Re: z/OS UnixSS, java, DB2, and hat in hand

2008-03-06 Thread Roland Schiradin
what kind of language did you code your sproc? Roland Sometimes I just arrive hat in hand, As I belong to the OpenEdition and IBM_Main groups I am starting here. I will guess that I probably will be referred to the DB2 group list for all, or at least part of this? My clear hope is to find

Re: Another one bites the dust.

2008-04-01 Thread Roland Schiradin
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:43:32 -0600, Eric Bielefeld eric- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sorry to hear you shut your MP3000 down for good. We had the same thing at PH Mining about 2 years ago, also an MP3000. I'm glad that you could keep your job. The MP3000 isn't much use anymore, since it

Re: SHOWZOS output.

2008-04-11 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi, looks like you get a RC8 from assembly. Please apply the following change #STATUS GVTCSGRSCONSTRAINED,GVTQRQACONSTRAINED,'QRQA(YES)' to #STATUS GVTCSGRSCONSTRAINED,BIT2,'QRQA(YES)' for z/OS R9 and above Roland -- For

Re: SHOWZOS output.

2008-04-11 Thread Roland Schiradin
Well it's more then just TWO programs. A F ASMA is a better way and always verify the RC. RC4 might be a problem and delivered JCL will not invoke the programs in such cases. Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: SHOWZOS output.

2008-04-11 Thread Roland Schiradin
ok Claude. Version 7.17 (currently beta for z/OS R10) will contain this fix among downward compatibilty if assembled on z/OS R9 and run on older releases. It will be ready soon perhaps at summer time. Still working on some new issues like System-Rexx Roland Roland, Thanks very much, it

SMF Logstreams

2008-04-19 Thread Roland Schiradin
Anybody using this feature and would like to run a small prog (require APF) just for testing and to verify the returned data? Please contact me offline. Tnx Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: What are they trying to tell me?

2008-04-19 Thread Roland Schiradin
PK62243 ++ HOLD(UK32495) SYS FMID(HLE7740) REASON(ACTION) DATE(07354) COMMENT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

IFAQUAA layout for IFAQUERY

2008-05-08 Thread Roland Schiradin
Adding SYS1.MACLIB(IFAQUAA) for the IFAQUERY to an existing program cause naming conflicts with an existing definition in SYS1.MACLIB(IXCYQUAA). ASMA043E Previously defined symbol - QUAH#REC ASMA435I Record 350 in SYS1.MACLIB(IXCYQUAA) ASMA043E Previously defined symbol - QUAH#REM ASMA435I

Re: IFAQUAA layout for IFAQUERY

2008-05-08 Thread Roland Schiradin
Rob, It's an option of course among others. I open an incident with IBM. Roland Roland How about using IFAQUAA QUAHDR=NO The format of the header blocks is the same (although the name of the offset to the first record field is different- tsk tsk) An option available to IBM is to map the

Re: IFAQUAA layout for IFAQUERY

2008-05-09 Thread Roland Schiradin
Yes of course not a common problem. I believe a PREFIX= is a real good idea but lets see how the PMR goes Tnx Roland This situation is hardly unique. You just always have to plan not to use two of such macros in the same module. I'm sure that we could enhance IFAQUAA to support PREFIX= which

Re: IFAQUAA layout for IFAQUERY

2008-05-30 Thread Roland Schiradin
Just for the archive. IBM will open a APAR (SUG) and introduce a PREFIX= option to bypass the naming conflict. Roland At 18:14 -0400 on 05/08/2008, Rob Scott wrote about Re: IFAQUAA layout for IFAQUERY: Roland How about using IFAQUAA QUAHDR=NO The format of the header blocks is the same

Re: C03 abend when omiting CEE.SCEERUN from JCL

2008-10-20 Thread Roland Schiradin
Reentrant programs from authorized libraries loaded into subppol 251. All other programs are loaded into subpool 252 which is NOT fetch protected. Perhaps using CEE.SCEERUN as STEPLIB/JOBLIB looses the status of an authorized library. Unfortunally also just a guess without a dump. Verify if

Re: help unabel to logon to cics ceda or cemt

2008-10-22 Thread Roland Schiradin
Seems a program invokes CESF (sign-off) without the option LOGOFF or GOODNIGHT. You might enter CESN and signon and when invoke CEMT or CEDA. Roland Hi every body, when i logon to CICS sys to do CEMT or CEDA or other transaction, it gave me that massage: DFHCE3550 Sign-off option must be

Re: Favorite Way(s) for COBOL as HTTP Client?

