Jim, Technically, this is not a problem. If you had real physical tapes,
then the data would be available until the tape was overwritten. Several
VTS vendors provide this feature for compatibility purposes.
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What ever happened to the Virtual Universe Operating System that was
announced back in the late 70s? Or did IBM keep that one for themselves?
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
my kids tell me I am older than dirt
I'm older than the guy who made dirt!
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Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 4:16 PM
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Subject: Re: S237-04 and tapes
I ran into this several years back...Okay, 15 years...with IBM 3422
tapes. According to the IBM CE, the erase gaps were not being written
properly to the tapes when a write error
I ran into this several years back...Okay, 15 years...with IBM 3422
tapes. According to the IBM CE, the erase gaps were not being written
properly to the tapes when a write error occured. It wasn't until I
went to add a string of 3420 Mod 8s that I spotted an error made by my
precessor in the
That would depend on if your presently have two systems communication in
a subarea network that you are moving to EE. It was relatively painless
to simply add APPN to an existing subarea network. I added the required
parms in the VTAM startup for the LPAR and bounced VTAM. Viola(as in
the
If you use the GUI program Hardware Configuration Manager, you give him
the two CHPIDs you want to configure, and how many devices you want
genned, and he automatically does all fo the devices for you along with
their interconnects.
I, like you, spent hours/weeks doing the configuration.
If you don't have a coupling facility, you will. Different CTCs,
though. GRS uses BCTC and basic sysplex uses SCTC.
John Norgauer wrote:
Will I still need the CTC definitions when I go the XCF solutions in order
to implement GRS?
John Norgauer
University of California Davis Medical
Hree is what I would use...others may object...grin...
BEGINROUTES
; All hypersocket traffic - Use your interface, not HIPERLF6
ROUTE 192.10.1.0/24 = HIPERLF6 MTU 8192
; Where is the gateway?
ROUTE 10.xxx.xxx.xxx/32 =
This symptom could occur if the TCPPARMS has terminals defined that do
not exist in the started VTAM members. The connection to TCP would work
properly, but the USSMSG would never be displayed.
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/16/2006
at 02:13 PM, Sonny Gupta
Except that he said that he forwarded it...not replied to it...and
jbhunt.com is a valid company dns entry for the J. B. Hunt trucking firm.
Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Ed Finnell wrote:
I forwarded it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
didn't bounce, but haven't heard
If your company does not have an education budget, tie the costs of a
Share session to your next upgrade, especially if it is a large release
jump. The what's new classes are a treasure trove of information if
you have been out of the mainstream for awhile.
I have done this with the one
To answer the question about the number fo records...75 per track from
94 to 124 bytes. 9300 bytes per track at that rate.
If I remember the process for space by blocks, the answer to the first
question is seven cylinders and one cylinder.(4640/45 blocks/track/15
tracks per cylinder primary
Charles,
Here is the answer to your original question. There is a PDF
available at the following
url...http://www.dtssoftware.com/Ref%20Guide9.01.pdf
Steve Arnett.
Charles Mills wrote:
Where can I find 3390 track capacity tables or formulas? I haven't done this
in so long I think
The only difference is the RECORDING MODE IS. For spanned it is S and for
variable it is V. The 01 level, which the original poster was asking about
is the same for both. I guess I should have given this one that I use to
read the DCOLLECT output:
FD DCOLIN
Actually, thanks. I have simply been using a sledge hammer to get my
data read. You are correct that there are times that it doesn't work.
My fallback has always been to drop into ALC and code the file read
there. I will try using the RECORD VARYING IN SIZE and see how it works
out for me.
Here's what I use with LE/COBOL 2.2 to read the SMF datasets...One could
argue that the OCCURS should be from 2 and not from 1...
FD SMF30IN
BLOCK CONTAINS 0 RECORDS
RECORD CONTAINS 0
://prepro.umsystem.edu/ums/departments/is/itss/documentation/ftp.html...You
can do google searches to others, as well.
Steve Arnett
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
First, I wish to thank everybody for their responses.
But, we are not a big NJE shop.
We are still pretty heavy in RJE world-wide.
Approximately
Yea and some of us didn't have the CS (or ES) to run SMS anyway! Though
I did use IGDZILLA to pack LPA so that it overflowed to COMMON with
nothing usable in PLPA.
