Re: Beating a dead horse but

This is exactly what I've recently done and it works perfect on 1.09 On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Donald Russell wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:34, Tim Hare > wrote: > > > In a 2008 thread on people using IEFBR14 to do deletes there as this: > > > > "Indeed, how should Allocation know w

Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:22:49 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote: > >In my incomplete course, "Introduction to Java for z/OS >Applications Programmers", available for free from our >website, we give examples of extracting fields from >records by reading chunks of bytes and using various >methods to conve

Re: Beating a dead horse but

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:34, Tim Hare wrote: > In a 2008 thread on people using IEFBR14 to do deletes there as this: > > "Indeed, how should Allocation know whether the program about to execute > wants to "do something" with the dataset(s) before deleting it/them? > Perhaps Allocation could be

Re: z/OS ServerPac and Tivoli Products - Surprise

- Original Message - From: "Jim Marshall" Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 12:47 PM Subject: z/OS ServerPac and Tivoli Products - Surprise We tried to order a z/OS V1R11 z/OS ServerPac and have some Tivoli products. Seems it was rejected because we do

Re: Question on RDWInputRecordStream

John, Sorry, the com.ibm.jzos.RDWInputStream class reads from an InputStream of bytes which contain records that are RDW-prefixed. Unfortunately it doesn't handle SDWs, but it probably should. Shame on us :-) If you run your Java on z/OS, you wouldn't actually use the RDWInputStream. Just open

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

Thank you for this -- suspicions confirmed. I am reminded of doing support in the late 80s/early 90s. LUGA calls and has an abend in TPX. Guy has got the psw/registers declassified and is faxing them to me. He will get any page of the dump declassified I need or he can answer questions over t

Question on RDWInputRecordStream

This is supposed to read z/OS variable length records. I have some questions: 1) Does it work with VBS (Spanned) records? I want to read SMF data. Most of the time we convert our SMF from VBS to VB, so this is not a biggie. 2) Are the first four bytes of the byte[] array the LLBB field? This is i

Re: Setting the Date/Time on One LPAR

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:11 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:01 -0500, Baraniecki, Ray > wrote: > >>Is it possible to isolate one LPAR in a CEC and set the date/time to a >different value than the other LPARs in the same CEC? >> > >Yes. This has been possible since the 9672

Re: Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?

On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:56:47 -0500 Tony Harminc said: >2009/11/17 Lindy Mayfield : > >> I also read in z/Journal that the lines between a mainframe computer (the z10 >to be specific) and a super computer are being blurred. ¦When I was at >GuideSHARE Europe two years ago (in Dresden, lovely city) th

Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?

McKown, John wrote: From what I can see (and I'm a novice), the JAVA language does not have anything like a C/C++ struct or COBOL data defination which can be used to read "records" kept in a "dataset" (such as VSAM or PS). I know of the Alphaworks program which can take ADATA from HLASM and ge

Re: Setting the Date/Time on One LPAR

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:50:11 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:01 -0500, Baraniecki, Ray > wrote: > >>Is it possible to isolate one LPAR in a CEC and set the date/time to a >different value than the other LPARs in the same CEC? >> > >Yes. This has been possible since the 9672

Re: Setting the Date/Time on One LPAR

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:29:01 -0500, Baraniecki, Ray wrote: >Is it possible to isolate one LPAR in a CEC and set the date/time to a different value than the other LPARs in the same CEC? > Yes. This has been possible since the 9672 G5 (I think... could have been prior). This was needed for Y2K t

Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Down

Looks like they have it problem fixed. My PTFs are transferring now. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Setting the Date/Time on One LPAR

Is it possible to isolate one LPAR in a CEC and set the date/time to a different value than the other LPARs in the same CEC? -- Important Notice to Recipients: It is important that you do not use e-mail to request, authorize

Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?