2008-10-23 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi Timothy, use the TCP/IP socket API to connect to port 80 or whatever the HTTP server listenen and send the HTTP request and receive the data back. In case of XML use the Cobol XML parser to extract the data. Roland I got a question asking for recommendations on how to write a COBOL

Diag 304

2008-10-23 Thread Roland Schiradin
Anybody have some information regarding this undocumented instruction. I would like to add this to SHOWzOS 7.18. Regards Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SMS requests

2008-10-28 Thread Roland Schiradin
I suggest to use the code in SHOWzOS as the base. In one of latest version I add a Storage Group display. Understanding the layout of the returned data is a nice project but most of them are done by me or Rob -- For IBM-MAIN

Hiperdispatch

2008-10-28 Thread Roland Schiradin
Is there a cblock which contains an indicator for this? Roland -- 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: Hiperdispatch

2008-10-28 Thread Roland Schiradin
George, according to the macro changes this flag was introduced around 2005 $LN=AFFDISP HBB7730 050311 PD00GD: Affinity Dispatcher Well this flag is off on my z9. Roland Is there a cblock which contains an indicator for this? SVTAFFON X'80' Affinity dispatching is active Regards,

Re: Hiperdispatch

2008-10-29 Thread Roland Schiradin
Ed, no I don't have HIPERDISPATCH=YES as it makes no sense on a z9. I just wonder why this flag was added in 2005 long before Hiperdispatch comes out and if it's the correct flag. Roland Roland Schiradin wrote: George, according to the macro changes this flag was introduced around 2005

Re: Hiperdispatch

2008-10-29 Thread Roland Schiradin
WLMOPT tools shows the IEAOPT and the runtime HIPERDISPATCH. Is this the IEAOPT setting or the runtime? Thank you for the information and verification. Yep good idea to add this to IPLINFO. Will do the same for SHOWzOS. During my research I also made some other changes MCCAFCTH in IEAOPT was

Re: Hiperdispatch

2008-10-30 Thread Roland Schiradin
For me the runtime setting is fine. I believe the OPT value comes from oco cblock IRARMCTY. Thanks Peter Roland On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 07:19:32 -0400, Peter Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the current moment, IHASVT bit SVTAFFON does not necessarily match the IEAOPTxx Hiperdispatch

Re: Can't Cancel a CICS Region

2008-10-31 Thread Roland Schiradin
First choice login and try to invoke CEMT P SHUT or CEMT P SHUT I You might capture a dump and analyze this dump. In some cases you might resubmit your CANCEL request. I never saw the symptoms for a CICS region Roland Hello, This might not be the right list for this question but here

Re: Can't Cancel a CICS Region

2008-10-31 Thread Roland Schiradin
Patrick, running CICS as STC is much better then a JOB. This issue has been discussed several times at CICS-L Roland On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:12:33 -0400, Bob Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can force it down No. Do this first: 1. FORCE ARM 2. CANCEL 3. If it still isn't down now do

Re: Fwd: storing a PDF file in DB2 for z/OS

2008-11-11 Thread Roland Schiradin
Look into the SHOWzOS distribution www.cbttape.org. It contains a JCL to generate a PDF and transfer this MVS dataset to your PC. Roland Sorry, there was a typo in the title. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:02 PM

Re: Fwd: storing a PDF file in DB2 for z/OS

2008-11-13 Thread Roland Schiradin
See the last two steps in member SHOWJCL or X2PJCL. Roland On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Roland Schiradin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Look into the SHOWzOS distribution www.cbttape.org. It contains a JCL to generate a PDF and transfer this MVS dataset to your PC. Roland I'm not having

