Re: SDSF Rexx Issue - to copy SYSOUT into PDS

2013-02-27 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Thanks All, I have used the code provided my IBM in SDSF with REXX manual. Looks like the code is not properly setup and require many modification to make it work. If anybody has used that code before, please share your experience. Regards Saurabh On Thu, F

Re: SDSF Rexx Issue - to copy SYSOUT into PDS

2013-02-27 Thread Scott Ford
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Alternate DDNames (was: SDSF Rexx...to copy SYSOUT into PDS)

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:07:47 -0600, Steve Thompson wrote: > >2.5.9.2 The LINKMVS and ATTCHMVS host command environments >... >address 'LINKMVS' prog 'PARM DDLIST' > >... from which it appears to have been adapted. I do exactly this >when I need to. It works. > > >Glad it worked fo

Re: SDSF Rexx Issue - to copy SYSOUT into PDS

2013-02-27 Thread Steve Thompson
From: Paul Gilmartin Date: 02/27/2013 06:44 PM On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:49:37 +, Leonardo Vaz wrote: >You are executing IEBGENER with parm "Parm DDlist", pretty much like in a JCL with the following card: >// EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,PARM="Parm DDlist" > Yes. But it might be valid if PARM con

Re: SDSF Rexx Issue - to copy SYSOUT into PDS

2013-02-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:49:37 +, Leonardo Vaz wrote: >You are executing IEBGENER with parm "Parm DDlist", pretty much like in a JCL >with the following card: >// EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,PARM="Parm DDlist" > Actually not entirely like. This calls IEBGENER with R1 pointing to a list of 2 fullwords.

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread Skip Robinson
In the 1980s, like most shops, we ran JES2 Exit 13 in order to get notify messages. For some reason you had to give JES2 a non-default return code from Exit 13 or the message was suppressed. I became the JES2 guy after a decade or more of MVS history in the shop. At some point--for reasons lost

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Re: Defined capacity

2013-02-27 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Horst, Thanks for the confirmation. About pattern capping: I am not sure if this is much better. WLW will adapt the capping pattern to distribute to the LPAR the resources that it is entitled to, based on its (IRD modified) weights. So even then WLM will try to honour/sustain the IRD modified

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 February 2013 10:08, Phil Smith wrote: > Thanks, Steve. I had searched for that book but somehow wound up in the > Assembler Services Guide, which of course wasn't as helpful. > > Removing the extra quotes seems to have fixed it: > SAVE (14,12),,'&SYSPARM &SYSDATE &SYSTIME' > > Am

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread John Gilmore
The botched quote- and ampersand-handling in the SAVE macro definition can be remedied readily. SAVE was written long before the HLASM BIFs DCVAL and DEQUOTE were made available, but with them in hand the fix for it is trivial. This fix is, however, something that IBM and not one of us should und

Re: JES exit 6

2013-02-27 Thread Doug Henry
On 2/27/2013 12:58 PM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: > Here's what I get: > > FC 5110 B69800698 20546 $DEST > DEST=$WORK16,LEN=L'$WORK16,CONV=SBINARY > 000136 4160 B69800698 20599 LA R6,$WORK16 > 00013A D503 C210 6000 00260 0 20600 CLC=

Re: SDSF Rexx Issue - to copy SYSOUT into PDS

2013-02-27 Thread Rouse, Willie
In SG247419 page 94 Implementation Rexx support in SDSF it say PARM="" or null. Respectfully, Willie C. Rouse Senior Mainframe Consultant Prince George's County, Maryland Office of Information Technology 9201 Basil Court/ Room B8 Largo, MD 20774 Voice: 301-883-7189 Fax: 301-883-3790 -Origi

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread Bill Godfrey
When the SAVE macro splits the string into 8-byte pieces, it does not handle the presence of double apostrophes or double ampersands correctly. It counts them as 2 characters when determining the total length, and if they happen to occur straddling an 8-byte boundary, it splits them between two

