Changing the MF IP Address

Hello, I'm going to a meeting next week where I will advocate moving our MF behind the firewall, which means changing its IP address. The advance discussion has turned up an argument that this could (would) break a lot of stuff. I suspect that argument is based on FUDSI. But, I'm not the

RMF V1R7 Disk Space Report question

Hello, When I try to use the RMF V1R7 Disk Space Report (via SPG command) it says: Storage group or volume data are currently not available. The help says I should specify a Storage Group. Can someone tell me how to do that? Thanks. Stg

RMF question

Hello again, Would anyone be concerned if they saw the following in their RMF monitor? (We are z/os 1.7, with 2 LPAR's, connected via GRS as I understand it. I believe we do not have XCF hardware, which is why we use GRS.) The DLY percentage below rarely drops below 15 or so. It peaks in

Re: RMF V1R7 Disk Space Report question

Hello, I found SYS1.SERBCLS in my TSO SYSPROC DD concactenation. I don't have an ERBRMF04 member in this however. I didn't see it in the other SYS1.SERB* data sets either. Should we create one? Does it need more than the lines suggested? Thanks. Stg

Re: RMF question

Hi, Regarding: What is the activity on other paths between these two systems? How many paths do you have defined? Unfortunately, you've already exceeded my sysprog and rmf skills.I'll just pass this on to the systems group. Thanks! Stg

Counting Records in Files

Hello! z/OS 1.7 here! This is (I hope) a pre-Friday easy opinion question. The only parameters are, that we have no real third party tools to solve this except SyncSort. We need to count the number of records in about 100 flat files.Since we're already running these through SyncSort, I'm

WLM SP Abend Mystery

Hello! z/OS 1.4, DB2 7.1 here.We got RRS up and running a few weeks ago and I'm making our first (1st) attempt to convert a COBOL SP from SPAS to WLM.The only change I made was to modify the LinkEdit step to include INCLUDE SYSLIB(DSNRLI) MODE AMODE(31) RMODE(ANY)

Fw: [DB2-L] WLM SP Abend Mystery

Hi -- a helpful suggestion got me past my error. Thank you! Stg - Forwarded by Steve Grimes/Systems/ais on 05/24/2007 05:37 PM - Steve Grimes/Systems/ais 05/24/2007 03:58 PM To DB2 Database Discussion list at IDUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc Subject Re: [DB2-L] WLM SP Abend Mystery

Prefetch Disabled - No Read Engine

Hello, DB2 v7.1, z/OS 1.4 here, cross-posting to DB2-L and IBM-Main. (I love you guys/gals!) I know this has come up before but I'm finally getting back to it. I've searched the web and various places, but to know avail. I was concerned when DB2 PM indicated a Prefetch Disabled - No Read

Re: Wars and Allies

I think R. J. Rummel's Death by Government shines the light of statistics on this question. Stg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

BLKSIZE on a SYSOUT dataset

Hello, z/OS 1.4, DB2 7.1 here, with a simple low-priority Friday question! I want to write the output of a DB2 PM report to disk so I can do some post-processing on it. If I leave the BLKSIZE off, or code DCB=BLKSIZE=0, I get a BLKSIZE of 6251 on the LRECL 133 dataset. Since this is going

Re: BLKSIZE on a SYSOUT dataset

Hi Bruce! DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=0) rendered 6251 also. It's no biggie. I'm hardcoding the BLKSIZE now. I wanted to run it by the list just to see if I was crazy or something. Thanks. Stg Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: BLKSIZE on a SYSOUT dataset

Ah -- that last tricked (adding DSORG=PS) worked. Thanks! Stg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

WLM Service Definition for DDF Thread

Hello, DB2 V7.1, z/OS 1.4, WLM Goal Mode here, with DB2 PM, cross posting to DB2-L and IBM-Main, here! There is a lot written about this topic in the archives, and I'm also looking at other resources (Hugh Smith presentation, DB2 Admin guide, etc.) but I'd like to make a recommendation to our

Re: [DB2-L] WLM Service Definition for DDF Thread

Great tips -- thanks all. Using RMF screens (which I have access to) and looking over someone's shoulder for WLM screen's (which I don't have access to) I found that my assumptions were basically correct, but that I was looking at the wrong thing. Our production DDF thread rules are: 1 SI

-911 fetching from a declared GTT.