IBM-Support Toolbar for MSIE and Firefox

2008-11-13 Thread Roland Schiradin
Very nice even I use it for just a few hours. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/toolbar/ Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

zHPF

2008-11-14 Thread Roland Schiradin
Anybody have this feature (software and hardware) installed? I add some code to SHOWzOS and would like to get this verified. I'm also working on the support for special devices on an alternate subchannel aka device types 3390S and 3390D Please contact me offline if you want run a beta of

Re: Logrec Viewer 1.1

2008-11-17 Thread Roland Schiradin
The URL below works for me. I GET PAGE CANNOT BE DISPLAYED message. How about a real UTL. George Fogg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Alcock Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 7:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: z/OS upgrade

2008-11-21 Thread Roland Schiradin
Yep I remember this presentation. Based on this I add some code to SHOWzOS to display those DIAG settings, with help from Jim Mulder, long before D DIAG command was born Roland Veilleux, Jon L wrote: Ed, thanks much for your responses. I notice that NUCLABEL ENABLE(IGVGPVTN)is not documented

SHOWzOS

2008-11-21 Thread Roland Schiradin
RS1108 * Implement enhancements contributed by Roland Schiradin RS0908 * Display TCP/IP interface via IOCTL for first stack RS1108 * Display TCP/IP statistics via IOCTL for first stack RS1108 * Display special devices with alternate subchannel set

Re: Add Storage To Lpar - z/800

2008-11-25 Thread Roland Schiradin
Looks the memory issue was already covered. For DB2 V8 did you REBIND all of your packages??? Regards Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

OA25908 New IEASYS parameters

2008-11-27 Thread Roland Schiradin
This APAR introduce two new parameters CPCR and ZZ but haven't seen any documentation for these. Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

SYSLOGD and Assembler

2008-12-01 Thread Roland Schiradin
I received the following suggestion for SHOWzOS but I have no idea how it can be done. Can I use the SYSLOGD stuff from Assembler? Is it just a simple TCP/IP connection or an API? I want to thank you for all the work you've done on ShowMVS/ShowZos. It is one of my go to utilities, and I

Re: Interesting APAR OA27291 an undocumented change to GETMAIN Behavior in z/OS 1.10

2008-12-11 Thread Roland Schiradin
Jon, could you post the ISV/Software and the ptf? The bad program caused an overlay in another vendor's code, so I had to determine what caused the overlay. Once I determined who caused the overlay it was up to the vendor to fix it, but it was not a trivial task.

Re: Unicode on Demand problem

2008-12-16 Thread Roland Schiradin
Jim, we use unicode on demand but z/OS R9 without any problem. Perhaps you miss some service? AFAIR SRB mode was supported in the first version of unicode on demand. Maybe you should raise a PMR Roland cross posted to IBM-MAIN and DB2-L. We have just converted from z/OS 1.4 to z/OS 1.7 and

Re: IEFSSSSA, IGDVLD and subsystem calls to SMS

2009-01-09 Thread Roland Schiradin
Ken, it's not documented unless you pay a lot of money. Same apply to IGWFAMS service. SHOWzOS and MXI (freeware) use it. It was easy to understand the returned data. Roland I have seen some shareware code that uses SUBSYS calls to SMS to obtain such information as the STORAGE GROUP a

Re: Utility for LE Options?

2009-01-20 Thread Roland Schiradin
SHOWzOS and COBANAL display the CEExOPT settings but not for CEEROPT. However the code should also work for CEEROPT unless you modify it and load the CEEROPT entry. Starting with z/OS R9 (?) IBM deliver a macro (CEEOCB?) to map the CEExOPT. Regards Roland Is there some utility out there

SHOWzOS 7.18 latest beta available

2009-02-06 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi, what's new *$718RS1107 * Implement enhancements contributed by Roland Schiradin RS0908 * Display some System Rexx dataRS0209 * Fixed S0C7 using the TCP/IP client/server display func