Re: JES exit 6

2013-02-27 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 2/27/2013 12:58 PM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: Here's what I get: FC 5110 B69800698 20546 $DEST DEST=$WORK16,LEN=L'$WORK16,CONV=SBINARY 000136 4160 B69800698 20599 LA R6,$WORK16 00013A D503 C210 6000 00260 0 20600 CLC=CL4'VPRT'

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread Phil Smith
Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Which leads me to wonder, after reading all subsequent replies, what was the >content of &SYSPARM? Was it empty (spaces) or not? It contained six non-blank characters. The original value before I tinkered was seven bytes. Ah, and if I put a seventh in, it works. So th

Re: ISPF Scrollable area

2013-02-27 Thread Dan
Thanks Hank. The scrolling of a scrollable area works as documented, when a scroll field is not specified (as with ISR@PRIME). It basically does "CSR" scrolling. The problem arises when you simply hit ENTER, the display repositions back to the top and there seems to be no way to prevent this a

Re: Defined capacity

2013-02-27 Thread Horst Sinram
> This at least suggests that IRD Weight Management is also disabled when an > Lpar is softcapped by DC limits and not only by GC limits. Kees: Correct - when an LPAR is being capped, regardless whether that's due to an LPAR level defined capacity, or due to group capacity, IRD won't help the p

Re: JES exit 6

2013-02-27 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
The move before $DEST MVC$WORK16(L'JCTPROUT),JCTPROUT So maybe length is only 8? Anne D. Crabtree System Programmer WV Office of Technology Data Center 1900 Kanawha Blvd East Bldg 6, Room B-110 Charleston, WV 25305 (304)558-5914 ext 58292 (304)558-1441 fax -Original Message-

Re: JES exit 6

2013-02-27 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
Here's what I get: FC 5110 B69800698 20546 $DEST DEST=$WORK16,LEN=L'$WORK16,CONV=SBINARY 000136 4160 B69800698 20599 LA R6,$WORK16 00013A D503 C210 6000 00260 0 20600 CLC=CL4'VPRT',0(R6) Dump shows: Regist

Re: SDSF Rexx Issue - to copy SYSOUT into PDS

2013-02-27 Thread Leonardo Vaz
You are executing IEBGENER with parm "Parm DDlist", pretty much like in a JCL with the following card: // EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,PARM="Parm DDlist" And IEBGENER is giving you a RC=12, because that's not valid. Leonardo Vaz -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MA

Re: JES exit 6

2013-02-27 Thread Doug Henry
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:20:22 -0500, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: >CLC=CL4'VPRT',0(R6) >Gets a S0C4. I see the string 'VPRT' at the address in R6 but evidently I >can't compare them this way. Hi Anne, There is nothing wrong with the compare being coded this way. I suspect that you haven't

Re: JES exit 6

2013-02-27 Thread Skip Robinson
I wondered briefly along the same lines, so I got off my duff and assembled the instruction myself: 06 D503 C018 6000 00018 0 9 CLC =CL4'VPRT',0(R6) ... 18 E5D7D9E3 35=CL4'VPRT' '03' indicates the correct length on the CLC. 'C018' i

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Phil Smith wrote: >Removing the extra quotes seems to have fixed it: > SAVE (14,12),,'&SYSPARM &SYSDATE &SYSTIME' Which leads me to wonder, after reading all subsequent replies, what was the content of &SYSPARM? Was it empty (spaces) or not? >Am I unreasonable to be vaguely horrified t

Re: Solaris 7

2013-02-27 Thread Roberts, John J
>>I doubt the "special capability" of CDROM drive. A bit of searching uncovered this statement from the Sun FAQ: <> Although it says 2.5.1, I encountered this problem with 2.6. I think the version of the OpenBoot PROM comes into play as well. I know the problem went away with Solaris

Re: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-27 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
cobol trivia in a.f.c. posts about cp67 group splitting off from the science center (on the 4th flr) and moving to the 3rd flr, absorbing the boston programming group (on its way to morphing into vm370): http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#8 OT: CPL on LCM systems [was Re: COBOL will outlive us

