Re: UK GSE- LSWG Meeting - Postponement - 12th May 2010

2010-05-07 Thread Edward Jaffe
Mark Wilson wrote: Due to the fact that we have only received 12 confirmed attendees I have decided to postpone the Large Systems meeting on the 12th May 2010 at CA in Slough. Volcanic activity putting a damper on things? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview

Re: XMIT MANAGER

2010-05-07 Thread Brian Westerman
Let me know if you need a copy of the directory and I can email it to you. I will go ahead and wrap a installation around the directory. I know that there are several freeware builders to do that. I tried to get permission from the original author, but never heard back, so I'll just move

Re: Isolate lpar to resolver process

2010-05-07 Thread Jorge Garcia
Chris: Do you really want not to have any name to address (or address to name) conversion or do you just want to avoid using a name server? I want to avoid any name to address (or address to name) conversion. DEFAULT is what the RESOLVER_PROC statement specifies as shipped, by default. In

Re: Isolate lpar to resolver process

2010-05-07 Thread Roy Hewitt
Jorge, rather than guess what might or might not be happening, just allocate the SYSTCPT DD and it will tell you exactly what resolver information you are using and also show where the nslookups are being resolved against from TSO just do ALLOC FI(SYSTCPT) DA(*)or allocate to sysout and

Re: Calculate Tape Bytes to Tracks

2010-05-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201005061204514780.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/06/2010 at 12:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Perhaps not everywhere, but in places: Take another look at what it says. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2d551/2.2.16 What does the DCB have

Re: Calculate Tape Bytes to Tracks

2010-05-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4be3273c@bremultibank.com.pl, on 05/06/2010 at 10:31 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: Proper answer is: Yes. No. Proper response is to read the hardware documentation, but that concept is obviously too difficult for you. Just 3 letters plus dot. No justification. Not for

Re: UK GSE- LSWG Meeting - Postponement - 12th May 2010

2010-05-07 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Thu, 6 May 2010 23:53:40 -0700, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: Mark Wilson wrote: Due to the fact that we have only received 12 confirmed attendees I have decided to postpone the Large Systems meeting on the 12th May 2010 at CA in Slough. Volcanic activity putting a

Re: Amazing article.

2010-05-07 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:48 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In t2s4e2421a41005061330ic150eda4wca4225caff5d...@mail.gmail.com, on 05/06/2010   at 09:30 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net said: And when talking to Unix/Windows folks, explaining (over and over) that

Re: Calling unauthorized code from an authorized address space

2010-05-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In g2w4e2421a41004221549zb518cfeeo49e584147f2e8...@mail.gmail.com, on 04/22/2010 at 11:49 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net said: Clearly just writing an authorized only program and not allowing a problem state user exit is the preferred way to go. That's not clear. Have you considered a

Re: Calling unauthorized code from an authorized address space

2010-05-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In i2ob0c6f15b100425s6c4ed6abza31c9c1eaa691...@mail.gmail.com, on 04/25/2010 at 02:00 AM, Chris Craddock crashlu...@gmail.com said: If you let unauthorized code run within that same address space, you cannot guarantee that the unauthorized code won't be able inspect or modify the

Re: Calling unauthorized code from an authorized address space

2010-05-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In s2n4e2421a41004230641m56849825ydd473151795c0...@mail.gmail.com, on 04/23/2010 at 02:41 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net said: If this was true, would it be acceptable to turn the JSCBAUTH bit back on? There is an architected way to run unauthorized code from an unauthorized program, but it's

Re: Calling unauthorized code from an authorized address space

2010-05-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofbf38bd8f.4d23cf01-on8525770e.0041a925-8525770e.00426...@us.ibm.com, on 04/23/2010 at 08:05 AM, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com said: An authorized address space has JSCBAUTH on. There can be no unauthorized code running in such a situatino. Surely you know of the exceptions? As I

Re: ISPF table library cannot be freed

2010-05-07 Thread Robert Birdsall
Don't give up that easily. Try this: address ISPExec TbStats BADTABLE Library(BADLIB) Don't change the BADTABLE and BADLIB unless you really have a library or table of that name :) Here are the relevant lines extracted from my code: address ISPExec address TSO Alloc f(arc) dsn('ArcDSN') ArcVol

Re: Isolate lpar to resolver process

2010-05-07 Thread Jorge Garcia
Roy, this is the SYSTCPT sysout: Resolver Trace Initialization Complete - 2010/05/07 13:16:33.754109 res_init Resolver values: Global Tcp/Ip Dataset = None

Re: Isolate lpar to resolver process

2010-05-07 Thread Chris Mason
Jorge My apologies! ... 1. Create a separate TCPDATA member removing all reference to dns. I now realise that this included removing DNS from the LOCAL statement. ... We attach the TCPDATA member and SETUP member in RESOLVER proc. I didn't appreciate that this - why we? what was wrong with I?