Ed Gould wrote:
IIRC there was an extra cost for DFP for 3.2 and that, IIRC was for
SMS support. I had to fight the bean
Tom,
I was not picking on you. I was trying to get the thread back on
track. I was curious about the correct answer to the question and did
not feel that the thread was going anywhere. After my post(not because
of it, mind you), I saw some superb posts that laid all of the
Ed Gould wrote:
On M
John,
Had not heard about that parm before. I looked it up and it was as
clear as mud... (ok dark bear).
It is obviously Friday! How much clearer is a light bear?
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Are you sure that you wanted to do a L 10,ADR1 and not a LA 10,ADR1? If
you use the LA, then both MVCs would result in the same data.
Bill Larsen wrote:
Dear all
(...)
L 10,ADR1
MVC ZON,0(10) === (XX)
(..)
ADR1 DS F
=== why when i replace (XX) by MVC ZON,ADR1 , i don't have the same
Another option would be to split the dataset into two datasets less than
4GB and using the RBA determine which one to read. If you are reading
it sequentialy, heaven forbid, put logic in the program to read one and
then the other. All writes would go to the second dataset(until you
exhaust
The Data Areas for 1.7 are online
here...http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/IEA2BK60
Bill Larsen wrote:
Dear all
I am looking for a map of mvs control blocks with all the relations between
them, do you know where i can have it ?
Regards
I am running z/OS 1.7 and TS 1.3 and I was able to run the job below and
it functioned properly...
// JOB (000),'',
// MSGCLASS=X,CLASS=C,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),
// NOTIFY=SYSUID
//BR14 EXEC
The fact that USB ports are on the backs of PCs (rather than the
fronts) indicates they were designed for cubicle-dwellers.
I have three computers at home with USB ports on the front. I also have
cables that allow back mounted USBs to be used easily. They were not
designed for
If EFF is an error out of SVC 255, then he would have to have it
installed or he would get an FFF, not an EFF.
Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc wrote:
Seems SVC 255 is not defined to the system.
Roland
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When did CICS, DB2, IMS, and IDMS become languages?
Besides ALC, where are PL/I and RPG II. For that kind of money, I would
expect those to be included, as well!
Porowski, Ken wrote:
Is this what we have to look forward to?
Ken
You are bidding on a technology icon, capable of
I wouldn't say GRS is free...Two escon cables and four escon channels
have some value...Don't they?
Ed Gould wrote:
On Feb 6, 2006, at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
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2. $E;$H;$C processing doesn't happen (if you use that). The jobs
We are dumping What's Up in favor of Nimbus. Don't know the polotics
involved...What's Up, the way it is used at our shop is very simple.
Tells us what is up or down. Nimbus allows monitoring of up/down
status, processes, CPU utilization, disk utilization, memory
utilization, etc...for all
Hmmm...polo-tics...Must be some new source for Lime Disease...
Steve Arnett wrote:
We are dumping What's Up in favor of Nimbus. Don't know the polotics
involved...What's Up, the way it is used at our shop is very simple.
Tells us what is up or down. Nimbus allows monitoring of up/down
There are also REAL machines out there that are trying to act like
massive mainframes, not just PCs. The MP/3000 is the size of a two
drawer filing cabinet, but can have 200+ MIPs(H70). That is a small
machine, but not a small system!
Chris Mason wrote:
Matthew,
I dare say you've
That happens only if we deactivate an LPAR. I would think that the POR
would always drop the sessions, since, until the POR completes, there is
no ICC.
If all I do is shut down, quiesce, and then load the opsys, I do not
loose the session.
We have found that if you use Reflections and do a
There is still a possibility that Bruce did not help him. If he is
running Hercules under Linux, he may have wanted to know how to a)
access an AWSTAPE format tape image or b) how to issue a Linux mount
command to access a 3480/3490/etc cartridge.
Desi de la Garza wrote:
Way to go Bruce.
I have to agree. I don't get that behavior with either Reflections or
TN3270plus.
Jousma, David wrote:
Sounds like an emulator setting to me. I don't use attachmate, so I
cannot answer.