Re: System Reserve Question

2009-02-10 Thread Roland Schiradin
I believe this is fixed by APAR OA17735? Bob, First, you don't mention you received IOS071I Start Pending messages, so I think you don't need to worry about Reserves, but focus on the chain of Enqueues, that slowed down your system. Second, how busy was you CPU at that moment and what Service

Re: Expired SHARE ID (Was: Macro-generated BAL/Rs)

2009-02-10 Thread Roland Schiradin
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:25:33 -0800, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: 100 % agree. Share proceedings archive is excellent. Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Tried to get that one but since it's older it requires login, and my old share id expired. I'll go get a new id and retrieve

Re: DB2: To LNKLST or not to LNKLST (was Re: PROGxx ...)

2009-02-10 Thread Roland Schiradin
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:35:16 +, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: It's an easy naming convention SDSNLINK = LNKLST SDSNLOAD = STEPLIB SDSNLOD2 = STEPLIB (PDSE) SDFHLINK = LNKLST SDFHLOAD = STEPLIB/DFHRPL I believe other IBM products use this similar Roland This could be a religious

Re: SV: SV: PROGxx, linklist, LLA and fetch performance

2009-02-10 Thread Roland Schiradin
Thomas, we use system symbols and symbolic related aliases Subsystem DB2T and DB2X DEFINE ALIAS (NAME (DB2.DB2T.SDSNLOAD) - SYMBOLICRELATE (DB2.RELDB2T..SDSNLOAD)) DEFINE ALIAS (NAME (DB2.DB2X.SDSNLOAD) - SYMBOLICRELATE (DB2.RELDB2X..SDSNLOAD)) IEASYMxx

Re: SV: SV: SV: PROGxx, linklist, LLA and fetch performance

2009-02-11 Thread Roland Schiradin
-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Roland Schiradin Skickat: den 11 februari 2009 07:53 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: SV: SV: PROGxx, linklist, LLA and fetch performance Thomas, we use system symbols and symbolic related aliases Subsystem DB2T and DB2X DEFINE ALIAS (NAME (DB2.DB2T.SDSNLOAD

Re: SV: SV: SV: SV: PROGxx, linklist, LLA and fetch performance

2009-02-11 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hups :-) I agree. (I assume shouldn't not should not be that. ;) ) Regards, -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: SHARE in Denver this August!

2009-02-12 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi Steve, my current plan is to attend SHARE in Denver. Regards Roland Everyone's talking about SHARE in AUSTIN. Great. Wish I could go. But SHARE is coming to Denver in August (23-28). Where we live. We've already volunteered to give sessions and we've talked with the SHARE staff about

Re: SHARE in Denver this August!

2009-02-13 Thread Roland Schiradin
lives in Colorado sprins :-( Roland Roland Schiradin wrote: Hi Steve, my current plan is to attend SHARE in Denver. Regards Roland Cool! If it works out for both of us, I'll see you there. Or, rather, here. Well, you know

Re: SHARE in Denver this August!

2009-02-13 Thread Roland Schiradin
You're welcome Ed. CU at Denver I promise. Don't tell the cics project :-) Roland Roland Schiradin wrote: Ed ask me last year about a presentation for freeware tools. I deny this for march but will working on a presentation about SHOWzOS and COBANAL. Consider yourself scheduled

Re: New CICS XCF Group

2009-02-17 Thread Roland Schiradin
Ensure the latest level of DFHIRP is in the LPA. Easy way is to invoke TSO ISRDDN command LOAD DFHIRP, enter and scroll back. 650 means CTS 3.2 *DFH IRP ih÷.0650I.â ..UK30311 ..CICS Roland I've received a call from a colleague and he saids me that it's no necessary to define a

SHOWzOS V7.18 ready

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Schiradin
enhancements contributed by Roland Schiradin RS0908 * Display more ISPCFIG/ISPCFIGU data z/OS R9 (HBB7740) JK0209 * Wrong SMF types (off by one) for SMF-Logstreams RS0209 * (Mark Zelden) RS0209 * Fixed abend S0C4

Peter Pfaffner passed away

2007-08-16 Thread Roland Schiradin
I'm sorry to say Peter Pfaffner at the age of 49 passed away. He was subscribed and post from time to time. He wasn't very active in the community but a great loss for me. For those that knew Peter. Roland -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SHOWMVS from CBT tape??

