Re: z/OS Printsrv

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Schwab
If you are sending EBCDIC and it is not translated to ASCII, you will get @ printed where blanks are expected (a whole lot of places). Fix by translating EBCDIC to ASCII. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:29 AM, Andre Massena andre_mass...@lavache.com wrote: Hello all, have the following problem(s):

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I got a response to the PMR. Taking the liberty of paraphrasing a long reply, the essence of it seemed to be that -- per the CCSID pair lists in the manual -- they support round trip conversion from 1027 to 1208 but not

Re: Need to make a catalog entry for a SMS managed Virtual tape

2012-06-11 Thread Mike Schwab
Try to read it (maybe just 1 record) using DISP=(OLD,CATLG). On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Darby, Jim jim.da...@nordstrom.com wrote: No my TCDB is okay, so both CA-1 and OAM know that the tape is private and where it is.  My problem is with MVS.  Define nonvsam makes it a non-sms entry in

Re: Need to make a catalog entry for a SMS managed Virtual tape

2012-06-11 Thread Mike Schwab
-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 12:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Need to make a catalog entry for a SMS managed Virtual tape Try to read it (maybe just 1 record) using DISP=(OLD,CATLG). On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Darby, Jim jim.da

Re: Need a PC tape drive to read 3490, 3490E

2012-06-06 Thread Mike Schwab
There are some people on the Hercules group that will read the tapes and post the AWSTAPE files. You just have to get the tape to them. On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Sam Golob sbgo...@cbttape.org wrote: Hi Folks,     Does anybody have a suggestion how I can get a tape drive to attach to a

Re: JCL PROBLEM

2012-06-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Might I suggest a RETAIN on the FIRST step and omit on the LAST step? On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:20 PM, John Dawes jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au wrote: John, You were spot on.  Your suggestion worked.  Thanks a million. Thanks to all who responded for my plea for help. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield

Re: JCL PROBLEM

2012-06-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Oh, and catalog all the datasets. During a DR test, only the first dataset was cataloged and it was on just the first volume, and only the first tape was sent for the exercise. Since there was no cataloged datasets on the second tape, it was not sent. The application people had to Fedex the

Re: JCL PROBLEM

2012-06-05 Thread Mike Schwab
The keywords go after the positional parameters. On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 5:21 PM, John Dawes jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Thanks for the tip.  If I need to code the vol parm  e.g. VOL=(,,,35)  if the output exceedes 5 vols (system default) how would I go about it since I already have a vol

Re: Is there an Enterprise COBOL API to detect SOURCE-COMPUTER WITH DEBUGGING on or off at runtime?

2012-06-04 Thread Mike Schwab
How about a LINKAGE SECTION to access the parm //STEPNAME EXEC PGM=program,PARM='' or //STEPNAME EXEC PGM=program,PARM='DEBUG' Inside the program, LINKAGE SECTION. 01 PARM-ALL. 05 PARM-LENGTH PIC S9(4) COMP. 05 PARM-DATA. 10 PARM-BYTE PIC X OCCURS 0 TO 100 DEPENDING ON PARM-LENGTH. PROCEDURE

Re: STK SMC/HSC and SMS Tape

2012-06-02 Thread Mike Schwab
You will need to vary the disk volume offline before you can use the tape volume on the same LPAR. On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Tom Williamson t...@dtssoftware.com wrote: Hello, We have a customer that is doing some tape migration. They are currently using STK SMC manage their SILO. If

Re: What is a PC Call?

2012-05-31 Thread Mike Schwab
Just because they added something to the hardware, does not mean they are ready to add it to the operating system. When z/VM 6 came out, it required a z10 to run on, because they changed the software to use hardware introduced with that processort. Which means they need to support z/VM 5 on older

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-29 Thread Mike Schwab
How about a table of 1,000 numbers that translates a specific 3 digit number to another 3 digit number. Use it 3 times on 3 parts of your 9 digit number. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us wrote: Just curious: how would you mask names and addresses?  Of

Re: Transferring stuff from Mainframe to a RDz/UT clone of itself

2012-05-27 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@bama.ua.edu/msg124717.html On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: I believe that MFNetDisk could be used to replicate volumes to a PC.  I wonder if you could convert the MFNetDisk volume file to the volume-file format used by

