Re: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster?

snip Subject: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster? I spoke few days ago with an ADABAS specialist that claimed that ADABAS is much faster and has low overhead compared to IMS and DB2. Is this true? /snip As with most things in this business, it depends. The first question to ask is What source

Re: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster?

snip Please can you explain to your audience how long have you been around and how long have you been workling with Adabas, IMS and DB2 ? /snip I have been a MVS systems programmer for about 35 years. I have worked with IMS and DB2 for about 5 years. I have never worked with ADABAS. I have no

Re: Any way to duplex SMF data?

snip Heck, with SMS can do auto archive/auto backup, compress and stripe??? Still dependant on sentient life forms processing the data. DISP=(MOD,DELETE,DELETE) maybe??? /snip That's carbon units to you, Ed G -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Are there tasks that don't play by WLM's rules

snip Has anyone else experienced this with Direct-Connect or any other application? That is have they experienced the application taking over the system even though it has a low importance level? This is important to us as we want our CICS processing to be one of the last things to be hurt if we

Re: embarressing SDSF question.

Time for a new vendor! Their price may comde down rather quickly after that! snip Nope. The vendor has specifically stated that the release that we have only supports the R4 format of the checkpoint. And I've validated that by looking at their interface and changing it to use the z2 format

Re: Placement of Couple Data sets

snip Sorry for being dense, but since we now have virtual dasd (RAID) and we now have ICF, has anyone done any current research to see if a re-evaluation of this process needs to be done? I am just thinking that with the current dasd types, it maybe that things have changed a bit. /snip Had a

Re: Devices

Make sure the devices are also defined in the HMC. IIRC it is one of the Single Object operations. snip Something strange--maybe some else may have run across... Did new IOCP for ICC consoles...We did POR CHPID comes up but when we display Devices none appear..?? Double check IOCP all

Re: Healthcheck (IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)

Addendum, this was on the same system that the dataset was authorized on. SNIP snip When we had developed the check, we had conferred with the HSM folks and were told that they did not allow APF data sets to be migrated. /snip This is incorrect. I APF added a test dataset and issued a HMIGRATE

Re: Healthcheck (IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)

snip When we had developed the check, we had conferred with the HSM folks and were told that they did not allow APF data sets to be migrated. /snip This is incorrect. I APF added a test dataset and issued a HMIGRATE command. (Command migration). The migrate was successful. IIRC, the dataset will

Re: multiple z/OS sharing considerations.

I can think of nothing that can be done in a single image that cannot be done in a basic (or parallel) sysplex. Some things are more complicated, some things are easier. IIRC, 3-5% utilization is the ROT for parallel sysplex overhead (maybe for basic, but I am not sure). Parallel sysplex =

Re: multiple z/OS sharing considerations.

My overhead numbers have historically been closer to 10% than 20% for the OS and its friends (excluding subsystems e.g. CICS, IMS) BTW, that's 10%-20% of the LPAR consumption. E.G. If the LPAR consumes 20% of the CEC, that would be 10-20% of the 20%. IOTW 2-4%. My 3-5% is in addition to that.

Re: multiple z/OS sharing considerations.

snip That brings up a question I had on the part of the post I quoted below. If you have 2 Lpars in a sysplex, and each Lpar runs say 10 CICSs, how do you prevent shutting down the 10 CICSs on the system you want to IPL? I know when I worked at my last job, they had 2 separate z/900s in a sysplex,

Re: Healthcheck ((IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)

Ed, Was this from auto-migration or command migration? snip ARC1001I apf.authorized.data.set MIGRATE FAILED, RC=0099, REAS=0014 ARC1299I UNSUPPORTED DATA SET FOR MIGRATION ARC1299I UNSUPPORTED DATA SET FOR MIGRATION Reascode Meaning 14The data set is an authorized program facility

Re: Healthcheck ((IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)

Peter, et. al. My results: APF List Attribute Dataset Attribute Migration Result SMS managed SMS managedSuccessful SMS managed Non-SMS managedSuccessful Non-SMS managed Non-SMS managedFailed Non-SMS managed

