;set.
Storage volume suggests that it is allocated to a non-managed
volume. This is not unusual. Did you receive a NOT CATLGD 2
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XPLink modules in LPA. The section of the manual that points to the
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measure
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For information, see the CST website. The mission statement is at
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In addition, instruction cracking will, under some circumstances, cause
a z196 processor to execute a load and a store when a MVC instruction
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The IRARMCTZ looks promising. SHOWMVS is another possible resource.
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>On 5/7/2012 7:54 AM, Tom Marchant wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 May 2012 23:23:14 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>>
>>> The problem is that before 64 AMODE you had 3 AMODE Choices -
>>> 24-Only, 31-Only, or BOTH
AMODE-31 I
>can have problems with something that needs AMODE-24.
yes.
>There needs to
>be am AMODE (such as ALL) to say that all 3 AMODES (24/31/64) are
>supported.
That makes no sense. Addressing mode is set in the PSW
and it tells the processor how to beha
ty web site, apparently registered with ICANN
anonymously four years ago.
>c) The SHARE grease monkeys immediately respond
More insults. Apparently you don't have a clue what SHARE
is. I would suggest that you refrain from posting until you
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>O.k now, but how can I copy an FMID from one target to another ?
BUILDMCS
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>>
>> What do you see in your service classes?
>>
>
>Afaik WLM also manages the individ
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>>WLM manages
>>the service class, not individual jobs. For example, when WLM changes
>>the
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On Tue, 1 May 2012 13:29:06 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
>On Tue, 1 May 2012 10:28:33 -0500, Tom Marchant
>wrote:
>
>>IMO, most batch should be run in discretionary. The exception is
>>workload with turnaround requirements. These should be met with
>>response time
On Tue, 1 May 2012 10:42:14 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>Anyone setting WLM goals should be familiar with John Arwe's paper
>about velocity goals.
Someone asked me off line where to find John Arwe's paper.
http://www-03.ibm.com/s
to run
the way you expect it to.
If you also make as much work discretionary as possible and make sure
that you don't have any unrealistic goals, WLM will maximize the
throughput.
Anyone setting WLM goals should be familiar with John Arwe's paper
about velocity goals.
ll to me.
When WLM has plenty of discretionary work to do, it is able to get
the most work out of the system.
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On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:48:48 +, Gibney, Dave wrote:
>Migrate/recall it and it might get better.
I wouldn't do that without first taking a full volume backup.
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seen that either. Before attempting any correction,
I would use IEHLIST to obtain a LISTVTOC FORMAT and a
LISTVTOC DUMP for the data set. I wonder if ISPF is reporting
the information correctly. If the LISTVTOC confirms the
information that ISPF shows, I'd recommend calling the IBM
su
take several iterations of APPLY CHECK, reading
HOLDDATA, adding or excluding SYSMODs, etc. before being ready
to do the APPLY. That might include receiving additional HOLDDATA
or SYSMODs. If you take over a dialog that someone else
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:21:24 +0300, Binyamin Dissen
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>wrote:
>
>:>It is more common for these exceptions to be resolved and the
>:>instruction retried than it is for the access to result in a S0C4 abend.
>
>As I
ent-translation exception (PIC 10) is recognized.
There are similar "invalid" bits in bit 58 of each of the three levels
of region tables.
It is more common for these exceptions to be resolved and the
instruction retried than it is for the access t
ns are
>available to do so.
Are you sure you want to do that?
Why?
There might be a better solution to whatever problem you are trying to solve.
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it turned up several entries in the manuals with the word "large"
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On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:30:24 +0200, R.S. wrote:
>W dniu 2012-04-12 20:47, Tom Marchant pisze:
>>
>> z9 introduced these facilities:
>>...
>
>So what? How does it compare to 50+ new instructions in z10?
>
>
>>> A big change was introduced with z/990 and
ties are the reason for the level set.
>A big change was introduced with z/990 and later with z10.
z20, yes. z990, not so much. And a big change with z996.
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J AROUND
If your program is ATTACHed in AMODE 64, the
B AROUND
won't work. In that case, register 15 does not contain the
entry point address. You are expected to use relative
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>On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:04:45 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>>
>>someone said that they understood that
>>the Amdahl was IBM-compatible, but would it run Cobol?