2007-08-22 Thread Roland Schiradin
David, the doc is the source code and the comments. The specs and flags are attributes like VB/FB for a dataclass. You might look at the SMS macros but not all of them are public without paying IBM. I know MXI shows a descriptions of these values. I'll add a description of those specs and

SHOWzOS Support for z/OS R9

2007-09-04 Thread Roland Schiradin
Unfortunally I'm very busy with some other projects so toleration support for z/OS R9 is still delayed until I have time. If someone have a urgent need please contact offline and I'll email an early version if it's ready. Sorry, but you know I don't get payed for it J Roland

Re: Running with SQA/ESQA 100% CHECK

2007-09-12 Thread Roland Schiradin
Barbara SHOWMVS and SHOWzOS report the MAXCAD and current usage since several years. Require APF. Dataspace/Hiperspace . . . Total MAXCAD=25 Total used CADS=12 Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: HTTP Server Abend

2007-09-12 Thread Roland Schiradin
Matt, I would track open APAR OA22110 to get a better diagnostic IGW020I msg even I believe the SYSLOG should provide more info for this kind of LOAD failure. Regards Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

SHOWzOS and z/OS R9

2007-09-22 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi, I will release SHOWzOS 7.16 for z/OS R9 after APAR OA22594 will be closed. Hopefully I'll fix the problems I have with my own CEEOCB because z/OS R9 deliver a CEEOCB in the SCEEMAC. Regards Roland -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: LOAD a module into CSA/ECSA

2007-10-07 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hmmh well did you try GLOBAL=YES and EO=NO? Make sure you follow the documentation. I used GLOBAL=YES and EOM=YES in the past and it works as documented. Never used EOM=NO Roland Hi, I'm just reading an assembler language book and there is one coding example showing how to dynamically

Cobol Signature statement bit

2007-10-10 Thread Roland Schiradin
Well I'm working on my Cobol-Analyser (COBANAL) The Cobol compiler miss to set some bits in the statements bits even these are in the source. I already open a PMR for this. I'm talking about END-EXEC END-ADD END-DIVIDE END-SUBTRACT However I'm not able to verify all of these statement

Re: Convert Tool

2007-10-11 Thread Roland Schiradin
And the result will be different if your talking about DB2 or VSAM. Roland Guess what: it depends. The blocksize determines how many bytes fit on one track, blksize=6000 stores 48000 bytes, blksize=27998 stores 55996 on a track. 1 cylinder is 15 tracks and stores up to 839940 bytes, which is

Re: CPU Utilization by GRS

2007-10-12 Thread Roland Schiradin
We had this in the past because of several thousend ENQ for DB2 tablesspace. We exclude these in the GRSRNL. This is dangerous and can be a pain. So make sure you do NOT share these data. Search the archive for more info. AFAIR we save 50% of the GRS CPU GRS provides a nice as-is monitor. I

SHOWzOS 716

2007-10-12 Thread Roland Schiradin
Schudel JS0507 * Bugfix JES2 level display, Check SSOBRETNJS0507 * Implement enhancements contributed by Roland Schiradin RS0507 * Disable UNICODE codepage pairs for z/OS R and R9 RS1007 * will be back soon after I understand

Re: Cobol Signature statement bit

2007-10-12 Thread Roland Schiradin
Well IBM raised PK54632 for this. Perhaps it will end in a FIN APAR Well I'm working on my Cobol-Analyser (COBANAL) The Cobol compiler miss to set some bits in the statements bits even these are in the source. I already open a PMR for this. I'm talking about END-EXEC END-ADD END-DIVIDE

Re: Healthcheck CHECK(IBMCS,CSVTAM_CSM_STG_LIMIT)