Re: SDSF in a sysplex

Yes to all of the below. SDSF on LPAR1 will be able to display JOBS, sysout, CPU, etc. on LPAR2. IIRC SDSF uses the RMF data area for the DA display. The rest I believe is handled by JES2. snip On system1/connected to server1, can I do a 'DA' to see and browse the output of jobs running on

Re: SDSF in a sysplex

Thanks for the update. I was not aware of that requirement. snip Staller, Allan wrote: IIRC SDSF uses the RMF data area for the DA display. The rest I believe is handled by JES2. SDSF requires MQSeries (an extra cost option) for full multisystem support. -- Edward E Jaffe /snip

Re: ARC0440I/ARC0734I - Problem

snip DFHSM was attempting to recycle the tape. Several messages were displayed ARC0440I - VOLUME 032009 CONTAINS AN INVALID CDD OR A TAPE POSITIONING ERROR HAS OCCURRED. ARC0734I ACTION=RECYCLE FRVOL=032009 TOVOL=** BLOCKS= 1 RC= 68, REASON= DSN=HSM.HMIG.V143501.Y321.OMMD0$02.J7287

Re: ADMINISTRIVIA: Announcement!

Congratulations and best of luck in all that you do!. Your contributions have been greatly appreciated... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: Best way to clean up NOT Cat datasets in SMS

snip Looking to find the best process to identify and delete uncataloged data sets that are in SMS Pools. These can either be VSAM or NON VSAM data sets. How often should this process run? How would I go about reducing or elimiating the fact data sets can be not cataloged in SMS Pools? snip If

Re: Best way to clean up NOT Cat datasets in SMS

snip Looking to find the best process to identify and delete uncataloged data sets that are in SMS Pools. These can either be VSAM or NON VSAM data sets. How often should this process run? How would I go about reducing or elimiating the fact data sets can be not cataloged in SMS Pools? snip

Re: Real storage usage - a quick question

I have never encountered a bad page dataset. I have encountered page errors within a page dataset (usually due to some sort of IO error). The last time I encountered this (circa 1985) the task referencing the bad page received a S028 abend. The system marked the slot in the page dataset as bad

Re: Splitting an DFSMShsm environment

Since you do not appear to be leaning towards a hsmPlex, I cannot think of any graceful way to accomplish the split. Certainly brute force methods will work. Regarding creating separate pools of tapes for each HSM, this is easily accomplished with the aid of your tape management system and dfhsm

Re: Splitting an DFSMShsm environment

snip Actually, I was not specific enough. What I want is a way in the current HSM environment to direct specific high levels to different pools of tapes. So that when I do split, I just assign the existing HSM tapes to the proper HSM system. /snip Again, this is relatively easily accomplished

Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)

The relation is definitely *NOT* linear. According to the M/1-M queueing model, given random transaction arrival, throughput begins to decline at 30% and increases in a non-linear fashion Asymptotically(??) approaching inifinity as utilizaion aproaches 100%. The curve really takes off after

Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is

In a recent note, Staller, Allan said: Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:16:17 -0500 The relation is definitely *NOT* linear. According to the M/1-M queueing model, given random transaction arrival, throughput begins to decline at 30% and increases in a non-linear fashion Asymptotically

Re: IVP for JAVA

This is where IBM distributes the JVM's: /user/lpp/java There will most likely be several subdirectories depending on your Level of z/OS. HTH, snip Does this mean it is not installed: # ls SERVICE bin dev ivp.scp opt u SERVICE1 cai etc krb5 samples

Re: IVP for JAVA

Try /usr/lpp/java/J5.0 or /usr/lpp/java/J5.0_64 HTH, snip I was looking for java 1.5 to run on z/os 1.7 but there was no separate package for it. The only j1.5 i could find was an smpe update to WAS 6.1, and since we have WAS 6.0, we are stuck with j 1.4. And j1.6 has been out from Sun

Re: IVP for JAVA - HELP on Hello World

That will work great for OS/390 2.10 Change the directory to: /usr/lpp/java/J1.4/bin on z/OS1.4 for z/OS 1.4 Or on z/OS 1.7 (choose one) /usr/lpp/java/J1.4/bin JAVA 1.4.(2?) 31 bit /usr/lpp/java/J1.4_64/bin Java 1.4.(2?) 64 bit /usr/lpp/java/J5.0/bin JAVA 1.5 31 bit