Re: Amazing article.

2010-05-07 Thread Finley, Frank
For most Windows people, it would probably be better if they thought of it like a directory. I would think any experience Unix person would understand the differences. Unless they are learning how to support the system directly, it functions close enough that for any work they might be doing

Re: Isolate lpar to resolver process

2010-05-07 Thread Jorge Garcia
Hello Chris In order to start a procedure which you have taken trouble to create with a SETUP DD-statement you need to change the BPXPRMxx member RESOLVER_PROC statement to, say, RESOLVER_PROC(RESOLVER) and store a procedure named RESOLVER similar to the following: //RESOLVER PROC //* See

Re: ISPF table library cannot be freed

2010-05-07 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Stan - I try entering the DDLIST command. I don't have that command. Do you have any other information about it? I did find the FINDQ command. I have it on a CD that I created before I Left PH Mining. The command is part of some other software that is copyrighted by Chaney Systems, so I

Re: Member name format for z/OS directory as simulated PDS?

2010-05-07 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 7:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Member name format for z/OS directory as simulated PDS? On Thu, 6 May 2010 18:32:10 -0400, Thompson,

Re: ISPF table library cannot be freed

2010-05-07 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Eric, Here is the command table entry for it here: DDLIST0 SELECT PGM(ISRDDN) NEWAPPL(ISR) SUSPEND SCRNAME(DDLIST) PARM Try entering TSO DDLIST ENQ 'SYS1.L' or TSO ISRDDN ENQ 'SYS1.L' Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On

Re: ISPF table library cannot be freed

2010-05-07 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Eric Bielefeld wrote: Stan - I try entering the DDLIST command. I don't have that command. Do you have any other information about it? As documented in 'Interactive System Productivity Facility (ISPF), User's Guide Volume I': You can start ISRDDN by issuing the commands TSO ISRDDN or DDLIST

Re: zFS, etc, and z/OS V1R11

2010-05-07 Thread Shane Ginnane
According to what I heard this week, IBM are apparently (strongly) discouraging the use of the original function without the later filesys support. As in don't use it. Manuals will apparently be refreshed in the June timeframe. Still doesn't answer Jims concern about lack of (customer) control

Re: Cached TSO Clist and VLFNOTE

2010-05-07 Thread Shane Ginnane
Only time I had an issue where I needed VLFNOTE (some years ago) I just gave up, and forced the VLFNOTE into every other system in the 'plex. Slightly different situation to what you are seeing - every so often an update didn't show up on some other system. Shane ...

z/OS 1.11 GDG Deferred Rollin Data Loss

2010-05-07 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
We just ran into this issue. If a job tries to create a new GDG entry that matches a GooVoo that is in deferred roll in status then you will experience data loss. The old GooVoo does not get overwritten but is cataloged as the new entry. APAR OA32968 has been created to resolve this issue.

URGENT **** z/OS 1.11 GDG Deferred Rollin Data Loss ****

2010-05-07 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
We just ran into this issue. If a job tries to create a new GDG entry that matches a GooVoo that is in deferred roll in status then you will experience data loss. The old GooVoo does not get overwritten but is cataloged as the new entry. APAR OA32968 has been created to resolve this issue.

Re: Isolate lpar to resolver process

2010-05-07 Thread Chris Mason
Jorge MODIFY xxx,D It doesn't work MODIFY RESOLVER,D EZZ9294I INCORRECT COMMAND SYNTAX An example from the z/OS Communications Server IP System Administrator’s Commands description of the MODIFY command: Resolver address space: quote Examples The following example is

Re: Member name format for z/OS directory as simulated PDS?

2010-05-07 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip Probably the rule goes back to the CVOL catalogs where the name was stored level by level and each piece had to be 8 bytes or less in length. Bill Fairchild and others are able to give a more accurate explanation.

