Re: USS Processing - When are children spawned

2010-08-27 Thread David Waldman
On Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:55:13 -0500, Kelman, Tom thomas.kel...@commercebank.com wrote: ... Also, if anyone can point me to some documentation concerning USS and specifically performance tuning of USS processing, I would appreciate it. Ths z/OS Unix System Services Planning manual is a good

Re: JCL need? - create UNIX subdirectories

2010-08-26 Thread David Waldman
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:45:03 -0500, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: This seems to be a definate lack to me. I can allocate / read / write / delete individual UNIX files using JCL with the PATH= parameter. But there is no way to create any required subdirectories on the fly

Re: Using CA-JOBTRAC V11 in Production Environment

2010-01-08 Thread David Waldman
Steve, We have been running r11 SP1 on our z/OS 1.9 systems for almost 2 years now without any major problems. By far, the biggest challenge for us was installing and setting up Datacomm, and implementing the Datacomm external RACF security. We had lots of issues when we first started

Re: OT - Adobe Reader , IBM PDF Manuals and VISTA/Windows 7

2010-01-05 Thread David Waldman
Lizette, Is TITLE selected when you right-click on the top-row that has the NAME, TYPE, etc...? Dave On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:29:02 -0500, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: I am having a bit of trouble with ADOBE READER 9 and PDF Manuals. I have customized my folders to show the

Re: argv for z/OS C++ batch

2009-12-29 Thread David Waldman
/* argv3 */ regards, Dave Waldman On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 09:17:17 -0600, David Waldman david.p.wald...@lmco.com wrote: Charles, Try specifying the length as the 1st parm. ATTACH EP=CPGM,ECB=STECB,PARAM=(PPARM) PPARMDCH'17',C'PARM1,PARM2,PARM3' Your results should be: 2

Re: argv for z/OS C++ batch

2009-12-28 Thread David Waldman
Charles, Try specifying the length as the 1st parm. ATTACH EP=CPGM,ECB=STECB,PARAM=(PPARM) PPARMDCH'17',C'PARM1,PARM2,PARM3' Your results should be: 2 /* argc */ CPGM /* argv0 */ PARM1,PARM2,PARM3/* argv1 */ hth, Dave Waldman

Re: JES SPOOL quota by user?

2009-12-23 Thread David Waldman
On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:06:49 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: OK, I'm being Scrooge. But we have a person here who loves to use the JES2 SPOOL as a report repository. Most likely due to it being easy and not needing to bother with estimating his dataset size

Re: Console Routing Codes

2009-12-16 Thread David Waldman
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:48:16 -0600, Rabbe, Luke luke.ra...@countryfinancial.com wrote: I have two questions: 1. Are the routing codes 1-128 documented anywhere? 2. Is the 7 byte routing codes field (offset 2) in the hardcopy log documented anywhere? Chapter 1 in the the MVS Systems

Re: Clues on using C++ prelink * lked for first time

2009-12-08 Thread David Waldman
On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:34:22 -0800, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: 1. How do I specify the input to the prelinker? The primary input dataset is the SYSIN DD. LRECL=80 and RECFM=F, FB or FBS. The z/OS 1.9 XL C/C++ User's Guide has a table that describes each dataset. You can

Re: What SVCs are in use?

2009-11-03 Thread David Waldman
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:05:57 -0500, Baraniecki, Ray ray.baranie...@morganstanley.com wrote: If TASID can display this list then I'm sure any program (probably authorized) can do it. I think this should be the real question. How would a program display the list of SVCs? TASID is not

Re: CA1 Enhancement Request for new CA1 Report for DELETE STATUS

2009-11-03 Thread David Waldman
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 14:27:47 -0500, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: List - This is in-case anyone wants to tag along with my DAR I had opened with CA1 - 18760498/2 Basically this DAR is a request for CA 1 to provide a utility for listing in a range of tapes those that are not in

Re: IBM C header files

2009-10-20 Thread David Waldman
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:47:51 -0400, Don Poitras sas...@sas.com wrote: des...@verizon.net wrote: sas...@sas.com (Don Poitras) writes: Try: #include sys/types.h If you look inside the EDC4H031 member, you see this as the comment. * sys/types.h header file Note that to get hold of

Re: wto buffer shortage and k q' cmnd no longer works.

2009-10-20 Thread David Waldman
Tuco, The 'K Q' command is no longer suported for EMCS consoles on 1.9. This is explained in the z/OS V1R9.0 MVS Planning: Operations manual. Regards, Dave Waldman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: REXX JES2

2009-09-30 Thread David Waldman
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:03:36 -0400, Mark Pace mpac...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to access the JES2 system with REXX? I've been through the REXX User's Guide and the Reference, but other than seeing how to find the JES level I don't see the ability. I'd like to write some sort of

Re: Reading DD card information

2009-09-18 Thread David Waldman
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:51:54 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:01:54 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: There are a number of RYO utilities that will take values from the PARM field to update SYSIN-type datasets. Even have one myself, if you'd like a copy. I

Re: Forcing TMS Tape entry into scratch status

2009-09-18 Thread David Waldman
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:56:13 +0530, Prabhath V Gannavarapu prabhath.v.gannavar...@jpmorgan.com wrote: Hi, Have noticed a few of HSM duplexed tapes becoming orphan. These have a permanent retention to them. So, they are neither being controlled by HSM to DELVOL and get the tape returned to

Re: Random Password Generator

2009-09-08 Thread David Waldman
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 13:45:46 -0500, Daniel McLaughlin daniel_mclaugh...@us.crawco.com wrote: I've been scanning the web, the list, CBT, etc. Have any of you a random password generator that you would be willing to share? I want to automate a process for our ops folks to make their lives happier.