2007-10-15 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi Barbara, does it really makes sense to spent time for such issue? I know doc guys work fast and are very helpfull. I better be quiet# as my time is limited and raise a PMR is a paing to capture all the requested info even t's clear- I donwant to walk thid road Roland There are several

Re: COBOL move statement issue

2007-10-15 Thread Roland Schiradin
Craig, interesting I thought NUMPROC(PFD) would cause an abend but PACK wouldn't get a data exception (0C7). Roland There does not appear to be a combination of NUMPROC and OPT that will cause an abend. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Healthcheck CHECK(IBMCS,CSVTAM_CSM_STG_LIMIT)

2007-10-15 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi Barbara, I just email a RCF even no email was given in the healthcheck documentation. It's better then just complaining. Roland Hi Roland, does it really makes sense to spent time for such issue? I know doc guys work fast and are very helpfull. Well, kicking off an RCF is a one-time

Re: ALLOCAS High cpu utilization

2007-10-17 Thread Roland Schiradin
I would capture a dump from the asid and look in the SYSTRACE. Perhaps more the one dump to compare the results (e.g. CPU-Time) Roland Hi all, I just noticed that the ALLOCAS address space is utilizing between 25% and 30% of our system. Since this system has 3 cpu's. Is there a way to

Re: Healthcheck CHECK(IBMCS,CSVTAM_CSM_STG_LIMIT)

2007-10-18 Thread Roland Schiradin
For the archive I was told there will be an APAR against VTAM. No more details so far Ray, thanks for the vrey helpful explanation. I try to build a list instead of answering in general. 1. Our IVTPRM contains (IBM defaults) FIXED MAX(120MB) ECSA MAX(120MB) I now know why IVT5539I stay the MAX

Re: Healthcheck ((IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)

2007-10-22 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hmmhhh. no comments from IBM so far. Seems a RCF should do. If time permit I'll do. Roland ok so the HC should omit such a combination (SMS-managed and migrated) So the remaining question is this a wrong setup or just the HC miss this valid combination. In the sysprog sandplex we tended to have

Re: Health Check CHECK(XCF_CDS_SEPARATION)

2007-10-23 Thread Roland Schiradin
Mark, I also opened a PMR but it was easy not a bunch of docs just cut and paste the email. Roland I will. It doesn't take much longer to open an ETR than a post on IBM-MAIN (unless of course I am asked to start collecting a bunch of doc). But I thought other checks discussed here were

Re: Healthcheck (IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)

2007-10-29 Thread Roland Schiradin
Peter, I believe such an option is much better before deactivate this healthcheck because of a well-known wanted situation. Roland So given this, do you still want an option that says do not flag this as an exception? If that is what customers want, then I don't mind, but it should be

From the CICS E-News (IBMLink/Servicelink)

2007-10-29 Thread Roland Schiradin
Complete article available via http://www-306.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/enews/ Our sincere apologies to all users who experienced problems with IBMLINK/ServiceLink Web tool recently. A number of planned actions will deliver improved availability of the IBM Web tools you use. The ServiceLink

Re: Determine owner of a dataspace

2007-10-29 Thread Roland Schiradin
I believe only the undocumented DSPLIST service might help. SHOWzOS, MXI and D A, use it Roland LOCASCB will translate an address space STOKEN to an ASCB address. Is there anything that will get the PASN owning a dataspace? I presume that LOCASCB RC=8 indicates that the STOKEN describes a

Re: Healthcheck (IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)

2007-10-29 Thread Roland Schiradin
Peter, I don't care if a dataset is really SMS-managed or not. If it's flagged as SMS-managed in the APF entry I don't care about the DS migrated healthcheck exception as this is a well known expection and we know this. Roland I made a mistake in my previous append. It turns out that we can

Re: Healthcheck (IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Schiradin
Peter, Roland wrote: I don't care if a dataset is really SMS-managed or not. If it's flagged as SMS-managed in the APF entry I don't care about the DS migrated healthcheck exception as this is a well known expection and we know this. Roland, Could you elaborate for the user group why you do

