So I copied the production LPAR's couple data sets and cataloged them to
the new volsers.
I'm sure you learned from that :-), but I would like to make two comments for
the benefit of others:
1. Never ever copy (ADRDSSU) any couple data set! Keep a central repository for
defining all your CDS
Hi all,
Is there anyone know any impact after changed the RMF report interval from
(10M) to (1M)...any overhead to CPU or others?
any shop using interval(1M) in there RMF ERBRMF00
thanks for sharing
Tommy
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Your speculation is correct. Access methods calculate the amount of
space left on a track (TRKBAL?). This is so that they know whether the
block to be written to the end of a dataset (a new physical block) will
fit on the current track or needs to be written to the first record of
the next track.
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A simple reason why I still prefer to do allocations in CYLs/TRKs
is the interfaces ISPF provides. Take 3.4 as an example. What you
see reported is tracks. Don't know whether that's customizable in
the meantime but I'm fairly sure it's still the default. So
allocating in CYLs/TRKs comes quite
Well said, JC. I know this is a nit, but according to Webster's:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-searchva=legacy
Legacy as a noun is just what you've described. As an adjective it, according
to them, means outdated.
legacy (adj): of, relating to, or being a previous
I have a need to write an application that is client/server based. It
will be hosted on the z/OS system.
Why not a CICS application, using CSKL for a listener? Read up on how to
write a child server. Very easy to code, nothing fancy required. Just
remember to make your design such that the
We are forced to aggregate disparate sysplexes into one sysplex. (Don't ask.)
We have a problem with system automation subplexing. The automation managers
join two different groups, and via 'subplexing' only one of those groups' name
can be changed (that name is ingxsg01 or 02 or whatever is
Russell,
I've been working with your team and there is no intent here to impugn
them or CA. I'm seeking guidance from all parties trying to get a handle
on this.
Daniel McLaughlin
Z-Series Systems Programmer
Crawford Company
4680 N. Royal Atlanta
Tucker GA 30084
phone: 770-621-3256
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Recently I saw the following error:
V 3000,ONLINE
*IOS163A CHPID A3 ALERT, NO ASSOCIATED SUBCHANNEL FOR DEVICE
*IOS163A CHPID 10 ALERT, NO ASSOCIATED SUBCHANNEL FOR DEVICE
*IOS163A CHPID A3 ALERT, NO ASSOCIATED
snip
AFAIK FBA devices only worked on VSE and VM so it never got to being
supported on MVS (or VS1 for that matter).
Ed
/snip
Not true. 3370 and 3375 were supported (for a while). Never caught on in
the MVS Markeplace and were dropped
From support after 2 or 3 years. Resurfaced as hard drives
To reply to the Subject line's question
I believe that either all or nearly all of the web IBMLink outages over the
past
months have been due to the IBM web authentication application which sits in
front of web IBMLink - the application which solicits and processes your IBM ID
when you
Mark Zelden wrote:
[...]
So I didn't read the messages carefully and replied I to initialize the
sysplex.
Guess which system initialized? (only one guess allowed)
That's why I strongly prefer DASD isolation. Another LPAR, another Config Id,
another set of volumes available to that config ID.
On Jul 13, 2007, at 2:44 AM, Lindy Mayfield wrote:
On the other hand language can be very powerful especially when it
creates pictures like old, dinasour, legacy machines ready to be
thrown out on the scrap heap. (-: A manager with this idea is
probably more willing to throw in with
I wonder if IBM puts more people on their telephone lines during these
planned outages? Of course, anyone answering calls entered through IBMLink
would be available to take phone calls.
Eric Bielefeld
Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
414-475-7434
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DSN='DOS SYSTEM RESIDENCE VOLUME'
Gee, that thought makes me feel old ...
This is a PRIVATE message. If you are not
not all of them have been due to the web authentication service, our IBM rep
asked about the last set of web ibmlink outages, and was told it wasn't due to
the web authentication service.
However, whatever the reason is, the web interface needs to be as stable as
the 3270 interface.