Re: JES exit 6

2013-02-27 Thread Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]
Have you tried: CLC0(4,R6), =C'VPRT' -Original Message- From: Crabtree, Anne D [mailto:anne.d.crabt...@wv.gov] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JES exit 6 Thanks! I've gotten to the point I know what is going on (thanks to a lot

Re: Solaris 7

2013-02-27 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-02-27 16:26, Roberts, John J pisze: So you have to download an ISO to a working Unix or Linux OpSYS to install ? No, if you had ISO images, you needed to burn physical disks. Then you would boot the special install disk, after issuing the appropriate OpenBoot PROM command. And yo

Re: JES exit 6

2013-02-27 Thread Crabtree, Anne D
Thanks! I've gotten to the point I know what is going on (thanks to a lot of help from people!) In our JES2 parmlib on production, I have statements like this: DESTID(VPRT1234) DEST=U1234 Therefore, the JCTPRRID contains x'40's for this particular destination. However, the JCTPROUT has the

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread John Gilmore
John McKown's scheme works well. In this and similar situations it is also useful to recall that set symbols can be used in open code. Thus |&id setc'&SYSPARM'. 'µ&SYSDATE'.'µ&SYSTIME' | SAVE (14,12),,&id (in which I have used 'µ' as a nonce representation of a blank) is, I

Re: Defined capacity

2013-02-27 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Hi Al and Horst, I found the source of my impression that IRD weight management is also being stopped by 'softcapping'. The document is " z/OS Workload Management Update for z/OS V1.11 and V1.12" by Horst Sinram IBM Germany Research & Development August 2, 2010. Sheet 17 (Group Capacity: Summ

Re: JES exit 6

2013-02-27 Thread Greg Dorner
I turn on the trace like this: $S TRACE(13) $T EXIT(6),TRACE=YES $T TRACEDEF,ACTIVE=YES,LOG=(CLASS=L,START=YES) ** (class L where you want the trace output ** Then turn it off: $T TRACEDEF,SPIN

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread John McKown
It seems to depend on the length of the value in &SYSPARM. In my test (and likely your) test, &SYSPARM appears to have been a single blank . But if it were just the right length, then the SAVE macro can split up the values such that the last DC is DC CL1''' which has bad syntax. I got this same err

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
This assembles fine for me. SAVE (14,12),,'''&SYSPARM &SYSDATE &SYSTIME''' + B 24(0,15) BRANCH AROUND ID 01-SAVE + DCAL1(19) LENGTH OF IDENTIFIER 01-SAVE + DCCL8''' 02/2

Re: Solaris 7

2013-02-27 Thread Roberts, John J
>So you have to download an ISO to a working Unix or Linux OpSYS to install ? No, if you had ISO images, you needed to burn physical disks. Then you would boot the special install disk, after issuing the appropriate OpenBoot PROM command. And you needed to boot from a CDROM drive that had a c

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread John McKown
here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2A9C1/79.1.2 ,id name Specifies an identifier to be associated with the SAVE macro. If an asterisk (*) is coded, the identifier is the name associated with the SAVE macro, or, if the name field is blank, the control section name

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread Phil Smith
Thanks, Steve. I had searched for that book but somehow wound up in the Assembler Services Guide, which of course wasn't as helpful. Removing the extra quotes seems to have fixed it: SAVE (14,12),,'&SYSPARM &SYSDATE &SYSTIME' Am I unreasonable to be vaguely horrified that the samples d

SDSF Rexx Issue - to copy SYSOUT into PDS

2013-02-27 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello, I am trying to run SDSF rexx to copy SYSOUT into PDS present in Implementing REXX Support in SDSF manual. I am able to create members( members name starting with Job id) in the PDS. But the data is not getting populated in these members from Job outputs. The issue which I