Re: Healthcheck (IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Schiradin
Rick, how do you keep the APF list sync during software upgrade in SYSPLEX or did your APF list include all entries regardless during the upgrade/rollout? Roland snip--- Given the problem cases, the simple fact of mismatched APF lists is quite possibly a

Re: Healthcheck (IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Schiradin
Rick, this means it contains more entries as needed on some images not to say unnecessary. Ok this keeps the healthcheck and HSM happy. Well we use system symbols for APF and there can be only one. Roland --snip Rick, how do you keep the APF list sync

Re: Healthcheck (IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)

2007-10-31 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hypothesizing that we could differentiate these two cases, would you want us to -- never flag migrated as an exception -- flag migrated as an exception only for case 2 -- flag both cases as exceptions -- have a 2-way parameter that lets you say both or never -- have a 3-way parameter that lets

Re: Scotts new role

2007-11-03 Thread Roland Schiradin
Oh well I agree 100%. I just changed my client and nobody cares as I didn't change my brain. All I know is still where and I all miss also. Who care about Scott. It's just a change and I never recognize this change. It's just up to him

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-05 Thread Roland Schiradin
Shocking news. A great loss. We will miss him. Tnx for the info Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: Real storage usage - a quick question

2007-11-07 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi Max, if you're going to V8 make sure the bufferpools are pagefixed otherwise DB2 have to do it for each I/O. Roland Hi Martin how is it ? We're in V7, I suppose you warned about 2 Gb limit. If the case, I can assure you we're quite far from 2GB limit... Anyway you've said that there

Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler

2007-11-08 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi Gene, doesn't make sense to me. If an instruction exists in the code the disassemble should decode them based on the latest level of possible opcodes. Why would you limit this? Roland The High level Assembler accepts and uses an OPTABLE parm which lets you limit the valid op codes to an

Re: The Hole Below the Bar

2007-11-09 Thread Roland Schiradin
In the 24-bit days, PL/I and TSO parse (IKJPARS) both used X'FF00' as their bad or end of chain value, IIRC. CICS does the same for Exec Cics Address. Roland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Real storage usage - a quick question

2007-11-11 Thread Roland Schiradin
Shane, right. It wasn't me who introduce the PAGEDEL command. In the past we had several reserved page datasets which was used/shared by several LPARs. Automation add's and delete them on demand. This was fine for several years unless this add/delete happen more frequently because of some DB2

Re: IBMLINK Release 6.0

2007-11-12 Thread Roland Schiradin
You're not alone. I get the same. Roland Well, the net effect is the same: I cannot access my own ETRs: Either I get There has been a problem processing your request. Please try again. If you continue to have difficulties, please contact IBMLink customer support. or I get An error has

Re: IBMLINK Release 6.0

2007-11-12 Thread Roland Schiradin
Gil, we all do starting last weekend. Roland On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:17:52 +0100, Barbara Nitz wrote: Well, the net effect is the same: I cannot access my own ETRs: Just curious: Did any reader of this list participate in a beta test of IBMLink Release 6.0? (Or would NDA preclude discussing

SHOWzOS 716 for z/OS R9

2007-11-13 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi folks, sorry I'm still waiting for closure of OA22594. However I decide to release this version regardless of this APAR. Please contact IBM for a temp fix it's available and works fine. Don't know why this takes so long. It's still open as of today. Please don't try 7.15 as it fails because

AbendS077 RSN not documented

2007-06-29 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi folks, perhaps Scott Fagen listen saw DUMP TITLE=COMPON=CNZ,COMPID=SC1CK,ISSUER=CNZMIREC,MODULE=CNZH1 CKB+1158,ABEND=S0077,REASON=08010931 but the System Codes manual didn't show the rsn 0931. Regards Roland

SHOWzOS 7.14 available

2006-12-11 Thread Roland Schiradin
http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/updates/CBT492.zip Enjoy Regards Roland -- 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: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-27 Thread Roland Schiradin
John, not sure for CICS but jar files works fine under z/OS. I wrote some Java code under Windows and upload (ftp) them binary to z/OS and execute them without modifications and vice versa. Be aware 1. The mainfest file must be ASCII regardless the development plattform (z/OS!!) 2. JDK 1.4.2

Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-28 Thread Roland Schiradin
Shmuel, yep I done this several times (plain Java, JDBC, JMS, XML, Mail, sockets). Exception might exists for graphics of course :-)) or other extensions. Roland Roland, do you know if a class file compiled on Windows - likewise works without modifications as is after ftp to z/OS Shmuel

Re: COBOL and Java interoperabitiliy

2007-01-23 Thread Roland Schiradin
John, I have a sample Cobol program from a friend which I will email you at fryday. It invokes the Java -version function. Roland I know that the current Enterprise COBOL language is documented to be able to invoke Java class methods and vice versa. But I'm curious if anybody out there has

SHOWzOS 7.17 for z/OS R10 (beta)

2008-06-22 Thread Roland Schiradin
.DA0508 * Use IFAQUAAX from the SHOWMACS (OA25314) DA0508 * Implement enhancements contributed by Roland Schiradin RS1107 * Letter M/G for shared memory objects is wrongRS0508 * (Mr. Wiedemann)RS0508

Re: RRS trouble usage

2008-06-23 Thread Roland Schiradin
Seems to be a security issue Roland 00F30013 Explanation: The requester is not authorized to connect to this DB2 subsystem. This condition might indicate an attempted security violation. This reason code is issued by the following CSECT: DSN3AUCN System action: The connection request is

Re: C/C++ malloc() memory allocation

2008-06-26 Thread Roland Schiradin
AFAIR LE use subpool 2 key 8. However it's possible to allocate CSA/ECSA while running in key8. Since z/OS R8 or R9 you can deny such kind of allocations. Before it was an undocumented option. Roland I don't recall this ever happening. In order to allocate storage out of CSA/ECSA the program

Re: IBM using more below the line storage.

2008-07-09 Thread Roland Schiradin
John, our private size on z/OS R9 below is (MXI VMAP command, IPLINFO from Mark Zelden provide the same info) Area Start EndSize(K) Extended Private 2DF0 7FFF 1344512K Extended CSA 0C4F6000 2DEF 550952K Extended MLPA 0C1F8000 0C4F5FFF

Re: IBM using more below the line storage.

2008-07-10 Thread Roland Schiradin
Ted, I wrote our private region below the line is about 10M. Was it to difficult to understand? Roland Roland, I hate to say this, maybe I'm not clear, but what are you saying? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: COBOL subroutine(s) for batch outgoing SOAP

2008-07-31 Thread Roland Schiradin
1. DB2 Webservice function 2. plain TCP/IP socket calls 3. CICS Exci. comes to my mind Roland Does anybody know of a product which would allow a COBOL batch program to send a SOAP request to another server? -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of

Re: Debugging Tips

2008-08-19 Thread Roland Schiradin
Hi Michael, in these days we should code RENT code only. -- 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: SYSEVENT QVS and C interface.

2008-08-30 Thread Roland Schiradin
Why not a simple assembler interface? It's easy to call a assembler prog from C or C++. I have an application, coded in C, that needs to extract the information that is provided by the SYSEVENT QVS assembler instruction. The doc for SYSEVENT QVS notes that there is a C callable interface

SHOWzOS V7.17 available soon

2008-09-06 Thread Roland Schiradin
contributed by Roland Schiradin RS1107 * Fixed S0F8 RC18 RS0908 * Status for Large Page Support, new IPA LFAREARS0808 * IPL-Statistics Description RS0808 * M/G for shared memory objects

zOS R10

2008-09-08 Thread Roland Schiradin
Does anybody (perhaps Ed) know the CVTOSLVL bit for HBB7750: Is it x'08' in CVTOSLV5? CVTOSLV5 DCXL1'70' BYTE 5 OF CVTOSLVL CVTZOSE EQU X'80' z/OS.e CVTZOSAS EQU X'80' z/OS.e CVTPUMA EQU X'80' z/OS.e CVTZOS_010700 EQU X'40' z/OS V1R7

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