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2008-05-03 Thread Rob Weiss
I will be out of the office starting 05/02/2008 and will not return until 05/19/2008. I am working in Brazil with limited access to the internet. I will check e-mail daily. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread Saravanan J
Hi, In one of our programs say XYZ, we are accessing USER catalog by dynamically allocating the Catalog using SVC 99 (in shared access mode) to get some dataset related information from the catalog. Before this dynamic allocation we are actually turning-on all the wait bits

Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues

2008-05-03 Thread Bobbie Justice
exactly, and it has included Unix for quite awhile now, O/E first showed up with MVS V4 - Original Message - From: Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 1:21 AM Subject: Re: Shop zSeries Ordering

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread J R
Are you running authorized? The FM states: Requesting a Data Set That Is In Use: Rather than wait for another user to release a data set, volume, or device to obtain use of it, dynamic allocation fails a request by an unauthorized program. If an authorized program specifically requests a

Re: Concatenating Uncataloged Data Sets w/CLIST (was Re: What is needed to run IPCS ...)

2008-05-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 2 May 2008 19:26:34 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In your circumstance, I'd be inclined to use MSG(WTP) rather than MSG(2). But I've already been wrong once today. YMMV. Yes, that would be a better option also. Thanks. No excuse except that I copied the code from

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 3 May 2008 07:28:43 -0400, J R wrote: Requesting a Data Set That Is In Use: Rather than wait for another user to release a data set, volume, or device to obtain use of it, dynamic allocation fails a request by an unauthorized program. ... I've long wondered why. Is there some

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread J R
Probably to ensure that not just anybody can cause a deadly embrace: S99WTVOL / S99WTDSN / S99WTUNT / S99OFFLN / S99MOUNT : Use care when you set these flags; setting any one of them might cause a deadlock situation. For example, consider the situation where JOBA owns a resource that JOBB

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread Saravanan J
Yes the program is authorised. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 3 May 2008 12:23:37 -0400, J R wrote: Probably to ensure that not just anybody can cause a deadly embrace: Why is a deadly embrace caused by an authorized program deemed less harmful than one caused by an unauthorized program? S99WTVOL / S99WTDSN / S99WTUNT / S99OFFLN / S99MOUNT :

Cics Transactions

2008-05-03 Thread Magen Margalit
Hi list, I will post this in the cics list also but maybe someone here will know... we are cics ts 2.3 Terminal starting a session to TOR and then submit transaction A that have REMOTESYSTEM of AOR1 in the definition. Transaction A in AOR1 issue the start command with terminal to Transaction

Re: SDSF REXX problem

2008-05-03 Thread Gil Peleg
Thomas, You're not alone :) I think your ISFMSG2 stem variable is empty... Try adding a VERBOSE parameter on your ISFACT call. That should put some diagnostic messages in ISFMSG2 which may help you debug. Gil. On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Thomas Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Am I the only

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread J R
Why is a deadly embrace caused by an authorized program deemed less harmful than one caused by an unauthorized program? I suspect you know that's not what I meant. I think the assumption is that, if you are writing authorized code, you know what you are doing and will take precautions to

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread J R
That doesn't answer my question. Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 11:34:25 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: SVC99 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Yes the program is authorised. _ Make Windows Vista more reliable and secure

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 3 May 2008 14:17:44 -0400, J R wrote: That doesn't answer my question. I know this one! I.e. the program may have been bound with AC=1, but into a non-authorized library; or it may have been invoked by CALL, LINK, ATTACH, or XCTL from a non-authorized parent; or there may have been a

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 3 May 2008 14:14:02 -0400, J R wrote: Why is a deadly embrace caused by an authorized program deemed less harmful than one caused by an unauthorized program? I suspect you know that's not what I meant. I think the assumption is that, if you are writing authorized code, you know

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread Edward Jaffe
Paul Gilmartin wrote: Is it proper, then, to make the assumption that if two authorized programs fall into a deadlock with each other, and fail to detect or recover, a developer didn't know what he was doing, and at least one of the programs should be APARable? APAR = Authorized Program

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread Lindy Mayfield
May I have a go at it, too? Someone just helped me figure this out. I haven't learned how to set a trap for something like this yet to get a dump, but I imagine it isn't hard. But from an SVC dump you find the abending TCB. Then from there look at the JSCB. In the BOPTS check if the JSCBAUTH

Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues

2008-05-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Sent: Friday, May 02, 2008 5:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues Yes it's great if you are allowed to connect your system to the

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Sat, 3 May 2008 05:58:25 -0500, Saravanan J wrote: In one of our programs say XYZ, we are accessing USER catalog by dynamically allocating the Catalog using SVC 99 (in shared access mode) to get some dataset related information from the catalog. Before this dynamic allocation we are actually

Re: SVC99

2008-05-03 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 05:58 -0500 on 05/03/2008, Saravanan J wrote about SVC99: As per our understanding, the dynamic allocation in XYZ program should wait for the shared access of Catalog as the catalog is locked for exclusive use by Catalog compression jobs. And since the DSN is unavailable to our program XYZ,

Re: MVS booklist again

2008-05-03 Thread Greg Price
Bruno's book has been OCRed and can be downloaded from http://www.prycroft6.com.au/misc/ (currently last item on the page). At under 4 meg it is a fair bit smaller than Bruno's original scan, but could not have been created without it. Thanks, Bruno! Cheers, Greg