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

snip [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clem Clarke) writes: In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO. Yep. TSO was, as I recall, *added* to MVT somewhere along the line. And SVC 99 was not used, again, as I recall. That came with MVS or maybe VS2? /snip AFAIK, TSO was always a

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Nope, The actual code is: SR15,15 BRR14 Bill Wilkie wrote: snip In case anyone lost it, assemble this: BR14 Just hive it a name. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Yup!!! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Scott Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 8:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes Haven't you two guys just re-created the

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

Nope. Those are not there!! snip In a message dated 4/24/2007 8:14:01 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SR 15,15 BRR14 Plus the eyecatcher and the CNOP for alignment. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: JES2 Shutdown issue on z/os 1.7

In your shutdown process issues f omvs,shutdown snip We just migrated from 1.4 to 1.7 on our production lpar about 1.5 weeks ago. The first shutdown on 1.7 caused JES2 not to come down clean, thus forcing an ABEND to end it. Our second shutdown did the same thing. All of our NJE line printer

Re: Monitor refresh rates

snip Something else comes to mind. I recall measuring these some monitors and seeing CPU consumption affective. The REFRESH RATE may also force some sorting, XMS and other stuff to occur on every 20 seconds. Measure the delta changes on CPU TIME when you adjust the refresh rates. CPU consumption

Re: Monitor refresh rates

Please excuse my indecision. The refresh rate referred to was the refresh frequency of the online display, not the sample frequency HTH, snip The refresh rate for any ISV monitor may refer to any number of things but it is unlikely to refer to a global sampling interval if we are talking about

Re: Monitor refresh rates

Oops. Make that imprecision G snip Please excuse my indecision. The refresh rate referred to was the refresh frequency of the online display, not the sample frequency /snip H -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Systems Programmer job posting

snip Pay peanuts, get monkeys. . . . Sherman, set the wayback machine to 1990 Yes. Mr. Peabody $34 per hour? You've got to be kidding. Boeing paid me that amount 17 yrs ago as a PERMANENT employee. Have contract rates really dropped that far below 2001 levels? I had better go suck up to my

Re: Systems Programmer job posting

Bob, No offense taken. Having been in the situation and spending almost 2 years looking for a permanent (or semi-permanent) position, I was merely pointing out the the multitudes on this list that almost any paying position is better than unemployment or Wal-mart, etc. Many of us have

Re: Systems Programmer job posting

I have no current information. My last contract was short term (2004) in a small market. ISTR about $40/hr. It was still far more than unemployment. This was at a remote location from my primary residence. I rented an apt (written off) $40/day in meals (written off). Travel to/from my primary

Re: Finally get to go from os390 2.10 to zOS 1.8

The supported migration paths are in the 'n-3' (now n-2) are that way because that is the level IBM has determined for coexistence and fallback. i.e. JES, CATALOGS, RACF, etc. can be shared with no ill effects. Outside of the migration range (N-3 or N-2) there *IS NO COEXISTENCE or FALLBACK the

Re: WLM questions

snip You missed my point! We don't have that! We do route around with sub-half-second, using velocity goals. Why do we need transaction goals? (My original question -- you may need it; we don't) /snip You MAY NOT NEED transaction goals. You MAY want them. Granted your velocity goals are provided

Re: Microsoft Claims It All

snip Or management might see that MS really does know the only way to use computers and finally get rid of all of the dinosaurs. /snip Or even boot Microsnot(not a typo) out and run Linux on desktops/servers (and keep the dinosaurs) G

Re: HSM Dump Skipped When Encrypting Backups

snip As many folks are encrypting dump tapes of the system before sending them offsite, we use the IBM cheap solution of the IBM Encryption Facility (5655P97) with the feature to encrypt HSM dump tapes which use DFdss. Discovered at a recent DR exercise that one dump was missing and later

Re: Multiple Copying Program

Don't forget the PARALLEL operand... /snip Twit! Once again answering my own question. DFSMSdss supports the COPY operand for logical and physical copies. That'll do, although I would still be interested if anyone has an alternative. /snip

Re: SMP/E 3.4 - IBM Order Server Performance

Mark, Try http://www.ibm.com/support/us/ Rarely more the 15 minutes or so for up to 25 or 30 fixes. File is placed for browser or FTP retrieval. The Search panel supports keyword searches similar to IBM link. The onlyt drawback I have found is that this service is 1 or 2 days behind IBM link.

