Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-02 Thread Mike Schwab
How about a new keyword DUMP=dsn,dsn similar to LOCAL=dsn,dsn for a Local paging dsn used only for dumps? On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:31 PM, Skip Robinson wrote: > IEE711I SYSTEM DUMP NOT TAKEN. A CRITICAL AUXILIARY STORAGE SHORTAGE > EXISTS > > From the message manual: > > "If the reason field sho

Re: Returning to the fold

2012-02-02 Thread Mike Schwab
The most infamous odd group name must be murder. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Murder_of_Crows Maybe Alfred Hitchcock got it right with his movie The Birds? On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: > Interesting, why is this called a fold? My English-Dutch dictionary > (yes, r

Re: Returning to the fold

2012-02-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Which also figures into the name of the Star Trek Original Series Episode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_in_the_Fold On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > Sheep fold.  The lost sheep returns to the fold to join the flock. > > HTH > > Peter > >> -Original Message

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

2012-02-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Refresh the page? F5? On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: > Well not with me, Rex. > Still  getting the -00 version of June 2009. > > I may be downloading from a not updated shadow server ?! > Or something wrong with my laptop? > > Future will tell.   ;-) > Jan -- Mike A Sch

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

2012-01-31 Thread Mike Schwab
Did not have enough memory in a 24 bit 16MB MVS 3.8J Turnkey 3 region. So they added an option to partition 31 bit memory above the 15MB line to get GCCMVS to compile itself. Most compiles can run in normal 24 bit region size. RPF 380 was created to allow editing larger files. All other program

Re: TOD clock format

2012-01-31 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:48:16 -0500, Ken Porowski wrote: > >>Watson should be answering all the questions by then . >> > Siri. > > -- gil Like this? http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/2bcb35e787/cockblocked-by-siri -- Mike A Schwab, Springfiel

Re: mainframe server

2012-01-31 Thread Mike Schwab
You start your 3270 emulator and in your session settings you set what site you want to connect to. Their URL or IP address. Also port is probably not the default 23. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Jim Thomas wrote: > Once you get an ID ... how do you then log on to TSO or CICS or whatever.. >

Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: > I used to work at VISA ... the 145,000 txn/sec is misleading.  The > authorization system (tpf based) runs sustained peak rate of about > 7,000 txn/sec as of about 3 years ago.  The clearing system (zos) run > about 24,000 txn/second as of about

Re: different tape media for ML2 copies in HSM

2012-01-30 Thread Mike Schwab
Can the VTS be configured to emulate the physical tape type? If it can, create new volumes on the physical tape type and recycle the old type of virtual tape. On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Staller, Allan wrote: > > From: > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2I480/1.

Re: Cardamation

2012-01-28 Thread Mike Schwab
Has anyone notified Sparkler Filters, Conroe, TX? http://ibm-1401.info/402.html On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 8:51 AM, William Donzelli wrote: > There is a bit of a buzz that Cardamation, the "last" place that dealt > with punch cards, has finally closed up shop. > > While I do not expect any listmembe

Re: MCDS Dataset Help

2012-01-27 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Schwarz, Barry A wrote: > So you changed the warning threshold from 80% to 90% even though you believe > you have a problem that requires repeated and frequent fixing?  It seems like > you have just reduced the window during which you can fix the problem. > > Fro

Re: 3390s on SAN?

2012-01-26 Thread Mike Schwab
Q1: Does it natively support Mainframe volumes via ESCON / FICON. Yes. Delete all Open Systems volumes, LCUs, etc, then define them as mainframe LCUs, RAID-5, Volumes. No. Get an luminex adapter. I uses emulates mainframe volumes and stores them on SAN attached Open Systems volumes. Also does

Re: COBOL execs Dummy Question

2012-01-26 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Chase, John wrote: > > Somewhere over in DFSMS, there's IGDZILLA  :-) > >    -jc- http://planetmvs.com/humor/slang.html -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -

Re: CU Resources Exceeded

2012-01-25 Thread Mike Schwab
The error message appears on printed page 283 in http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246497.pdf and some diagnostic options are displayed. You might have something defined wrong in the FICON connectors, or cables switched. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:44 AM, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Tom Trainor