Re: Masking Numeric Keys

2012-05-25 Thread Mike Schwab
If it is the U.S. tax number, about 700M have been issued since inception and 300M in use every year. On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: Surely you don't actually use all billion values. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get

Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-23 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: And the general public, many Dilbertian managers, and even some of us professional nitpickers, think that a job running 1 hour instead of 10 is 900% faster, and that 1 is 10 times smaller than 10.  2+2 no

Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Actually, in 24 / 7 / 365, why are days listed twice? 24 hours a day, 365 days a year would cover it (ignoring leap day). 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year covers it a more sensible way (ignoring the extra day or two past 364 days). 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 weeks? What

Re: Comparison of compiler generated code AD 1980(ish) v 2010(ish)

2012-05-18 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 3:54 AM, Robert AH Prins robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-05-17 11:42, Robert AH Prins wrote: On 2012-05-17 11:14, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: I would like to add: with the previous compiler, CALL PLIMOVE enabled us to force the generation of MVCL. Using, for

Re: Comparison of compiler generated code AD 1980(ish) v 2010(ish)

2012-05-16 Thread Mike Schwab
The Hercules group did some testing comparing MVCL to MVC. If both source and destination had the same alignment to a double word boundary, you could move 8 bytes, then increment the 4 registers to reflect this, before being interuptable. If they aligned differently between boundaries, each 8

Re: Modern users of old tech

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Schwab
And the owner of the last blank punch card supplied died and the company closed up. On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: On 5/10/2012 1:58 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Ina6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00e924b4...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 05/10/2012  

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Schwab
We have Mobius that creates report files with the date and time as part of the file name. Huge numbers of 1 track datasets. On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: At 20:12 + on 05/10/2012, Donnelly, John wrote about ### of GDG Entries: We have a

Re: Old timer question

2012-05-05 Thread Mike Schwab
If they were labels, wouldn't it be a good idea to block by the number of lines in a page? On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Linda Mooney linda.lst...@comcast.net wrote: Hi John, A long time ago, we had a lot of these in my shop.  COBOL programs that wrote labels at 133/133 FA, printed on

Re: How to limit HRECALLs by USER request

2012-05-02 Thread Mike Schwab
When I have done lots of recalls, when a tape is mounted it processes all other pending requests on the same tape before it dismounts the tape. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: deleted For example, if I submit 100 recalls that will actually need 40

Re: The old is new again - Not IBM related, but I hope interesting

2012-05-02 Thread Mike Schwab
http://plugable.com/products/ The two products are already in production. This kickstarter project is to do 1 large order for a lower unit cost. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:05 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Doesn't really say __how__ it works internally. The author simply

Re: Programming languages can't have copyright protection, EU court rules

2012-05-02 Thread Mike Schwab
This is not the code. This is the language specification. Someone could write their own version of your product. Then users could buy their application instead of yours and run their programs. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: All, So how do you

Re: old tapes and nostalgia

2012-05-01 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/ Has OS/360 21.8 6 of 9 install tapes. Does not list a date. If you can give the title and document numbers for each reference card we can see if we have a copy.. On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Bob Wilhelm wy9...@wydsprod.state.wy.us wrote: I find myself in

Re: Entry Level z/OS Jobs Available in Dubuque Iowa

2012-04-30 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-03.ibm.com/employment/us/iowajobs/ On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 2:31 PM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote: There are 4 open entry level z/OS System Programmer jobs available in Dubuque Iowa working for IBM.  My boss is looking for recent college graduates who want to get in

Re: Progress Toward z/OS Personal Use License

2012-04-25 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote: A dongle definitely could be an issue for some.  Might be less of an issue on Linux, but my experiences on Windoze has been less than ideal and makes me regard any application that requires a dongle as more of a gamble.  

Re: The care and feeding of dongles (was: Progress Toward z/OS Personal Use License)

2012-04-25 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.meninos.us/products.php?product=FLASH.DRIVE Interesting anti-theft design for a USB memory stick. On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 3:02 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: You could even have the dongle inside a secure cabinet that way...drill a hole at the edge of the door for the cable,

Re: DB2 Fetch Behind the Scenes

2012-04-19 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:23 PM, George, William@FTB william.geo...@ftb.ca.gov wrote: Note: I did attempt to send this to the DB2 group but it bounced back at me so I'll send it here to IBM-MAIN and attempt to figure out what went wrong with my DB2 auth. DB2 internals type of question.

