On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:08:56 -0700 Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:On Apr 28, 2008, at 6:55 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote:
: Binyamin's question is a good one. But, your answer/commentary is
: bizarre.
:Well, I guess you sure put me in my place, didn't you?
I don't think anyone is trying to put you
John Eells wrote:
Chase, John wrote:
Forwarded on behalf of a colleague
snip
As an alternative, how large a download is a typical z/OS 1.9
Serverpac via electronic delivery?
I'm told that 7-10GB is average these days for z/OS orders, depending,
of course, upon order content.
I
O.K. guys, we don't need a pissing contest.
The audience (me included) are more than willing to hear from anyone and
everyone with relevant experience. I (at least) don't need to witness a
fight as to who has the bigger balls.
Shane ...
IBM has two listed on their training web site at
(watch for URL wrapping)
http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/us/en?pageType=courses_azsubChapterInd=CsortBy=6subChapter=354
VTAM/APPN Concepts and Implementation
VTAM/NCP MSN and SNI Implementation
Mark T. Regan,
Haven't had a 3592 shipped yet, but have been able to read 3590 ServerPac
carts from an ATL. Will have to check tomorrow at work, but I believe all I
had to do was to (1). Insert the volume serial into the volcat. (2). Insert
the volume as an unlabeled cart into the ATL. (3) Read it.
Cheers, Paul
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:25:31 -0700, willie bunter
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Hallo Everybody,
I am trying to track down why some dsns with the HLQ of TEST.** are
being directed to a non-SMS volume. I noticed that a majority of the dsns are
being allocated correctly by SMS. I ran a check on
Thank you for all your answers and hints!
1. Trimming the trailing blanks:
Unfortunately I do not have any RegEx-capable program at work and UltraEdit
is not in our software catalog.
Anyhow, I've got the following Information offline:
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Hi, i normally use Notepad++ (free
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL
It seems RIM is screwing up BlackBerry usage, again.
So, I am sending this (off-topic) message just to see what
the replyto is.
Sorry, if I bother you.
I received it with reply-to set to IBM-MAIN.
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:40:56 -0400, Finch, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You can use FTP to send to JES2. It's a poor RJE but it works
Likewise JES3. Perhaps even better, because there's no 80-column
limit.
-- gil
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For
Does anyone have any programs they can share that would allow me to produce a
report of our NJE activity from SMF records? My site has SAS and MXG available
that I can use if your job uses them too.
Thanks.
Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991)
The zIIPs don't particularly affect JDBC or ODBC access to DB2 stored
procedures with DB2 V8 for z/OS, as far as I know. DB2 9 for z/OS does
enjoy zIIP benefits in such a scenario, however. But if the DB2 stored
procedures are written in Java (1.4.1 or higher at a sufficient build
level), they
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:31:39 -0700, Edward Jaffe
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Frequent IPCS users might prefer 142 column displays. Mine are 62x142.
--
IPCS works great with anything width 136 or above (isn't that what you used to
use?). I use 142 because it allows me to EDIT/VIEW an LRECL=133
Mark Zelden wrote:
IPCS works great with anything width 136 or above (isn't that what you used to
use?). I use 142 because it allows me to EDIT/VIEW an LRECL=133 (output)
data set and include the sequence numbers with the data without having
to scroll to the right. 141 is actually enough but
Answer: C. Some sort of discount.
It should also be a fixed-plus-variable regime. The marginal cost of one
additional unit of processing on a zIIP or zAAP is trivial, so if you
charge the average cost you convey all sorts of perverse incentives to
users. I also tend to think that different
I write my DB2 stored procedures and user defined functions in assembler,
and they are required to be LE compliant.
Todd
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To:
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 06:20 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
Of course, you're right. I switched to 142 some time ago based on your
suggestion. I forgot that IPCS only needs 136.
What about report view ???.
FWIW, I tried x3270 again and still couldn't get it to behave at large
screen sizes. Tom
snip
a report of our NJE activity from SMF
snip
If you simply want print info, eg forms, lines, dest, then a simply SAS
of SMF06 might do.
//CHKJOBT EXEC SAS 0015
//WORK DD SPACE=(CYL,(200,200)) 00170001
//SMF DD DISP=SHR,DSN=ASD.CNKELJJ.SMF06.J02.JULAUG 0021
//SYSOUT DD
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 23:28 +1000, Shane wrote:
FWIW, I tried x3270 again and still couldn't get it to behave at large
screen sizes. Tom wins - and that from a die-hard F/OSS guy.
This is my exact command line to start up x3270:
x3270 -model 3279-5-e -oversize 140x58 -reconnect
We've been modifying the ACS routines to prepare for moving more work into
our VTS. We've hit a bit of a snag, though, with DSNs destined for external
drives but which will be going inside either the ATL or VTS.