Re: COBOL execs Dummy Question

2012-01-24 Thread Mike Schwab
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2V281/1.1.1?DT=20080122043331#HDRBPFIND Prefixes / names and their product IGY Cobol compiler prefix. CR - ? CTL often used as an abbreviation for control. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Jake anderson wrote: > Hello All, > > Apology

Re: Going from mod-3 to mod9

2012-01-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Is this FICON or ESCON? On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Cosby, Bob - OCFO wrote: > Ask the EMC vendor if the Subsystem has dynamic Parallel Access Volumes > (PAV's) turned on assuming the EMC Subsystem supports it.  This creates > multiple volumes for one. > Puts the water where the fire is. >

Re: Perhaps someone can help me with an excel question

2012-01-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Sort by name, date descending. First cell for a name will be the latest info. Use a pivot table to display 1 entry per DSN. http://chandoo.org/wp/2010/09/27/remove-duplicates-using-pivot-tables/ On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > I have a spreadsheet with > > Date   Name

Re: Doc of RECFM, LRECL, BLKSIZE for INTRDR and SYSIN?

2012-01-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Probably however big you want to define the lrecl of the PDS you submit the job from. Used to be you could not edit datasets with LRECL over 251, so that was the limit. 32760 is probably the limit nowdays. I know in the mid 80s I did 255 lrecl from ROSCOE. I needed a sequential dataset for a list

Re: PDSE

2012-01-20 Thread Mike Schwab
I migrate and recall them. With the original release of PDSEs. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 5:59 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:57:12 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: > >>With a PDSE, you really only need to do a compress after a significant >>number of delet

Re: PDSE

2012-01-20 Thread Mike Schwab
With a PDSE, you really only need to do a compress after a significant number of deletes. Additions and replacements usually reuse space previously used by a member that was replaced or deleted. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > Are we saying PDSEs don't need compressing...wow

Re: DFSORT and a variable length field question

2012-01-20 Thread Mike Schwab
I worked my college internship at a shop that had many variable length fields. The trick is to put all the lengths of the various fields at the start of the record, before the first variable length field. Then Cobol would let you define the field as Occurs 0 to (length) Depending On and would be

Re: Android 3270 emulators

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Found this one http://www.apkbrain.com/apps/TN3270-30454.html Never used the site, or the phone, or the app. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Carlos Bodra - Pessoal wrote: > Well a lot of them, but any one specific for Android and free? I can´t find > it. > > Em 18/01/2012 18:48, George, Willia

Android 3270 emulators

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.google.com/search?q=android+tn3270 Several are listed. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:49 AM, George, William@FTB wrote: > Anyone know of an Android version? (sorry iFolks) -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -

Re: Ot - iPad users

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/trends/whatsnew/iOS_mainframe/ http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tn3270/id290609902?mt=8 paid, full functions. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tn3270-lite/id290608522?mt=8 free / some limits others available. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 9:59 AM, Scott Ford wrote:

Re: Compiling C++ by LE V1.8 and running on LE V1.13+ ?

2012-01-12 Thread Mike Schwab
A good method to tackle this problem would be to create a new set of libraries, possibly. HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.SOURCE HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.PROCLIB HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.COMPILE HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.OBJECT HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.LISTING HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.TESTING HLQ.PRODUCT.V108.RESULTS Copy your existing source to the SO

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

2012-01-11 Thread Mike Schwab
The requirements: 1. Write a business plan. 2. Follow it. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Bill Fairchild wrote: > This reminds me of ISO 9000 about 20 years ago. > > Bill Fairchild -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---

Re: Mainframe advertisement

2012-01-11 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-NpLu2xC38 This is the millions of dollars of stolen servers ad. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

Re: Mainframe advertisement

2012-01-11 Thread Mike Schwab
Here is a play list (23rd of 34) IBM advertising videos. This was is titled "IBM take back control' from 4 years ago. Subtitled. My favorite was the servers was stolen (turned out they were consolidated onto 1 Sys Z machine. On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 1:32 PM, R.S. wrote: > (Disclaimer: this mess

Re: PL1 Material

2012-01-08 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/pli-faq/ Not mentioned: the PL/I 360 is available for free on the MVS 3.8 Turnkey 3 CD-Rom image that includes a mainframe emulator. On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:07 PM, Mohd Rizwan wrote: > HI , > Kindly provide me the PL1 material , as I am new to this > > --