Re: Isolate lpar to resolver process

2010-05-07 Thread John Kelly
snip MODIFY RESOLVER,D EZZ9294I INCORRECT COMMAND SYNTAX /snip Chris, Appears that it wants DISPLAY instead of just 'D', so F RESOLVER,DISPLAY works OK Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11

2010-05-07 Thread Pat Mihalec
I am running z/OS 1.4 and think of just jumping to z/OS 1.11, if they finally let me upgrade the software. I was wondering if anyone out there thinks this is a real bad idea. I can isolate a test Lpar and DASD volumes to do this. I would like some feed back on this idea. Thanks, Pat Mihalec

Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11

2010-05-07 Thread Staller, Allan
Read *ALL* of the migration guide's VERY VERY carefully!! That is a big jump and you *may* have a lot of work to do on your existing system to get everything ready for this. Some of that work may have to be done at conversion time. Good Luck! snip I am running z/OS 1.4 and think of just

Re: Isolate lpar to resolver process

2010-05-07 Thread Roy Hewitt
Jorge, so this shows that your resolver parameters are coming from the local TCPDATA dd statement but is not showing the actual address resolution Where did you allocate the SYSTCPT?.. it needs to be in the address space that is doing the nslookup/ping etc.. Is T99TCPIP the userid of the

Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11

2010-05-07 Thread Pat Mihalec
I have to update all of my software no matter what route I take. We just thought if we could do the operating system 1 time, instead of 3 it would take us less time. Am I asking for more problems this way? Pat Mihalec Rush University Medical Center Senior System Programmer (312) 942-8386

Re: Auxiliary Storage Management I/O in a RAID array world

2010-05-07 Thread Ron Hawkins
Alan, I'll try and answer your comments and questions. a) It still might make sense to use SETCACHE OFF for page volumes and page volumes may be candidates for flash drives. If you have a heavy paging rate then SETCACHE OFF for the paging volumes would mitigate some of the cache pollution

Re: URGENT **** z/OS 1.11 GDG Deferred Rollin Data Loss ****

2010-05-07 Thread Darth Keller
We just ran into this issue. If a job tries to create a new GDG entry that matches a GooVoo that is in deferred roll in status then you will experience data loss. The old GooVoo does not get overwritten but is cataloged as the new entry. APAR OA32968 has been created to resolve this issue.

Re: Saturation Data Point (SDP)

2010-05-07 Thread Ron Hawkins
For those of you that wanted this I must apologize but it appears to have gone missing. My colleague assures my he put it on my desk, but it has vanished. Sorry for getting your hopes up. Ron -Original Message- From: Ron Hawkins [mailto:ron.hawkins1...@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: URGENT **** z/OS 1.11 GDG Deferred Rollin Data Loss ****

2010-05-07 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 05/07/10 12:07, Darth Keller wrote: We just ran into this issue. If a job tries to create a new GDG entry that matches a GooVoo that is in deferred roll in status then you will experience data loss. The old GooVoo does not get overwritten but is cataloged as the new

Re: URGENT **** z/OS 1.11 GDG Deferred Rollin Data Loss ****

2010-05-07 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 7 May 2010 12:18:57 -0400, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: The apar doesn't say that there's an fix available but I just opened up an ETR with IBM to see if something is available. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL Local fix is to Set the GDS_RECLAIM SMS

Re: URGENT **** z/OS 1.11 GDG Deferred Rollin Data Loss ****

2010-05-07 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 05/07/10 12:21, Patrick Lyon wrote: On Fri, 7 May 2010 12:18:57 -0400, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: The apar doesn't say that there's an fix available but I just opened up an ETR with IBM to see if something is available. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL

Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11

2010-05-07 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Pat Mihalec pat_miha...@rush.edu Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:43 AM Subject: Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11 I am running z/OS 1.4 and think of just jumping to z/OS 1.11, if they finally let me upgrade the

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar ithmetic?

2010-05-07 Thread Kirk Talman
Consistency of result has a lot to be said for it as does meeting customer expectation. I don't want my checking account handled in either binary or floating point. Java is supporting both DFP and BFP. Java is strategic. Living with it is strategic. The COBOL organization is ignoring

Re: URGENT **** z/OS 1.11 GDG Deferred Rollin Data Loss ****

2010-05-07 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
That option will cause the batch job to take a JCL error which is better than data corruption and YES there is an APAR fix. We tested it this morning and it is working so far. Jon Jon L. Veilleux veilleu...@aetna.com (860) 636-9179 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: zFS, etc, and z/OS V1R11

2010-05-07 Thread Jim Marshall
With OA29619, which became available a couple of weeks ago, you can control this function on an individual file system basis. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA29619 Hey, Good Show. It is great to learn the IBM'er giving the zFS presentation took great notes about our

Re: Amazing article.