Re: Origins of numeric assignation of z196 z114

2012-04-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS jan.moeyers...@adelior.be wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:41:51 +0200, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: BTW: I really can't understand marketing names like z196, TS1140, or DS8000. Why don't they use names like Jaguar (ok, it's partially

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:21 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Listen to Every OS Sucks by 3 Dead Trolls in a Baggie. --     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Animated version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg0iRd4i0qk -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to

Re: Reversing the Catalog Definition entries

2012-04-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com wrote: Hello , If you bring the datasets up in ISPF 3.4, just type a U in front of the DSN(s) and when that completes, type a C Are there any sample JCLs which would perform the above stuff at once for all 214

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-16 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Paul Gilmartin (Is PFC a Navy rank?) -- gil TLA for ARMY Private FIrst Class. http://usmilitary.about.com/od/theorderlyroom/l/blenlrank.htm Navy equivalent is a TLA SN for Seaman. Be sure not to drop the first A and replace the second A with an E. -- Mike A

Re: IEHLIST LISTVTOC inconsistency

2012-04-16 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:06:28 -0700, Dale McCart  wrote: Your JCL will fail on z/OS 1.12 as well. change name of SYSLIB   DD to something else //VDSKAA9   DD UNIT=3390,VOL=SER=DSKAA9,DISP=SHR will work. While you would

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-15 Thread Mike Schwab
Even a structured IF THEN ELSE END-IF or SELECT WHEN WHEN OTHERWISE END-SELECT does gotos at the object code levels. This is why hyperthreading is so helpful. One thread starts processing the GOTO instructions and the other thread starts processing the fall through instructions. Once the branch

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-13 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www-304.ibm.com/partnerworld/wps/servlet/ContentHandler/stg_com_sys_zpdt_announcement z/PDT v 1.3 update available for download Mar 31, 2012 emulates z/196. On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey Bob, What us users of z/Pdt ? Sent from my iPad

Re: Questions regarding SMS compacted dataset

2012-04-10 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Victor Zhang victor_wor...@yahoo.com.cn wrote: deleted I already noticed a difference: By enabling compact option in storage class, I have very low compression ratio for data written to tape/virtual tape, do you have any idea? Regards Victor You are

Re: Strange SDSF behavior

2012-04-10 Thread Mike Schwab
I was getting that on one particular system. Supposedly just a few people, but every few enters to check the progress the order would change. On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: Twice today the order of jobs in the SDSF status queue has been changed

Re: Accessing USS on Mainframe thru Telnet

2012-04-06 Thread Mike Schwab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48) On 21 September 1997, while on maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia, a crew member entered a zero into a database field causing a divide by zero error in the ship's Remote Data Base Manager which brought down all the machines on the

Re: Initialize Tape error

2012-04-03 Thread Mike Schwab
=* //SYSIN    DD * TAPE INITT SER=Z9BQB1 /*                                                   Mike, Its again the same error message. Jake On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.comwrote: Try //TAPE    DD  UNIT=(0890,1,DEFER) On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Jake

Re: VSAM help wanted for random reads

2012-04-03 Thread Mike Schwab
For right now, apply to '4' accounts, save misses to a file, then close and open for input and process the '5' account and report the misses. I assume the input is sorted into ascending order for the fast results. How about changing the key definition so the account number is in front and the

Re: Initialize Tape error

2012-04-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Try //TAPEDD UNIT=(0890,1,DEFER) On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Linda, Still no luck: //TAPE     DD UNIT=890,LABEL=(1,SL),STORCLAS=NONSMS -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?

Re: Two why about the hardware

2012-04-01 Thread Mike Schwab
One complication is the multiplication of paths 256 is the limit. And whatever delay that occurs in each switch. (zSeries)16Ficon(McData)16Ficon(DS8000) is 16*16=256 paths. (zSeries)4Ficon(Mcdata)8Ficon(McData)8Ficon(DS8000) is 4 * 8 * 8 = 256 paths.