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:21:30 -0500, Joel C. Ewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and those tools
that allow you to dynamically move an entire volume to another volume
(e.g., FDRPAS) require identical volume architecture (and at least as
many cylinders), and cannot merge data from multiple volumes to
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How do you delete a dataset that has a invalid dataset name?
I have
Get a list vtoc, then, using the extents of the VTOC, print the VTOC tracks.
When you see what you want to change, use zap to change it.
Bill
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:52:50 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Zelden wrote:
[...]
So I didn't read the messages carefully and replied I to initialize the
sysplex.
Guess which system initialized? (only one guess allowed)
That's why I strongly prefer DASD isolation. Another LPAR,
When you use ICKDSF to init a volume, it will issue an FCWITHDRAW for
that volume just as Joel said. Since the volume is newly inited, then there
is no reason to have a relationship as all those tracks are free space.
If you are using DFSMSdss to dump, we have an FCWITHDRAW keyword
that requests
Planned IBMLink outage July 13-14
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McKown, John wrote:
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McKown, John wrote:
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What does a DS P,,1 show or a D M=DEV() or D M=CHP(xx)?
Lizette
Recently I saw the following error:
V 3000,ONLINE
*IOS163A CHPID A3 ALERT, NO ASSOCIATED SUBCHANNEL FOR DEVICE
*IOS163A CHPID 10 ALERT, NO ASSOCIATED SUBCHANNEL FOR DEVICE
*IOS163A CHPID A3 ALERT, NO ASSOCIATED
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In a message dated 7/13/2007 6:57:26 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Management types seem to like the Gartner conferences .
Or Compcon in Vegas where nobody's watching! SHARE actually has management
tracks and a few other specialty tracks. I enjoyed SHARE with
For manager type conferences there is a relatively new one from=20
www.manager-tools.com
take a look at this:=20
http://www.manager-tools.com/effective-management-conference
They also have a ton of free podcasts on nearly every aspect of being a=20
manager from holding better meetings to
Isn't the answer
Use system commands (such as SETXCF) so that the system is no longer using
that data set.
After that, you can do whatever you want. The system should no longer have
the data set allocated.
When I saw the subject, I thought that this was going to be about a LNKLST
data set which
In a message dated 7/13/2007 8:14:53 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not true. 3370 and 3375 were supported (for a while). Never caught on in
the MVS Markeplace and were dropped
At a former site we actually used 3370's for paging and were impressed.
There was
On Jul 13, 2007, at 8:13 AM, Staller, Allan wrote:
snip
AFAIK FBA devices only worked on VSE and VM so it never got to being
supported on MVS (or VS1 for that matter).
Ed
/snip
Not true. 3370 and 3375 were supported (for a while). Never caught
on in
the MVS Markeplace and were dropped
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:42:17 +0900, Timothy Sipples
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Salt writes:
For small ISV's this is a big step in the right direction!
Agreed.
This is nice. But still does not address one thing that a FlexES laptop
does. The ability to take a complete, live, system to a
Dave Salt writes:
For small ISV's this is a big step in the right direction!
Agreed.
This is nice. But still does not address one thing that a FlexES laptop
does. The ability to take a complete, live, system to a potential
customer and demo it without needing some sort of Internet connectivity.
Hi Jim,
Yes, I knew that it will generate 10 times amount of data but why I check
with the SMF record 74 and 30 it doesn't show too many records compared with
last day interval(10M) ), and the CPU also doesn't show too high..
thanks
On 7/13/07, Horne, Jim - James S [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Urspruengliche Nachricht-
Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
Gesendet: Freitag, 13. Juli 2007 10:50
Well, it comes down to the egg-or-chicken question, I guess.
ISPF displays the space in the unit used to allocate
the data set. If you allocate in cylinders, you'll see
cylinders,
if you
A simple reason why I still prefer to do allocations in CYLs/TRKs
is the interfaces ISPF provides. Take 3.4 as an example. What you
see reported is tracks. Don't know whether that's customizable in
the meantime but I'm fairly sure it's still the default. So
allocating in CYLs/TRKs comes quite
Russell - I will address these things in your note. Please scroll down.