Re: Internal text

2012-01-06 Thread Mike Schwab
If there is one permitted value for the parameter, you could change the value of that parameter to that value. I.E. Change PRTY=9 to PRTY=1. Otherwise, you have to take the keyword=value or keyword=value, out. Comments can be left after the blank that terminates the keyword=values on the jobcar

Re: SMF73GEN Channel Generation Field - Modern Values

2012-01-06 Thread Mike Schwab
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r13.ieag200%2Fiea2g2c1273.htm only defines the values as 1 byte binary Channel type generation. z/196 specifies Network cards are OSA-Express 2, 3, or 4S http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg245948.pdf from A

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In > , > on 01/03/2012 >   at 05:23 PM, Mike Schwab said: > >>There is an SMTP function within JES on z/OS, > > No; both the old and the new e-mail client are independent started > t

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Mike Schwab
You only have to get the z/OS programmer to start the outgoing mail server going, They you add the email header to the top, the Period CRLF QUIT at the bottom, and put the right destination value on the sysout statement. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Gerard Nicol wrote: > That would imply that

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Mike Schwab
/Linux or could you also send to an intel Linux > as well? > > Gerard > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 3:03 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subj

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Mike Schwab
You said SEND to Linux. How about an email to your account? //GENRSMTP PROC HLQ=hlq.mlq.rlq,LLQ=DUMMY,GEN='(+1)', // LIB=library.PARMLIB,MEM=genrcard //STEP02 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=EVEN //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DSN=&HLQ..&LLQ.&GEN,DISP=SHR,RECFM=FB //SYSUT2 DD SYSO

Re: cpu / machine identification

2012-01-01 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: > > Many years ago, one of our largest customers, with a complex and > ever-changing configuration, requested that we perform robust and exhaustive > checking of the execution environment in which (E)JES executes. This > checking includes CPU s

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-31 Thread Mike Schwab
Here is an idea: How about the message to the operator has reply value of ACK or ENTER. ACK would stand for acknowledge that you need a new key. ENTER would start a dialog to enter a new key. Reply with a 800 number to call and a customer number for the company. When the operator calls, you look t

Re: XML Generate String Length

2011-12-31 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Chase, John wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kopischke, David G. >> >> Greetings, >>    One of our developers is performing an XML GENERATE with a string > that's variable. When it gets >> above about 100K, it

Re: RSU Apply Error in PTF

2011-12-29 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www-304.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA31806 On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 11:14 PM, saurabh khandelwal wrote: >> >>  Hello, >>                  Currently I am applying RSU1110 on z/Os 1.11 system. I >> run apply job after apply check job run successfully with RC 00. >> >> But in apply j

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-29 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:14 PM, John McKown wrote: > On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 20:32 -0600, Brian Westerman wrote: >> I didn't realize that a employee can bind the site, but I can see where that >> might actually be the case. >> >> I can imagine what would happen to a site like IBM in Dallas, should

Re: IBM Manuals

2011-12-27 Thread Mike Schwab
-Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 2:34 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: IBM Manuals > > On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Clifford McNeill wrote:

Re: IBM Manuals

2011-12-27 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Clifford McNeill wrote: > > > I think Scott is referring to this type of presentation being way too small > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/basics/index.jsp > > as opposed to something like this manual... > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmg

Re: Eight-character TSO Userid Support

2011-12-27 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:42:02 -0800, Donald Zeunert wrote: > >>Re: Eight-character TSO Userid Support >> >>One item that has not been mentioned.  The 7 char TSO userid was so that when >>you submit batch jobs it automatically appended 1 char

Re: IBM Manuals

2011-12-27 Thread Mike Schwab
Maybe they think everyone should be using 32 inch 1080P TVs as monitors? On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > Lizette: > > Thanks, I thought it was these 61 yr old eyes...lol. I zoomed IE9 up to like > 200+ % ..to read the TOC of the manual on the right panel of the page... > >

