---snip--
Rick,
Not the case. I did a I SMF on a sandbox that had absolutely nothing running
on it and the switch took 3 seconds.
Rex
--unsnip---
I stand
it.
But be aware that I can not see the result of the READ_COUNT because I take
control before the IO is really done to the real device.
Shai
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 12:27 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote:
---snip---
A few
--snip
I am currently working on rewriting our SMF Dump process.
I was wondering on a quiet system, if I issue an I SMF command, about how long
till the switch? I am seeing about 1.5 mins from command to switch.
Lizette
---snip---
A few words on replication.
The standard replication is sending CCWS to all controller which
have mirrors disks. Sometime controller send data to other controller to
sync the data between all of them.
In this
snip--
There's a lot to be said for vocabulary enhancement. I'm tired of
hearing that everything must be written for a 5th grade level audience.
What ever happened to 'look it up'?
--snip--
The fix also fixes some bugs processing non standard CCWS including
search key CCWS and SHARK CCWS and many more.
---unsnip---
Search Key
---snip--
Abe F. Kornelis noted:
I have all but completed the updates of the opcode tables on hlasm.com
There's a peculiarity I'd like to discuss here.
I have discovered some additional ones.
After adding all the new
--snip
The decision not to support IPL-time use of PDSEs was an unconscionable one. It would indeed be easy to caricature it as sabotage.
Perhaps likewise the decision not to support network-mounted files
at
snip--
You cannot perculate an agenda from one task to another. You will need to
make the second task whens visits own ABEND macro. I imagine this is not
what you want. Why use ATTACH? Why not do all the setup and then XCTL or
-snip
As part of the Console Restructure, we enhanced the handling of MONITOR
messages so that automation programs could receive the messages without
the messages having to be written to the SYSLOG or OPERLOG.
Unfortunately,
snip
And, what can you do about 20 year old code with no comments?
unsnip-
That depends on how much time you can spend researching 20-year-old
interfaces :-)
My
-snip---
Also, IIRC, IEBCOPY uses I/O appendages that require authorization, since they
are loaded from SYS1.SVCLIB.
Yes. That's true.
But, what about the fact that work-alikes (eg: SPFCOPY) don't need them?
is a different matter, IMHO.
Bill Fairchild
Rocket Software
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Rick Fochtman
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 6:39 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Mainframe hacking?
Even earlier than
--snip
I say heavily customized but that's only a few of my customers. Just about
every mainframe shop I've seen, especially those that have been around a while,
have enough customization, exits, etc. to be in trouble
---snip---
Rick brings up a good point: /But as these types of problems grow,
I'm sure that IBM and REPUTABLE vendors are working to close any holes
that might exist./ As I see it there are two parts to this. Vendor
---snip---
On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:24:08 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
On 10/15/2010 7:20 AM, Lindy Mayfield wrote:
I say heavily customized but that's only a few of my customers.
Just about every mainframe shop I've seen,
snip-
As a new z/OS applications developer I'm curious as to what types of things use custom
user exits et al for. From what I've heard from our sysprogs, our philosophy is to
never use inhouse written user exits.
snip---
Determine what track the dataset was allocated to then run this utility
specifying the first track of the dataset.
//DFDSS EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU
//volume DD VOL=SER=volume,UNIT=3390,DISP=SHR
---snip-
It can also print the VTOC so you can find where the dataset is located.
//jobname JOB 'acct','pgmr name',
//STEP02 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU ,PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN' (to test control card syntax)
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//DDA
for one.
(Eating humble pie) :-)
Rick
-
Rick Fochtman wrote:
snip---
Determine what track the dataset was allocated to then run this
utility
---snip--
In my experience, SPFCOPY lacks some of the functions of IEBCOPY.
Since it just does copies under the '3' utilities, which of these missing
functions are needed?
-snip-
I would say that the first step should be to have ALL customization, exits, etc. very well documented, both their action and the reasons for
their actions.
That would have been great 20-30 years ago, but what do
--snip--
I would think it means code that front-ends one of the First Level Interrupt
Handlers
That's how Amdahl implemented SE and SP assist years ago. I think IBM did it to
implement the IEEE floating point
---snip--
The whole point, I think, is to get it by the system's guys. Not sure how to do that. So much easier on Windows. Still there are coming more and more freeware MVS utilities, like showmvs. (It can run authorized I
snip
For example, why do IDCAMS and IEBCOPY have to be authorized? The
IEBCOPY replacement doesn't have to be authorized. Would it be
worthwhile for both vendors and users to see what they can do to
reduce the amount of code
---snip---
In the old days some shops left the IBMUSER Id active on the system. I'm sure that such incompetence still exists. With TCP/IP, USS, Java, and a billion or so hackers worldwide, the risks are higher than ever.
