Re: IBMLink > Facebook

2013-08-23 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 8/23/2013 4:56 PM, Pinnacle wrote: Facebook's going on 5 hours of downtime. IBMLink is kicking it's butt for availability this week. Haha! It must be a regional thing. Facebook has been up for me all day long... -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive Nor

IBMLink > Facebook

2013-08-23 Thread Pinnacle
Facebook's going on 5 hours of downtime. IBMLink is kicking it's butt for availability this week. -- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the messag

Re: DFHSM expire processing

2013-08-23 Thread Gibney, Dave
Also, DFHSM doesn't need to be a high priority task. It will always be I/O constrained, not CPU. Well-tuned migration rules should prevent recall seriously impacting producton for. I run EXPIREBV twice, everyday. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LIS

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-23 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I have NO idea what your point is! - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -Original Message- From: "R.S." Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 20:56:52 To: Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: SCRT questi

Re: DFHSM expire processing

2013-08-23 Thread Hervey Martinez
We run EXPIREBV only on weekends and we let it run all day long along with all HSM functions and have never had an issue. We've been running this way for several years. Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-23 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-08-23 16:35, Ted MacNEIL pisze: Why overkill? 45 blocks fill a track, and I'm anal enough to like the first member to start on a track boundary. PS: I'm too anal retentive to have OCD! Wrong forum IMHO (I mean "anal"). Regarding meritum: It's not. Proof: Current Utilization Used

Re: Anyone being notified by SR a LOT

2013-08-23 Thread Lizette Koehler
I will be escalating through my IBM management team. Seems like a pretty poor system that cannot send a notification once and then stop. Also, while my case was open I did not receive notifications even though I had requested them on updates. So, sounds like IBM Link SR function has a big bug.

DFHSM expire processing

2013-08-23 Thread Michael Bieganski
Hi, We have four lpars, running zOS 1.13 and use dfhsm. On 3 of the lpars, expirebv is always held. Every morning at 7:30,automation issues this command on just one of our four lpars: HSEND EXPIREBV NONSMSVERSIONS(DBU(5) CATALOGEDDATA(50) - UNCATALOGEDDATA(0)) EXECUTE RESUME and at 17:00..th

Re: Listing "hidden" ALIASes in a PDS/E?

2013-08-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:28:19 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >Whether WAD, 'working as designed', or BAD, 'broken as designed', is >perhaps moot. > >The problem of selecting one among several modules of the same name in >different PDS[E]s for inclusion in an executable is much better >addressed by usin

Re: Anyone being notified by SR a LOT

2013-08-23 Thread Dana Mitchell
I got an email containing this the other day, as I was still on the phone waiting to talk to a person: -- View and update your service request at https://www-947.ibm

Re: Any z/OS product support to access VSAM data via JDBC?

2013-08-23 Thread Lizette Koehler
I found this thread when searching http://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@bama.ua.edu/msg97604.html Timothy Sipples Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:55:02 -0700 In my answer I'm assuming the VSAM is on z/OS rather than z/VSE. Here are some IBM options, not necessarily in order: 1. IBM InfoSphere Classic Feder

Re: Anyone being notified by SR a LOT

2013-08-23 Thread efinnell15
Their server is probably infected with dread Corona malware...hold the lime! In a message dated 08/23/13 10:36:02 Central Daylight Time, bherr...@txfb-ins.com writes: get notifications when nothing was actually updated in the SR -

Re: JES2 EXIT 40 ASMA90 Parm Question

2013-08-23 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Thank You Michael and Seymour for your thought invoking responses. I will use RENT. Thanks Again, Dave -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Toole, Michael Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 3:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LIST

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-23 Thread Greg Shirey
It is related to the comment that an SCRT report data set that is PO VB 4096 is "perhaps not right." Sorry for confusing you with the topic drift. Regards, Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Fri

Re: Anyone being notified by SR a LOT

2013-08-23 Thread Herring, Bobby
And we seem to get notifications when nothing was actually updated in the SR. Bobby -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kreiter, Chuck Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 10:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-M

Re: Any z/OS product support to access VSAM data via JDBC?