Daniel McLaughlin
Z-Series Systems Programmer
Crawford Company
4680 N. Royal Atlanta
Tucker GA 30084
phone: 770-621-3256
fax: 770-621-3237
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: www.crawfordandcompany.com
This transmission is
Does anyone have an idea where manager types can go to get information on
their job functions? We have SHARE, CMG and a few others we can attend.
For areas like Data Center Management or Asset Management topics, are there
any conferences to lean towards those topics more?
Lizette
Lizette Koehler wrote:
Does anyone have an idea where manager types can go to get information on
their job functions? We have SHARE, CMG and a few others we can attend.
For areas like Data Center Management or Asset Management topics, are there
any conferences to lean towards those topics
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:23:28 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Recently I saw the following error:
V 3000,ONLINE
*IOS163A CHPID A3 ALERT, NO ASSOCIATED SUBCHANNEL FOR DEVICE
*IOS163A CHPID 10 ALERT, NO ASSOCIATED SUBCHANNEL FOR DEVICE
*IOS163A CHPID A3 ALERT, NO ASSOCIATED SUBCHANNEL FOR
Tom Marchant wrote:
[...]
I disagree. Completely. Mainframe users had to do with different
track sizes, some dataceneters still have 3380 emulation.
It sounds like you are disagreeing with yourself here. Why do you think some
data centers still use 3380 emulation?
I don't see logic
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:13:42 -0500, Staller, Allan wrote:
Not true. 3370 and 3375 were supported (for a while). Never caught on in
the MVS Markeplace and were dropped
Didn't MVS require CKD emulation to use them?
--
Tom Marchant
---snip
Not true. 3370 and 3375 were supported (for a while). Never caught on in
the MVS Markeplace and were dropped
--unsnip
IIRC, the only difference was that one was CKD and the other was FBA.
MVS only supported the CKD
On 12 Jul 2007 19:04:57 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
How do you delete a dataset that has a invalid dataset name? I have one
with a 2lq that has 9 characters? Don't ask me how it got there.
JCL, surrounded by apostrophes; specify UNIT and VOL (presumably it's
not catalogued).
3375 was CKD
Tom Marchant wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:13:42 -0500, Staller, Allan wrote:
Not true. 3370 and 3375 were supported (for a while). Never caught on in
the MVS Markeplace and were dropped
Didn't MVS require CKD emulation to use them?
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On 7/13/07, Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12 Jul 2007 19:04:57 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Can we have a cataloged 9 character dataset?
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On 12 Jul 2007 19:04:57 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
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SNIP
I can create it, but I can't delete it -- because I get a JCL
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Can we have a cataloged 9 character dataset?
unsnip
As far as I know, it's possible, though not nice.
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:10:30 -0400, Thompson, Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Gotta REMEMBER to set CAPS on for JCL. Gotta REMEMBER to set CAPS on
for JCL.]
Not if you work with unix files in batch, or ftp, or anything else with
sysin that has to be lower case and is in the JCL.
These days, I
Hi, All,
A link-edit in the installation of CICS TS 3.2 is failing with this:
IEW2322I 1220 16519INCLUDE SIXMEXP(IXM4C56X) TYPE=UTIN
IEW2303E 1030 MEMBER IXM4C56X OF THE DATA SET SPECIFIED BY SIXMEXP COULD
NOT BE FOUND.
The Installing Your Order manual says that **IF** you
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Sent: Friday, July 13, 2007 11:23 AM
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SNIP
I gave up CAPS ON a long time ago.
SNIP
Yeah, but I guess I
John
Try
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1083context=SSGMGVdc=DB520uid=swg21263586loc=en_UScs=UTF-8lang=enrss=ct1083other
the first hit Googling on IXM4C56X.
Chris Mason
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SNIP
I can create it, but I can't delete it -- because I get a JCL error!
SNIP
Have you looked at VVDSFIX on the IBM web site?
Regards,
Ernie.
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John
Try
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=1083context=SSGMG
Vdc=DB520uid=swg21263586loc=en_UScs=UTF-8lang=enrss=ct1083other
the first hit Googling on IXM4C56X.