>3. IBM donated all of the original Eclipse developer toolset to the open >source community and continues to slave away (at great payroll expense) on >improving it. At the JZOS Web site, Kirk has carefully documented how to >connect free Eclipse to your z/OS machine via Ant and FTP, again at zero >

Re: IDCAMS REPRO/ENQ question

Any ideas how to find who has the dataset? have you looked at SMF14 and/or SMF15 if you collect them or SMF42.6 if the DSN is SMS around the time of the step failure? Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Down

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:00:08 -0600, Bohn, Dale wrote: >Mark, > I have submitted feedback for the System Z Download Server site you >noted, with a reference to my ETR, which states it is down... > Thanks. Wouldn't hurt to also mention in your ETR that the status site is not correct (if you hav

Re: Beating a dead horse but

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:34:12 -0600, Tim Hare wrote: >In a 2008 thread on people using IEFBR14 to do deletes there as this: > >"Indeed, how should Allocation know whether the program about to execute >wants to "do something" with the dataset(s) before deleting it/them? >Perhaps Allocation could b

Re: Hardware withdrawal: IBM System z9

In , on 11/20/2009 at 03:00 PM, Timothy Sipples said: >Yes. And that particular upgrade is *not* being withdrawn effective June >30, 2010. There is currently no withdrawal date for that upgrade. Thanks. Given that, I don't have an issue with the withdrawal. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Down

Mark, I have submitted feedback for the System Z Download Server site you noted, with a reference to my ETR, which states it is down... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@

Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Down

The WAIT(minutes | NOLIMIT) option on the RECEIVE command is documented in the SMP/E 3.5 Commands manual SA22-7771-12 on page 263. I did not see it referenced in the SMP/E 3.4 Reference, but again in the Commands. -- For IBM-MA

Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Down

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:34:33 -0600, Bohn, Dale wrote: >IBM currently has a Sev 1 problem on the RECEIVE ORDER server that fulfills >Internet Retrieval Orders. >The word is that this problem will continue to exist for at least a few more >hours. >Problem started before 0800 ET. > I thought this

Re: IDCAMS REPRO/ENQ question

Assuming this is a process that you would prefer to run without any failures, wouldn't a better approach would be to just use OFILE and allocate the file via a DD? DD allocation will wait until the dataset is available and then proceed. Dynamic allocation implied by OUTDATASET will not wait and o

Re: IDCAMS REPRO/ENQ question

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:45:24 -0600, Field, Alan C. wrote: >We have a number of jobs that have many steps. One of those steps is an >IDCAMS reproing a number of datasets. > > >Fairly frequently (at least 151 times according to the problem tracking >system, starting in March this year (running z/OS

Re: Beating a dead horse but

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:34:12 -0600, Tim Hare wrote: >In a 2008 thread on people using IEFBR14 to do deletes there as this: >...snipped... >If all of the above are met, then do the equivalent of HDELETE for the dataset > >Seems to me that verifies in most cases that we're dealing with the real >IE

Re: IDCAMS REPRO/ENQ question

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:45:24 -0600, Field, Alan C. wrote: >We have a number of jobs that have many steps. One of those steps is an >IDCAMS reproing a number of datasets. > Do you have an MVS monitor like TMON or Omegamon? You could look in there, but most likely the culprit has let go of it

Re: ADABAS On Other Platforms

>>> On 11/20/2009 at 12:51 PM, Jim Marshall wrote: > I am hearing from my ADABAS DBA that ADABAS can run on other platforms > such as UNIX and Windows (anyone know if it is true for zLinux). Anyway > would like to get an idea of people who are actually doing it today and our > agency would lik

Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Down

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:40:54 -0500, Jousma, David wrote: >Figures. Was trying to place order all day today. Job just sat >there > >Thanks for the update. > Same here - tried both URLs too. Was going to post something but didn't. As long as we are on the subject though... In looking up

Re: Image Copies

I can't speak for other virtual tape implementations, but for CA-Vtape you can define by tape data set name which of a fairly large number of aggregation groups should be used for the virtual volume. If you can correctly categorize the virtual volumes into aggregation groups by how many days or we

