ROTs and/or considerations and/or doc about *PROC Speed (Workflow) (WFEX), ERV, CCCAWMT

2013-03-27 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Hi, I didn't find any additional doc or considerations about these 3 items than what's indicated in the manuals. 1° WFEX report (RMF Mon III) --- DELAY Indicator --- Field: *PROC Speed (Workflow) Guideline: If this value is low (less than 40%), it may be due to CPU delay. If this value is

Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread Ken MacKenzie
Hi All, I've been asked to look at our output writer routines to add the facility to print using TCP/IP instead of (or maybe as well as) Bus Tag (EXCP.) Can anyone with experience in this area direct me to the relevant IBM documentation, etc? Thanks-in-Advance. Ken MacKenzie Pramerica

Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
On 27.03.2013 10:47, Ken MacKenzie wrote: Hi All, I've been asked to look at our output writer routines to add the facility to print using TCP/IP instead of (or maybe as well as) Bus Tag (EXCP.) What do you mean about output writer routines ? JES external writer replace or application

Re: Monitoring Max sockets

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Regan
Since your question is TCP/IP related, you might want to post it to the IBMTCP-L mailing list. To subscribe, send mail to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the following command in the e-mail message body:   SUBSCRIBE IBMTCP-L   Thanks, Mark Regan - Original Message - From: gsg

Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Regan
Since your question is TCP/IP related, you might want to post it to the IBMTCP-L mailing list. To subscribe, send mail to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the following command in the e-mail message body:   SUBSCRIBE IBMTCP-L   Thanks, Mark Regan - Original Message - From: Ken

Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:47:06 +0100, Ken MacKenzie wrote: I've been asked to look at our output writer routines to add the facility to print using TCP/IP instead of (or maybe as well as) Bus Tag (EXCP.) Can anyone with experience in this area direct me to the relevant IBM documentation, etc?

Re: Monitoring Max sockets

2013-03-27 Thread esst...@juno.com
You may want to look at a product called Vital Signs I dont remember te vender. -- Original Message -- From: gsg gsg_...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Monitoring Max sockets Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:10:07 -0500 What are some good tcpip monitoring tools? Does

Re: Monitoring Max sockets

2013-03-27 Thread Meehan, Cheryl
We use VIP, it's put out by SDS. We have one application that we monitor max sockets for. http://www.sdsusa.com/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of esst...@juno.com Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 7:04 AM To:

JES2-SYSOUT

2013-03-27 Thread Ron Wells
Putting a file to SYSOUT with IEBGENER ... Is there a limit. blksize that can be used... File is currently VBM 32756 32760 -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, which

Re: PARMDD?

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:09:16 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: I think you are reading too much into John's presentation. I don't think he is. After thinking about it I would guess that the exec statement and parm will remain essentially the same and if you want to pass a longer parm then you would

Re: PARMDD?

2013-03-27 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:24:49 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: When long PARMS have been discussed here previously, the reactionaries and IBM loyalists have objected, Oh, no! We can't have that! Suddenly programs that clearly failed on JCL errors will instead program check on buffer overruns and our

Re: JES2-SYSOUT

2013-03-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Ron Wells wrote: Putting a file to SYSOUT with IEBGENER ... Please show us the job used. Is there a limit. blksize that can be used... It depends. File is currently ... Do you mean a DATASET or is it an OMVS File? ... VBM 32756 32760 What are these numbers? LRECL, BLKSIZE, DSORG, etc?

Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread Ron Wells
MacKinney From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 03/27/2013 06:03 AM Subject:Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:47:06 +0100, Ken MacKenzie wrote:

Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread John McKown
We use MacKinney's JQP. You put the output on the SPOOL like normal, with a DEST=. JQP is a started task which uses the JES API to read the output. It then uses the LPR protocol over IP to send the output to LPR printers, Windows print servers, and a product called RPM (I think) which runs on

Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:13:58 -0500, John McKown wrote: If you need a freebie, then there is the every unpopular IBM Network Print Server, which is part of Communictions Server (TCPIP/VTAM). I actually got this working once. It stinks like Limburger cheese left in a closed up car in the Texas

Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread Ken MacKenzie
A third-party product is not completely out of the question but since we have the current external writer routines well ensconced in the system with our own specific tailoring, etc. the thinking is that massaging a new product may be as costly and time consuming as amending what we have. The

Re: PARMDD?

2013-03-27 Thread John Gilmore
Tom Marchant wrote begin extract Indeed, when I started as an application programmer in 1970, that was the standard that my code was expected to follow. /end extract and that is what I have always recommended and, on occasion, embodied in programming standards. This notion is also embedded in

Re: exit add in progxx for cnz_wtomdbexit and setprog

2013-03-27 Thread Peter Fatzinger
Bernard, MVS Installation Exits definitely says that you should be able to add the exit via PROGxx, and you have collected ample evidence that it is not working correctly for you. I believe last week you had indicated you were considering opening a PMR, and I would say that is the correct

Re: PARMDD?