IGD330I ERROR OCCURRED DURING CBRXLCS PROCESSING-
VOLUME OR VOLUMES
This is a personal choice, but I code each of my segments as follows:
when
do
set
write
exit
end
The 'write' stmt starts with some msg id that uniquely identifies the exit
point, like 'SCDT0001' and then whatever values I think might be helpful
at that point - DSN, DSNTYPE,
Yeah, but...
Neither course is scheduled, and both have been priced out of range for our
purposes.
FWIW - Individual Onsite Training is the only option...
John Hamman
Senior Systems Programmer
BlueCross BlueShield of Mississippi
601.664.4410
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Mark T. Regan, K8MTR [EMAIL
Don't expect same day service. This list is not read every minite of every day
by every participant. If there is anyone roosting out there doing so - they
must have a lot of time on their hands. It is not a 'chat room' as in
interactive. I look at the list once in the moring as I prefer
Does anyone know why IBM refuses to update their documentation any more?
Once documentation is shipped, it is never supported. I have had this problem
several times in the past few years. The software is not working as
documented, but the support center determines the doc is wrong, not the
Gilbert,
The quotes were placed there by someone in 1989. I tried the esoteric for
DISK but the it is flushed by the system.
Gilbert Cardenas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:25:31 -0700, willie bunter
wrote:
Hey Willie, just a couple of thoughts :
Is it possible
Robert,
Thanks for your offer to take a look at the code. I have enclosed it. I
hope you can find the bug.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Richards, Robert B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Willie,
No, the unit is not the problem, as it is valid in both tests. Your
logic must
Hmm, I think a couple of beers is in order for you, Happy Hour Friday is
still a few days away.
I've sent them updates on a few documentation issues that need to be
corrected, and lo and behold, they have actually updated it with the next
update to the manual, and if the problem is enough gto
Neil,
Ther VALUNIT GDVX are in the same select statement. The VALUNIT is placed
before the GDVX. There is FILTLIST VOL_NONSMS. However the FILTLIST does not
contain any TEST.** HLQs. :
WHEN (ANYVOL = VOL_NONSMS OR HLQ = HLQ_NONSMS)
SET STORCLAS = ''
Ted --
I also would lean towards C. Some sort of discount.
I also think the rate for general CPU could be lowered due to zXXP engines
(I borrow Kathy Walsh's shorthand). Your *users* do not necessarily have
control over whether there work goes to zXXP or not. Some of this depends on
how many
But the next update to the manual doesn't occur until the release currently
under development or later. Even IBM's online doc doesn't get updated for
currently supported releases.
I've sent them updates on a few documentation issues that need to be
corrected, and lo and behold, they have
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Martin Kline
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:13 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Supported Documentation
Does anyone know why IBM refuses to update their documentation any more?
Once
I would like hear from anyone on this list who has experience of installing the
OMEGAMON XE suite of products.
We have tried repeatedly to get various components 'fit for purpose' in our
production environment but have always encountered problems with the
documentation, and the packaging of
I've been trying to get two of my Systems Programmers into a VTAM class
for over a year and a half with no success. I've had them registered
for scheduled classes that were eventually cancelled because they didn't
make. I just guess there isn't a lot of interest in VTAM anymore... If
I can get
x3270 (and c3270) are open source run great under
either Linux or Windows (XP, Vista) under cygwin.
Here are some install instructions for x3270 on the Mac:
http://www.planetmvs.com/mvsintosh/x3270.html
Although I never remaped the Enter key to the right location
(right Cntl key).
I also use x3270 on Fedora Core 6, no problems, works great I do development
on a remote z/OS system.
Scott Ford
Senior Host Developer | Forging Enterprise Identity | IdentityForge.com
(Main) 678.266.3399 x304 | (Cell) 609.346.0399 | (Fax) 678.266.3399
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This message is for the
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:12:53 -0500, Martin Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They tell me they will put in an untrackable request to update the
documentation in a future release.
Alternatively, you can send in the request yourself (check the book for
suggestions on how to send in reader's
WHEN (ANYVOL = VOL_NONSMS OR HLQ = HLQ_NONSMS) SET
STORCLAS = ''
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Does anyone know why IBM refuses to update their documentation any
more?
When I were a lad (back in the day) IBM used to mail out Technical News
Letters (TNLs) on real dead-tree PAPER (gasp!) that you could insert in
the proper place in your 3 ring binder PAPER copy of each manual. Those
changes
The SSL piece for z/OS is not that difficult, but you do have to understand
what is the end objective. Is it an end-to-end secure connection ? Just for
TN3270 or for all connections ? I worked in brokerage for awhile and we were
Testing TN3270E using certificates and keyrings.
