Re: Design of Key Matching application

2012-10-05 Thread Ed Finnell
I'd make an alternate index on both and then just boogie... In a message dated 10/5/2012 12:42:39 A.M. Central Daylight Time, mike.a.sch...@gmail.com writes: put the unique key into a searchable store then process the other file in current order. Or is there a report that

Re: Design of Key Matching application

2012-10-05 Thread Ken Brick
David, What is the ultimate destination. Choose a method that will best arrive at that destination. If it a DB2 than use DB2. If a VSAM KSDS than load from one file and update with the other acknowledging that you need processing for the duplicates. If a sequential transaction file then

Re: Design of Key Matching application

2012-10-05 Thread Gibney, Dave
If 1. New or different files each run and 2. Neither is larger than mid GiB, sort'em both and sequential match merge. Put one or both as VIO. If there are many larger files, or the smaller key file does not vary greatly from run to run, set it up as VSAM, DB2, Adabas, SAS or whatever and pass

Re: IBM Software Price Announcements (Was: More price rises for z/OS products)

2012-10-05 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Timothy Sipples wrote: ... that value units (IBM's software licensing metric) are deflating even faster ... Really? Where is that documented? Any pointers please. Thanks in advance. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht --

Re: Tivoli SA

2012-10-05 Thread Brian Westerman
This isn't meant as a marketing thing, but one of the best selling point we have for our System Automation software is that the cost is less than 5% (a lot less) of what IBM/CA etc. charges for the same function(s). IBM makes it even easier for us by requiring Netview thus adding a whole lot

Re: How can we get the normalization factors R723NFFI / R723NFFS / SMF70NRM numbers out of RMF?

2012-10-05 Thread Daniel Jacot
COBOL sample: IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. COBTEST. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 FACTOR PIC 9.

Re: Identify us of Enclave and ZIIP

2012-10-05 Thread Martin Packer
I suspect XML parsing with zAAP-on-zIIP in effect. Do you have zAAPs because that would rule this out. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs:

Re: Identify us of Enclave and ZIIP

2012-10-05 Thread Benjamin White
That was one of our guesses also. Was interested if there are any records kept of which application or feature used the ZIIP. Thanks for the response. Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 09:43:04 +0100 From: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Subject: Re: Identify us of Enclave and ZIIP To:

SV: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

2012-10-05 Thread Thomas Berg
Is that not a tautology ? :) (Could You be in a *business* without the goal to make profits ?) Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist AM/SMS SWEDBANK AB (publ) -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe

Re: SV: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

2012-10-05 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Thomas Berg wrote: Is that not a tautology ? :) (Could You be in a *business* without the goal to make profits ?) Yes, as long you have one or other tax evavise scheme [1] in place to make serious PROFITS! ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht [1] - In the good old days, the shop owners

Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

2012-10-05 Thread Bill Fairchild
Of course it is a tautology. But many/most of us seem to forget the tautology after we have worked at the same place for X number of years. We begin to think that our employer owes us a living, or maybe our nation's taxpayers owe us a living. Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408

Re: Is there a way to RMM deletevolume a volser from a VTL that is no longer available?

2012-10-05 Thread Mike Wood
reason code 401 from OAM tape processing means the library is not accessible - well, we knew that, but there are certain paths in the rmm code that should allow the rmm processing when this happens - allowing CDS cleanup. . . . Well at least the DV worked - so that was good news. Mike Wood

Re: Identify us of Enclave and ZIIP

2012-10-05 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
Look at your SMF type 30 records. There are fields in it for ZIIP and ZAAP usage. Those jobs or tasks that have time in the fields are the ones that use the ZIIP or ZAAP. I personally only know about a few products that do use it such as DB2, BMC DB2 Utilities, SyncSort, and DB2 Sort. I am

Re: Identify us of Enclave and ZIIP

2012-10-05 Thread Martin Packer
As this started off on CICS-L I assumed the context of the question was CICS potential usages. Hence my stab at XML - as the only one I can think of. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email:

Re: Career Advice for the Mainframer - Was RE: Another Light goes out

2012-10-05 Thread John Gilmore
A sometime IBM chairman made Bill's point negatively, in a once celebrated phrase. that phrase was IBM is not an eleemosynary organization. Profit seeking is not, however, a constructive objective. A company must decide how to make profits and, crucially, over what time horizon to try to

Re: Design of Key Matching application

2012-10-05 Thread Sri h Kolusu
You can use DFSORT's JOINKEYS to match files. Check this link which explains in detail about Matching files using Joinkeys http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ICE1CA60/4.0? Just make sure to pass the larger file as input to SORTJNF1 dd Sri Hari Kolusu DFSORT Development