>>
>I understand that Hercules is zSeries com
in the late 1970's, when I
was an Amdahl SE someone said that they understood that
the Amdahl was IBM-compatible, but would it run Cobol?
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>On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:00:15 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
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>>On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:21:41 GMT, MD Johnson wrote:
>>
>>>Does anyone know what I could look for to detect when
>>>an SVC contains code to pla
aller's code to run as part of
the SVC, you might be out of luck.
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ents are tracked. For more
information about this, see
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1717563
It is apt that this comment would be made in a thread about
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:09:09 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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>>That's not what the OP wrote.
>>
>The OP wrote "is in use".
My mistake. Thanks f
ata set is on
a different volume.
>you need to rename
>the dataset you want to delete (so it is not a duplicate of a dataset
>with a current ENQ). One way to do this is to use SUPERZAP to edit
>the VTOC entry to alter the dataset name.
Not a great idea, IMO.
>Once this is done
r speed. Without
cache, the processor would not be able to execute
instructions nearly as fast as it could. Cache allows data
from main storage to be kept very close to the processor in
extremely fast memory, allowing the processor to execute
instructions as fast as possible.
for
these jobs. IMO, velocity goals are not the best for this kind
of workload. Have you considered response time goals?
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old BA4C1976. The old BA4C1976 contains a BA4C1426
CSECT, but since you have already included a CSECT by
that name, the old BA4C1426 CSECT is not retained.
The ENTRY statement is needed or the entry point for
the new load module would be BA4C1426.
urse they were authorized to be able
to install their intercept
>I have not seen the vendor code and cannot
>comment on what it does or does not do or
>how much security checking it does or does
>not perform before it does what it does.
That was Ed'
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 04:39:45 -0600, Veena, Sridhar wrote:
>I am new to System programming and have the following doubt...
I should have added that APPLY CHECK is your friend.
It is better to run APPLY CHECK than to try to make
sense of error HOLDDATA.
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Insert an IEFBR14 step before if you want to skip the first step(s).
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Right.
An exception to the rule about half-track blocking is that load libraries
should specify BLKSIZE=32760. The binder (and IEBCOPY) will make the
best usage of the tracks then.
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On Fri, 3 Feb 2012 14:39:35 -0600, Anthony Fletcher wrote:
>Does anyone know which machine the STCKF instruction
>became available on?.
z9, IIRC
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On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:28:02 +, Bob Shannon wrote:
>Charging for the Research Journal publication is one of the
>worst decisions IBM has made.
I agree. If I had access I'd probably read about 10 articles
in this issue, but I'm not about to spend $300 to be able to
rea
pages and you won't find a TOD clock in it.
The -4 edition of the System/370 POO, dated September,
1974 is 329 pages.
Regardless, there is a lot to a z/Architecture processor and
I disagree that the POO is a difficult doc
s running it looks about the same as any started task.
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On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:29:22 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
>I found another good reason to use ISGENQ instead of ENQ/DEQ.
>It supports MF=L and MF=E for RENT coding.
So do ENQ and DEQ.
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ng a FORCE to be much higher than
>those of leaving the STARTING TSU sitting there...
Right.
The address space is created when LOGON is issued. At that time,
there is no user ID, so it shows as STARTING.
Why was it so important to
complaints and mine, but a confirmation that it
>fails to support needed function.
I made no comments about your or Mr. Rosenberg's complaints
about the design of SMP/E. My comments were about his incorrect
description of what SMP/E does during RESTORE processing.
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>
>>On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:11:52 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>>
>>>This backtracking continues until you find a set of PTFs
>>>in the
replaced during RESTORE come from a PTF that contains exactly the
same elements that are in the PTF being RESTOREd.
Evidently you have not performed RESTORE processing recently. I have.
Yesterday, in fact.
It ain't what yo
lock
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Re-hosting?
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try to be created. You want to do that solely so
that you can search the trace table to find the entries and
calculate elapsed time and some kind of count?
What's wrong with just issuing a TIME macro to get the
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Would it?
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What do you have specified in your SYSLIB DDDEF?
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Above is an example of text that should have been deleted from this post.
I left it in to illustrate the point of the need to delete those p
to SVCUPDATE?
Why wouldn't you want to? It's easier than loading the module
into CSA.
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though it may have provided the URL.
>The idea is to access the file system instead
>of leaving PCOMM.