IDCAMS REPRO/ENQ question

We have a number of jobs that have many steps. One of those steps is an IDCAMS reproing a number of datasets. Fairly frequently (at least 151 times according to the problem tracking system, starting in March this year (running z/OS 1.18 then, z/OS 1.10 now)) the job gets REPRO OUTDATASET(xx

Beating a dead horse but

In a 2008 thread on people using IEFBR14 to do deletes there as this: "Indeed, how should Allocation know whether the program about to execute wants to "do something" with the dataset(s) before deleting it/them? Perhaps Allocation could be "educated" to issue HDELETE iff the dataset is migrated *A

Re: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Down

Figures. Was trying to place order all day today. Job just sat there Thanks for the update. _ Dave Jousma Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Services david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 MD RSCB1G p 616

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. bi...@mainstar.com (Bill Fairchild) writes: > 15. The agency accepts delivery of the upgraded equipment and begins > training its people in how to use the newer te

SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval Down

IBM currently has a Sev 1 problem on the RECEIVE ORDER server that fulfills Internet Retrieval Orders. The word is that this problem will continue to exist for at least a few more hours. Problem started before 0800 ET. --

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

>As one person connected with Project Apollo quipped, we sent people to the >moon with everything supplied by the lowest bidders. That was actually Alan Sheppard, when he was asked by a reporter what he was thinking when he was waiting during count down. That was 6 or 7 years earlier. - Too bus

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gerhard Postpischil Sent: Friday, November 20, 2009 10:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch >If they were run

Re: MQ set trigger and CICS

Tim, Most of the messages that are sent to the queue occur during the day when the CICS regions are up. Infrequently, a message is sent to the queue when the CICS regions are starting but not yet ready. (CICS comes up at 5am) That's when the problem arises. We think the best solution is to have

Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage

w = Well? s = Surprise? David Sheen of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 11/20/2009 11:27:00 AM: > At 08:06 AM 11/20/2009 +0100, you wrote: > > >WWwsswWW > > > >And this means what? > > > >Peter Hunkeler > >Credit Suisse > > I was wondering the same thing. -

SoftwareAG Natural & DB2

Today we run ADABAS with Natural and a number of their other products. I understand SoftwareAG has a way to keep your Natural programs the same, put the data into DB2 and IPSO-FACTO, no recoding is required of the Natural code. Has anyone tried this approach. Like to chat with someone to lear

ADABAS On Other Platforms

I am hearing from my ADABAS DBA that ADABAS can run on other platforms such as UNIX and Windows (anyone know if it is true for zLinux). Anyway would like to get an idea of people who are actually doing it today and our agency would like to chat, if possible, about your experience. it is running

Re: Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?

re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#19 Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#20 Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers? basic ESCON technology had been knocking around POK for quite some time before being released. One of the Austin engineers adopted i

z/OS ServerPac and Tivoli Products - Surprise

We tried to order a z/OS V1R11 z/OS ServerPac and have some Tivoli products. Seems it was rejected because we do not have license for Tivoli Management Services on zOS, 5698-A79. Seems Tivoli has been causing us all grief because installation of products would cause FMIDs of other Tivoli prod

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. Anne & Lynn Wheeler writes: > there have also been some number of (failed) FAA "modernization" > efforts. About the time we were doing ha/cmp ... there was such an

Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage

At 08:06 AM 11/20/2009 +0100, you wrote: >WWwsswWW And this means what? -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse I was wondering the same thing. David -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

Does anyone know for a fact what the air traffic control is running on? I'm really curious. My first job was operating a 360/40. A good machine for the time. I know the 360/50 was quite a bit faster. Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer IBM Global Services Division Dubuque, Iowa 414-477-72

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

Eric Bielefeld wrote: This is kind of off the topic, but related. Wasn't there a discussion on IBM-Main a couple years ago about the air traffic control system being run on old IBM 3081s? If I remember right, and my memory isn't as good as it used to be, it was just a few years ago that these

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - MarketWatch

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com (Eric Bielefeld) writes: > This is kind of off the topic, but related. Wasn't there a discussion > on IBM-Main a couple years ago about the a