Re: mainframe = superserver

[snip] Is there a medium to large IBM box that can run a couple hundred of virtual windows 2003 servers? And said box can scale up to approximately 1000+ virtual windows servers? [snip] I am doing research for the possible replacement of 200+ windows server in our datacenter. We

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

snip CA acquired ASM2 so long ago that I forgot where they got it from - but I don't think CA was the original developer. /snip I can think of very few products *EVER* developed by CA. Including their very 1st product CA-SORT. Their old motto Software Superior by Design should have read

Re: CMS/DOD idle connection requirements

snip Can anyone point me to the actual government documents (CMS and DOD) pertaining to the security requirement for unattended (15 minutes) connections. There are two interpretations here: 1) kick the user completely out (CICS TSO) 2) require the user to enter a (Secure Serve Validated)

Re: JES2 1.7 IP NJE problem

Enabking APAR is OA12364. PTF UA90255 snip There is an enabling PTF for IP NJE support for 1.7. I'm not a work so I don't know the APAR or PTF number, but I think it became available late last year. You need to have that on. /snip

Re: Off Topic But Concept should be Known To All

LOL, To carry this argument to it's logical conclusion, each application would have it's own OS snip Subject: Off Topic But Concept should be Known To All http://www.theregister.com/2007/06/20/usenix_07_opening_keynote/ /snip

Re: Operating systems are old and busted

snip Leopard and Vista: Last Gasp of the Big OS? http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/133276 from above: Twenty years from now a new generation of computer users will look back on the operating systems of today with the same bemused smile we look back at the cars of the late 1950s and early 60s.

Re: JZOS: RC=106 when submitting job on Java 5.0

Not even close on the region. Try 512M or even better 1024M snip Hi, I am getting a RC of 106 when I am submitting a job using JZOS for Java 5.0. I have specified REGION size as 128M. What am I missing ? (I did send email to MVS-OE mailing list and posted on the discussion forum for JZOS. I

Re: WLM Setup Question

snip As a result, you may find that your not loved transactions will go along for the ride, based upon the other transactions that are processed by the server regions. /snip Isn't that the whole point? If the loved ones are not happy, no one is happy. If the loved ones are happy, everyone is

Re: HSM tapes

Check arccmdxx for SETSYS RECYCLEOUTPUT also RECYCLEINPUTDEALLOCFREQUENCY. The latter has nothing to do with The output, but it can keep you from getting into trouble on the input side HTH, -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: What happened to Phil Payne's page?

He's Baaaccckkk!!! snip So isham-research.co.uk should still be Phil's domain. /snip BTW the Web site appears to have undergone a considerable (for the better) revision. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Track size and maximum single volume data set size

snip AFAIK FBA devices only worked on VSE and VM so it never got to being supported on MVS (or VS1 for that matter). Ed /snip Not true. 3370 and 3375 were supported (for a while). Never caught on in the MVS Markeplace and were dropped From support after 2 or 3 years. Resurfaced as hard drives

Re: OT You tubes mainframe video

PHB's are notoriously difficult to educate snip Great video ed, now if they can get a similar forum for managers and educate them, it may make a difference. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Unit 1501 HAS NO PHYSICAL PATHS

Seems like there is no physical connection, or an interface is disabled. snip I am trying to vary on a 3490 tape doing cf chp(52),on v path(1501,52),online That gives me PATH (1501,52) ONLINE v 1501,online That gives me IEE025I UNIT 1501 HAS NO PHYSICAL PATHS And I can find in

Re: A new tool to help z/OS migrations - the IBM Migration Checker for z/OS!