2010-05-07 Thread Kirk Talman
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 05/06/2010 04:34:31 PM: From: Patrick Lyon ptl...@midamerican.com And when talking to Unix/Windows folks, explaining (over and over) that dataset nodes are not directory paths and that PDS(E) can only be 1 level deep. As well as

Migrated datasets

2010-05-07 Thread Mark Pace
In my HSM reports I show some datasets as being migrated, yet there are no catalog entries for these datasets. Is there a way to either Recall them to DASD, or HDelete them from the tape? -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317

Re: Migrated datasets

2010-05-07 Thread Gibney, Dave
You can use IDCAMS and define them to volume MIGRAT. I'm sure there's a version of FIXCDS to whack them. You should look into how they came about and stop it :) Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Migrated datasets

2010-05-07 Thread Mark Pace
I certainly trying to figure how it happened in the first place. :-) On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: You can use IDCAMS and define them to volume MIGRAT. I'm sure there's a version of FIXCDS to whack them. You should look into how they came about and

Re: Migrated datasets

2010-05-07 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
An audit of your MCDS with an ODS parameter specified should give you the required Fixcds commands. Thank You, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: Mark Pace [mpac...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 12:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re:

Re: Isolate lpar to resolver process

2010-05-07 Thread Chris Mason
Jorge Thanks to a very sensible suggestion from Roy, we can see that the active RESOLVER SETUP file has neither a GLOBALTCPIPDATA file allocated nor a DEFAULTTCPIPDATA file allocated. So what has happened to your RESOLVER procedure? We see only a TCPIP.DATA file allocated using a SYSTCPD

Re: XMIT MANAGER

2010-05-07 Thread Matthew Donald
I had this problem as well. I installed Windows XP mode under Windows Virtual PC. It's a free download if you have Windows 7 Proffesional installed. Xmit Manager runs without problems under WinXP. On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:49 PM, David Cartwright dcartwri...@ymail.comwrote: Slightly OT I'm

Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11

2010-05-07 Thread Staller, Allan
With proper planning and execution, there should be no more issues w/z/OS1.4 to z/OS 1.11 than any other OS upgrade, however there are so many changes in the interim (approx 6 years worth), some of which may not be compatible w/each other, that it would be a very good thing to peruse the

Re: Saturation Data Point (SDP)

2010-05-07 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 5/7/2010 11:17:20 A.M. Central Daylight Time, ron.hawkins1...@sbcglobal.net writes: For those of you that wanted this I must apologize but it appears to have gone missing. My colleague assures my he put it on my desk, but it has vanished. This Redbook has a good bit of

Re: Migrated datasets

2010-05-07 Thread Staller, Allan
DEF NVSAM(NAME(dsn) DEVT(3390) VOL(MIGRAT)) HDEL 'dsn' I concur w/the other responders. Why do they exist in the first place? HTH, snip In my HSM reports I show some datasets as being migrated, yet there are no catalog entries for these datasets. Is there a way to either Recall them to DASD,

Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11

2010-05-07 Thread Donnelly, John P
...and did we not go from 32 bit to 64 bit addressing with 1.7... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 10:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS

Pause Elements

2010-05-07 Thread Blaicher, Chris
Has anyone done much with PAUSE ELEMENTS and Pause Element Tokens? If so, please contact me directly. chris_blaic...@bmc.com Thanks in advance. Christopher Y. Blaicher Senior Software Developer Austin Development Lab phone: 512.340.6154 mobile: 512.627.3803 fax: 512.340.6647 10431 Morado

Re: Migrated datasets

2010-05-07 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 12:36 PM Subject: Migrated datasets In my HSM reports I show some datasets as being migrated, yet there are no catalog entries for these datasets. Is there a way to

Re: Migrated datasets

2010-05-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Is there a way to either Recall them to DASD, or HDelete them from the tape? Years ago, we found that if you re-catalogued them to MIGRAT and they were still in the CDS, HSM could manage them, again. This was before the 'DF' was put into the HSM, so I don't know if this still works. - Too busy

Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11

2010-05-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
...and did we not go from 32 bit to 64 bit addressing with 1.7... I thought bi-modal capability went out with 1.6. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar ithmetic?