It sounds like you are asking to have an emulator that also does
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>be done other then VBSCRIPT?
1. FTP
2. Workstation agent
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active, one of the processors would have always been idle.
That would not have been very efficient.
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esign of the 580 allowed
Amdahl to implement Extended Architecture relatively
easily.
There was an ALTA Principles of Operation that described
the additional registers, instructions, etc. I turned in my
copy of the ALTA POO when I left Amdahl, but I studied it
thoroughly while I was
to cause performance problems,
largely due to the effects of cache misses. By the time MDF was
delivered to the field, it was changed so that a domain was allowed
to run on a processor until its time slice ended. The result was
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On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:57:14 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
>At least they only loose 1 birthday a lifetime. Just think about all
>the people born on Feb 29th.
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ro, that means that someone zeroed the byte when they
shouldn't have.
If you have an ECB with the wait and post bits off and an RB address
in it, the wait bit must have been zeroed after the WAIT was issued
and POST must not have been issued.
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>>AFAIK multi-ecb WAIT (for example, 5 ECBs, count of 1) does not reset the
>>additional ECB's when the count is reached.
>
>Not sure what you
, makes the task dispatchable.
The ECBs are not reset.
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Your last two posts were absolutely worthless.
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s Optional in Cobol with Recording mode is V
what DDNAME?
>10. Read file the output is unreadable.
How can you read SYSPRINT after you free it?
>No 'DD' s for 1,3 or 9. If I add a 'DD' as shown below, it works fine
>
>//FILE2DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SFORD.SYSPRIN
On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 07:56:52 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 07:35:36 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>>
>>One difficulty with trying to replace JCL with ReXX code is that
>>the dynamic allocations can lead to more deadlocks between jobs.
>>The initiator av
the JCL before the job starts.
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without a 'DD' stmt ?
Isn't that what you said you were doing first with BPXWDYN?
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designed,TCP/IP stack, which exploits
native OS/390 services and multiprocessing capability, for significantly
improved performance, reliability, availability, serviceability, and
scalability.
This agrees with my memory of SHARE sessions from the era.
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there is a difference.
This is not the same as providing a ++MOD that contains multiple CSECTS
and not telling SMP/E about them. In that case, SMP/E would not kn
help the OP, who wrote:
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 11:17:54 -0600, Leonardo Vaz wrote:
>I'm supposed to getmain some storage but I'm not really sure how to.
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On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:58:00 -0500, Martin, Larry D wrote:
>Gil,
>
>Good thought - did NOT happen
Again, I can only guess, since you didn't provide the error message
that should have appeared in SMPRPT. However, you did tell us the
RECEIVE command that you issued and it did not include
BYPASS
mation.
You did not say. Where did you look to see that it was received and
applied?
We have tried to help you by guessing, since you have not provided
the requested information.
>I am proceeding with a Restore and then re-receive it.
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>On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 06:56:44 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>
>>
>>you can not use IEHPROGM to
>>rename an SMS-managed data set
>
>"When renaming SMS-managed data sets, IEHPROGM will uncatalog
>the dat
|
As has been mentioned by others, you can not use IEHPROGM to
rename an SMS-managed data set because every SMS-managed
data set must be cataloged.
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After the data is placed there,
>have a running task pick up the data and delete the hiperspace
>when done.
Have you considered using a Unix pipe?
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the IODF is only used at IPL/NIP time and not by z/OS
>during normal operations at all.
Not by normal z/OS operations, but by ACTIVATE and by HCD.
For both ACTIVATE and HCD, it has to be found using the normal
catalog search order.
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would not adopt that change.
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llowing:
> - Linked as AC(1)
Why do you want to do that?
As Peter said, relinking a non-authorized load module
to make it authorized creates a potential integrity
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> Delete the include of PCOPY2.
> Move the NAME statement to the end of your input. Change the operand to
> PCOPY(R).
Right. I would add:
use a different DDNAME than SYSLIB and/or get rid of LET.
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Do you have
complicated change control procedures that you have to go
through every time you update PARMLIB but not when you
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Yes. You could have something that is sucking up LSQA so that
when a low private request is made it fails. LSQA utilization can
limit the available private. IMO, it is more likely that it is private.
>Any other ideas?
Yes. Read the dump. Don't guess. Analyze the storag
at 1:30 and
bring it back up an hour later at 1:30.
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