Re: IBM Manuals

2011-12-27 Thread Mike Schwab
In bookmanager, it took two Cntl-+ s to get it up to a readable Then I could not scroll to the right to view the end of the lines. On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Scott Ford wrote: > To all my colleagues: > > Is it me or had IBM migrated their manuls to a new system where the fonts in > IE8-

Re: Imagine having to deal with THIS in production

2011-12-21 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > On 12/21/2011 2:18 PM, Chase, John wrote: >> >> Already been tried:  IBM-MAIN-OT in Yahoo Groups. >> >> Can you say "lead balloon"? > > I guess you missed the Mythbusters episode where they obtained lead foil, > inflated it, and launche

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > At 20:38 -0600 on 12/16/2011, Chris Mason wrote about Re: Imagine dealing > with THIS in production: >> >> "Paradoxically" a 29th February birthday can have happy consequences - at >> least in the fertile imagination of a writer of libr

Re: Imagine having to deal with THIS in production

2011-12-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > Muslims. The Jewish calendear might be worse. They use leap months to keep the calendar roughly aligned with the season. But after a leap month, your year to year comparisons of the weather on a certain day of the year would be similar to co

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-20 Thread Mike Schwab
4:59 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > On 12/19/2011 11:53 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: >> >> How about the Julian Day as used by astronomers? >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day >> Julian day is used in the Julian date (JD) system of time measurement >> for sc

Re: Imagine having to deal with THIS in production

2011-12-19 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > John, > If you had read all of the included previous thread context in my previous > response, the context was "the world's eventual conversion to format>", not a discussion limited to internal date usage by machines.  I > would say that ma

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-19 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Chase, John wrote: > > What's "magic" about -4713/01/01?  Why not specify the epoch origin as > the "Big Bang"?  What would today's "Big Bang day number" be? > http://www.hebcal.com/ Mon, 19 December 2011 - 23rd of Kislev, 5772 5772 years ago would be 3761 BC.

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-19 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Chase, John wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab >> >> How about the Julian Day as used by astronomers? >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day >>

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-19 Thread Mike Schwab
How about the Julian Day as used by astronomers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day Julian day is used in the Julian date (JD) system of time measurement for scientific use by the astronomy community, presenting the interval of time in days and fractions of a day since January 1, 4713 BC Gree

Re: One Less Mainframe Shop

2011-12-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 4:06 PM, DKM wrote: > Just over seven years ago, I was hired as the Financial System Administrator > at > my place of emplacement.  In my first interview, I was told how they were > getting ready to pick a new ERP and get off their “archaic” mainframe.  After > I > was hi

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-16 Thread Mike Schwab
They would have their 15th birthdate when they are 60 years old. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: > On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:57:14 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: > >>At least they only loose 1 birthday a lifetime.  Just think about all >>the people born on Feb 29th

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-16 Thread Mike Schwab
At least they only loose 1 birthday a lifetime. Just think about all the people born on Feb 29th. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Jonathan Goossen wrote: > And what about the pour people who will loose a birthday? > > Thank you and have a Terrific day! > > Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL > For help w

Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me what job created a DASD DSN?

2011-12-14 Thread Mike Schwab
I think they still existing on non-indexed volumes. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r11.idar100/r1042.htm On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Bill Fairchild wrote: > If you mean was there ever a Format 7 DSCB, then the answer is yes.  It is > not incl

Re: Parallel Virtual tapes

2011-12-12 Thread Mike Schwab
Probably limited to 1 or 2 drives per DDNAME. On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Munif Sadek wrote: > Thanks Radoslaw, > > yes all vurtual devices are online and data volumes available > job reads data from different systems / components - CMF / RMF / TMON / IMS/ > DB2 /  data collectors etc and t

Re: SV: JCL "sheesh!" for today

2011-12-09 Thread Mike Schwab
Doesn't JES3 make sure the dataset is available and there is enough free space before it starts the job? On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > Right. > > In other words, *any* program that gets dataset information *other* than > from DD statements: from its own "SYSIN" control st

Re: RECFM=VBA and no JCL

2011-12-08 Thread Mike Schwab
Don't forget the length fields. You are only getting 9 records per block. On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In <1323355038.81290.yahoomail...@web65513.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>, on > 12/08/2011 >   at 06:37 AM, Scott Ford said: > >>3.   Alloc dd(sysprint) to disk >>  

Re: JCL "sheesh!" for today

2011-12-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 01:07:32 -0600, Peter Bishop wrote: >>> >>A wish: >> >>//ddname DD IPADDR=n.n.n.n,PATHOPTS=R >> >>Wouldn't it be nice if you could just open a pipe to (or from, or both) an IP >>address straight into your JCL?  Different p

Re: CSFEUTIL RC

2011-12-07 Thread Mike Schwab
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.csfb300%2Futrcrs.htm 8 is a RACF error. 12 has a long list of reason code, 0 is not among them. http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/PRS757 When run from batch, the reason code is not disp

Re: Mobius RDS

2011-12-02 Thread Mike Schwab
On advantage of issuing a large number of recalls for individual data sets: Once a tape it mounted, it will process any queued requests for the same tape before unmounting the tape. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > I go to 3.4, bring up the list. print the list of datas

Re: Mobius RDS

2011-12-01 Thread Mike Schwab
I go to 3.4, bring up the list. print the list of datasets, exit ISPF and save the print file, going to the next print file, then edit the print file, do change alls to get the command in place, then execute the commands. Wild card by an authorized user can work too. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:52 P

Re: Product code 360HTX035?

2011-12-01 Thread Mike Schwab
Actually, some is trying to port his P370 to hercules (via the hercules groups) due the second P370 failing. Would these fall under the old MVS rules so he can install them on his system? On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Chris Mason wrote: > Pete > > Thanks to John Kalinich we know that it is the

Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-28 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/ComputerCertifications.asp http://www.mcmcse.com/othercerts.shtml http://www-03.ibm.com/certify/certs/index.shtml Just the first three good looking links I found. A lot more on the first page of http://www.google.com/search?q=microsoft+certification On Mon, Nov

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-28 Thread Mike Schwab
Here is the JCL to execute TSOBATCH: //jobname JOB account,'your job card',CLASS=X,MSGCLASS=X, etc //TSOBATCH EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=50 //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * EXEC 'userid.CLIST(member)' (replace with library and member

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-28 Thread Mike Schwab
The IDCAMS logic only applies to the various commands within the IDCAMS step. Have your tried a TSO Batch job, with proceeding allocate and follow free statements, followed by the TSO Clist statements to check and set the condition codes (same as your example)? On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:15 PM, J

Re: equipment available

2011-11-21 Thread Mike Schwab
That is about 4 TB usuable after 6 + P + S. eBay posting followed by a link probably would be fairest method of resale. On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Pommier, Rex R. wrote: > All, > > Don't know if this is legit on the list, but here goes.  We've done some data > migration and have a DS6800

Re: USS

2011-11-19 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 4:05 AM, Ken Brick wrote: > On 19/11/2011 09:12 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups >> 2 Billion Christians, >> 1.5 Billion Muslims, >> 1 Billion Hindus, >> 0.5 Billion Buddists, >&g

Re: Help on Rexx Code.

2011-11-18 Thread Mike Schwab
If you are running one job once a day, add //DEFINE EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* DEF GDG (NAME(A1.B2.C3.Dyymmdd) SCRATCH LIMIT(30)) (with tomorrow's date) (extra GDGs just in case) The hourly job would create DSN=A1.B2.C3.Dyymmdd(+1),DISP=(NEW,CATLG),SPACE=(TRK,(15,15),RLSE),DCB=...

Re: USS

2011-11-18 Thread Mike Schwab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_religious_groups 2 Billion Christians, 1.5 Billion Muslims, 1 Billion Hindus, 0.5 Billion Buddists, 0.5 Billion Chinese Folk religions, 0.5 Billion other Folk religions, 0.050 Billion Shinto, 0.025 Billion Sikhs, 0.015 Billion Jews, 0.011 Billion Jains, Several ot

Re: LC_COLLATE for sort?

2011-11-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Thanks.  Your examples show me that en_AU, en_CA, and en_GB are fairly > similar (I suppose there may be minor regional differences), but en_US > is profoundly different.  Is this a basic difference in convention between > the British Commo

Re: Inline Rexx in JCL?