Dave
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Since this is a recuring function that you will be performing and I
didn't see this suggestion on the list, I will suggest it...Write a
program to read the IEHLIST output and generate your deletes from that.
You can concatenate the IEHLIST datasets from the 20 packs as your
input. I have two
That rates right up there with the old(and I mean OLD) 8Kx1 WOM(write
only memory) chip announcement from NEC back in the late 70s.
Hunkeler Peter (KRDO 4) wrote:
zNUPs - zSeries No Use Processor - Its a simple one: it doesn't do
anything except from appearing on your maintenance bill
Peter
Lack of tapes on SYSTEM-B would prevent the HSMPLEX from working
properly, unless you carve out a CF and use the common recall queue. In
our case, we do not have tape and do not have a CF, so the alternative
was code to ship recalls over to SYSTEM-A for processing, as the
original poster
Lack of tapes on SYSTEM-B would prevent the HSMPLEX from working
properly, unless you carve out a CF and use the common recall queue. In
our case, we do not have tape and do not have a CF, so the alternative
was code to ship recalls over to SYSTEM-A for processing, as the
original poster
Yes.
Richards.Bob wrote:
Good points, Steve.
I take it then, HSM aside, you agree with the gist of what I said about adding SYSTEM-B to the same SMSPLEX?
Bob
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Short answer is that the primary subsystem (for JES2) must be named JES2
and the procedure must have the same name.
Johnny Luo wrote:
New to mainframe..so the question maybe look a little silly.
Here is what IEFSSN00 of our site defines JES2:
SUBSYS SUBNAME(JES2) /* JES2 AS PRIMARY SUBSYSTEM
Folks,
First, I am cross posting this to both the ALC and Main boards, so I
apologize for those of you that receive it twice.
Second, I have a program that issues a WTOR. Presently, I capture
that WTOR with automation and issue a modify command to another address
space with the reply
Thanks for the replies...Bottom line was to chase the ORE. Code looks
something like this:
*
LAR8,0 GET PSA ADDRESS
L R8,16(,R8)GET CVT ADDRESS
Thanks for the replies...Bottom line was to chase the ORE. Code looks
something like this:
*
LAR8,0 GET PSA ADDRESS
L R8,16(,R8)GET CVT ADDRESS
L R8,100(,R8) GET UCM ADDRESS
L R9,28(,R8)GET FIRST
Can anyone guarantee invulnerability?
I used to work at ACS in Dallas and the security there was better than
in most of the data centers that they were outsourcing. Outsourcers do
not work on very low profit margins, they operate on economies of
scale. They can run multiple companies
link. By inserting a delay in each of the programs where they turn
around from input to output, I was able to elliminate the IOEs that were
being generated. A special thanks to Mike Kerford-Byrnes whom I had an
extended discussion with off list.
Thanks,
Steve A.
Steve Arnett wrote:
Thanks
so fortunate and have to come to this board for that reason.
Steve Arnett
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[ snip ]
My problem with this post is Why on earth should you need to
ask this question? Somebody was responsible for building
Folks,
I wrote a program to communicate between two LPARs using a CTC
connection. I was having a problem with occasional I/O errors. I
originally had the program on an SCTC connection and swicthed it over to
a BCTC connection. Since moving it, I have had no problems with the
program.
I am getting a lot of responses stating that BCTC is required for GRS.
This, I know. I do appreciate the attempts to be helpful.
There are many refences on the board regarding the requirement for GRS
to use BCTC. I have GRS using BCTC and I am neither questioning its use
of BCTC or its
Thanks to everyone that responded.
Bruno Sugliani wrote:
have a look around page 3.3
could be helpfull
Watch the wrap
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg29fafd2510f68d17285256ced0051213eaid=1
Bruno
Bruno(dot)sugliani(at)groupemornay(dot)asso(dot)fr
I guess this makes the term light year for distance meaningless,
doesn't it? Or if not meaningless, at least, relative...h
Ed Gould wrote:
http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173403017
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McKown, John wrote:
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Subject: Re: PREVENTING TAKING TOO MUCH STOR IN ISPF
There was one. It was called SPM
There was one. It was called SPM and ran on DOS/VS. With a three card
modification from a fellow in Lubbock by the name of Stu Childre, it
even submitted jobs directly to the Power queue.
