Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-10 Thread Brian Kennelly
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 09:32, Scott Rowe scott.r...@joann.com wrote: Flynn is dead. TRON is dead. *LONG LIVE THE MCP!* I am sure Unisys would be glad to see that sentiment expressed on an IBM forum. :-) -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Why does TEST cancel breakpoints on BRC instructions?

2010-11-09 Thread Brian Kennelly
The offset in a BRC is relative to the instruction, whether it is executed directly or by EX, so you cannot easily execute it out of line without recalculating the offset or simulating execution. It is easier to restore the instruction and execute inline. On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 17:32, Tony

Re: Fast way of changing time - CBT File 639

2010-11-08 Thread Brian Kennelly
We simply issue the appropriate SET TIMEZONE or SET CLOCK command on the appropriate day on the machines, and have not had problems for years. These commands do not change the TOD clock, and none of our software is sensitive to the local time. (We do follow up with a change to the CLOCKxx

Re: Fast way of changing time - CBT File 639

2010-11-07 Thread Brian Kennelly
That raises a question. Why is there no way to pre-define the time zone offsets and boundaries in z/OS? You can do it easily in z/VM, z/VSE and, of course, Linux. Why not z/OS? On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 09:11, Sam Golob sbgo...@cbttape.org wrote: Hi Folks, CBT Tape File 639 from Hunter

Re: Fast way of changing time - CBT File 639

2010-11-07 Thread Brian Kennelly
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:17, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: z/VM? Enlighten me. Last I looked, if I performed a SENDFILE the Friday before the DST change and received it the Monday after, the restored time stamp was an hour off. Likewise the times shown by the CP DISPLAY

Re: Fast way of changing time - CBT File 639

2010-11-07 Thread Brian Kennelly
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 14:12, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: Did you imply in your previoust that z/VM requires an IPL? z/OS does better than that (at least if you have ETR/STP). No, it does not require it. You can change the time zone with a a command, but when you do need to

Re: initiator

2010-11-03 Thread Brian Kennelly
Do you have any exits that allocate datasets? On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 07:03, Carroll, William carro...@grangeinsurance.com wrote: Good morning all. I have a problem I would like to put out here and see if anybody else has seen it. The last couple of days I am having a batch job issue the

Re: Sample code to read a PDS member using BPAM

2010-09-30 Thread Brian Kennelly
Just to complete the options list - You can also read the members using QSAM in the case of dynamically determined or multiple members. You can use RDJFCB to get the JFCB, insert the member name, and use OPEN TYPE=J. To process another member, close the file, update the JFCB and re-open it.

Re: SMF Exit suppression question

2010-09-23 Thread Brian Kennelly
Did you install the exits in SYSTSO? SYSTSO.IEFU83 SYSTSO.IEFU84 SYSTSO.IEFU85 On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:59, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I've got an exit that installs on SYS.IEFU83, 4 and 5. On my test system and several customer systems it works as expected. However, on one

Re: SMF Exit suppression question

2010-09-23 Thread Brian Kennelly
No, that alone will not fix the problem. TSO exits are already getting type 30 and 80. You need to add your exit to the dynamic exit list for each subsystem you want to monitor. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 14:32, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Perhaps I need an explicit

Re: SMF Exit suppression question

2010-09-23 Thread Brian Kennelly
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Kennelly Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 12:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMF Exit suppression question Did you install the exits in SYSTSO? SYSTSO.IEFU83 SYSTSO.IEFU84

Re: SMF Exit suppression question

2010-09-23 Thread Brian Kennelly
assume that you could substitute JES2 or STC for TSO in the descriptions above? Thanks again, Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Brian Kennelly Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 2:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: SMF Exit suppression question

2010-09-23 Thread Brian Kennelly
Here is the relevant documentation from the *Installation and Tuning Reference*: The SUBSYS specification overrides the SYS specification. Use SUBSYS to make exceptions to your SYS specification for particular subsystems. ... When you associate new exit routines with SMF exits through PROGxx

Re: S737 Abends, Deleted GDG Data Sets and TWS

2010-09-08 Thread Brian Kennelly
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 15:53, Tabor, Rich richard.ta...@usairways.comwrote: The short answer I think is yes - yes it is TWS's fault. Yes, as suggested, if I specify the absolute GDG data set name in the JCL, I see only the enqueue for the absolute GDG data set and no enqueue for the GDG

Re: Format of STCK

2010-08-31 Thread Brian Kennelly
STCK D2(B2) [S] | 'B205' | B2 | D2 | |||| 016 20 31 The current value of bits 0-63 of the TOD clock is stored in the eight-byte field designated by the

Re: Date formats

2010-08-13 Thread Brian Kennelly
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 09:25, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: Rexx has a few others, but they're conveniences, like the number of days this year -- I don't really consider that a date format, though it's useful sometimes. That is actually a very import format, as well as the full format

Re: Date formats

2010-08-13 Thread Brian Kennelly
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:42, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: Sure, days this year can be useful, but does anyone store dates as days so far in the year? It's basically the Julian date without the year. Yes, they do. I worked on a data conversion product a few years ago for a software

Re: Cataloguing fake tape datasets?

2010-06-30 Thread Brian Kennelly
I have not tried it with your scenario, but what about using an IEFBR14 JCL step with UNIT=(3490,DEFER)? That would allow you to use a referback, but not require a mount. On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 13:49, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:36:38 -0500, Field, Alan