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:06:58 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: When long PARMS have been discussed here previously, the reactionaries and IBM loyalists have objected, Oh, no! We can't have that! Suddenly programs that clearly failed on JCL errors will instead program check on buffer overruns and our

Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Ken, What are you using now? Is it a home-built product or is it, for example, IBM's PSF, or something else? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken MacKenzie Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 7:30 AM To:

Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread Ken MacKenzie
Home-built. Written about 100 years ago by someone who's left the company or died or both. Ken MacKenzie Pramerica Systems Ireland Limited is a private company limited by shares incorporated and registered in the Republic of Ireland with registered number 319900 and registered office at

Re: PARMDD?

2013-03-27 Thread John Eells
Ed Jaffe wrote: On 3/26/2013 3:24 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: From: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=cainfotype=anappname=iSourcesupplier=877letternum=ENUSZP13-0013 oSupport for passing parameter lists up to 32,760 bytes in length to a program from JCL. A

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-03-27 Thread John Gilmore
Paul Gilmartin wrote: begin extract It has been patiently explained to me here that STORAGE OBTAIN is biased toward doubleword multiples. But PARM contains a halfword length that doesn't count itself. So I'd expect the limit to be either 32758 (8*4095-2) or 32766 (8*4096-2). Again, why 32760?

Re: [Possible Spam] Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread Steve Finch
There are three parts to your problem Spool reading, file transfer, and output formatting. The LPR command will do spool reading, file transfer, and output formatting for most printers The FTP command will do spool reading, file transfer, and output formatting for some printers, just not

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:03:03 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: Consider now what happens if storage is allocated on a doubleword boundary D. The next doubleword boundary is at D + 8. Placing the halfword current-length prefix at D + 6 ensures that any doubleword alignment for what begins at D + 8 is

Destination z article: Don't Leave Your Successors Adrift

2013-03-27 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Don't Leave Your Successors Adrift Mentoring, training and documentation can keep mainframes humming http://www.destinationz.org/Mainframe-Solution/Trends/Mentoring-Training-Documentation-Mainframe.aspx -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver

how do i capture MVS command output into a batch job?

2013-03-27 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Hi list, I did some searching of the archives and didn't see anything so I'll ask what I hope to be a simple question. I have a need to be able to execute an MVS command and have the output available to a batch job for further processing. In this case, I want to be able to capture the output

Re: how do i capture MVS command output into a batch job?

2013-03-27 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I'll reply to my own message. I did some more digging and found several examples of how I can do this, so never mind. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 10:42 AM To:

standalone dump

2013-03-27 Thread Tim Brown
I am testing the standalone dump process to a 3590 tape. Once I create the tape how can I read it, IPCS appears to be great for reading dumps on disk. Also is the AMD066I error message a concern, Where does one find the code= reasons AMD108I DUMPING OF AUXILIARY STORAGE FOR MINIMAL ASIDS

Re: Output Writer and TCP/IP

2013-03-27 Thread Givens, Dennis W.
Dana, What release of Z/OS are you running? IBM has stated that NPF users should convert to INFO Print. I have not heard of any dates for them to pull the plug on NPF. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dana Mitchell

OT - HitchHiker Guide to the Galaxy 404 error

2013-03-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
For those that like HHGG - Here is a new twist from ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/errors/404.html Lizette -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: standalone dump

2013-03-27 Thread Jim Mulder
I am testing the standalone dump process to a 3590 tape. Once I create the tape how can I read it, IPCS appears to be great for reading dumps on disk. You should copy the dump from tape to disk before using IPCS to do dump analysis. Also, you can dump directly to disk. That is usually

Re: standalone dump

2013-03-27 Thread Tim Brown
Jim Thanks, I just realized the version difference As far as power outage, its past my influence. Tim -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jim Mulder Sent: Wednesday, 27 March, 2013 1:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

PDS processing in REXX

2013-03-27 Thread Graham Hobbs
Hello, OK to ask for some help please, or where might I go?:-) Am not a sysprog, hope to be back on a z/OS machine in a short while, have to convert several ooREXX's to mainframe acceptability so, to save some mainframe time $'s, if I may, will ask neophyte questions (have googled); that said

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-03-27 Thread W. Kevin Kelley
This has all been very entertaining but there are two reasons why it is 32760: 1) the storage layout has always consisted of two fullword fields followed by the parameter string storage. The two fullwords plus 32760 bytes of parameters conveniently fits in 8 pages, and 2) 32760 is also the