Hello, z/OS 1.4, DB2 1.7 here! We implemented a GRS (ring mode) last weekend and are seeing some interesting performance behaviours. One thing however, that I don't recall seeing before is the following abend: DC6PRAIQ - DSNT408I SQLCODE = -911, ERROR: THE CURRENT UNIT OF WORK HAS BEEN

Re: Allowing Joe User into TSO

Hello again! We'll I'm certainly enjoying the exchange. I think the initial responses covered what I was after. An additional detail for the curious -- Joe User currently has a Roscoe account and uses it to submit jobs that do updates. So, he has a reasonable amount of RACF authority

Allowing Joe User into TSO

Hello, z/OS 1.4 here. I apologize in advance for not knowing the best list to send this question to. (Perhaps ISPF-L? But I'm not a subscriber there.) I'm proposing to our systems folks that we allow a user to use TSO to get to the Zeke Work Center function. I'm being told that there is no

Re: Are there any mainframe sites out there that don't use JCLCHECK/JCLPREP or equivalent?

We do not have such a tool in place. Well, technically, we have something built into the Roscoe side, but I'm pushing everyone who'll listen over to TSO and PDS's, where we have none. There is a free one out there (CBT has it, I think,) that I thought I might get installed and then wrap in a

Re: Are there any mainframe sites out there that don't use JCLCHECK/JCLPREP or equivalent?

Here's the doc from the free one (member $$DOCJCL). It's called JCLSCAN. The CBT references are at the bottom. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= DOCUMENTATION FOR JCLSCAN TSO COMMAND PROCESSOR This highly convenient program calls MVS's JCL converter to report JCL

Re: Job schedulers

We use Zeke. It was originally from Platinum, now it's Allen Systems Group (I think.) I like the scheduler. It's relatively easy to use. Stg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: The secret to multi-volume, non-SMS, DASD allocations?

I dropped the VOL= and just kept the modified UNIT parm. It seems to be working fine. Stg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Highly used programs: any better replacements out there? IDCAMS, IEFBR14

Re: SR R15,R15 Wouldn't XR R15,R15 have been more efficient? Or are 32 bit subtractions now single cycle instructions? (Just curious.) Stg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

CBT034 - RACFUSER - Index Error

Hello, z/OS 1.4 here. I'm looking for a clue as to why I'm getting *** AN ERROR OCCURRED IN THE INDEX RECORDS from my first attempt to execute pgm RACFUSER, (CBT Tape, file 034). Here's a snippet of the (relevant?) code. PINDX01 XRR2,R2 CLEAR FOR THE DIVIDE LH

Re: CA-Librarian -SEL RACF

Thank you. Extract did work! But... it but doesn't process the -REP, -INS, etc commands that programmers also include in their SYSIN stream. I was hoping for a solution that I could completely bury in the Procs and require minimal or no changes by the programmers. Unfortunately, I don't see an

CA-Librarian -SEL RACF

Hey there, z/OS 1.4, CA Libr VERSION - 4.2 GENLVL=0101 here. I am RingTFM but to no avail yet. And this probably isn't the appropriate forum, but there are lots of smart folks here. It seems like I should be able, in a batch job, to -SEL module,TEMP against a CA-Librarian Master-File with

Re: CA-Librarian -SEL RACF

David writes... -OPT GPO -OPT EXEC,LIST,NOPC -SEL NAME=// Hmmm, interesting! I tried this a couple of different ways. It seems to only build the necessary -SEL control statements and pass them to its OSJOB jobstream file. So, I'm presuming the next Lib step that tries to use them will

Re: TSO replacement? [WAS: RE: Userids]

I've heard ROSCOE may make a comeback! (Is it Friday yet?) Stg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at