2011-11-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:33:31 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > >>And you don't even need the leading /* REXX */ on the Rexx, which avoids >>some hassles with EOD. >> > Depends.  You still need it in SYSPROC.  But you can indent to avoid the >

Re: Data encrypt

2011-11-15 Thread Mike Schwab
I can think of two simple methods to not store the number without a encryption call. 1. Re-arrange the digits. I. E. 123456789 move 1 byte at a time to 369258147 or as you desire. 2. Add a specific number to the digits of the key. 123456789 + 012345678 = 135802467 Pi or 'e' (natural number) or o

Re: TSO SCREENSIZE

2011-11-10 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:48 AM, McKown, John wrote: > > Remember how old the 3270 architecture is. Wikipedia says about 1972. Think 1 > Mhz 8080 as "top of the line" micro processor. The original 3277 and its > controllers were STUPID. Rather than put a more powerful processor in the > contro

Re: DST option ?

2011-11-09 Thread Mike Schwab
Indiana had the worst idea of all. Some eastern counties had ET (EST / EDT), some central counties had EST all year, and some western counties had CT (CST / CDT). Arizona has a bad spot too. Most of the state is MST all year (too have an extra hour in the morning with cool temperatures), but the

Re: IODF Mis-Cataloged

2011-11-08 Thread Mike Schwab
Any LPARs that share that master catalog without the Alias? On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Ruegsegger, Jeff wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas about how one might get an HCD created > IODF cataloged in the MASTER catalog rather than the usercatalog the ALIAS > points to? > I delete

Re: DST option ?

2011-11-08 Thread Mike Schwab
Actually, the United States is effectively divided into 2 time zones, because of the TV services for Eastern and Central Time zones starting prime time at 8pm ET / 7pm CT and they repeat 2 hours later for 8pm MT / 7pm PT prime time. I would put the dividing line at 1 state west of the Mississippi

Re: System time quandary

2011-11-07 Thread Mike Schwab
Set all processors to GMT and use 5 hour offset for Eastern time and 8 hour offset for Pacific time.. On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: > We have three processors all syncing their time via STP protocols. One of > our clients (still zOS 1.9) is in Pacific Time while we're set to

Re: QUESTION ABOUT COPY COMMAND - DFDSS

2011-11-06 Thread Mike Schwab
The refresh is only to pick up the new number of volumes. Resizing the VTOC is another set of options. On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 1:43 PM, John Dawes wrote: > Linda, > > Thanks for the feedback.  Yes, I did have a note to expand the VTOC once I > had performed the copy.  I noticed that in your exam

Re: BPXI039I and SHRLIBRGNSIZE at 100%

2011-11-05 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Graham Harris wrote: > Would be nice if IBM could allow this to be managed a little better than > the first-come-first-served principle, although I cant think right now how > it could easily be done any different, I must admit! > Moving SHRLIBRGN above the bar woul

Re: OT measures was Re: Out damn'd GMT ...

2011-11-04 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMpgKo4AKb0 Every Measurement You Make. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > On 11/4/2011 11:31 AM, Clark Morris wrote: >> >> Canada may be officially metric but I am looking at an advertisement >> for meat at $4.99 a pound at my local grocer

Re: Out damn'd GMT ...

2011-11-03 Thread Mike Schwab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > Of course, it may also be the only non-metric country left, as well. > - > Ted MacNEIL -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---

Re: IBMLINK

2011-11-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Not necessarily. A communication line between you site and the target site could be down and IP has not figured out a re-route yet. On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Glen Gasior wrote: > * > I am getting a 505 for IBMLINK. I have also been getting disconnected > multiple times while trying to or

Re: Scanning JES3 JCL

2011-11-01 Thread Mike Schwab
Personally, I put in a comment line near the top in jobs and procs that had //**SOURCE DATA.SET.NAME(MEMBER) in it. Kind of hard to enforce but maybe an JES exit could generate it? On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Ed Gould wrote: >  John, > > Of course you are correct, but, if this is a producti

Re: STP and Time Change

2011-10-31 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> > I can imagine an operating rule that deems that application so > critical that it can be shut down only when it is necessary to shut > down the LPARs for service, as silly as it sounds to me.  I suppose > this might even be enforced by au

Re: filling in the holes

2011-10-30 Thread Mike Schwab
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r11.e0zm100/chbeget.htm SYS1.PARMLIB(DIAGxx) value VSM USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO) is old allocation method, YES is new allocation method. Yes is default for z/OS 1.9 only. Quote: Enable changed GETMAIN and STORAGE OBTAIN b

Re: BPXI039I and SHRLIBRGNSIZE at 100%

2011-10-30 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 8:40 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: > John and Mike > > Thanks.  I guess this is going to be an ETR to IBM.  I am not sure how to > monitor or identify when more is better or if I can use less.  This happened > after an IPL, so I am sure that there are new "UNIX" functions and

Re: BPXI039I and SHRLIBRGNSIZE at 100%

2011-10-30 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21178068 If the shared library cache is not big enough, then z/OS will revert to normal storage use and the load module will be loaded into the broker address space. [That would mean multiple copies of the programs.] http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/i

Re: Maintenance at two in the afternoon? On a Friday?

2011-10-28 Thread Mike Schwab
Maybe the system is in China or India, where it would be and early Saturday Morning? On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: > Well, I just tried to do some online credit card > account maintenance with my Capital One card, and > got the message 'System Unavailable'. I called > tec

Re: Information About Library Before and After Compress

2011-10-28 Thread Mike Schwab
I don't know if they work. Have you tried an IDCAMS PRINT (perhaps with dump option). IEHLIST is more directory oriented, but comparing before and after and looking at the start location. Say you create a xyz.loadlib. Directory is 62 (or so) blocks (to take up the entire first track). You compi

Re: Which manual for ECA* messages ?

2011-10-27 Thread Mike Schwab
The reason code came from the EMC product. You will have to look up that code in the EMC Manual. > 11/10/27 10:07:04 ECA1004E RECALL OF P950OBA.A.CNTL FAILED. RETURN CODE: > 4764. > ARC1001I P950OBA.A.CNTL RECALL FAILED, RC=0099, REAS=4764 On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Thomas Berg wrote

Re: 3270 dynamic screen sizes

2011-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
I don't think an IPv6 address would fit. On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Monika Amiss wrote: > Hello, > >  thanks you so much for the information. With the help of Mr. Jaffe (I love > your EJES) and Mr. Metz I found out what's the problem. >  It's out Session manager (Tubes) which forces primar

Re: DS8800 ESQA bytes

2011-10-20 Thread Mike Schwab
You can create larger devices, then move smaller devices to it and run ICKDSF to refresh the VTOC and pick up the new size then disable the smaller volumes. On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:53 AM, J Ellis wrote: > According to IBM, with LOC=ANY, for DASD, it's 274 bytes in SQA, 136 bytes in > ESQA. > a

Re: maxsystem in a sysplex - belated heads-up

2011-10-20 Thread Mike Schwab
How about expiring the data from slot not used for 30 days? An IPL after that would retrieve the needed info in a few seconds when it joins the sysplex? On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Bill Neiman wrote: > Barbara, > >          If you were to open a requirement requesting a utility of some kind

Re: Data offload to DVDs or external drives

2011-10-19 Thread Mike Schwab
You can also specify volsers. Very useful if one is damaged. On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Ed Gould wrote: >  David, > > Great reply. Thank you for pointing this out. > As a small side question (I have never  had to do this) how does one identify > tapes that need recycling? > I have just do

Re: DS6800 and PAV question

2011-10-18 Thread Mike Schwab
> On 10/18/2011 03:35 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: >> >> If you have unused / usassigned addresses on each LCU, you can add >> PAVs to the end and dynamicly update your I/O gen to use them. >> >> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mike Myers >>  wrote: >>> >&

Re: DS6800 and PAV question

2011-10-18 Thread Mike Schwab
If you have unused / usassigned addresses on each LCU, you can add PAVs to the end and dynamicly update your I/O gen to use them. On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Mike Myers wrote: > Radoslaw: > > Thanks. My greater concern is loss of data. This system is very new and not > into production yet, s

Re: Chaos feared after UNIX time-zone database is nuked.

2011-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
The local time zone is dependent upon location and date. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:01 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > Shmuel wrote: > > . . . Specifically, you are testing the conversion of time and date > rather than the conversion of time. > > I am puzzled by this distinction.  In general there is no

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