Debugging SRB issues with IPCS

2012-10-05 Thread Ron MacRae
Hi all, Sorry if this has been done before but I couldn't see it. I've recently had to debug looping code in an SRB routine on a zIIP. The only information I could find was the PSWs out of the MVS trace entries for the CPU timer interupts. Fortunatly there were enough of them to

Re: Debugging SRB issues with IPCS

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Harper
Ron, There isn't, because while the SRB is running, there is no control block which contains its status. Here's a suggestion: obtain ColeSoft's XDC debugger product: it fully supports debugging in SRB mode. Full disclosure: I have no connection with this vendor. Tom - Original Message

Re: Debugging SRB issues with IPCS

2012-10-05 Thread Ron MacRae
Tom, We've got XDC and I agree it's a great product. However we could never reproduce the problem to allow us to run it under XDC. All we had was the dump from our customer. Ron. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Debugging SRB issues with IPCS

2012-10-05 Thread Tom Harper
Ron, Now I understand. Here are my suggestions: Add SRBTIMER to each SRB to prevent uncontrolled loops to begin with. Your recovery routine can then capture registers and other critical information. Add PTRACE entries at critical code points, like maybe at start of SRB logic so you can locate

Re: Search problem

2012-10-05 Thread Peter Relson
The search for load modules as I understand is joblib , steplib, then lnklst The default system search order is tasklib(s), then steplib/joblib, then LPA, then LNKLST. Applications could conceivably check other things first (such as ISPLLIB). I don't know if ISRFIND does this or not.

Re: Message puzzle

2012-10-05 Thread Peter Relson
Try to XMIT a dataset from the linklist in TSO: Step 1 Got IEB1130E A TERMINATING MESSAGE FROM PDSE PROCESSING APPEARS ABOVE -- DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS X'2822009F' The PDSE expert I asked thinks that this would be expected only if a member has been deleted from the data set after the transmit

AW: Tivoli SA

2012-10-05 Thread Uwe Oswald
OK, understood. Do I have to license the Netview product if I want to use SA for other purposes than GDPS? -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Timothy Sipples1 Gesendet: Freitag, 5. Oktober 2012 06:59 An:

Re: Message puzzle

2012-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 11:59:00 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: Try to XMIT a dataset from the linklist in TSO: Step 1 Got IEB1130E A TERMINATING MESSAGE FROM PDSE PROCESSING APPEARS ABOVE -- DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS X'2822009F' The PDSE expert I asked thinks that this would be expected only if a member

MQ msg

2012-10-05 Thread Ron Wells
anyone...the manual not clear .. this display mean MQ trace active ?? RESPONSE=AGFP CSQW127I -MQP1 CURRENT TRACE ACTIVITY IS - TNO TYPE CLASSDEST USERID RMID 01 STAT *SMF ** 02 ACCTG 01 SMF ** END OF TRACE REPORT

Re: IBM Software Price Announcements (Was: More price rises for z/OS products)

2012-10-05 Thread Tony Harminc
On 5 October 2012 00:44, Timothy Sipples1 sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: Suppose Proctor Gamble introduces a new laundry detergent that requires 25% less to wash the same number of loads of laundry. But it costs a bit more to make: PG also announces a 3% price increase per gram in Canada and a 5%

Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.)

2012-10-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0061634022294882.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/04/2012 at 11:38 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Or, the OS can prohibit the occurrence of boundary values, and the programmer need never be concerned with them. No, the OS can prohibit the occurrence of boundary

Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.)

2012-10-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0897781066770312.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/04/2012 at 03:51 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Was the null segment in VBS invented (partly) to deal with the problem of noise record processing on tapes? No The lower limit is higher when going to tape. --

Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.)

2012-10-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 136401cda235$aff94dd0$0febe970$@mcn.org, on 10/04/2012 at 09:39 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Who knows? Because it made sense to the programmer. We put lots of empty lines in these e-mails. (Technically they contain one or two delimiter characters, No. Technically the message

Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.)

2012-10-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0897781066770312.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/04/2012 at 03:51 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Are those current or historical? SC26-7410-09, the 1.11 version of DFSMS Using Data Sets, still gives the minimum length of an SDW as 5. However, it does not

Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.)

2012-10-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:51:13 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: on 10/04/2012 at 11:38 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: Or, the OS can prohibit the occurrence of boundary values, and the programmer need never be concerned with them. No, the OS can prohibit the occurrence of boundary values, and