Shall I download this and try it? Especially in view of the extended conversion schedule.. Al -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marna WALLE Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 9:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: A new tool

Recall RE: A new tool to help z/OS migrations - the IBM Migration Checker for z/OS!

Al Staller would like to recall the message entitled RE: A new tool to help z/OS migrations - the IBM Migration Checker for z/OS! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 8:50 AM To: IBM

SYS1.BRODCAST - Help!

I am in the process of upgrading from z/OS 1.4 to z/OS 1.7. I have encountered a problem that I hope some of the listers have seen previously. If a user codes a job with NOTIFY=SYSUID and is *NOT* logged on when the job ends, the user is never notified. JCL isses the message SE 'Job

Re: ML2 not expiring

This is most likely because the dataset are not (accordign to the Mgmt class) being back up. By default HSM will not delete any migrated dataset that is not backed up. There is a patch document in the DFHSM Diagnosis reference that changes this behavior. See:

Re: 2007 DST (was: Costs not to go to z/OS 1.7 by March 31, 2007.)

See Apar PK24076 snip Speaking of support. Have you heard that m$ wants to charge for the patches to automate the new D aylight Savings Time changes back to March? Hmmm. z/OS 1.8 still doesn't have this right, either. IBM has about 2 months to create a PTF. /snip

Re: HSM EA CDS's

Have you tried a Freespace on the re-or'ed copy? You get some short term (rapid) increases in utilization, but then it stabilizes. My CDS's start out about 30% immediately after reorg and will increase rapidly to about 50%. Thereafter, the increase is very slow up the point Of the next re-org.

Re: RICOH buys IBM Printer Division?

snip Effective April, Ricoh will acquire IBM's digital printer business for approximately $.7 billion USD. Ricoh will absorb all of IBM's digital printer software, sales and maintenance service divisions. /snip Try

Re: HTTP server and JAVA Serverpac question

Use JAVA_HOME='/usr/lpp/java/IBM/J1.4/bin' (JAVA JRE 1.4 31 bit) or JAVA_HOME='/usr/lpp/jav64a/IBM/J1.4_64/bin' (JAVA JRE 1.4 64 bit) or JAVA_HOME='/usr/lpp/java/IBM/J5.0/bin' (JAVA JRE 1.5 31 bit) or JAVA_HOME='/usr/lpp/jav64a/IBM/J5.0_64/bin' (JAVA JRE 1.5 64 bit) Instead.

Vtam migration

We have multiple LPARs in a single CEC and have just migrated our NJE/SNA connections routed over a 2216 switch to NJE/TCPIP over HIPERSOCKETS (works like a champ). We would next like to migrate our TSO VTAM cross LPAR routing over hipersockets also. Can anybody post a sample of working SNA

Re: Vtam migration

snip It would help knowing what your current environment. You might get samples that aren't appropriate - that are more misleading than helpfull. /snip Multiple stand-alone LPARS on a single CEC (test(z/OS 1.7), production(z/OS 1.4), sandbox(z/OS 1.7)). No external communication outside of the

Re: LookAt

snip I use search shelf. Don't need to know which book. /snip All of my site searches turnd up the original (non-working) URL's for lookat and booksrv -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: LookAt

Previously bookmarked and functioning URLS no longer work. In particular: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/s390/os390/bkserv/lookat/ and http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/bkserv/ and http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/wlm/ and

Re: Z/900 How to Test Daylight Savings Time Mods

snip Anyone have any suggestions,on how to test the modifications without manually changing the clock on the SE, and performing a Power On Reset. /snip I can think of no way to do this unless you have one of the Y2K products available. i.e. the ones that allow you to Set an arbitrary date and

Re: Vtam migration

Thanks. After RTFMing many many MF's this clarity is appreciated... snip Lat I knew, Hipersockets supported only IP. You can easily get TCP/IP to use it, but then you have to get VTAM to use IP - hence Enterprise Extender, hence APPN connectivity. Don't be mislead by the Hipersockets support

Re: z/OS 1.9 announced

Nope. That is the Pre-announcement z/OS 1.9 is planned to offer -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 9:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS 1.9 announced