2013-08-23 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-08-23 08:52, Mark Regan wrote: > Does IBM have a z/OS product that allows access to VSAM data via JDBC? A Google search has turned up several ISV products, but nothing really that I could find about an IBM product. > > > Thanks, > > Mark Regan > <>< In March 2005, IBM directed me to lo

Re: Anyone being notified by SR a LOT

2013-08-23 Thread Kreiter, Chuck
I noticed getting the same update several times for an SR we had open. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, August 23, 2013 8:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Anyone being notified

Anyone being notified by SR a LOT

2013-08-23 Thread Lizette Koehler
I had opened an SR with IBM on Aug 14. Then on Aug 15 I closed the case as my problem was resolved. Since then I have received about 12 notifications that my case has been closed. I was wondering if anyone else was seeing this issue. I have contacted the SR Help desk and they say they

Re: Hints needed on abend 0D6-027

2013-08-23 Thread Kenneth Wilkerson
Program calls (PC) is a Z/Architecture feature that has a z/OS server, PCAUTH, ASID 2 to administer it. The ETCON, ETDES, ETDIS, and ETDEF macros are the primary interfaces into that server. It's the first PC numbers defined in the system during IPL in the range of 0 to x. Chapter 5, Program Ex

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-23 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Why overkill? 45 blocks fill a track, and I'm anal enough to like the first member to start on a track boundary. PS: I'm too anal retentive to have OCD! - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -Original Message- From: "Richards, Robert B." Sender: IBM Mainfr

Re: Listing "hidden" ALIASes in a PDS/E?

2013-08-23 Thread John Gilmore
Whether WAD, 'working as designed', or BAD, 'broken as designed', is perhaps moot. The problem of selecting one among several modules of the same name in different PDS[E]s for inclusion in an executable is much better addressed by using a binder LIBRARY control statement than by fiddling with conc

Re: DASD, Tape and other peripherals attached to a Mainframe

2013-08-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 08/23/2013 at 07:30 AM, Quasar Chunawala said: >I work as an application programmer with a leading bank on >CICS/Cobol for the past 4 years. Whilst I know, that data on the >mainframe is stored on disks and tapes, I have never walked in to >a data-center. At any mainframe data-cente

Re: Listing "hidden" ALIASes in a PDS/E?

2013-08-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <1249405589954549.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu>, on 08/22/2013 at 05:27 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >A consequence is that DDLIST member search of a mixed catenation will >bypass a UNIX directory and report instead a member in a PDS(E) later >in the catenation, whereas BLDL will find

Re: Hints needed on abend 0D6-027

2013-08-23 Thread Ray Overby
In my experience a S0D6-027 implies that the LX owning address space has terminated (normally or abnormally) but the program(s) issuing PC instructions to that LX continue. I would review your design for "terminating the LX owning address space and stopping the PC calls". A simple test case th

Re: DASD, Tape and other peripherals attached to a Mainframe

2013-08-23 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
quasar.chunawa...@gmail.com (Quasar Chunawala) writes: > I work as an application programmer with a leading bank on CICS/Cobol for > the past 4 years. Whilst I know, that data on the mainframe is stored on > disks and tapes, I have never walked in to a data-center. At any mainframe > data-center, w

Any z/OS product support to access VSAM data via JDBC?

2013-08-23 Thread Mark Regan
Does IBM have a z/OS product that allows access to VSAM data via JDBC? A Google search has turned up several ISV products, but nothing really that I could find about an IBM product.   Thanks, Mark Regan <>< -- For IBM-MAIN sub

Re: DASD, Tape and other peripherals attached to a Mainframe

2013-08-23 Thread Lizette Koehler
The mainframe has a huge potential to support a lot of web based functions as well as provide a platform for a midrange/open systems environments could use. Currently I am researching using CICS as the portal to a cloud environment. I am in the early stages of this research, but it looks promisi

Re: DASD, Tape and other peripherals attached to a Mainframe

2013-08-23 Thread Quasar Chunawala
Hi Lizette, Thank you for the eye-opener. Quasar C. On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Quasar Chunawala < quasar.chunawa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi experts, > > I work as an application programmer with a leading bank on CICS/Cobol for > the past 4 years. Whilst I know, that data on the mainframe i

Hints needed on abend 0D6-027

2013-08-23 Thread Robin Atwood
Our application very occasionally (once every few months) abends 0D6-027, which means a PC instruction has caused a "Linkage second index translation exception". I am wondering exactly what this is telling me since the auxiliary ASID being PCed to had been active for some time and had processed

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-23 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Richards, Robert B. wrote: >15 directory blocks seems overkill though! :-) Indeed! :-D Perhaps the original author of that JCL could not decide between 1 or 5, so he/she/it ends up at 15. ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht Friday joke: Waiter asks our land's president what he want

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-23 Thread Richards, Robert B.
I suppose you could use a PS dataset *if* you only were reporting on one CEC. I never been in that situation since SCRT's inception, so I haven't tried it to know for sure. 15 directory blocks seems overkill though! :-) Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-23 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-08-22 23:05, Greg Shirey pisze: The supplied JCL for SCRT contains the following: //* FOR SEQUENTIAL OUTPUT (ALL CPCS IN ONE DS) //* CHANGE SPACE PARAMETER TO SPACE=(TRK,(15,15)) //OUTPUT DDDISP=(,CATLG),DSN=HLQ.SCRTTOOL.CSV, // SPACE=(TRK,(15,15,15)),UNIT=SYSDA So