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - DUPLEXING CHECKLIST

2013-02-27 Thread esmie moo
Thanks to all  for responding to my post.   I have noted all your comments and suggestions. From: "Staller, Allan" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 1:30:35 PM Subject: Re: DFHSM QUESTION - DUPLEXING CHECKLIST 1) be aware that duplex

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
What version of z/OS are you running? What SYS1.ASM libraries are in your SYSLIB statement? In SYS1.MACLIB what are the ISPF Statistics for SAVE? What userid last updated it and when? Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/27/2013 7:42 AM, Phil Smith wrote: In one of the IBM sample exits for DB2 (DSNA10.SDSNSAMP(DSN8FPRC)) we find: SAVE (14,12),,'''&SYSPARM &SYSDATE &SYSTIME''' ...which won't assemble, generating: 15 142+ DCCL8'3 08.36'' ** ASMA063E N

Re: I do not understand S0C6 on CDSG

2013-02-27 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:59:01 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: You want Quadword alignment of something in the CSECT without any gas preceding it due to it being Quadword aligned. IOW: It has an offset of an odd number DWs from the start of the CSECT. What I was more thi

Re: WLM Intelligent Resource Director (was Defined capacity)

2013-02-27 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
In fact nothing will happen. IRD requires the structures and only distributes resources between the LPARs of a Sysplex. In your situation, IRD would have nothing to distribute to. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf O

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread ??????
interesting... waiting for reply -- Original -- From: "Phil Smith"; Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 10:42 PM To: "IBM-MAIN"; Subject: SAVE macro In one of the IBM sample exits for DB2 (DSNA10.SDSNSAMP(DSN8FPRC)) we find: SAVE (14,12),,'

SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread Phil Smith
In one of the IBM sample exits for DB2 (DSNA10.SDSNSAMP(DSN8FPRC)) we find: SAVE (14,12),,'''&SYSPARM &SYSDATE &SYSTIME''' ...which won't assemble, generating: 15 142+ DCCL8'3 08.36'' ** ASMA063E No ending apostrophe - 3 ** ASMA435I Record

Re: Where are the zOS elements and features?

2013-02-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
Jan, I think you might be getting a 404 error in IE? To access the IBM website, you use WWW.IBM.COM. The WWW-03.ibm.com is a redirection. If I use www-03.ibm.com it takes me to www.ibm.com So, it might be the redirection is not working for you. Perhaps a DNS problem in your shop? Instead use

Re: WLM Intelligent Resource Director (was Defined capacity)

2013-02-27 Thread Alvaro Guirao Lopez
One colleague told me that they have "marked" WLM managed (IRD) in some LPARs, but they don't have Parallel Sysplex, so they didn't defined the SYSZWLM_ CF structure. Is this possible? If yes, what functions are proccessed? 2013/2/27 Evren O Baran > Also please note that IRD LPAR weigh

Re: Where are the zOS elements and features?

2013-02-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
jan de decker wrote: >Since a few days I have www-03.ibm.com not found problems. 'not found problems' - I assume you mean: 'now found problems'. What problems? Please elaborate. Perhaps you should flush out your browser's cache. What was the full address you 'usually use daily'? >I use the si

Re: Where are the zOS elements and features?

2013-02-27 Thread Leonardo Vaz
I did not fully understand your question here, but giving that you want the bookmanager, might it be this link what you are searching for? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/library Leonardo Vaz -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LI

Re: Where are the zOS elements and features?

2013-02-27 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/27/2013 6:02 AM, jan de decker wrote: Hi list, Since a few days I have www-03.ibm.com not found problems. Looking up zOS Elements and features on Google all point to this link. I use the site daily in my work as a zOS systems programmer. And I prefer the simulated BookManager since it

Re: rmf spreadsheet reporter v1 r12 and microsoft excel 2010?

2013-02-27 Thread Schmutzok, Michael A.
I have no problems using the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter with Excel 2010. Mike Schmutzok Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer UF & Shands HealthCare -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kenneth Klein (TEMA TPC) Sent: Monday, February 2

Re: SYNCSORT vs. DFSORT configuration for LE?