2010-05-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On 7 May 2010 12:28, Kirk Talman rkueb...@tsys.com wrote: Consistency of result has a lot to be said for it as does meeting customer expectation.  I don't want my checking account handled in either binary or floating point. Java is supporting both DFP and BFP.  Java is strategic.  Living with

Re: Pause Elements

2010-05-07 Thread Sam Siegel
I did a little in a problem state program. What are you looking for? On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Blaicher, Chris chris_blaic...@bmc.com wrote: Has anyone done much with PAUSE ELEMENTS and Pause Element Tokens? If so, please contact me directly. chris_blaic...@bmc.com Thanks in

VVDS references dead catalog. OK?

2010-05-07 Thread McKown, John
Is there any plus to trying to delete all references to dead catalogs from the VVDS on all my volumes? Or is this another, who cares? (except for people with OCD). John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar ithmetic?

2010-05-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
There's big trouble if the numbers are smoothed over too early. It's called (or was called when I went to the University of Waterloo) The Rule of Small Numbers'. The approved method is to do all your math then round. And, if there is no display requirement store the data to the 'best' precision

ShopzSeries down?

2010-05-07 Thread Brian Peterson
Anybody else having trouble with ShopzSeries this afternoon? I'm not a web app expert, but the below error message make me think the problem is internal to IBM - would be interested to hear if anyone else is having trouble today. Here's the two errors I've seen today: Internal Server Error The

Output from programs which normally produce reports - an idea

2010-05-07 Thread McKown, John
OK, the subject sucks. But it is Friday. And this could be considered on topic, I think. I've been doing some DASD cleanup prep work. I've been using T-REX to look at catalogs and VVDSes. T-REX produces some really nice reports. But one thing that I inevitably do is download them to my Linux

Re: VVDS references dead catalog. OK?

2010-05-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Is there any plus to trying to delete all references to dead catalogs from the VVDS on all my volumes? No. Or is this another, who cares? (except for people with OCD). I'm to anal retentive to havbe OCD. I've found, as you migrate to newer disk they tend to disappear. But, in my experience,

VSAM FILE CATALOGING

2010-05-07 Thread Ward, Mike S
Hello all, We currently have a z/OS V1.7 that we will be migrating to V1.11. I have 169 volumes that I want to copy to the z/OS V1.11 system and use for testing purposes. These volumes contain our Quality Assurance datasets both VSAM and Sequential. We are not sharing disks or catalogs for obvious

Re: Pause Elements

2010-05-07 Thread Blaicher, Chris
I have a TCB and a SRB process and want to suspend one and let the other proceed and then reverse it and do that over and over. The following pseudo code assumes knowledge of IEAVAPE/IEAVPSE/IEAVXFR/IEAVRLS/IEAVDPE: TCB: Allocate a PE for the TCB Start a SRB Wait for

Re: (may or may not be on topic) Floating point arithmetic?

2010-05-07 Thread Tom Ross
Consistency of result has a lot to be said for it as does meeting customer expectation. I don't want my checking account handled in either binary or floating point. Many financial institutions do not allow the use of any floating-point data, they use only fixed-point data, often using the

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2010-05-07 Thread Gibney, Dave
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Peterson Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ShopzSeries down? Anybody else having trouble with ShopzSeries this afternoon? I'm not a web

Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING

2010-05-07 Thread Staller, Allan
1) Get a list of the VSAM files (clusters only) on the source system. 2) Issued IDCAMS DEF Cluster ... RECATALOG with appropriate pointers to the new VVDS's. IIRC the only thing you need is a space parameter (and I'm not even sure about that). It's all in AMS for CATALOGS The other choice

Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING

2010-05-07 Thread Starr, Alan
Hi Mike, Is there some reason why you cannot do a logical dataset DUMP in the 1.7 image and then do a RESTORE with CATALOG in the 1.11 image? Allan Staller mentions this and I believe it to be the easiest solution. Regards, Alan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2010-05-07 Thread Chuck Arney
Yes, I have been getting the Bad Gateway error for a good while. Chuck Arney illustro Systems International, LLC http://www.illustro.com Internet-enable your applications with z/Ware V2 Voice: 214-800-8900 X#5562 -- This e-mail is private and may be confidential and is for the intended recipient

Re: VVDS references dead catalog. OK?

2010-05-07 Thread Starr, Alan
Hi John, In my opinion, it's a who cares. Cheers, Alan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:42 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: VVDS references dead catalog. OK? Is there any

Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING

2010-05-07 Thread John Eells
Ward, Mike S wrote: Hello all, We currently have a z/OS V1.7 that we will be migrating to V1.11. I have 169 volumes that I want to copy to the z/OS V1.11 system and use for testing purposes. These volumes contain our Quality Assurance datasets both VSAM and Sequential. We are not sharing disks

Re: Pause Elements

2010-05-07 Thread Sam Siegel
Looks similar to what i'm doing, except I'm not using IEAVXFR. Just allocate, pause, release and deallocate. are you using the updated PET that is returned by the pause service? On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Blaicher, Chris chris_blaic...@bmc.com wrote: I have a TCB and a SRB process and

Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING

2010-05-07 Thread Ward, Mike S
What you mention about the vsam mergecat is exactly what I need to do. When you say make a copy of the volume with the original catalog are you saying to copy the volume disk to disk to the V1.11 system? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu]

Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING

2010-05-07 Thread Ward, Mike S
I only have 2 3490 tape drives that I can use and only for a limited time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Starr, Alan Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING Hi Mike,

Re: Pause Elements

2010-05-07 Thread Chris Craddock
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Blaicher, Chris chris_blaic...@bmc.comwrote: I have a TCB and a SRB process and want to suspend one and let the other proceed and then reverse it and do that over and over. The following pseudo code assumes knowledge of IEAVAPE/IEAVPSE/IEAVXFR/IEAVRLS/IEAVDPE:

Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING

2010-05-07 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I only have 2 3490 tape drives that I can use and only for a limited time. Just a suggestion, but once when I was in a tape-constrained shop, we did our logical dumps to disk. Of course, this presupposes you have enough disk. Also, you don't have to do it all at once. - Too busy driving to stop

Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING

2010-05-07 Thread John Eells
Ward, Mike S wrote: What you mention about the vsam mergecat is exactly what I need to do. When you say make a copy of the volume with the original catalog are you saying to copy the volume disk to disk to the V1.11 system? snip Sort of. You said there was no shared DASD (nor should there be,

Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING

2010-05-07 Thread Ward, Mike S
The information you gave me sounds viable and I think I'll use your method. An import connect sounds like I should dump the V1.7 user catalog by using the Export command and restoring it on V1.11 using the import connect command then using the mergecat to place the entries I want into a usercat I

Re: Migrating from z/OS V1.4 to z/OS V1.11

2010-05-07 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2010-05-07 17:36, Pat Mihalec pisze: I am running z/OS 1.4 and think of just jumping to z/OS 1.11, if they finally let me upgrade the software. I was wondering if anyone out there thinks this is a real bad idea. I can isolate a test Lpar and DASD volumes to do this. I would like some feed

Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING

2010-05-07 Thread John Eells
Ward, Mike S wrote: The information you gave me sounds viable and I think I'll use your method. An import connect sounds like I should dump the V1.7 user catalog by using the Export command and restoring it on V1.11 using the import connect command then using the mergecat to place the entries I

Re: (may o r may not be on topi c) Floatin g point ar ithmetic?

2010-05-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 7 May 2010 12:28:34 -0400, Kirk Talman wrote: I agree w/Shmuel. This is a display issue. Actually, I said it was a display issue; Shmuel denied it was a display issue: In listserv%201005031819000391.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 05/03/2010 at 06:19 PM, Paul Gilmartin said:

Re: 45 years of Mainframe

2010-05-07 Thread Smith, Sean M
Congratulations on your retirement George! Enjoy the good life. Sean M. Smith z/OS System Programmer Bank of America WA3-140-01-01 Work Phone: (206) 709-4669 | Mobile: (206) 437-7721 sean.m.sm...@bankofamerica.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING

2010-05-07 Thread Ward, Mike S
Thank you, now I'll have a good weekend. :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 3:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: VSAM FILE CATALOGING Ward, Mike S wrote: The information you

Re: Output from programs which normally produce reports - an idea

2010-05-07 Thread Ken Porowski
Quite a few already do CA-1 CA-7 Zara FDR Control/x If you have a report management product (e.g. View Direct) they may have the ability to selectively format a page for you to download. Although one for catalogs would be nice. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Output from programs which normally produce reports - an idea

2010-05-07 Thread Starr, Alan
For functionality similar to that which you seek, I have used: 1) FDRRPTS, which can read from VTOC, Catalog, HSM, etc. and spit out any data you want in any format you want. 2) IDCAMS DCOLLECT, combined with the report generator provided by ISMF As Ken pointed out, there are other utilities

Re: 45 years of Mainframe

2010-05-07 Thread George Fogg
Congratulations on your retirement George! Enjoy the good life. Sean M. Smith z/OS System Programmer I strange thing happened after I saw you at SHARE Sean. Our whole mainframe group was informed to be outsourced. That's us sysprogs, IMS, CICS, DB2, DASD folks, operations, etc. I was about

Re: VVDS references dead catalog. OK?

2010-05-07 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 7 May 2010 13:42:13 -0500, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Is there any plus to trying to delete all references to dead catalogs from the VVDS on all my volumes? Or is this another, who cares? (except for people with OCD). For me it's a who cares. Or the opposite -

Re: Output from programs which normally produce reports - an idea

2010-05-07 Thread Stephen Mednick
John, I usually try and refrain from making blatant sales pitches and I hope I am allowed to indulge this time on this forum but certainly Innovation Data Processing's FDREPORT tool can do precisely what it is you are after. Apart from generating reports, based on the user's selection criteria

IBMLink and CA Support planned outages this weekend

2010-05-07 Thread Brian Peterson
Quite a coincidence Planned IBMLink Outage - May 7 5 May 2010 This is to inform you that IBMLink will have a planned outage starting on Friday, May 7th at 9:00 PM Eastern Time through Saturday, May 8th at 9:00 AM Eastern Time (Saturday, May 8th from 01:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC). and

Re: Amazing article.

2010-05-07 Thread Frank Swarbrick
It is useful to be able to receive the second generation before processing the first. It is less useful that if this happens you have to make a JCL change to be able to process the older generation once a newer generation has been created. Are there standard ways of dealing with this?

IEBCOPY ignoring SYSIN override?

2010-05-07 Thread Charles Mills
I have been wrestling for the past couple of hours with a problem in which IEBCOPY ignores a SYSIN override. I thought I would toss this out here and see if anyone has ever encountered any gotchas on IEBCOPY. I've done this before although the one thing I am doing differently in this program is

Re: IEBCOPY ignoring SYSIN override?

2010-05-07 Thread Lizette Koehler
What does your JCL look like? It looks like you may not have the DDs for the copy commands in your JCL. Lizette I have been wrestling for the past couple of hours with a problem in which IEBCOPY ignores a SYSIN override. I thought I would toss this out here and see if anyone has ever

Re: IEBCOPY ignoring SYSIN override?

2010-05-07 Thread Starr, Alan
Hello Charles, You certainly documented this well and I must say that I can't see the problem either. Everything looks right, especially since you say that the output is going to DD=TCCCPYPR (as specified in the DD-list). You are specifying two field-names in the parameter list (i.e. one for

Re: Amazing article.

2010-05-07 Thread Bob Rutledge
Frank Swarbrick wrote: It is useful to be able to receive the second generation before processing the first. It is less useful that if this happens you have to make a JCL change to be able to process the older generation once a newer generation has been created. Are there standard ways of

Re: IEBCOPY ignoring SYSIN override?

2010-05-07 Thread Starr, Alan
Charles, I've played with this a bit more and I strongly believe that IEBCOPY is picking up DD=SYS1 for SYSIN but that DD=SYS1 is either NOT allocated or it's allocated to DUMMY. Those are the only two conditions that I could find in which COPY INDD=SYSUT1,OUTDD=SYSUT2

dfsort report and header

2010-05-07 Thread Frank Swarbrick
This works, but I get the nagging feeling it can be a little better. PROD.MIS.RS35PRT is a report file, RECFM=FBA, LRECL=133, that already has the ANS control characters in it. I want to use sort to add a header page with the date. This is what I have right now: //STEP01 EXEC

IBMLink FUBAR for the next 5 hours

2010-05-07 Thread Pinnacle
IBMLink is down due to maintenance for the next 5 hours. Anybody know about this? Since when did they start taking down IBMLink on Friday night? Thanks, Tom Conley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Amazing article.

2010-05-07 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Sorry, I was referring to GDG. Specifically, lets say the normal process is this: Receive file. RUn program. Receive file RUn program. You are suggesting Receive file (in to GDG). Receive file (in to GDG). Run program (Reading entire GDG) That works in some cases, but probably not in others.

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