Re: [SPAM] DFHSM :TTOC COMMAND

Replace volser with volume -Original Message- I am trying to find the contents of a tape (DFHSM) and I am encountering an error. Below is my command: hsend list ttoc volser(045388) Error message: ARC1001I LIST TTOC VOLSER(045388) COMMAND FAILED, RC=0005, REAS=0004

Re: Unix System Services Maintenance

snip ...not good to make it a TFS because of its size (which takes away from the kernel) and also that dumps and vi recovery files go there and you would lose them with an IPL. /snip The TFS can be run in a colony address space to reduce pressure on the kernel

Re: Data Spaces or Hiperspaces

You can create/delete a common dataspace. Requires APF authorization. IMO a dataspace is preferable. snipIs this possible or feasible from an Batch application standpoint ?? 1). Build data (create) into a Data Space or a Hiperspace in 1 Batch job. 2). Access this data in many following Batch

Re: ILR006E COMMON PAGE DATA SET FULL, OVERFLOWING TO PLPA DATA SET

Based on the ASM display below, it would seem that you ran out of common pgspc. You are in serious danger of another un-scheduled IPL based on your posting below. 1) PLPA overflowing to common. This is not an issue. Many shops set up to run this way. Check the archives. 2) COMMON 97% full.

Re: Looking for ideas on remote system

I believe Jan Jeagar(?) wrote a stand alone editor. Should be on the CBT tape... If not try www.planetmvs.com snip Is anyone doing this? We know there are products out there that for example SEA makes one that allows us to get onto a 'dead' system with a stand alone product but we wanted to

Re: ISAM and/or self-modifying channel programs

snip Surely I am not the only site in the world? What about all those US government sites supposedly still running MVS/XA, OS/360, OS2 or something? Don't tell me they are an urban myth? /snip IIRC the last revision of the ATC system was running on MVS/XA and 3350(3380?) dasd as recently as the

Re: What to do with extra storage on new z9

As long as your paging rates are in the low single digits, there should be no issue. My opinion is to leave it offline to z/OS. It takes CPU cycles to manage that storage (although at 8GB, probably not too many). I believe z/VM has some similar issues with excess storage. Bottom line (IMO) is use

Re: SMP/e usermod coding question

UCLIN. REP MOD(CEEPLPKA) UMID(USERMODNAME). ENDUCL. Any maint to that module will be flagged an notify you to refit the UMOD. HTH, snip I need to create a usermod to handle a non-IBM product zap to an LE module that I do NOT want hitting the actual production LE module. Instead, I want to be

Re: SMP/e usermod coding question

UCLIN. REP MOD(CEEPLPKA) UMID(). NOTE MOD, NOT LMOD *** . LMOD does not have a UMID sub-entry. . One MOD statement per CSECT zapped by vendor. . ENDUCL. This will ABSOLUTELY cause a regression

Re: IEHLIST Error?

Start the continuation in Col 16... snip //STEP1EXEC PGM=IEHLIST //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //VOLDDDD UNIT=DISK,VOL=SER=PRK027,DISP=OLD //SYSINDD * LISTVTOC FORMAT,VOL=DISK=PRK027,X DSNAME=('ADC.PSWMGTA.WRKFILE.PM.IEBPTPCH.JCL')

Re: [z/OS v1.7] WLM Performance periods: durations vs. service units

snip Does that imply that the 750 specified for Period 1 duration equated to approx. 0.44 clock seconds with the 2003 (1724.7 SU/sec); exclusive of wait times, natch. And, by extension, does that mean the period is now down to 0.11 clock seconds on our latest z/890 (8084 SU/sec)? The short

Re: US Airways badmouths legacy system

snip IOW: We're too stupid to update our legacy systems to use modern technologies, so the mainframe is junk. typical. /snip The following observations come to mind. 1) Clueless Pointy Haired Boss (PHB) 2) Management by Airline Magazine (Ironic, isn't it?)