2013-02-27 Thread Myers, Edouard (OCTO)
I looked through the SYNCSORT LOADLIBS and found the module in SYNC.SORT.R13.SYNCLINK, Edouard A. Myers Senior Information Technology Specialist Office of the Chief Technology Officer DC Government 3919 Benning Road, NE, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20019 Phone : 202-727-4017 Cell: 202-215-1712 Fax

Re: How SMF Logger works (was Reading Active SMF dataset)

2013-02-27 Thread Nick Jones
Hi Jose, It's probably not a good idea to use IXGBRWSE to read SMF log data. SMF blocks the records and puts multiple records in the log block. You'll need to use IFASMFDL to deblock the smf records. See z/OS MVS System Management Facilities (SMF) SA22-7630-xx chapter Using the SMF Dump Progr

Where are the zOS elements and features?

2013-02-27 Thread jan de decker
Hi list, Since a few days I have www-03.ibm.com not found problems. Looking up zOS Elements and features on Google all point to this link. I use the site daily in my work as a zOS systems programmer. And I prefer the simulated BookManager since it allows you to search an entire shell. Anybod

Re: WLM Intelligent Resource Director (was Defined capacity)

2013-02-27 Thread Evren O Baran
Also please note that IRD LPAR weight management continues to work with HiperDispatch turned ON. For instance as the LPAR weight changes the LPAR guaranteed share changes as well and HiperDispatch will adjust the number of high/med/low CPs... etc accordingly. Oz System z Platform Evaluation

Re: WLM Intelligent Resource Director (was Defined capacity)

2013-02-27 Thread Horst Sinram
> Now we know, that Hiperdispatch also disables fundamental IRD functionality. That statement is not correct: - HiperDispatch *replaces* Vary CPU Management (and only when HiperDispatch=YES.) - HiperDispatch provides *more* functionality and is much more efficient and faster than the old Vary

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - DUPLEXING CHECKLIST

2013-02-27 Thread David Devine
Hi Esmee, Not strictly dfhsm, but you should also consider your actual tape environment. Assuming you have at least 2 separate librarys you need to ensure that your copy volumes are directed to a 2nd library. If you have virtual tape libraries I would also consider it good practice to have seper

Reminder: Machine Code License Acceptance Documents

2013-02-27 Thread Timothy Sipples
I draw your attention to IBM U.S. announcement letter 113-027 (and the related announcements for all other countries) dated February 19, 2013. This announcement may affect your ordering process and delivery of several IBM products including zEnterprise servers. I recommend getting your license docu

Re: I do not understand S0C6 on CDSG

2013-02-27 Thread David Stokes
To return a bit to reality it is important to be able to allocate storage at runtime on a 16 byte (quadword) boundary if one is using instructions such as CDSG or LPQ which require 16 byte alignment of the storage operand. That ability is fortunately and conveniently provided by the STORAGE/GETM

Re: WLM Intelligent Resource Director (was Defined capacity)

2013-02-27 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-02-27 09:00, Alvaro Guirao Lopez pisze: Very interesting thread... casually I was reading about IRD when I saw this mail in my inbox :-))) [...] I didn't see any shop with IRD, but seems that it's useful for large shops, with multiple LPARs in several Sysplex. AFAIK IRD works for

Re: WLM Intelligent Resource Director (was Defined capacity)

2013-02-27 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
The relation between IRD and Hiperdispatch is mentioned in Hiperdispatch docs and in Katy's presentation: Hiperdispatch takes over (disables) IRD's Vary CPU management. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Alvaro G

WLM Intelligent Resource Director (was Defined capacity)

2013-02-27 Thread Alvaro Guirao Lopez
Very interesting thread... casually I was reading about IRD when I saw this mail in my inbox :-))) For those who don't have the expert knowledge of Kees or Al. IRD uses facilities in WLM, Parallel Sysplex and PR/SM. Change the amount of system resources (central processors and channel paths) allo