Re: Two why about the hardware

2012-04-01 Thread Mike Schwab
affect connectivity? Number of logical paths is almost always related to CU electronics and  it is independent of switch used - it is the same with and without  switch or switches. Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-04-01 21:40, Mike Schwab pisze: One complication is the multiplication

Re: Initialize Tape Options

2012-04-01 Thread Mike Schwab
I see some differences between your jcl and IBM's examples. Why don't you try IBM's values? Probably don't need the DEN value, or the LABEL that you supplied. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.idau100%2Fdgt2u16018.htm Example 1: Write EBCDIC

Re: A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about!

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Schwab
Since they have AIX on Power, how about zIX or MIX. One concern I have is an operating system name without z/OS implies a completely independent operating system, not a subsystem of z/OS. On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:34 PM, J R jayare...@hotmail.com wrote: I agree, why not zUnix?  Or z/Unix?

Re: Grace Hopper Stories!! (was RE: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets)

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Schwab
They have the 12 inch ruler with mm on the other side, flip side sould be scaled with nano seconds speed of light, and speed of sound http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_sound is 340 m/s so .34m oer 340mm is 0.001 Mach-second (13.38 inches) But speed of sound depends on medium. And second

Re: Assembler - convrssion of Epoch (Unix) time to printable

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Schwab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time 0 is 1970 Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT or UTC (Starting point) 1 is 1970 Jan 01 00:00:01 GMT or UTC (1 second) 60 is 1970 Jan 01 00:01:00 GMT or UTC (1 minute) 3600 is 1970 Jan 01 01:00:00 GMT or UTC (1 hour) 86400 is 1970 Jan 02 00:00:00 GMT or UTC (1 day) 2678400 is

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Schwab
Netscape came out with a 3270 compatible version (3.10) then they got rid of it (I assume due to pressure from IBM) http://jisemu.courts.state.md.us/Help.htm I think it came with a list of sites that users had provided. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: z/os every two years

2012-03-27 Thread Mike Schwab
Not official. But plan on it. Official releases in Sept of odd years. On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Andy White awh...@metlife.com wrote: Does anyone know when IBM is going to make this official? It is official? I am putting together 2013 projects and we normally up to now did upgrades

Re: Grace Hopper Stories!! (was RE: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets)

2012-03-26 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Jeff Holst jeff.ho...@fiserv.com wrote: deleted When she eventually reached flag rank, she selected the Jolly Roger as her personal flag. Jeff Holst Kind of like the crew of the diesel sub U.S.S. Stingray? http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3566640640/tt0116130 --

Re: UNABLE TO DELETE DUPLICTE DSN

2012-03-22 Thread Mike Schwab
I have had luck using TSO ISMF Dataset. Enter the DSN and volume. Enter a D on the display DSN line. It should detect if it is uncataloged or an additional volume to the cataloged dataset. It will give you a warning and reply as directed to continue. On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 8:24 AM, John Dawes

Re: DASD Mod9/Mod54

2012-03-20 Thread Mike Schwab
With more data on each volume, your accesses to the single VTOC may delay accessing the datasets. When you had that data on Mod 9s, there were 7 VTOCs to access that much data. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:46 PM, Ron Hawkins ronjhawk...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Bob, Then I can tell you that apart

Re: Totally offtopic, sorry, almost choked laughing.

2012-03-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Airplane! did a good Staying Alive dance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLQWPgQMHhQ On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:38 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Yes. I kept getting a John Travolta Saturday Night Fever overlay in my sight and couldn't stop laughing. Sorry for the

Re: Error Message ARC0744E MCDS COULD NOT BE BACKED UP, RC=0036

2012-03-15 Thread Mike Schwab
Given 10 extents, you might defrag the datasets or the volumes to reduce the extent counts. Does not help this situation, but if it was maxed out with 16 extents, you would be facing a problem. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:28 AM, George Rodriguez george.rodrig...@palmbeachschools.org wrote: deleted

Re: Error Message ARC0744E MCDS COULD NOT BE BACKED UP, RC=0036

2012-03-15 Thread Mike Schwab
at 10:34 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.comwrote: Given 10 extents, you might defrag the datasets or the volumes to reduce the extent counts.  Does not help this situation, but if it was maxed out with 16 extents, you would be facing a problem. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:28 AM, George