Regards,
Scott
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:29:29 -0400, Craddock, Chris wrote:
When I were a lad (back in the day) IBM used to mail out Technical News
Letters (TNLs) on real dead-tree PAPER (gasp!) that you could insert in
the proper place in your 3 ring binder PAPER copy of each manual. Those
changes could occur
When I were a lad (back in the day) IBM used to mail out Technical News
Letters (TNLs) on real dead-tree PAPER (gasp!) that you could insert in
the proper place in your 3 ring binder PAPER copy of each manual. Those
changes could occur anywhere in the lifecycle of a product release.
And we Liked
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:14:18 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:12:53 -0500, Martin Kline wrote:
They tell me they will put in an untrackable request to update the
documentation in a future release.
Alternatively, you can send in the request yourself (check the book for
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:54:51 -0700, David Alcock wrote:
x3270 (and c3270) are open source run great under
either Linux or Windows (XP, Vista) under cygwin.
Here are some install instructions for x3270 on the Mac:
http://www.planetmvs.com/mvsintosh/x3270.html
That page contains much
You have a special test against DSNs that begin with TEST.MISNT and mark
these datasets non-SMS. This test occurs before your test for TEST.**
so datasets that meet the first test never get processed by the second.
-Original Message-
From: willie bunter [snip]
Sent: Tuesday, April 29,
Gil wrote:
And what help is that to the submitter's peers who are apt to encounter
the same problem?
That's exactly why updated doc should be made available.
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Hi
I added a printer in jes and now I am stating delete it.
Someone knows how to delete a printer in jes?
I looked in the manual jes commands and not found.
thanks
--
Hélio José da Silva
Depto. Software Básico
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WHEN (ANYVOL = VOL_NONSMS OR HLQ = HLQ_NONSMS)
SET STORCLAS = ''
If you try to allocate to any volume that qualifies under VOL_NONSMS, then
this statement will make it nonsms, regardless of the DSN.
willie bunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4/29/2008 10:41 AM
Robert,
Thanks for
I'vs got some of the books you are looking for. Reply privately and make me
an offer if you are interested. All books are hardback and in good condition
unless otherwise indicated.
MVS Systems Programming
MVS Control Blocks
MVS I/O Subsystems - highlighted
Advanced Assembler Language and MVS
Hélio,
I think you need a warm start (IPL).
Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos
Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
Banco Bradesco S/A
4254/DPCD Alphaville
Engenharia de Software - Sistemas Operacionais Mainframes
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I use this command to remove a printer.
To DELETE A PRINTER TO JES2
$DEL DESTID(1)
1 = printer name
How did you add the printer?
Frank W Sabo Jr.
SR. Systems Administrator
Giant Eagle Inc.
Phone: 412 967-3764
Fax:412 967-6120
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-Original
As the performance analyst/capacity planner here I use the products. I
don't install them. However, I was part of the team here that was
charged with getting them up and running. We started in October of 2006
to put in several of the Tivoli/Omegamon products. We already had the
products from
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:57:22 -0500, Kammer, Charles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... I just guess there isn't a lot of interest in VTAM anymore...
And yet the APPN and EE sessions are always pretty well attended
at SHARE. There probably is no market for a VTAM/NCP course, but
there probably
Frank,
I used the command of jes: $add prt.
Sabo, Frank escreveu:
I use this command to remove a printer.
To DELETE A PRINTER TO JES2
$DEL DESTID(1)
1 = printer name
How did you add the printer?
Frank W Sabo Jr.
SR. Systems Administrator
Giant Eagle Inc.
Phone:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:40:36 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:57:22 -0500, Kammer, Charles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
... I just guess there isn't a lot of interest in VTAM anymore...
And yet the APPN and EE sessions are always pretty well attended
at
In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 04/21/2008
at 02:14 PM, Steele, Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Is the S/3 actually co-ax, or is it twin-ax like
the s/34, s/38 /as/400 family that it spawned?
I'd blame the S/34 on the S/3, but not the S/38. The S/38 was an outgrowth
of the FS project.
--
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/21/2008
at 11:15 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Every well-designed language, application, programming system should have
a way to force an error. IDCAMS has such; HLASM has MNOTE; zSeries has
x'00'.
No; a program check with PIC 1 might not be an
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/28/2008
at 03:32 PM, Tsai Laurence [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
questions as the subject, is it doable ?
Contact Sine Nomine Associates for an NJE product that runs over TCP/IP.
There are older remote batch products that support BSC and SNA. but you'd
need EP for the
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/21/2008
at 09:18 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Reference to an uninitialized variable is a failure.