Thanks. I seem to forget
But why solve the problems? Pre-validation in this
sense could be renamed let's try a few things to see
if we're close to guessing the password We currently
have this issue in our shop. Us security types look at
it as working as designed.
Three strikes and you're out exists for a reason. In
Can someone see what I'm doing improperly. Use to be able to send replies but
that stopped a couple of weeks ago.
When I send a reply to the List, I receive the following from The University
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Jack,
You are probably sending your reply as HTML.
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On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Jack Kelly wrote:
Can someone see what I'm doing improperly. Use to be able
The component you're looking for is XML toolkit for zOS, FMID HXML180,
product 5655-J51. At my site, the datasets are under IXM.SIXM*
Vachi.
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Hi all,
I still struggle with IBM documentation sometimes...
It forces you to read more than one manual sometimes and then still you
might not come up with the answer you wanted...
In z/OS 1.7 there seem to have been a problem with the time displayed on
the D IPLINFO command... Now I
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:34:30 +0100, Van Dalsen, Herbie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I still struggle with IBM documentation sometimes...
It forces you to read more than one manual sometimes and then still you
might not come up with the answer you wanted...
In z/OS 1.7 there seem to have been a
SHARE has management tracks as well. I know they specifically have a
Software Assett Management project, I went to a session on the Subcapacity
Reporting Tool given by the manager who receives the data - she was
knowledgable, well-spoken, etc. There is also a Computer Operations
Management
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070711-legacy-matters-why-the-ibm-mainframe-continues-to-thrive.html
referenced article
http://www.itjungle.com/big/big071007-story01.html
Tim Hare
Senior Systems Programmer
Florida Department of Transportation
(850) 414-4209
Hi,
We're planning to implement the JES2 $ADDEXIT/$REPEXIT commands provided
by CBTTAPE file 198. For anyone unfamiliar with this, $ADDEXIT/$REPEXIT are
provided by a JES2 Exit 5 (Command) routine, CBTEX05, which is available on
the CBTAPE site.
We'd like to secure these command via RACF
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:52:31 -0500, Dennis Schaffer
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Hi,
We're planning to implement the JES2 $ADDEXIT/$REPEXIT commands provided
by CBTTAPE file 198. For anyone unfamiliar with this, $ADDEXIT/$REPEXIT are
provided by a JES2 Exit 5 (Command) routine, CBTEX05, which is
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The processor clock speed may be slower but it is running a different
instruction set and has the availability of other processors to offload
some of the functions (Crypto, I/O, etc.).
I would guess that a small stand alone 'benchmark' like you suggest
would almost always run faster on the
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:38:45 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:21:30 -0500, Joel C. Ewing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and those tools
that allow you to dynamically move an entire volume to another volume
(e.g., FDRPAS) require identical volume architecture (and at
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The processor clock speed may be slower but it is
On Jul 13, 2007, at 9:01 AM, Horne, Jim - James S wrote:
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at 01:25 PM, Eric Bielefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Any advice?
Plan on moving to the PC world. Take any opportunity that presents
itself to get programming experience in *ix, C/C++, Java, Perl, etc.
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at 02:45 PM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'll lay you dollars to donuts that it does NOT happen in z/OS (it is
already supported on z/VSE, z/VM, and Linux on System z - along with
FCP DASD support in addition to ESCON and FICON support for Linux
On 13 Jul 2007 11:52:43 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dennis Schaffer) wrote:
We're planning to implement the JES2 $ADDEXIT/$REPEXIT
commands provided by CBTTAPE file 198. For anyone
unfamiliar with this, $ADDEXIT/$REPEXIT are provided by
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:24:34 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote:
There has to be some benchmarking workload that could be put together to
do throughput testing of a system to compare one to the other.
I'm willing to work on the idea if someone has something on z/OS that
could be ported to Windows. I
I wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:24:34 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote:
There has to be some benchmarking workload that could be put together to
do throughput testing of a system to compare one to the other.
I'm willing to work on the idea if someone has something on z/OS that
could be ported to
I laughed when I saw today's NEWS headline on IBMLink:
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Famously, one may stoop to conquer; but here . . . ?
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