Re: ISPF abendS138 reas2470003

2012-03-15 Thread Mike Schwab
This http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.ieav200%2Fenqsum.htm looks like a good place start analyzing what was going on. Maybe not this particular page, but lots of other topic in the same manual should be very useful. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at

Re: IEFBR14

2012-03-13 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: deleted I suppose the same could be achieved for CKD data sets by maintaining a bitmap of used tracks, which would add only .00025% overhead to the size of a data set. -- gil You have the VTOCIX free space map, one

Re: Server time Protocol and CICS

2012-03-13 Thread Mike Schwab
How about a parameter that specifies when to perform the check, say CHECKTIME=020001 (unless your time zone changes at a different time)? On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:42 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:46:39 +, Jousma, David wrote: I just read about that.  

Re: Sending AFP over NDM

2012-03-13 Thread Mike Schwab
Does it print a lot of @ symbols? That would be the printer is set to ASCII and you are sending EBCDIC. On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Henke, George george.he...@hp.com wrote: Having compatibility issues.  Print is corrupted. Any ideas? -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest

Re: MIGRATING A ML0 VOLUME - CLARIFICATION

2012-03-12 Thread Mike Schwab
A non zero days would migrate to ML1 according to normal rules. Then follow with a zero days command to clear the primary volume. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:24 AM, willie bunter williebun...@yahoo.com wrote: Good Day To All Readers I issued the following command HSEND MIGRATE VOLUME(SMR101)

Re: MIGRATING A ML0 VOLUME - CLARIFICATION

2012-03-12 Thread Mike Schwab
The FREEVOL is ignoring the targetlevel. Once the datasets are on other ML1 volumes, the ML2 - ML2 will migrate the datasets on that volume using its rules. On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:52 AM, willie bunter williebun...@yahoo.com wrote: I noticed that when I tried to migrate ML1 to ML2 - HSEND

Re: HSM Recall Failure

2012-03-09 Thread Mike Schwab
Q: Was this an EAV volume (more than 64K cylinders)? At the time of backup, if the database crossed a number of cylinder line where the x'' rolled over into the x'CCC' in x'CCChrr' (formerly c'CCHHR') value, then the ADRDSSU backup may be incomplete. At 128K, 196K (1st version), 256K,

Re: FICON channel ulitization

2012-03-06 Thread Mike Schwab
If the receiving switch is 4G, that is the maximum transmission rate from the 8G channel. It was busy 100% at 4G. On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:29 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: The following scenario: z196 with FICON Express8S interfaces. Single (only one) channel attached to EMC

Re: Customer Service, the good and the bad...

2012-03-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Abbreviate F*** THIS or F***DISK to FDISK to clear up the installed but uninstallable crapware they give you. Even the uninstalled stuff usually makes your machine run slow, so start fresh. Usually used right out of the box. And if it runs with the windows stuff, the add on stuff probably does

Re: FICON channel ulitization

2012-03-06 Thread Mike Schwab
-06 21:33, Mike Schwab pisze: If the receiving switch is 4G, that is the maximum transmission rate from the 8G channel. It was busy 100% at 4G. I think I understand it now. So, chpid connected to 8G sfp on the  switch, then to 4G CU would show 50% utilization? Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland

Re: Why _TZ put times 7 minutes off?

2012-03-05 Thread Mike Schwab
One guy compiled Hercules to run on Arm processors and he installed it on about 30-50 Network Attached Storage devices (hard drives with a ethernet port). On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:47 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: There are definitely z OS's running on Intel, using

Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!

2012-03-05 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: Well, maybe one or two more papers, then I'd like to try putting a course up. For courses, we'll probably package just one or two chapters per book so people can buy just the parts they want / need. Still debating

Re: Customer Service, the good and the bad...

2012-03-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Last entry on the first page: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/laptop/f/3518/t/19353745.aspx I have an XPS 17 with the same USB 3.0 Controler (resenas), and i have the problem with an external hard drive Verbatim 500 Go USB 3.0. With the default drivers (v2.0.4.0) when I connect

Re: Why _TZ put times 7 minutes off?

