Re: System completion code 201

2012-04-11 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 4/11/2012 3:09 PM, McKown, John wrote: I'd likely use a system key (probably 0, but maybe even 7 because I don't think anybody else uses it I think IMS and DB2 use key 7. The last time I looked the least used keys were 2 and 3, but it has been a long time since I checked. -- Richard

Re: Fwd: Initialize Tape error

2012-04-02 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 4/2/2012 4:26 AM, Jake anderson wrote: Changed the subject header On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Jake andersonjustmainfra...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, Reason for opting another option to initialize was due to the below abend : SYSTEM SUPPORT UTILITIES IEHINITT TAPE

Re: A couple questions about z/OS consoles and TCPIP commands (and a potential HMC issue)

2012-03-14 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 3/14/2012 11:22 AM, Pommier, Rex R. wrote: Hi list, I have a couple questions about commands that can be run from the console. First of all, is there a console command that can be used to display the MAC address of an OSA port? Second, is there a console command to ping an IP address out

Re: A couple questions about z/OS consoles and TCPIP commands (and a potential HMC issue)

2012-03-14 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 3/14/2012 12:38 PM, Richard L Peurifoy wrote: On 3/14/2012 11:22 AM, Pommier, Rex R. wrote: Hi list, I have a couple questions about commands that can be run from the console. First of all, is there a console command that can be used to display the MAC address of an OSA port? Second

Re: Tips for continuing DD statement with only one parameter field

2012-03-07 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 3/7/2012 2:11 PM, Charles Mills wrote: I've got several DD statements in a proc that have only a single parameter, PATH='long/path/name' Because the path is long the statement will not fit on a single card image (but the PATH parameter by itself will). So I coded //MYDDNAME DD //

Re: Why _TZ put times 7 minutes off?

2012-03-04 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 3/3/2012 12:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 10:39:32 +0100, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2012-03-03 07:34, Edward Jaffe pisze: IMHO, STP should be included in the price of the machine. Or at least STP light which would allow to use ETS (NTP). However it's NOT incluted. :-( I

Re: User datasets wrongly catalogued under Master Catalogue

2012-02-29 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 2/29/2012 6:43 AM, Martin, Larry D wrote: You can also use IDCAMS MERGECAT to move the catalog entries and then define the ALIAS(s). Here is a sample to do it. //MOVCAT JOB //* //PRINT EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //* //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //SYSIN DD * REPRO - LEVEL(@ ) -

Re: was: Abend S0C4 in an internal sort

2012-02-20 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 2/20/2012 12:32 PM, John Gilmore wrote: There may well be a facility for suppressing unwanted DFSORT messages, particularly informational ones. If there is, FY will provide you and the rest of us with information about it here (unless perchance he is in Timbuktu today). I don't think this

Re: Calling all crypto gurus

2011-12-16 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/16/2011 1:47 PM, David Booher wrote: Yes, my CSF will run: 13.46.16 STC01522 $HASP373 CSF STARTED 13.46.17 STC01522 CSFM607I A CKDS KEY STORE POLICY IS NOT DEFINED. 13.46.17 STC01522 CSFM607I A PKDS KEY STORE POLICY IS NOT DEFINED. 13.46.17 STC01522 CSFM610I GRANULAR KEYLABEL

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

2011-12-14 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/14/2011 2:32 AM, Ron Hawkins wrote: Richard, If the format 9 DSCB includes the date, time and jobname of the creating job it should not be too hard to tie this to an SMF Type30 subtype 2 or 3 record to get additional auditing information. This is true, but unless you keep SMF data

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

2011-12-13 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/13/2011 1:15 PM, Bill Fairchild wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 12:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Is there an IBM program that will tell me

Re: Information About Library Before and After Compress

2011-10-30 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/29/2011 3:55 AM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Directory is 62 (or so) blocks (to take up the entire first track). 44 IIRC it is 45 for a 3390, and 46 for a 3380. -- Richard -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Filling in the holes

2011-10-30 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/29/2011 5:44 PM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: In5296461027529388.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on 10/27/2011 at 06:53 PM, Paul Gilmartinpaulgboul...@aim.com said: I recall a computer, perhaps pre-360; perhaps non-IBM whose operator's console had a deeply recessed button

Re: PPT defaults

2011-10-11 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/11/2011 1:46 PM, Rob Schramm wrote: My question is concerning SCHDxx. If IBM supplies default values for about 80 PPT entries, is there any reason to have a SCHDxx that has any IBM PPT entries that have default values? I think the only reason to code one is if you want to change one of

Re: LBI Performance?

2011-10-10 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/9/2011 10:34 PM, Mingee, David wrote: Hello All, Anyone had success with performance gains in run time and fewer tapes being created when using z/OS Large Block Interface(LBI)? We are on R1.11 and have created tapes with blksize of 256k(262144) and the block count is reduced

Re: Invalid PDS member names

2011-09-14 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 9/14/2011 11:41 AM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: In4e6fc2e1.9080...@neo.tamu.edu, on 09/13/2011 at 03:53 PM, Richard L Peurifoyr-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu said: This was supposed to go to the ISPF-L list. Why? The issue is far from limited to ISPF. In fact, your reply listed some of

Re: Invalid PDS member names

2011-09-13 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 9/12/2011 10:59 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: o Those rules should be enforced at a low level in the OS (e.g. SVC), not by APIs such as JCL, TSO, ISPF, language runtime systems, etc. In fact, those APIs should not enforce constraints external to the primary OS. I would argue instead

Re: Invalid PDS member names

2011-09-13 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 9/13/2011 2:05 PM, Richard L Peurifoy wrote: On 9/12/2011 10:59 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: o Those rules should be enforced at a low level in the OS (e.g. SVC), not by APIs such as JCL, TSO, ISPF, language runtime systems, etc. In fact, those APIs should not enforce constraints external

Re: SMF timestamps

2011-09-06 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 9/6/2011 9:37 AM, McKown, John wrote: I should have said that I know how to convert the SMFSTAMP8 to RCF3339 format. The problem is determining the timezone offset for a specific date time rendered in LOCAL time. Now, for my own shop, there is only one problem: the 1 hour overlap when

Re: CSA and SQA problem

2011-08-26 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 8/25/2011 1:21 PM, Staller, Allan wrote: The manual previously cited does not state either case (pro or con) clearly under the discussion of the INITSQA parameter. My understanding was that this parameter was used to increase the initial allocation until the SQA parameters of IEASYSxx were

Re: CSA and SQA problem

2011-08-25 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 8/25/2011 11:54 AM, Carlos Bodra - Pessoal wrote: Hello We have an z/os 1.8 running under a lpar in a z890. Now we have a chance to move it to a z10 BC machine, but during IPL we are getting iea304w wait 80009064. We already tried a lot of combinations of CSA, ECSA, SQA and ESQA values and

Re: CSA and SQA problem

2011-08-25 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 8/25/2011 12:22 PM, Staller, Allan wrote: The wait state code indicates a program check. Was z/OS 1.8 *ever* supported on z/10? That is one possibility required HW/SW not available. Has all applicable maintenance been applied? Search IBM link for 2098DEVICE and research/install the

Re: file allocation dcb order

2011-08-15 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 8/11/2011 8:42 AM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: In cabefxsoet9vpbx6a6h6suiesmppts9o8+gp7otlk_c6dweq...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/10/2011 at 12:11 PM, Scott Rowescott.r...@joann.com said: During dataset creation, the only DCB information available is from the allocation parameters (i.e.

Re: file allocation dcb order

2011-08-15 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 8/11/2011 4:06 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: snip-- It's also possible to create a dataset with SVC 32, although I don't know what happens if you try it on an SMS volume.