Re: Long input within ISPF/IPCS

2009-09-08 Thread David Waldman
On Tue, 8 Sep 2009 21:40:33 +0200, Tobias Schmid tobisch...@bluewin.ch wrote: Hi all, I think I could remember, that I have seen someone, who was able to enter for example the following (long) command within IPCS: ip runc addr (8f83e8) link(116) exec((cbf x str(TCB))) If I try to do it, I

Re: Is IBMLINK down or is it just me?

2009-09-02 Thread David Waldman
I am able to login and use it this morning with no issues. Try this link: https://www-304.ibm.com/ibmlink/servicelink/servicelink.wss?lc=encc=US Dave Waldman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: MF DB2 via C++

2009-08-05 Thread David Waldman
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:37:50 -0500, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: Could someone point me to a sample C++ program that both reads and updates a DB2 table? I thought I saw something like that in the DB2 IVP, but that was long ago and my brain bone has rusted :) Chapter 50. 'Using

Re: VOLFLAG-----------(NULL)

2009-07-22 Thread David Waldman
On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:39:47 -0500, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com wrote: Anybody know what VOLFLAG---(NULL) in IDCAMS LISTC ENT listing means? Most of my datasets are showing up VOLFLAG--PRIME, but some are showing (NULL). Any way to change it? IDCAMS manual was no

ZDNET Article: IBM and UNIVAC in the Apollo Program

2009-07-14 Thread David Waldman
A co-worker of mine sent me this link. http://content.zdnet.com/2346-17924_22-319868.html Interestingly we are 99.9% certain that our z900 is currently located in the room (RTCC) shown in the 1st picture. Link to a Share presentation that describes how we use z/OS in the Space Shuttle

Re: Offload work to ziip

2009-07-08 Thread David Waldman
Here is a link to an IBM article that also has some good information. http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/novemberdecember07/coverstory/ 18227p1.aspx On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:45:31 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: Thank you for that whitepaper link. Very

Re: Tape management system discussion

2009-06-17 Thread David Waldman
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:12:42 -0400, Klein, Kenneth kenneth.kl...@kyfb.com wrote: Avoid any CA product if you can in any way, they charge too much and offer very poor support. CA-1 support has always been top notch. I have had issues in the past with other CA product support. Often times it

Re: Language Environment runtime options and system dumps

2009-06-12 Thread David Waldman
IBM has a Share presentation called 'Diagnosing Application problems Under Language Environment' that has what you need. This is an old version available on IBM's website http://tinyurl.com/n4f38t If you have access to the Share handouts a newer one is available here

Re: OEM Device Support

2009-06-04 Thread David Waldman
Perhaps the information you seek is in the MVS Device Validation Support Manual. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/iea2g610.pdf Dave Waldman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: AW: Display Console message confusing in a SYSPLEX, e.g LOGON(AUTO)

2009-05-19 Thread David Waldman
ERROR DESCRIPTION: When no specific LOGON attribute has been specified on the CONSOLE statement for a console, LOGON=OPTIONAL may appear in message CNZ4100I in response to a DISPLAY CONSOLES command regardless of the LOGON attribute specified for the DEFAULT statement in CONSOLXX. This

Re: Implementing CA-1 / RACF

2009-03-20 Thread David Waldman
John, The ICHERCDE macro is used to define the resource classes and one of the operands is DFTRETC. From the z/OS V1R9.0 IBM Security Server RACF Macros and Interfaces manual: DFTRETC=0|4|8 Specifies the return code that RACF will provide from RACROUTE QUEST=AUTH, or REQUEST=FASTAUTH when

Re: Debugging Tips

2008-08-13 Thread David Waldman
Could anyone please give me some advise how to find this bug? Any good manual to read? Thank you very much, Michael I would start start by looking up the condition description in the 'LE Run-Time Messages' manual. CEE3201S The system detected an operation exception (System Completion

Re: CA Jobtrac 3.5 Off Support

2008-07-14 Thread David Waldman
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Re: CA Jobtrac 3.5 Off Support

2008-07-10 Thread David Waldman
We converted to r11 at the beginning of this year. The conversion was a challenge because of the Datacom database and RACF security setup. We had several small problems that we were able to work-around until CA provided fixes. We also had a major problem that had to be fixed ASAP (i.e., Fix

Re: If someone can suugest an introduction book to MVS

2006-10-13 Thread David Waldman
You can also try: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/zosbasic.pdf -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives