Re: Syslog missing

2012-05-15 Thread Jakubek, Jan
What about WRITELOG START...? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: How to read past EOF

2011-12-09 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Skip Robinson I have a GTF trace file full of gold nuggets and bright red rubies. Unfortunately GTF trace was restarted at the next IPL, so the data set has immediate EOF. I used StarTool to reset logical (VTOC) end of file to the full extent. Anyone know how to bypass physical EOF and

NIP console message traffic logging / recording+

2011-11-14 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Hi, We have our z/OS NIP consoles (OSA ICC) in a remote data center. On an occasional initial part of IPL (NIP time) trouble we have a difficulty in reviewing the message traffic due to a (typically) re-IPL (after some correction and/or an IPL re-attempt, all messages are lost). Did somebody

Re: NIP console message traffic logging / recording+

2011-11-14 Thread Jakubek, Jan
... Dave Jousma ... Remove all consoles from the NIP definition in the IOCP, and watch the messages come across the HMC console. These are desperate, last resort means, difficult on a production host, in case a problem can't be otherwise resolved. In such a case we'd likely do a SAD. Typically

Re: NETSTAT STACK and Rexx exec

2010-11-05 Thread Jakubek, Jan
In my earlier suggestion I forgot to add: In my IKJTSO00, AUTHCMD part I have a comment: /*NETSTAT REMOVED DUE TO PQ23072 JJ*/ + Hth... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David G. Schlecht Sent:

Re: NETSTAT STACK and Rexx exec

2010-11-04 Thread Jakubek, Jan
You may want to check APAR PQ23072 for SYS1.PARMLIB(IKJTSO00) changes. Hth.. David G. Schlecht says Subject: NETSTAT STACK and Rexx exec By the book, this simple Rexx syntax should work, but I am unable to manipulate the external stack in Rexx. The following simple program says Queued:

Re: VSAM Extended format

2010-04-13 Thread Jakubek, Jan
I have a program that reads a KSDS via CIs. While adding support for EF I put the following comments: .Added Extended Addressability KSDS support. In the EA KSDS, RBA in index records is expressed as relative CI number: this means that it needs to be multiplied by CI length to calculate a

Re: z/os V1.11 PFAPATH

2010-03-24 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Mark Steely During installation of z/os V1.11 it needs a directory of pfapath. Where did you create this directory (root or create it own file directory ?). Mark, My ServerPac Variables setup: PFAUSER = PFA PFAPATH = /u/pfa The directory, as I understand it, should be a separate file system

z/OS 1.11 ServerPac dialog new installation variable: PFA

2010-02-26 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Kind listeners: I see new installation variables in z/OS 1.11 ServerPac: == PFA PFA OWNER USERID D PFAUSER PFA STG LOCATION D /pfapath PFA USER PASSWORD D

Re: Sun/STK Holddata No Longer Included With Cumulative Maintenance

2010-01-05 Thread Jakubek, Jan
gil wrote: It's only a little more complicated than that. Correct that the HOLDDATA change less frequently than the PTF bodies, but the concerns were: o Issuing HOLDDATA is not syncronized with our test cycle which drives our cumulative maintenance releases. We'd like our customers to

Re: A modest PARM proposal

2009-10-29 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Keith E. Moe wrote: ... Many programs, such as ISV products, would likely be modified to query the existence of the extended PARM and use it if present and otherwise fall back to the current PARM field. This would allow them to exploit the capability quickly and allow customers to convert their

Re: z/os omvs maintenance service and hfs/zfs

2009-06-26 Thread Jakubek, Jan
John McKown So, you'd first MOUNT your alternate ROOT filesystem dataset on the /Service subdirectory. You'd then mount your alternate VAR filesystem at /Service/var, XML at /Service/usr/lpp/ixm, SHPUROOT at /Service/usr/lpp/ported, SHPHROOT at /Service/usr/lpp/php, SHPEROOT at

Re: TCB time question

2009-05-22 Thread Jakubek, Jan
You may want to use the current sample exit from SYS1.SAMPLIB(IEEACTRT). We made a similar discovery during z/OS 1.9 implementation. We were using an old version of IEFACTRT. Hth... -Original Message- On Behalf Of Phil Smith III The following is typical output found in the SYSMSG

Re: System Loop or System Hung Not Sure Which

2009-03-13 Thread Jakubek, Jan
$HASP9212 MVS NOT DISPATCHING JES2 MAIN TASK DURATION 000:01:55:09 I found out (post mortem) the looping AS from RMFGAT history data sets. RMFGAT was affected too and some of interval records were missing. Hth... -- For

Re: IBM Ported Tools for z/OS install problem

2009-01-08 Thread Jakubek, Jan
I've installed the Ported Tools in my z/OS ServerPac SMPE environment. What is in your case: /techsupp/OSP17864/Service Was my ServerPac (service) version root FS mount point. From what I can see you do not have the z/OS root FS mounted on the /techsupp/OSP17864/Service dir path. Hth...

Re: UNIX and System time in z/OS

2008-12-29 Thread Jakubek, Jan
I would like to know if there is a way to establish the JAVA in UNIX to always get the system date and time. I would like to reduce the need to update the TZ parameter each time the time jumps. This may work: SYS1.PARMLIB(CEEPRM00) ENVAR('TZ=EST5EDT'), /* UNIX Time ZONE */

Re: SYSNAME ON

2008-11-13 Thread Jakubek, Jan
I would like to enable SYSNAME ON (ISPF Command ) for all TSO users. So far i could not find a way to issue ISPF command from REXX / CLIST in my logon procs. Even tried to modify ISPCFIGU using TSO ISPCCONF (with increament VERSION_LEVEL_OF_SITEWIDE_DEFAULTS ) DEFAULT_SYSTEM_NAME= ON

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

2008-11-10 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Try a clean/ empty ISPPROF or, use a copy of a good, working ISPPROF... -- 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: Need Help ACF2 JES2 exits

2008-10-31 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Verify with JES2 commands: $D LOAD(ACFJ2USR),ROUTINES $D EXIT(228) $D EXIT(229) -Original Message- Yes, jesparms is; LOAD(ACFJ2USR) STOR=CSA /* ACF2 USER EXIT FOR JOB CARD VALIDATION */ EXIT225 ROUTINE=(ACFEX225) EXIT227

Re: C03 abend when omitting CEE.SCEERUN from JCL

2008-10-17 Thread Jakubek, Jan
A guess: You may have something in front of SCEERUN on your either LNKLST or LPA that overrides SCEERUN... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: C03 abend when omitting CEE.SCEERUN from JCL

2008-10-17 Thread Jakubek, Jan
from JCL Further to that thought, you should also check for MLPAs or dynamic LPA updates (via SETPROG). Bill On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:26:31 -0400, Jakubek, Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A guess: You may have something in front of SCEERUN on your either LNKLST or LPA that overrides SCEERUN

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-25 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Read OA19194 (I just did :-). The z/OS provided AMATERSE uses now SYSUT1/2 for input/output. Hth... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Schwartz Sent: September 25, 2008 3:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Trsmain Unpack

Re: IBM using more below the line storage.

2008-07-10 Thread Jakubek, Jan
ISP.SISPLPA for instance can be in link list and has some big modules that are still RM 24. I use the following usermod: ++USERMOD(name) /* MOVE LOAD MODULES FROM SISPLPA TO SISPLOAD */ .

Re: CA-MIM/Integrity abend.

2008-07-08 Thread Jakubek, Jan
MIMIT is running in a high WLM service class. Should it be in SYSSTC? It should be run like GRS - in SYSTEM. To get it run in SYSTEM it has to be started via MIMASC though. Hth... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Refreshing LLA modules in batch mode

2008-07-03 Thread Jakubek, Jan
You may adopt/ use LINKLLA from Gilbert Saint-flour from CBT file 183, Or from CBT file 394: LLAUPDTX Synchronous LLA update routine (using LLACOPY macro). One member per step (specified in PARM) gets refreshed. LLAUPDTS Synchronous LLA update routine (using LLACOPY

Re: storage limit smf exit ?

2008-04-23 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Michael Poil post from Feb.14/2008 with subject: How to stop SHRLIBRGNSIZE being allocated from an Address Space? explains (or hints at) why it could be so. The mentioned post was on MVS-OE. Here it is: In the context of running a Java application that has many DLLs, is there any easy way to

Re: Business Recovery Exercise

2008-04-23 Thread Jakubek, Jan
- one of our procedures is to DELETE NOSCRATCH thousands of production datasets; catalogue cleanup before dataset restore...this process took hours to execute...might this be related to the CATALOG AUTOTUNE in our 1.7 system? A possible way to speed up updates (of any KSDS): - Sort deleted

Re: storage limit smf exit ?

2008-04-21 Thread Jakubek, Jan
You may be affected by an excessive and/or improper specification of BPXPRMxx SHRLIBRGNSIZE(...) value. No amount fiddling with IEFUSI would help in such a case. Michael Poil post from Feb.14/2008 with subject: How to stop SHRLIBRGNSIZE being allocated from an Address Space? explains (or hints

Re: JES2 DD Concatenation issue

2008-03-28 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Thanks but this is like IPLing the system itself which involves outage which many not be possible in our system So I was just looking for alternatives... A dynamic PROCLIB concatenation can be repaired via a series of $DEL/$ADD/$T PROCLIB JES2 commands. A static //PROCnn

Re: CATALOG Quesiton

2008-03-12 Thread Jakubek, Jan
You may try to run KSDSPACE from CBT file 394 against the catalogue and see what it shows. Current z/OS catalogue support issues a warning message when a catalogue approaches its extents limit. I do not remember the message/ details though. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Copying HFS file in Bacth

2008-03-07 Thread Jakubek, Jan
A sample JCL (DSS control statements may need to be reviewed): //RSTJAVA EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,REGION=0M,PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN' //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSABEND DD SYSOUT=* //OUT DD DISP=SHR,UNIT=3390,VOL=SER=...

Re: Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee

2008-01-28 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Clark Morris wrote: The thing I found most interesting was that only a high school education was required. A belief that formal education, diplomas, etc equate with intelligence, competence, qualifications to perform an occupation is a widespread contemporary prejudice. It's got a similarity

Re: KSDS insert failed with out of space

2008-01-18 Thread Jakubek, Jan
To diagnose VSAM request errors one needs to report, via whatever means, the return (R15), function and feedback codes (from RPL) and interpret them (Using Datasets book?). Hth... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: LOADxx PARMLIB statement, can dsname include SYSR1 symbol?

2007-05-18 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Peter Relson: No, the dsname cannot include SYSR1. Nor is such functionality likely to be implemented. There is no full system symbol support for any symbol including SYSR1 (so substrings are not supported, for example). Peter, Thank you for noticing and the authoritative answer. I'd hope this

Re: LOADxx PARMLIB statement, can dsname include SYSR1 symbol?

2007-05-16 Thread Jakubek, Jan
In case others would have a similar interest, I did an experiment. This is unsupported: Case 1: --- PARMLIB SYS1.PARMLIB.SYSR1 At IPL we get: IGGN307I sysr1,SYS1.PARMLIB.SYSR1,DATA SET NOT FOUND ON VOLUME IEA345A SYS1.PARMLIB.SYSR1 NOT USED (NOT CATALOGED) - PRESS ENTER TO CONTINUE

Re: LOADxx PARMLIB statement, can dsname include SYSR1 symbol?

2007-05-16 Thread Jakubek, Jan
On Wed, 16 May 2007 11:40:37 -0400, Lizette Koehler wrote: I only have a minor question to ask. Is SYSR1 in your IEASYM member for that system at IPL time? It almost looks like SYSR1 is not resolving and I am not sure that is a default IBM symbolic. Though I could be wrong. So this is just

LOADxx PARMLIB statement, can dsname include SYSR1 symbol?

2007-05-15 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Hi, In my PARMLIB concatenation I'd like to include a dsname that would have a qualifier equal to/ specified via SYSR1 symbol, like: PARMLIB MYDSN1.PARMLIB.SYSR1 Is this supported? I'm reading the MVS Init Tuning Reference and it does not seem to be clear. In one place it says: Note: SYSR1

Re: Catalog Question

2007-04-20 Thread Jakubek, Jan
I looked at the manual and it seems like it says I can do a repro nomergecat. Change the master catalog option in iplparm, ipl and go. Before you proceed with this: -Run a complete set of DIAGNOSEs (catalogue all VVDSes) and cleanup/ address any discrepancies. -Make sure all volumes that have a

Re: When to start security product?

2007-04-12 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Typically a security product should to be started before any AS that needs Unix attributes. The Unix attributes are provided by RACF/ACF2/TSS. I do not know TSS, but ACF2 starts via SYS1.PARMLIB(CAISEC00). I'd guess TSS can be brought up the same way. Hth...

Re: MIM control file volume DASD lockout

2007-02-26 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Here is a little procedure how to find who (job) holds a DASD volume RESERVE (that we automated over here): Search for the following msgs pairs on system experiencing delays: IOS071I 09FA,**,*MASTER*, START PENDING IOS431I DEVICE 09FA RESERVED TO CPU=serial9672,LPAR ID=UNKNOWN .Identify the

Re: Catalog Question

2007-01-02 Thread Jakubek, Jan
And in our case, (just getting ready to install 1.7 into production) we went from mod3 to mod 9 volumes for our opsystem packs. I don't see how you can easily get away with not building a new master catalog. The way I did it: SYSR2 = SYSR1 SYSR3 = SYSR1 (via IEASYMxx setup for a new mod9

Re: SYS1.MAN allocation question

2006-11-15 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Can I change the bufferspace value to each MAN file individually or is this one of those changes that require all MAN files be redefined? You may try to run IDCAMS: ALTER SYS1.MAN1.D BUFSP(110592) ALTER SYS1.MAN3.D BUFSP(110592) ALTER SYS1.MAN4.D BUFSP(110592) ALTER SYS1.MAN5.D

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Jakubek, Jan
IBM suggests that you have an IEASYSxx member that does not specify CLPA. And this seems to imply the following: 1. CLPA should not be specified in IEASYS00 since it cannot be overridden (there is no a negating option). 2. An image setup should have multiple overriding IEASYSxx members (xx NE

Re: IBM DEBUG TOOL Install in Own SMP/E CSI or in IBM Z/OS BASE ELEMENT CSI

2006-11-09 Thread Jakubek, Jan
We are installing IBM DEBUG TOOL ADVANCED FUNCTIONS on a SYSPLEX which has multiple LPAR'S running different levels of z/OS (1.4 1.6 and 1.7). The LPAR'S share DASD for non SYSRES packs. The documentation indicates that we can install the IBM DEBUG TOOL in it's own SMP/E CSI. However, a

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Jakubek, Jan
/* NOTE: DO NOT DELETE THE BLANK LINE AT THE TOP OF THIS MBR! */ Btw Mark: what's the purpose of a blank line? Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: IPL with CLPA

2006-11-09 Thread Jakubek, Jan
/* NOTE: DO NOT DELETE THE BLANK LINE AT THE TOP OF THIS MBR! */ Btw Mark: what's the purpose of a blank line? Because it doesn't work without it?? :-) I see ... your blank line designates a dummy/null IEASYS00 ... Thanks ...

Re: Syncsort / DFSORT LPA

2006-11-09 Thread Jakubek, Jan
I just have to ask: why do would an installation need both sort products unless you're at an ISV where you have to test your product with both? May be it is in a state of unfinished or perpetual conversion ... some of us went though this over years gone ... :-)

Re: SYSLOG Broken

2006-11-01 Thread Jakubek, Jan
I seem to remember having to issue two commands (unsure of sequence): W START V SYSLOG,HARDCPY Hth... Janek J. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: VSAM Internals

2006-05-11 Thread Jakubek, Jan
You may try KSDSPACE from CBT file 394. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Joe jeffries Sent: Thu 5/11/2006 1:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: VSAM Internals Hi guys, I wonder if anyone (Mark Thomen at IBM perhaps) can help! At my last

Re: Commands in Batch

2006-03-02 Thread Jakubek, Jan
I typically do this via batch MXI: //MXIBATCH EXEC PGM=MXI,PARM='BATCH,TITLES' //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD * /V ,OFFLINE /... /* Hth

Re: Using symbolic in JCL

2005-11-25 Thread Jakubek, Jan
-teD wrote: I don't think that is an accurate statement for North America. Most corporations that are still running Mainframes are running with a SYSPLEX. Define big shop. Here a 4000 MIPS shop is a small one. It appears to me, little informed, that the benefits of outsourcing did not reach,

Re: dynamic LPA

2005-11-23 Thread Jakubek, Jan
A question related to the topic being discussed: Are the SYS1.PARMLIB(PROGxx) entries: LPA ADD DSNAME(SYS1.MVS.EXITLOAD) MODNAME(...) always processed before: EXIT ADD EXITNAME(SYS.name) MODNAME(...) during z/OS initialization? Or, are they processed in as specified via PARMLIB

Re: Lost SYSLOG

2005-11-01 Thread Jakubek, Jan
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 10:16:01 -0600, Hal Merritt wrote: We are z/os and z/os.e 1.4 in a basic sysplex (JES2 MAS) on a 2086-0A4. We did an orderly shutdown for a POR. Both JES's responded to a $PJES2 and ended normally. When we came back, the SYSLOG was missing on both LPARs between the time of

Re: DISP=MOD UNIT=CART/TAPE

2005-10-25 Thread Jakubek, Jan
Today, I received this notification from CA: Subject: COMPUTER ASSOCIATES PML SOLUTION NOTIFICATION - QI73753 Title: SECONDARY VOLUMES MAY BE LOST DURING DISP=MOD Product: 1 Release: 11.0 Opsys: OS Solution #: 99