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/17/2005
at 03:50 PM, Paul Gilmartin
If you are interested in a version with 31-bit support for z/OS 1.4
which also uses the whole 44 character dataset name, instead of only
SYS1.MANx, contact me off list.
These were changes made to the SMFDUMP program from NASPA. I am a new
kid on the block at my datacenter, so I do not know
I wrote a utility a couple of years ago in COBOL which takes the output
from the FREEWARE program TAPESCAN and builds the JCL required to
restore the datasets(writing it to the JES2 internal reader). It was a
very simple and easy to write program. The one that I wrote generated
two possible
Contact me offline if you would like the COBOL source for the program
that I wrote.
Mautalen Juan Guillermo wrote:
Thanks you all for your suggestions.
The 17 limit of the dsname in the tape dataset label is not a problem in
this particular case, because all the datasets have names whose
The S0C7 is the cause of your 4039. It is just LE saying that your
exception was not handled, which it wasn't. If you look at the CEEDUMP,
it will have your OC7 abend data in it.
Howard Brazee wrote:
Why would I get a 4039 Error with a data exception?
USER COMPLETION CODE=4039 REASON
San Francisco. I attended the MVS/XA Structure and Flow in Atlanta,
flew home over the weekend and attended the MVS Installation Workshop in
SF the next week. The installation workshop was how to install MVS/SP
using the CBIPO with a little mini-session on MVS/SP internals. You
were not
7F, not 80...
Robert Pelletier wrote:
I have been asked to define more 3390-3 devices to our system. Here is a piece
of an HCD report
PROCESSOR ID CSLF9672 TYPE 9672 MODEL RA4 CONFIGURATION MODE: LPAR T
SWITCH
This was code generated by the Crowbar, er, COBOL compiler. No cc
checking generated.
Bill Fairchild wrote:
In a message dated 7/9/2005 9:25:12 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
MVCL, as I now understand, is a noop if the move is destructive.
When did
The diskette is free, but try finding a replacement drive to read it on...
Martin Kline wrote:
From IBM's WEB site:
3274 Control Unit
This product was withdrawn from marketing in August,
1990, and is no longer sold in the US by IBM. However,
the product is still being serviced by IBM.
For
DB2 is also loaded into VSAM datasets. Also, don't forget the linear
datasets used by the OS.
Bill Fairchild wrote:
In a message dated 7/6/2005 11:35:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Of course, in some shops, VSAM is obsolete altogether (except for databases
Don't forget the all time favorite method for clearing a print buffer:
MVI PBUF,C' '
MVC PBUF+1(132),PBUF
PBUF DS CL133
I have never heard of it being called a destructive overlap before. I
have always herad it called a destructive move.
Fought a bug in a CICS COBOL program for
Thanks for the info. I will keep that in mind for future reference.
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I once astonished Ed Jaffe (or was it Bruce Black) by stating that
I don't write assembler code (or was it that I don't read dumps).
Every now and again I feel the need to provide proof.
And for Steve's
Yea, they had this happen at a petroleum company in Dallas.
Construction workers were in and out all day using a door that saw you
coming and opened automatically. One of them went out of the room
though the back door. On his way out, he pushed the door and it failed
to open. Instead of
We process for two hospital systems. One on eastern time and one on
central time. The different departments in hospitals use the computer
at different times, with E/R having priority over any changes that we
wish to perform. What we have found is that a midweek IPL in the
evening usually
I am not sure if it would be worth it, but you could contact a third party
vendor and see if you could trade down. Instead of paying money. you might
be able to get paid for the downgrade. However, since you could probably
buy an R16 or R26 for $ 5,000, the net difference may not pay for the
We are using OSA-ICC on our Z/890 without JBB7727 installed. Seems to
work fine for us on z/OS 1.4.
Porowski, Ken wrote:
I saw a reference on the list that JBB7727 (Console restructure/enhancements)
was required to run an OSA-ICC.
Can anyone confirm or deny this?
I'm running z/OS 1.4 with
DELETE dataset.name NVSAM NSCR
or from 3.4
DELETE / NVSAM NSCR
Rugel José wrote:
Hi :
How can I delete a PDS entry that was located into a no actual existing
VOLIME ( OS/390 .2.10 ).