Only if NOVALUE is enabled. The classic behavior with NOVALUE disabled is
useful.
I have _never_ coded a SIGNAL. Partly hangover from the 3 decades
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
04/21/2008
at 11:30 AM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I would, sort of, like HLASM to implement namespaces. My idea would be
something along the lines of it working like it does today, with one
addition. Where you can currently place either a macro name (opcode
In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 04/23/2008
at 12:04 AM, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
LEAVE ITERATE only manage the current level.
Hogwash!
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html
We don't care. We don't have
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
04/21/2008
at 07:56 AM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
IIRC, IBM has stated that an opcode of x'00' will __never__ be valid and
will __always__ produce a program check interrupt code 1 (S0C1 in
MVS-speak).
S0C1 is S0C1 in MVS speak; program check interrupt code
Subject:Linux on System z Performance Update- Apr 30 - Live Virtual Class
For readers of IBMVM, Linux390, and IBMMAIN who are
interested in Linux on System z Performance.
Just a reminder that the next Linux on System z Live Virtual Class is on
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 at 11:00 AM EDT US Canada
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 16:08:28 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Is the S/3 actually co-ax, or is it twin-ax like
the s/34, s/38 /as/400 family that it spawned?
I'd blame the S/34 on the S/3, but not the S/38. The S/38 was an
outgrowth of the FS project.
...
I thought
I'd blame the S/34 on the S/3, but not the S/38. The S/38 was an
outgrowth of the FS project.
...
I thought the AS/400 grew out of the 8100, but I suppose it may
have had mixed parentage. (Or I may be remembering wrong.)
The FS project begat the System/38
The System/38 begat the AS/400
Well, it had to happen eventually. My shop will lay MVS to rest,
but it will probably take a few years.
Our parent company is all SAP, and the pressure has been on us to
conform. So, I thought Hey, all those articles in z/Journal about Linux
and IFL's and zVM !!! Just get
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:09:53 -0500, Joel C. Ewing [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Our maintenance window would be one point where a software glitch that
only surfaced under production load would most likely be a sev 1 issue.
This raises concerns for us about how well IBM is equipped to handle a
sev 1
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick O'Keefe) writes:
I thought the AS/400 grew out of the 8100, but I suppose it may
have had mixed parentage. (Or I may be remembering
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:33 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Planned IBMLink Outage April 25 - 26
SNIP
Everyone needs In case of emergency, break glass. Here is the
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008, John Mattson wrote:
Well, it had to happen eventually. My shop will lay MVS to rest,
but it will probably take a few years.
Sorry to hear this.
Our parent company is all SAP, and the pressure has been on us to
conform. So, I thought Hey, all those
Having read the thread (so far), I have a few comments. (All of this is
written assuming that what you want is semi-real-time updates to electronic
versions of IBM documentation).
1) Even in the days of hard-copy TNL's, each TNL was reflected in a new
dash-level. Do you REALLY want a new
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:10:15 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote:
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Alan Altmark
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 5:33 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Planned IBMLink Outage April 25 - 26
SNIP
Hi,
There is currently no relief available. We hit this one head on at disaster
recovery testing.
PTFs for SB78-5C failures invoking services of the MAXM Database Advisor will
be included in the maintenance release scheduled for August 2008. In the
interim, the circumvention is to specify
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:58:24 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:14:18 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote:
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:12:53 -0500, Martin Kline wrote:
They tell me they will put in an untrackable request to update the
documentation in a future release.
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:45:27 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did anyone see a phone number, before the snippage?
1-800-IBM-SERV in the US and Canada.
http://www.ibm.com/planetwide
Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM
A DOC APAR would help in the interim, imho, but the OP doesn't seem to
agree.
--
Walt Farrell, CISSP
IBM STSM, z/OS Security Design
FWIW,
I agree with the OP on DOC APARs. I've had many open for years and had to
keep banging on IBM to get them incorporated into the manuals. RCF's work
John Mattson wrote:
Well, it had to happen eventually. My shop will lay MVS to rest,
but it will probably take a few years.
Our parent company is all SAP, and the pressure has been on us to
conform. So, I thought Hey, all those articles in z/Journal about Linux
and IFL's and
Hi,
We encountered a problem on our production system.
A job was using DSS to backup a lot of data sets (logical dump) and we got
ADR321E for one extended format PS data set: the data set was not on the
supposed volume.
This job will run more than 3 hours and we found out that another job will
There is a delay between the building of the list and actually backing up each
dataset on the list. Generally, an enqueue is not set at the time the list is
built - as you said, it may be hours before each dataset is actually backed up.
Do you run DSS natively or are you calling it from
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