Re: CAMLST LOCATE and SCRATCH

2011-08-14 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 8/11/2011 2:08 PM, DanD wrote: Scott, To handle SMS you need to SCRATCH first then UNCAT (can't have uncataloged SMS data sets). Or you can invoke IDCAMS to do the DELETE and do it all at once. Actually if you issue a scratch SVC specifying an SMS volume, it will look up the data set in

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-27 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 7/27/2011 7:12 AM, esmie moo wrote: The use of AMASPZAP is restricted. No can do. Thanks for the suggestion. You can get a dump of a member with IDCAMS: //IDCAMS JOB //PRINT EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,REGION=64M //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //DSN1 DD DSN=your dsn(some member), //

Re: Re-entrant module stores into itself with no 0C4

2011-07-19 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 7/19/2011 3:39 PM, Gary DiPillo wrote: My presumptuous assumption was that RENT was always honored when specified. Not the first time I've been WRONG!! I only need to persuade myself to turn on REFRPROT, and I will do just that once I'm sure I can get out of that choice safely and easily

Re: Trapping the LPAR Deactivate signal on z/OS?

2011-07-08 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 7/7/2011 12:48 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:39:51 -0400, Gary DiPillogdipi...@axiosproducts.com wrote: The challenge is that the code David refers to uses unpublished details of the SERVICE CALL instruction and the SERVICE SIGNAL external interrupt, so it seems

Re: CAMLST MACRO question

2011-06-15 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 6/15/2011 12:07 PM, Scott Ford wrote: I have a quick process / CAMLST macro question after readi Hi All: I have a quick process / CAMLST macro question after reading thru the DFHsmsdfp manual. My situation is that I want to find a catalog QSAM file and then delete it..do I assume I do the

Re: Z EOD oops

2011-06-09 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 6/9/2011 12:17 PM, Richards, Robert B. wrote: My operator inadvertently issued a Z EOD on the wrong system. While I am reading the fine manual, I thought I'd ask how to recover from this easily. It has been a while since I looked at this, but I think the only things EOD does is to switch

Re: What is the current feeling for MVC loop vs. MVCL?

2011-06-01 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 6/1/2011 9:27 AM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: On 6/1/2011 9:19 AM, Charles Mills wrote: It seems to me like the ideal way to do this would be to have not two stages (MVC for 256 and EX'ed MVC) but rather three cases: A loop with a hard-coded or unrolled string of 16 MVC's that moved 4K blocks

Re: TPX Timing Question

2011-05-11 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 5/11/2011 11:22 AM, Sumi, Joseph J. , CMS/CTR, CTR wrote: If any of you use CA TPX, can you tell me what your SMRT Inquire Checking Interval time is and why you went with that number. Ours is set to 3 min. which I think is the default. I haven't had any compelling reason to change it. --

Re: TPX Timing Question

2011-05-11 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 5/11/2011 2:06 PM, Sumi, Joseph J. , CMS/CTR, CTR wrote: Thanks. Do you guys ever see your sysA going N/A on TPX screen during heavy or very heavy processing on sysA ? Our value is 10.. 3 is sounding better. I have not seen this, but if the app is so busy it doesn't respond I guess

Re: Problem with LPA=xx on IEASYSxx

2011-05-04 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 5/4/2011 8:52 AM, Rob Schramm wrote: If you specify the ,L at the end most of the parms have a list option. At least it will give you a record in syslog of what you chose. You might not want to do this on the MSTRJCL parm, IIRC it will cause the JCL and messages for all started tasks to be

Re: Anyone Still Using OLTEP?

2011-04-25 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 4/25/2011 1:44 PM, John Eells wrote: Is anyone still using OLTEP...and if so...what for? Note 1: If you haven't been a sysprog for 20 years or more, my guess is that you probably don't know what it is--and will probably never need to, so don't worry. Note 2: Don't panic just yet. We're just

Re: HMC System Console usage (one more time)

2011-03-29 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 3/28/2011 11:03 PM, W. Kevin Kelley wrote: I'm being asked one more time by TPTB to determine how the HMC System Console is actually being used by z/OS customers: 1) How many of you have used to it in an emergency as the console of last resort? 2) How many of you have used it to recover OSA