2012-03-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Are you comparing your results to the time in the system console? On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Sorry if people feel that times have been beaten to death. Environment is started task. In accordance with an earlier thread I am setting _TZ to 'EST5EDT'

Re: How convert historic STCK to local time?

2012-03-01 Thread Mike Schwab
on 02/29/2012   at 12:26 PM, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com said: Barry Merrill is of course politically entitled to his view. Equally, he is entitled to the view that the earth is flat.  The warrant for both is much the same. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble -- Mike A

Re: Unwanted New Threads (Was: SMP/E Order Server Pair)

2012-02-27 Thread Mike Schwab
Yes, using gmail, and not seeing it on others. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:59 AM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: While we're on the topic of posting problems, am I the only reader to have trouble with Radoslaw Skorupka's posts? I find that his original posts are fine, but his replies to

Re: Thought: new DISP status function

2012-02-25 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: deleted How would this look using your method? //MYPGM   EXEC PGM=MYPGM //ALLOC   DD DSN=MY.FILE,SPACE=(CYL,(100,10)),DISP=(MOD,CATLG)  /* UNIT= or SMS? */ //MYFILE  DD DISP=OLD,DSN=*.ALLOC,VOL=REF=*.ALLOC (From

Re: VVDS with no catalog pointers

2012-02-24 Thread Mike Schwab
A VSAM dataset was never created on that volume. On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Buckton, T. (Theo) the...@nedbank.co.za wrote: Hi There, Please explain why not all VVDSs catalog pointers. When doing a listcat, the return is as follows: IDC3012I ENTRY SYS1.VVDS.VAPBPC7 NOT FOUND+

Re: Thought: new DISP status function

2012-02-23 Thread Mike Schwab
DISP=REUSE or DISP=(REUSE,CATLG) in case of additional volumes. On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:28 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: We all know that you can specify DISP=OLD|SHR|NEW|MOD for a dataset. I just had another wacky thought of a new one that I would like. I can't

Re: Thought: new DISP status function

2012-02-23 Thread Mike Schwab
alter the characteristics as specified on the DD, or would they say the same? Frank From: Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 1:39 PM Subject: Re: Thought: new DISP status function DISP=REUSE or DISP

Re: Princeple of operations link with Grande instructions

2012-02-22 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/r13pdf/#zarchpops On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: Hi, Would anyone have a link to POP's book/PDF with 64 bit instructions thanks -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to

Re: Wanna know (practically) everything in z/OS V1R13??

2012-02-22 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: But yes, looks good. Have to wonder why the VVDS needed enlarging; one volume, one dataset ...  : 0) Shane ... Tracks(10,10)? Seems pretty small to me. I suggested ICKDSF be able to assign space for the VVDS when

Re: Erasing data on disk volumes (2105-F20)

2012-02-21 Thread Mike Schwab
I just did 6 of these. When you change a disk group from Raid 5 to Unformatted, it will format each disk individually writing B'00' into each byte. We have secure erasure requirements, so before breaking the disk group we used ICKDSF command TRKFMT ERASEDATA CYCLES(1). I takes quite a while,

Re: Erasing data on disk volumes (2105-F20)

2012-02-21 Thread Mike Schwab
We had a storage array that assigned new tracks as written. So when we got the array empty we wrote all the volumes the requisite number of times. We had a requirement to erase 3 times (down from 10). On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 21 Feb

Re: O/T but curious (Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) )

2012-02-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 1:58 AM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote in message news:4f41f979.3010...@bremultibank.com.pl... deleted What is cool is that SMS storage group. Usually users do not see the volumes, they see dasd space. In

Re: Batch process VS Started task

2012-02-19 Thread Mike Schwab
If you can fall behind when the system is busy, would an IMS DC / Batch Message Program be appropiate? On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Hi list. We have a daily betch job that is processing as input records which has been collected all day.

Re: Subject: SV: REXX IEBCOPY Continuation?