---snip--
I'm getting into a rather heated argument with a non mainframe colleague about
whether the mainframe has been hacked or not. Legitimate hacking, not a
disgruntled employee doing something illegal and not
--snip--
Thank you all for the valuable insight, information, and often
entertaining commentary. This listserver has been a daily activity for
many years. Some of the members seem like old friends. Others have,
well,
snip---
In
1513982670-1286370603-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-4517029...@bda011.bisx.prod.on.blackberry,
on 10/06/2010
at 01:10 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said:
Can't anyone do their own research anymore?
-snip:
A colleague and I were talking as we feel the powers to be are looking
at options other than the mainframe. The talk went to dollars and cents I
stated the price of a z box has dropped big(for our size shop) but the
--snip---
I still have to ask the question as to why is the IPL text release
sensitive. All it should be doing is loading some part of
SYS1.NUCLEUS and transferring to it. In one sense an MVT IPLTEXT
should be able to
---snip---
No, not really. As I understand AUTOLOG (and I don't :-) ) it is a mechanism
to start things, apparently with a bit of intelligence added. It does not care
about the *orderly* shutdown right before an IPL when
snip--
Judging from some of the posts here I think that those of you in the
user sysprog community think we software vendors stay up at night
trying to think of ways to annoy you.
It doesn't matter whether it's
snip
Is a JES3 system? I thought that JES3 allowed more than one volser
online at a time with the same volser. I haven't worked with JES3 in a
long time, so it may have changed.
snip-
I wonder if it would be possible to enhance FETCH or the LLE(?)
to contain the actual DSN/VOLSER of the dataset used. That would
only require 44+6 extra bytes of memory. Which I don't think
is a big deal in today's
snip
Good point. I have no idea whether there is actually a frequent need to
make a functional change in the IPLTEXT or if 99.9% of the changes are
just to match dates with Nucleus. If the later, then the Nucleus and
snip--
Theoritically true. But not __always__ in practice. What has made some shops
give control of some things which should be in apps to tech support is that
apps doesn't do it correctly, and then screams that it is
-snip-
I'm writing some code to check VSAM CLUSTER defintions in a standard
RECFM=FB,LRECL=80 PDS. It's to cross check IMS DBD defintions against
their associated CLUSTER definitions. I've never used BPAM before but
at first glance
snip-
This idea was inspired by the recent posts about the IEFU8n SMF exits. Writing and debugging this
type of exit can require a good level of knowledge and skill. So what occurred to me is a new facility for
Check for proper installation of svc 231 in your DR environment.
Rick
Pommier, Rex R. wrote:
Hi List,
We're in the middle of a system recovery exercise and our production IDMS
region won't come up. It gets almost up then comes
Richard Pinion wrote:
It takes a big man to apologize in public. I'd say you're riding tall
in the saddle!
Richard, Vickie, and Randy Pinion
-
AMEN. My highest respects.
Rick
--snip---
OIC after the major outage and high cost associated with the new system,
management is trying to save a few dollars on the old system that has been
rock solid for many years.
I would gamble that just the cost of
snip--
I never see any mention of ASG tools other than TMON.
SmartFile: file editor
SmartTest: debugger
SmartScope: dump analysis
SmartTune: performance analyzer
Is this because no one has them, or no one likes
---snip---
Has anyone replaced Compuware's products, Abendaid for MVS and CICS,
Fileaid and Strobe with CA's products? Any information - the good, bad
or ugly would be appreciated.
Is it my imagination or have a number of B2xx opcodes been deleted from
the latest PoPs instruction tables?
I use those tables to keep my own personnal disassembler up-to-date.
Rick
--
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /
-snip
WTOR 'WAIT AND DON'T GIVE CONTROL TO ANOTHER TASK.',REPLY,1,RESPECB
So instead of doing a WAIT ECB=RESPECB AFTER THE WTOR
HARDLOOP DS 0H
TM RESBECB,X'40'
-snip--
Hi,
The WTOR generates a SVC 35
In a multitask environment this would cause the dispatcher to give control
to another
task while waiting for a operator reply
Is there some way of making sure that the dispatcher
---snip
Hi,
I need to manage the use of classes when users submit their batch
processes . . . I have been researching the topic and found that I can do it
using the exit IEFUJI and defining a special class in RACF.
Has
---snip--
For those who are not familiar with it, Datamation used to have some
excruciatingly funny articles, some of which were collected under the
title Faith, Hope and Parity. I didn't think much of their news
coverage, but
---snip-
Why is JES2 better than JES3?
-unsnip--
Each one has its merits and drawbacks. Jes2, in general, has more
limited capabilities but a much smaller
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In 4c8147a8.7050...@ync.net, on 09/03/2010
at 02:08 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net said:
When have you EVER heard of a reporter that knew what he was talking
about? Or an editor?
I could probably name half a dozen; I certainly couldn't name
John McKown wrote:
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 16:04 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
On 9/3/2010 2:46 PM, Phil Smith wrote:
Well, as of z9, they were System z, not zSeries, but:
z900 - Freeway
z800 - Raptor
z990 - T-Rex
z890 - Ptero
z9 - Danu
z10 - can't remember
z196 - Gryphon aka zNext
--snip---
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
--snip-
Model 91, the high-end of IBM s popular System/360 family,
Faux news seems to have written the 360/95 and 360/195 out of History.
---unsnip---
When have you EVER
snip--
If you ask why
not CALLERKEY? you'd be asking a good question. It was because at
the time I thought our macros still had to support assembler F
ITYM XF. Assembler F would have been well and truly dead[1] by the
time
No argument but, as we all know, Stuff happens.
Here on The List, we all have the benefit of long experience and a
very high set of quality standards. Not every shop enjoys these attributes.
Don't forget: the Titanic was built by people with high standards and
long experience. And the Space
---snip
Having been in on a couple of recovery actions due to major files
getting fouled up, I can believe that things could take up to a week.
How do major files get fouled up with adequate backups?
Or audit files.
-snip--
I would absolutely LOVE a grass roots campaign to eliminate = as a token
in any and all languages. Comparison should be ==. Assignment should be
:=. No ambiguity there. No intuitive meaning for newbies to make an
--snip
Yeah, we had a research department have their big server stolen
from secure closet. IBM said they could replace overnight-which they did.
Then our server folks got AIX up and trucking, we're ready for the backups.
This after numerous EMC marketting reps assured me, of a period of
several months, that EMC had NEVER experienced a storage failure that
resulted in ANY outage.
AND they assured me that no EMC customer had ever lost a single byte of
data due to EEMC product failure.
Repeat after me:
---snip
I'd prefer that but z/OS is sent to us with the files as SYS1 so that's
what I have to use.
unsnip
Unless politics is getting in the way, a simple parmlib update
-snip--
No argument but, as we all know, Stuff happens.
Here on The List, we all have the benefit of long experience and a
very high set of quality standards. Not every shop enjoys these attributes.
Sorry, but that's
---snip---
Lizette Koehler wrote:
It took awhile but we found the culprit. One of my coworkers ran a
compress against a production file during prime time.
John Eels got it right as usual with this: 'Also, note that other
-snip---:
Dear all
If a user catalog's volume does't exist.Can I delete this user catalog entry?
I already try idcams DELETE NSCR,but failed.
How can I delete this user catalog entry without any tools?
Best Regard
wayneluo
-snip--:
One of my coworkers ran a compress against a production file during prime
time
I've always found it curious that so many times compress is done without
using DISP=OLD.
That seems nasty to me (at least if you like
--snip
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of J R
... police are not sighting people who are stopped and found to have
recently expired licenses.
If the police are not
snip---
Is there a way to pull 119 records and get more detailed information on specific
users that are using FTP and what jobs they are executing?
I did the standard SMF Dump and that shows records were pulled but does not give
---snip
--- On Sun, 8/29/10, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote:
From: Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net
Subject: Re: Test DASD performance tools
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Date: Sunday, August 29, 2010, 4:23 PM
Ron, I understand your
---snip---
If something starts going wrong and doesn't get detected for a period
of time, the backups will be contaminated from time of first failure.
Getting things straightened out can be interesting.
What can start
It happened in the late 1970's.
Rick
-
Gerhard Adam wrote:
If the process seems to be working smoothly, who checks results? And how?
We had an incident in Illinois where a license plate number was
re-assigned but
--snip---
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell
In a message dated 8/29/2010 9:02:07 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
zedgarhoo...@gmail.com writes:
No, it's retro, like the 50s:
in that category.
Ron
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of
Rick Fochtman
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 1:35 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Test DASD performance tools
-snip-
At least we've stopped seeing new tn3270 products showing up at SHARE
-- for a while there, every drug-addled CEO seemed to think it was a
new market, and every SHARE there would be two or three new ones, most
of which were
You forgot Rin, Tin, Tin and Hoppalong Cassidy :-) Not to mention
Roy Rogers, with Dale, Trigger, Buttermilk and a Jeep named Nelly
Belle. :-)
Rick
-
Ed Finnell wrote:
In a message dated 8/29/2010 9:02:07 A.M. Central
snip---
That's a good idea, providing the customer is willing to provide accurate
description of what they want to have modeled. SMF has a lot of really good
averages, but very little in the way of detailed access patterns.
