll just have to take your word (and the other's who have looked at it). I assume you have looked at the AMBLIST yourself though (which I would trust more than ISPF). I hope you'll post the final resolution, even if it ends up being a SUE (stupid user error).

Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage

based on LKED attribute, or just what you think is the case from what you know about the program. So how about posting a AMBLIST LISTIDR of the module in question? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Gr

Re: Hardware withdrawal: IBM System z9

was 6 years. z9 is 4 years 9 months with no announcement of >zNext (z11 ?). > Ahhh, thanks. That was the information that I really didn't want to take the time to research and was the point of my post. It just "felt" early even without me doing the research to back it

Re: Hardware withdrawal: IBM System z9

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:58:49 -0600, Chase, John wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden >> >> >http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_5896_139734_email_DYN_1IN/nwk685 >00100 >> >> I thoug

Hardware withdrawal: IBM System z9

http://www.ibm.com/vrm/newsletter_10577_5896_139734_email_DYN_1IN/nwk68500100 I thought June 2010 was a little early if the z11 isn't going to be available until Q4 2010, but to be honest I haven't payed attention to the exact timing of past withdrawal announcements. Mark -- Mark

Re: user-written MVS subsystems

ow there is plenty of code sitting out there that still does it "the old way". Isn't serialization also a possible problem if doing your own chaining? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:

Re: OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3

a gig of memory was probably enough for many of those systems also.I'm curious: are these systems that are still running a decade+ old OS basically still the same size as they were when they were installed? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich Nor

Re: OS/390 2.4 guest under z/VM 5.3

.nsf/WebIndex/FLASH10236 You can also search the archives. There was a post in April 2006 and from Jim Mulder that suggested that this VM setting might get around the problem, but I don't recall anyone ever reporting that it worked or not: #CP TRACE IPTE RUN NOTERM http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/

Re: IBM driving mainframe systems programmers into the ground

ts / help sites. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://hom

Re: Copy FB to VB

On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 15:01:37 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:19:20 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 14:22:48 -0500, Angel Tamayo wrote: >> >>>Somebody could help me with a JCL to copy all members from a PDS dataset >>>with

Re: Health Checker - LNKLST Datasets

=== * High Severity Exception * -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at ht

Re: Copy FB to VB

SHR // PEND //* //JS010 EXEC CHGTOVB,MEMBER=mem1 //JS020 EXEC CHGTOVB,MEMBER=mem2 //JS030 EXEC CHGTOVB,MEMBER=mem3 etc. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmer

Re: xml filess to sequential

I was just dealing with a vendor XML file for a passcode at DR and the lrecl has to be 512 (although I saw the file only went up to about lrecl=280). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance

Re: What SVCs are in use?

On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:23:55 -0600, Andy Wood wrote: >On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:16:26 -0600, Mark Zelden > wrote: > >>Carlos, >> >>That still doesn't answer the original question nor my question. The >>OP's question was "can someone point me to a

Re: What SVCs are in use?

ch SVCs are in use? While the example you gave for browsing a module (which is also incomplete BTW) is using the naming convention for an SVC, it could be found in LPA and still be an unused SVC. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North Ame

Re: problem w/ data stream to System Operator console at ipl

oning and take one the next time it happens. Then open a PMR with IBM if you need help to diagnose it. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming

Re: LOGREC logstream question

er yet - set it to ignore and delete and re-define the logstream and then set it back to active. Perhaps something is wrong with it that you are not seeing. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Grou

Re: LOGREC logstream question

t;zeros" it via passing "delete" to IFBSEXIT? How often does it run if so? If you use IPCS and look at ACTIVE and use "IP VERBX LOGDATA", do you see records? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Gro

Re: What SVCs are in use?

I know how you do it with TASID. I was asking how you do it with ISRDDN as you suggested. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert

Re: What SVCs are in use?

Without chasing though control blocks? Are you sure your not confusing it with ISRDDN's big brother TASID? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Sy

Re: GIMUNZIP failure

to help you along with changes that you may want or need to these types of things. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expert

Re: GIMUNZIP failure

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:13:03 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:24:42 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >> >>We use a symlink to point to a "default" java (currently V5 SR10 31-bit). We >>have several different flavors around. But we also have the J

Re: GIMUNZIP failure

On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:56:30 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:18:17 -0400, John Kelly wrote: > >> >>He has included the Java in the JCL >> >>//SMPCPATH DD PATH='/usr/lpp/smp/classes/' >>//SMPJHOME DD PATH='/usr/lpp/java/J1.4/' < >> >> >>I haven't looked up the messages

Re: GIMUNZIP failure

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:32:27 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:19:20 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>Are you sure you have a working version of Java mounted at >>/usr/lpp/java/J1.4? The classpath should be fine as SMP/E is >>(normally) installed in the

Re: GIMUNZIP failure

Are you sure you have a working version of Java mounted at /usr/lpp/java/J1.4? The classpath should be fine as SMP/E is (normally) installed in the root file system. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G

Re: CA support website - hacked?

all my IE windows. But I also use Firefox and I may have only had to close that tab and open a new tab the last time it happened. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.

Re: Servicelink again

browser settings (font size, zoom) to move it up one notch and it looks similar to before. Most web sites provide beta links for feedback prior to changing the real thing when they change the look and feel of a site. IBM should be doing this. We could have brought these issues to their attenti

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

HDs and the OS cheaper than you can by starting from scratch. But it didn't used to be that way. Regardless, if you build you own, it gives you more flexibility in upgrading just the part(s) you want to. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America /

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:40:44 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote: >-Original Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On >Behalf Of Mark Zelden >Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 1:27 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - DEL

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELL CUSTOMER SUPPORT

) and it only costs a couple of hundred dollars. It usually isn't worth it to get the fastest one vs. price. I've been doing this almost since my first PC. Since I've always just copied hard drives to bigger hard drives, I still have some stuff from my 40M hard drive from the first P

Re: OA30702

ally looks like something I think we have a good chance of running into. I see too many HIPERs go PE via ASAP regularly. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems

Re: Health Checker setup

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:23:48 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > >There is an ACF2 cookbook, but I doubt it has this. Many vendors >(especially IBM) don't supply equivalent OEM security definitions for RACF >like CA does (not a surprise since they own TSS and ACF2). You just ha

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