Re: BLKSIZE=10

2011-03-01 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 3/1/2011 11:32 AM, Lucy Arnold wrote: Hello, I have a programmer who insists the following JCL has always calculated a valid blksize: //SYSUT2 DD DSN=DAPJPQ.TEST.NEW, // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),SPACE=(TRK,(22430,0)), // DCB=(C.SYUNIV.MODEL,RECFM=U,LRECL=6184), //

Re: IEE329I 0982 IN USE BY A SYSTEM COMPONENT

2011-02-24 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 2/24/2011 11:31 AM, Lucy Arnold wrote: We had a tape drive fail (not 982). The failing drive was replaced, and is working fine. The 982 drive in the same ATL will not go offline, we get the: IEE329I 0982 IN USE BY A SYSTEM COMPONENT The display below shows it in use by jobname

Re: Is there a way to have SMPE indicate if an LMOD is changed?

2011-02-13 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 2/12/2011 4:16 PM, Skip Robinson wrote: We have VPS but not DRS. Let me describe the problem I'd like to solve. Can't you write the SMPDATA1 output to disk and then add a step to read the disk file and write it to sysout? -- Richard

Re: How to delete orphaned Data and Index components?

2010-12-27 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/27/2010 3:48 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 15:25 -0500 on 12/27/2010, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote about How to delete orphaned Data and Index components?: I have somehow created a data and index component of a VSAM KSDS that are orphaned from the cluster name. The cluster was deleted

Re: Disappearing Proc Parm

2010-12-21 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/21/2010 4:02 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:42:13 -0600 Tom Trainor thomas.j.trai...@exxonmobil.com wrote: :Why would it create the //IEFPROC.IEFRDER DD DEST=HP9050 :statement for DEST=HP9050 and NOT for any OTHER parms passed to :the PROC? Is there something special

Re: DFSORT - Compare and report changed records from 2 huge files

2010-12-18 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/18/2010 2:15 AM, adarsh khanna wrote: I have a situation where I need to report updated records from an Hi, I have a situation where I need to report updated records from an IMS database everyday. On the first day, I run an IMS scan utility to report everything on the IMS DB (around 30

Re: Batch program to update CVTUSER

2010-12-15 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/15/2010 1:22 PM, Lorne Dudley wrote: I'm having problems getting the following batch program to run correctly. It's running from an authorized library and abends with 0C4, reason code 4. Are you trying to update a field pointed to by CVTUSER, or are you trying to update the CVTUSER field

Re: Batch program to update CVTUSER

2010-12-15 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/15/2010 1:48 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Richard L Peurifoy r-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu wrote: On 12/15/2010 1:22 PM, Lorne Dudley wrote: I'm having problems getting the following batch program to run correctly. It's running from an authorized library

Re: Batch program to update CVTUSER

2010-12-15 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 12/15/2010 3:23 PM, Chris Craddock wrote: Ok. Don't do it. It is basically a bad idea. While that field was originally intended for user (i.e. customer) use, in practice it is unusable. If you want to be able to anchor something globally then you should probably use some common storage and

Re: IEFBR14

2010-11-19 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 11/19/2010 12:50 PM, Kelman, Tom wrote: Yes, it sounds interesting. Did CA7 install its own version of IEFBR14? As Gerhard said in another post, IEFBR14 as supplied doesn't have any instructions requiring addressability, so it can't get an S0C4. My guess would be that the abend wasn't

Re: Diag traps, was: Re: z/os 1.11 and low private

2010-11-04 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 11/2/2010 5:33 PM, Richard L Peurifoy wrote: It appears I had my results backwards in my test. PMO didn't like LCCA/PCCA above the line. SCHDMUF didn't like VSM USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO). There is a fix for PMO. As soon as it is on I will try again. CA fix RO20128 has been applied for the PMO

Re: Diag traps, was: Re: z/os 1.11 and low private

2010-11-02 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
It appears I had my results backwards in my test. PMO didn't like LCCA/PCCA above the line. SCHDMUF didn't like VSM USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO). There is a fix for PMO. As soon as it is on I will try again. -- Richard -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Diag traps, was: Re: z/os 1.11 and low private