--snip
I still have horrible memories of a CEO that ordered me to develop and
install, via ZAP, the multiple-level alias feature two years before IBM
provided it. I thought he was going to fire me when I refused, flat out,
to
--snip-
I still have horrible memories of a CEO that ordered me to develop and install,
via ZAP, the multiple-level alias feature two years before IBM provided it. I
thought he was going to fire me when I refused, flat out, to meddle
My unfailing gratitude to several of you ladies and gentlemen who sent
me the Principles of Ops PDF. I have it now and I'm quite grateful to
all that helped.
Rick
--
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access
--snip-
Forget cyberattacks, natural disasters and hardware failures -- the
biggest threat to your data center may well be human error.
unsnip
AINT
You really should look at VISTA, from TomBrennanSoftware.com
It's quite good and, in my experience, very reliable.
Rick
Lizette Koehler wrote:
I just went through the archives looking for generic information on
I've sent you, via private E-Mail, a copy of the IKJEFF10 exit we used
at Board of Trade Clearing Corp. It does job-class enforcement based on
userid. Enjoy. :-)
Rick
---
Ward, Mike S wrote:
Hello all, I'm asking for a little help. I would like to
---snip-
Obviously this is my humble opinion, but even IBMers used to admit that there are very few customers who need more than two (TWO!) CPCs - of
course having in mind full sized ones, fully dedicated for z/OS.
snip---
If I remember correctly the post you are referring to was by Chris
Craddock, and he usually knows what he is talking about. I think Steve
may have placed Chris's post somewhat out of context, and it may be
Could one of you fine ladies or gentlemen kindly download the PF of the
latest Principles of Operations and E-Mail it to me as an attachment?
(I'd also accept BookManager format, but I'm told that it's not available.)
I am having no end of difficulty in getting any sort of access to that
snip---
Regardless of how many CPs an LPAR may allow there may be an operating
system restriction to a smaller number.
It happens that at this point in time z/OS (1.11) is a bit ahead of the
LPAR limit so that it can support
Take a look at the PDSUPDTE program from the CBTTAPE cbttape.org
This program was designed for exactly the purpose you seek.
Rick
---
Monty Spivak wrote:
Hi,
I am is seeking a JCL Mass Editor (basically, multiple file search and replace in an
-snip--
PDSUPDTE supports multiple libraries in one run and is based on IPOUPDTE. You
can get it and documentation here:
http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/cbtware/pdsupdte.htm
I believe it's also available at
the most extraordinary computer of all.
-- John F Kennedy
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Rick Fochtman
Sent: Thursday, 19 August 2010 14:28
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: JCL Mass Editor
I'm in the upper Midwest. Contracts are few and far between but when I
get one, it's usually around $150 per hour. But you'll work your a** off
for it. I do security work.
Rick
--
Mike Myers wrote:
Someone mentioned that the market for consulting
--snip-
It would be a good idea to IPL the SADMP to verify its operation anyway.
Much better than finding out it doesn't work when you actually need it!
---unsnip---
AMEN,
-snip--
Is there an API or anything similar whereby a vendor-written program
could have visibility into a z box at the PR/SM level (other than
CSRSI)? Could see and potentially make configuration changes to the
whole box as
--snip-
I am looking for a utility type program that will let me select records from a
sequential data set, FB or VB. I need selection criteria of starting position,
length, type, and value. I know sort has include/omit,
---snip--
It's best to write code that is readable and maintainable before
worrying about performance.
unsnip
An appropriate use of comments can make ANY code
--snip-
That's another problem that people point out when they contact me. I
can't believe some of the prices that companies charge for their
upgrades. I still have a problem understanding why it should cost more
to run a
-snip
BTW: similar pricing models can be observed in other businesses,
examples: tire change in Jeep costs more than in van or truck (here, in
Lodz). Cabel TV connection fee depends on your house size the larger
--snip
The next question is why?. Sometimes, the only reason someone wants to
NOT install the new version has been that it seems easier to them to just
copy the old libraries. I can understand laziness, sometimes, but it
--snip-
rfocht...@ync.net (Rick Fochtman) writes:
At Clearing, we ran MVS very nicely on three 4341 Model Group 2 boxen
for three years and it ran very nicely. Nowdays, my pocket calculator
probably has more raw compute power
snip--
Last mainframe will turned off in 1996 hahahahaha
No more than 640KB is necessary for any computer hahahahaha
These new predictions make same effect.
--snip
Carlos Bodra - Pessoal wrote:
Hi Rick,
You just forgot to say that 100,000 acres are under water in middle of
great lakes... but I will consider this offer when I decide to invest
in real estate!!!
--snip-
Are there optimizers for library languages such as C? Or isn't that
considered important anymore?
--unsnip
Optimizers can help BUT: 1: they
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