Re: IBM to the PCM market

snip Actually my 'Conspiracy theory' was meant to be tongue in cheek. I need another 20+ years as a Mainframe sysprog before retirement so it better last at least that long ... /snip Impudent youn whippersnapper!!! G -- For

Re: NETSRV confusion

From my experience, NETSRV SOCKET= must point to a valid SOCKET statement. Your syntax seems to be correct. HTH, snip I've manually made TCPIP NJE connection to my z/VM system. Now I wanted to add it to my JES2 parameters,. but am running into an error I don't understand. To manually start

Re: Outsourcing dilemma or debacle, you decide...

I.R.S.? SNIP Howard Brazee asked: -snip- Have you worked for companies that used terror as a weapon or tool? -snip All those with military service need not respond. snip OK. Want me to name the companies? I think I'd rather continue working. However, one of the most widely known has

Re: Going unsupported - time to fold?

snip Management has decided that it is time for the mainframe to go. They've got a project manager looking at a mainframe decommissioning project (feel my pain?). We are current now on z/os 1.7 and had ordered the 1.9 ServerPac and are in the beginning stages of that. Suddenly this project

Re: Going unsupported - time to fold?

snip Pragmatically, there is a pretty good business case for halting the 1.9 project. The costs become an issue if, and only if, the project fails, runs over schedule, or turns out to be only partially successful. /snip Riiiggg! I would place a bet on failure given the time frame

Re: Going unsupported - time to fold?

I think the bookmaker would be more lucrative, insurance more practical! snip Pragmatically, it would perhaps be wise to balance the risk with a bet at an English bookmaker, or an insurance at Lloyd's ? /snip snip snip Pragmatically, there is a pretty good business case for halting the 1.9

Re: How long to install a ServerPac

It depends on 1) experience of sysprogs 2) #number of sysprogs involved 3) major subsystems installed (CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ, WEBSPHERE.) The more subsystems involved, the more sysprogs involved with all of the conflicting demands, scheduling and coordination involved. The CICS guys, IMS

Re: Can STGINDEX have secondary allocations?

snip Can SYS1.STGINDEX (VIO journaling) have secondary allocations? /snip AFAIK, No. BTW Why are you still doing VIO at all? It made a lot of sense when disk access times were 17-30 ms, but not with 3-4ms (Escon/Cache) or 1 ms (FICON/Cache) When I found that we were doing a CLPA at every

Re: Can STGINDEX have secondary allocations?

Kees wrote: snip AFAIK, No. BTW Why are you still doing VIO at all? It made a lot of sense when disk access times were 17-30 ms, but not with 3-4ms (Escon/Cache) or 1 ms (FICON/Cache) Is this that simple? The fastest I/O is the I/O you don't do. With VIO you have a good chance to keep

Re: Unix System Services File Space Used

Try /usr/lpp/tcpip/samples/rmoldlogs snip Ouch. For everything that creates a log, I put that in its own private filesystem. Really helps, given how infrequently I remember to purge the logs. I'm going to automate that some day. /snip

Re: Clearing out DASD

ICKDSF INIT CHECK(n) function /snip I have a need to do a DOD type clearing of some dasd before it is returned to the vendor. I found the CBT Tape entry (737) but was wondering if there is another one out there that will write Binary 0's and 1's for the number of times I specify? I do not have

Re: Clearing out DASD

IIRC, STK has a utility that overwrites the backend disks similar to ICKDSF (and others). snip If your DASD does anything similar to the STK SVA 9500 I have, MVS software becomes irrelevant. Every time a track is written to, the hardware places the entire track's data in a new set of sectors on

Re: European BCP Regulations?

Agreed. Another reason to consolidate on the MF. snip From my experience I could say that having mainframe working on DR site is piece of cake, when compared to the rest of infrastructure. /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: SDSF I (Input) Screen with z/OS 1.9

Have you re-assemed ISFPARMS, any exits, umods, etc with the correct macro levels? Have you removed module ISFLPA from LPALIB/LPALST? snip I migrated my first system to z/OS v1.9 this past weekend, and my Operations staff noticed that the SDSF I screen, and its column labeled POS

Re: Some insight on 1.9 install

snip My next question is: Since I did get 835 PTFs on (all that didn't involve NUCLEUS), can I go forward, or should I start over one more time? Or restore from back up to the pre APPLY state and run again. Or SMP/E restore? /snip Just rerun the apply, fixing problems until a clean run is

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