2012-02-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Another program could have those DDNAMEs assigned to different DSNAMEs. On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In ofaff521d9.e5166561-on422579a6.0021ef5d-802579a6.00224...@za.ibm.com, on 02/16/2012   at 08:14 AM, Mark Jones

Re: O/T but curious (Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) )

2012-02-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Under Linux / AIX, You can define a logical volume that spans multiple physical volumes. And different mount points can point to different physical drives. But reading from the root / it all looks like one logical drive. Windows has different drive letters for each drive or hard drive partition

Re: SMTP and attachements

2012-02-18 Thread Mike Schwab
I have done some Fixed length emails. Have you tried copying to a fixed length record with trailing blanks and sending it? Used to be a length limit abour 240-255 because of JES. On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Munif, A little more information would

Programmer cleared of stealing goldman sachs code

2012-02-18 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/18/programmer-cleared-stealing-goldman-sachs deleted During a two-week trial, defence lawyer Kevin Marino told jurors that his client had merely tried to copy parts of the company's software that came from public software code anyway. He acknowledged

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

2012-02-17 Thread Mike Schwab
What i usually do, is once I get the file created, is to set the allocation to 10% more than the file size and secondary extents to 10% of the file size. First time around, CYL,(100,100),RLSE or some SWAG. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?

Re: Does HBDELETE forces tape mount??

2012-02-17 Thread Mike Schwab
If you issue the HDEL command againsts a migrated dataset, the older backups are deleted and the last backup is usually deleted after 60 days. If that is fast enough, you don't need to issue the HBDELETE command. On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:17 AM, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote:

Re: CICS vs IMS

2012-02-16 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com wrote: deleted 1) How does BMS compare to MFS.  Power, flexibility, ease of use. Pretty similar. One run to create a binary map, one run to create the copybook. 2) Does IMS TM have an API for miscellaneous functions

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 thomas.lawre...@gmail.com 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  

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,

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-14 Thread Mike Schwab
Since you are moving the entire datacenter and all dasd is already replicated, then. Old location: 1. Shut down your existing systems. Old location prefered. 2. Break dasd replications. New location. 3. IPL one system. 4. Start Sysplex using your new datasets. 5. IPL the other systems. Backout:

Re: Changing sysplex hardware

2012-02-14 Thread Mike Schwab
on the targets that had changed would also have the source data pushed to overlay the changed targets.  Is this not how replication works? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012

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

2012-02-13 Thread Mike Schwab
You can always take the capacity of your largest volume, divide it by the maximum number of extents, and make that your allocation size. Then it can spread across 59 volumes for the maximum possible data set size. On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:19 AM, Chris Craddock crashlu...@gmail.com wrote: On

Re: System Dumps and SMS allocation fails

2012-02-10 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Ken Leidner kleid...@earthlink.net wrote: deleted REQUESTED SPACE QUANTITY = 2311283 KB note 2.2 GB or so deleted The complete dataclass - The space is large 128,000 tracks or 6,240,000 KB.  Do I even need to code the space?  LRECL?  RECFM? Data Class Name :

Re: Why can't the track format be changed? (was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-07 Thread Mike Schwab
Behind the scenes, some controllers only store the active amount of data for a track, and monitor the VTOC for datasets being deleted. This is called Thin Provisioning and allows a small amount of overcommitting. On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)

Re: Why can't the track format be changed? (was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-07 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: deleted But doesn't PDSE emulate FBA under CKD emulated on RAID implemented on FBA?  Even as VM/CMS emulates FBA for MDFS. -- gil Actually, VSAM basically formats its datasets like FBA disk, and PDSE is a type of VSAM

Re: SMS/ISMF Pool Storage Group Screen(s)

2012-02-06 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Gilbert Cardenas gilbertcarde...@grocerybiz.com wrote: deleted We have been on z/os 1.11 since around Aug/Sept of last year and we were cruising along just fine until recently.  All of a sudden we have a pool filling up and not migrating datasets like they used

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-04 Thread Mike Schwab
Umph. Not quite sure why, but this inpired in me an idea. Since cubicles are used in lots of offices. Almost all of them have a computer work station. Installing a computer is tricky. Under the cubicle desktop, a slot for 1 desktop computer or the equvalent thickness of blade servers. On

Re: What’s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-03 Thread Mike Schwab
1992-1994 I remember using compuserve on dos and having to start a graphical application to use compuserve then using search hosts to find file names then typing the file names to retrieve files. No web pages to pull together text and images and tables, etc. On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Ken

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