ADP.LIBRARY.SOURCES.ISA323.
It can be looked only by 3.4 TSO Option
Actually it was an RVA. They were attempting to offload the customer
data from the ADCD base system. The base MP 3000 P30 only has about 24
DASD volumes, of which the z/OS ADCD chews up around 16.
R.S. wrote:
SArnett wrote:
I helped a shop install one of these fully loaded back in
We had an operator drop one of those puppies off of the back of the disk
drive. Shattered the case. Taped it together using duct tape(yea, I am
from Texas), mounted it and backed it up with Westinghouse. Only took
two hits during the backup...both were in unused extents on the volume.
Submit a batch job that has the following step in it:
//ARCHPRE EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
// COMMAND 'V ,CONSOLE'
Robert Pelletier wrote:
Good Morning All. Our operator unplugged the production controller for the
master console. I can't get it back. I have tried to use the HMC
Another way is to submit:
/*$VS,'V ,CONSOLE'
//ANYJOB JOB (000),'TSYSSA',
// MSGCLASS=X,CLASS=C,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),
// NOTIFY=SYSUID
//ARCHPRE EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
Folks,
I am testing a new IEFUSI exit. The exit has WTOs imbeeded to
indicate what is taking place. If I set REGION=0M, the exit sets the
getmain limit below the line to the maximum region available(minus 64K -
GDAREGSZ-64K) and sets the region limit to the maximum
available(GDAREGSZ).
] On
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Of Steve Arnett
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 2:49 PM
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Subject: Region size question
Folks,
I am testing a new IEFUSI exit. The exit has WTOs imbeeded to
indicate what is taking place. If I set REGION=0M, the exit sets the
getmain limit below the line
- SYSTEM ERROR IN INITIATOR
IEF450I JOBXYZ MYJOBST - ABEND=S822 U
Steve Arnett wrote:
Folks,
I am testing a new IEFUSI exit. The exit has WTOs imbeeded to
indicate what is taking place. If I set REGION=0M, the exit sets the
getmain limit below the line to the maximum region
I think you are missing the point of the post. The available region
size in the system is 12M. I executed a job step with REGION=15M,
expecting the USI limits(set to 12M) to be honored. It does not appear
that the initiator even pays attention to the USI limits when
dispatching the job
You boys (and girls) are so dad blasted smart. Corolarry number 1: I am
so stuborn.
I did some stc testing(took the initiator and fragmentation out of the
picture) to find what size I really did have. Seems that when GDAREGSZ
is indicating 12288K(12M), I really only have 12072K available.
Corollary number 2: I can't type, either.
Steve Arnett wrote:
You boys (and girls) are so dad blasted smart. Corolarry number 1: I
am so stuborn.
I did some stc testing(took the initiator and fragmentation out of the
picture) to find what size I really did have. Seems that when
GDAREGSZ
Correction...Assembler is a dying art ANYWHERE! So is dump reading...
Paul Hanrahan wrote:
Assembler must be a dieing art at most banks. - Paul Hanrahan
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Not that this will work for 8 year olds, but, when explaining what a
systems programmer does, I have always said that we maintain the
software that allow programmers to do their jobs.
Richard Heritage wrote:
This is more of a Friday question, but I got busy Friday and didn't have
time to post.
Hey, you left out 80 column card paper planes and shooting rubber bands
into the overhead florescent light frames.
Porowski, Ken wrote:
Get a mess of beads and string and see who can string up 1K of core the fastest?
Tug of war with 100' Grey BusTag?
Write Protect ring toss?
Put the fun back in
Have you tried: DELETE / NONVSAM? Seems like that has always worked
whether the catalogue was available or not for SMS managed...
R.S. wrote:
Mark Zelden wrote:
On Mon, 16 May 2005 14:00:16 +0200, R.S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The following scenario:
HLQ1.DATASET.G0805V00
Member of GDG,
Thanks for the tips...
Bill Fairchild wrote:
In a message dated 5/11/2005 1:50:25 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is probably dependent on page-alignment thing. Note
that clearing the storage to zero for page-aligned,
page-sized allocations is achieved by simply
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