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 11/20/2009 at 10:38 AM, Don Leahy wrote: > -snip- > > It's unfortunate that there isn't a technical journal devoted to the > > topic of systems failures on all platforms. It would be fascinating > > to learn about the many ways that sy

Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:41 +0900, Timothy Sipples wrote: >IBM is making it *very* easy to create Java to run on z/OS -- including >Java which uses z/OS-only methods. The jar files are available, as Kirk >noted, at no additional charge. You can compile on or off your mainframe Hold on, that's

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

>>> On 11/20/2009 at 10:38 AM, Don Leahy wrote: -snip- > It's unfortunate that there isn't a technical journal devoted to the > topic of systems failures on all platforms. It would be fascinating > to learn about the many ways that systems can fail. The ACM used to have a mailing list that did

Re: SVC 26 (locate) with GDG datasets

On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 08:53 -0500, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: > This is the case since z/OS 1.8. GDG members are not kept in numerical > order in the catalog anymore and therefor not returned in numerical > order either. The only way to get them returned in numerical order is by > calling a new al

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

In a message dated 11/20/2009 9:24:02 A.M. Central Standard Time, thomas.kel...@commercebank.com writes: That's what I was thinking. A system this critical and there is no backup and no failover for 7*24 uptime. Just think - this is one of the systems that controls our airline flights. I

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Ken Porowski wrote: > > Tongue in cheek reply. > > Because we take a perverse pleasure in seeing squatty box failures when > the reliability (FSVO reliability) of a Mainframe is called for? > > Or to keep it on topic. > > We wish to learn from others mistakes.  Unf

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

This is kind of off the topic, but related. Wasn't there a discussion on IBM-Main a couple years ago about the air traffic control system being run on old IBM 3081s? If I remember right, and my memory isn't as good as it used to be, it was just a few years ago that these old machines used to

Re: Need info on LE CEECAA (Common Anchor Area)

Hardee, Charles H wrote: Hello Everyone, I am looking into the fields found in LE's Common Anchor Area (CEECAA). When I assemble the DSECT I get fields mapped from x'000' to x'38F'. This matches the Language Environment Debugging Guide. However, when I run the IPCS LEDATA "ALL" proces

Re: Check out Computer glitch to cause flight delays across U.S. - Mar ketWatch

That's what I was thinking. A system this critical and there is no backup and no failover for 7*24 uptime. Just think - this is one of the systems that controls our airline flights. I was talking with someone that I work with who is actually an ex-employee of one of the major airlines. The airl

Re: Need info on LE CEECAA (Common Anchor Area)

Not sure but I'm going to guess that the rest of the fields are OCO. Hardee, Charles H wrote: Hello Everyone, I am looking into the fields found in LE's Common Anchor Area (CEECAA). When I assemble the DSECT I get fields mapped from x'000' to x'38F'. This matches the Language Environment

Re: SVC 26 (locate) with GDG datasets

Yes, until z/OS 1.8. Kees. "J R" wrote in message news:... > I meant to add that it's been this way since the '60s. > > > > > > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:09:51 -0500 > > From: jayare...@hotmail.com > > Subject: Re: SVC 26 (locate) with GDG datasets > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > > >

Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?

McKown, John wrote: From what I can see (and I'm a novice), the JAVA language does not have anything like a C/C++ struct or COBOL data defination which can be used to read "records" kept in a "dataset" (such as VSAM or PS). I know of the Alphaworks program which can take ADATA from HLASM and ge

Re: Newsgroup now frozen. Closing by 12/31/2009

In a message dated 11/20/2009 8:18:16 A.M. Central Standard Time, sas...@sas.com writes: dwfo...@us.ibm.com. Including the required info below. While the ibm newsgroups have mostly been silent for many years, I still had them on my list. It's a shame they never got the kind of use that I tho

Re: SVC 26 (locate) with GDG datasets

I meant to add that it's been this way since the '60s. > Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:09:51 -0500 > From: jayare...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: SVC 26 (locate) with GDG datasets > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > GDG member numbers are complemented in the catalog. > This ensures that the latest g

Re: Newsgroup now frozen. Closing by 12/31/2009

Alexei replied that new fora can be requested by sending a note to dwfo...@us.ibm.com. Including the required info below. While the ibm newsgroups have mostly been silent for many years, I still had them on my list. It's a shame they never got the kind of use that I thought they would. The only one

Re: SVC 26 (locate) with GDG datasets

GDG member numbers are complemented in the catalog. This ensures that the latest generation (+0) is always located first. > "George" wrote in message > news: > ... > Hello, > I have a question about Locate macro (SVC 26) and GDG datasets. For > example I have these datasets: > HLQ.TEST

Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

And how are regular expressions applicable in a Java program that wants to access a field formatted (eg. SMF) record? On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > In > , > on 11/19/2009 >   at 04:12 PM, Michael Klaeschen > said: > >>Well, from my experiences regular express

Re: SVC 26 (locate) with GDG datasets

"George" wrote in message news: ... Hello, I have a question about Locate macro (SVC 26) and GDG datasets. For example I have these datasets: HLQ.TEST HLQ.TEST.G0003V00 HLQ.TEST.G0004V00 HLQ.TEST.G0005V00 When I use mask 'HLQ.TEST' the output from SVC 26 is: HLQ.TEST HLQ.TEST.G0004V00 HLQ.TEST.

Re: ICSF

Meganen Naidoo pisze: Hi all, We want to generate a hash key for a dataset but not encrypt the data using ICSF on z/OS 1.7. Can someone clarify that an entire file (and not just a field, or record within a file) can be processed by the routines CSNBOWH and CSNBOWH1. The Cryptographic Services

Re: ICSF

We want to generate a hash key for a dataset but not encrypt the data using ICSF on z/OS 1.7. Can someone clarify that an entire file (and not just a field, or record within a file) can be processed by the routines CSNBOWH and CSNBOWH1. The Cryptographic Services ICSF Application Programmer's Gu

Re: Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net > wrote: > > >What sort of mainframe can do this? > > zSeries. > System z. zSeries is dead. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: A big contributor to S/360

In <94c476c03bff5e42ac3518fdac9643c4e2de970...@hqmail.rocketsoftware.com>, on 11/19/2009 at 03:41 PM, Bill Fairchild said: >Maybe he should also add in the number of instructions that it takes to >IPL the operating system, start JESx, one initiator, etc. In other >words, let's compare paper c

Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

In , on 11/19/2009 at 04:12 PM, Michael Klaeschen said: >Well, from my experiences regular expressions are not quite common >amongst MVS folks, especially REXX or CoBOL programmers. These have >other well working techniques and therefor no need for regular >expressions. Would that that wer

Re: Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?

In , on 11/17/2009 at 10:34 AM, "Roach, Dennis (N-GHG)" said: >I have found a few things I could not do: > Support custom hardware (no slots on the z box) That's like saying that you can't expand an Intel system because there are no FICON channels. Both platforms have expansion capabili

Re: Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?

In , on 11/17/2009 at 01:39 PM, August Carideo said: >this is being answered on the wrong list, No; both zLinux and z/VM are on topic here.. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see We don't care. We don't hav

Re: Mainframe running 1,500 Linux servers?

In <0377b9a583fd0e4aacd676ee33ee994b2a7f2...@sdkmail13.emea.sas.com>, on 11/17/2009 at 06:18 PM, Lindy Mayfield said: >I read in z/Journal that one mainframe can host 1,500 Linux servers. The Devil is in the details. What is a server? >What sort of mainframe can do this? zSeries. >How man

Re: SMF Record Exits

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:09 -0500 "John P. Baker" wrote: :>I am writing an SMF Record Exit to intercept SMF Record Type 80 (Security) :>records for additional processing. :>Is IEFU83 sufficient, or do I also need IEFU84 and/or IEFU85? If RCVTXMFR is set it would seem that FASTAUTH can generate