2010-11-01 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 11/1/2010 1:45 AM, Barbara Nitz wrote: Yes, CA are certainly BIG offenders in this game. Actually, we just ran into a key8 CSA thing with datacom - you cannot change the XCF MUF group name without it. Even after IPL they do not come up. We've had pretty good luck getting CA to correct these

Re: z/os 1.11 and low private

2010-10-28 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/26/2010 4:28 PM, Knutson, Sam wrote: Even though it is not the default with appropriate testing no one should be afraid of setting USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO). This is going to have a positive impact on performance in select tasks. We went to production this way VSM USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO) and have

Re: EntireX and LOCALHOST

2010-10-25 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/25/2010 4:23 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: I am hoping someone can shed some light and also, I might be able to warn anyone about to take this path. We did a POR to activate MCL maintenance on our z9BC-L03. After the POR and IPL, we had problems with EntireX from Software AG. This system

Re: How to determine maximun 3720 users (terminals) logged on

2010-10-19 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/19/2010 12:33 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: I am running z/OS V1.11 TPX R5.2 I have been asked to determine the maximum number of users and what sessions (cics, ims,etc) that they are using. What is my best option to creating a report for this. Is there an SMF record? We have MXG and

Re: Potential z/OS MPF behavior change -- comments please

2010-10-19 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/19/2010 1:06 PM, Ricc Harding wrote: I have always taken comfort in the fact that every message was going to be on the syslog. This always gave an immutable paper trail (remember when we tried to print the hardcopy log on paper. Maybe I am an anachronism but I think the syslog should

Re: Potential z/OS MPF behavior change -- comments please

2010-10-18 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/15/2010 9:54 PM, W. Kevin Kelley wrote: To make a long story short: we are proposing to change MPF processing so that it no longer forces matching messages to hardcopy. If a message is issued requesting that the message be hardcopied (the default), MPF will honor it; if the message is

Re: S013-64-IEBGENER

2010-10-15 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/15/2010 10:49 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:24:13 -0500, Ron Wells wrote: Anyone run across where a IEBGENER fails with a S013-64 //SYSUT1 DD DUMMY, // DISP=SHR,LRECL=4096,RECFM=FB //SYSUT2 DD DSN=XX15.TEST.DATA.SET, //

Re: Big Iron — The Mainframe Story

2010-10-06 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 10/6/2010 10:07 AM, zMan wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:09 AM, William Richterrichter...@cox.net wrote: http://www.ca.com/us/content/campaign.aspx?cid=240377 This looked interesting. Then I tried to view the video; on a 25Mbit connection it paused after five seconds. Nice network, CA

Re: JES2 vs. JES3

2010-09-08 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 9/7/2010 8:27 PM, Clark Morris wrote: On 7 Sep 2010 15:19:03 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: ---snip- Why is JES2 better than JES3? -unsnip--

Re: Visibility of New Volume in Storage Group

2010-09-07 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 9/7/2010 10:00 AM, Rick Humburg wrote: Hello, I am trying to find an explanation for a volume note appearing in a list of volumes for a storage group. This volume has just been added. The search for volumes is being done with IEFSSREQ. I have a dim (unreliable?) memory about a volume not

Backups (was Virginia DOT outage)

2010-09-06 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 9/3/2010 7:41 PM, Clark Morris wrote: On 3 Sep 2010 15:52:25 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On 9/3/2010 5:36 PM, Gerhard Adam wrote: The way I read the articles, there was mirroring and the failure of primary was made disastrous by the failure of the mirroring device. If this

Re: Virginia DOT outage

2010-09-03 Thread Richard L Peurifoy
On 9/3/2010 5:36 PM, Gerhard Adam wrote: The way I read the articles, there was mirroring and the failure of primary was made disastrous by the failure of the mirroring device. If this is the case, what are the probabilities of the same thing on IBM devices regardless of the operating system?