Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

Hi John, Not sure which product of mainview you use, if you do use CMF, then there is a spreadsheet analyzer, similar to RMF spreadsheet reporter. Take a look and see if it helps you -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archiv

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

WPS is not free and that is not the correct website. It is comparatively cheaper than SAS and SAS code works on it for the most part without much change. The correct website for WPS is @ http://www.teamwpc.co.uk/products/wps -

Re: z114 added capacity with added engine

Went to the HMC. Added logical processor. Went to MVS. Issued CF CPU(02),ONLINE. Second CPU came online. Thanks for the help. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.u

Does LE HEAPCHK vastly increase ANYHEAP requirements?

As a routine part of testing I have been testing a program with //CEEOPTS DD * RPTSTG(ON) HEAPCHK(ON,10,0,10,10,1024,0) /* I do this for two purposes: 1. To check for storage leaks and corruption. 2. To see what the stack and heap requirements are. I then s

Re: IEB319I INVALID SYSPRINT/SYSIN BLOCKSIZE

Oh, the EXPORT statement must be before the SET statement. On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 19:51:27 -0500, Peter X. DeFabritus wrote: >Actually, SYSSYM=ALLOW is only for system symbols. Your job stream does work >for me, though, so I'm not sure what's wrong. > >On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:59:53 -0500, Peter

Re: IEB319I INVALID SYSPRINT/SYSIN BLOCKSIZE

Actually, SYSSYM=ALLOW is only for system symbols. Your job stream does work for me, though, so I'm not sure what's wrong. On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:59:53 -0500, Peter X. DeFabritus wrote: >You should also set SYSSYM=ALLOW for the job class you are using. Also, as >was discussed a while ago,

Re: z/OS technical overviews for new(ish) system programmers (UNCLASSIFIED)

Back in the day, something like this would have been handy: http://www.makelinux.net/kernel_map/ If the z/OS source was available, I'm sure some bright spark would have done similar for our benefit nowadays. Shane ... -- For IB

Re: IEB319I INVALID SYSPRINT/SYSIN BLOCKSIZE

You should also set SYSSYM=ALLOW for the job class you are using. Also, as was discussed a while ago, if the long substitution causes the data to flow past the end of the record, you will get a 001-5 ABEND. -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: z/OS technical overviews for new(ish) system programmers (UNCLASSIFIED)

Look a Marist College online Education for Mainframe. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mike La Martina > Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 10:03 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OS technical ov

Re: SMPE problem

RECEIVE the latest HOLDDATA (goes into GLOBAL only). I always do this before any maintenance. Run ERRORSYSMOD report against TGT1 & TGT2. I'm sure the same PE/s or APAR/s against the product FMID/s/base will show up on this report. The new HOLDDATA should tell you if there is a fix or there is n

Re: IEB319I INVALID SYSPRINT/SYSIN BLOCKSIZE

(Thanks, Peter Farley, for fixing my inadvertent UNIX-ism (1 or more).) On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:12:22 -0500, Peter X. DeFabritus wrote: >For one thing, you need to export the symbols you want to substitute. For >example, put the following statement before the EXEC statement: > >// EXPOR

Re: IEB319I INVALID SYSPRINT/SYSIN BLOCKSIZE

For one thing, you need to export the symbols you want to substitute. For example, put the following statement before the EXEC statement: // EXPORT SYMLIST=* or // EXPORT SYMLIST=X On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 17:35:09 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >My first experiment with symbol sub

Re: IEB319I INVALID SYSPRINT/SYSIN BLOCKSIZE

Paul, I don't know how to solve your IEB319I issue, but out of curiosity I tried submitting your symbol substitution test from a PDS on our z/OS 2.1 system, and nothing ever gets substituted. Whatever your ftp submission issues, I don't see the new symbol substitution working at all here. Is

IEB319I INVALID SYSPRINT/SYSIN BLOCKSIZE

My first experiment with symbol substitution in SYSIN: // //JCLSYMJOB 505303JOB,'Paul Gilmartin', // MSGLEVEL=(1,1),REGION=16385K //* //* Doc: experiment with instream symbol substitution. //* //USERCOUTPUT JESDS=ALL,DEFAULT=YES, // CLASS=R,PAGEDEF=V0648Z,CHARS=GT12 //* // SET X='This is

Re: df/sort parameter error. fixlen with leading zero

Tony, I don't think it has to do anything with 8 vs 08. You are getting an ICE287A error which is due to a symbolic substitution. How is the symbol RESCLASS defined? Can you show use the complete sysin control cards along with the symbols ? Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation

Re: z114 added capacity with added engine

W dniu 2014-06-20 23:54, JT pisze: Just added capacity to our 2818-S01 to make a 2818-V02. Our activation profile shows one GP and one zIIP with no reserves. Short of an IPL, is there any way for my single z/OS 1.13 LPAR to see and use the 2nd engine? CE seemed to remember some one one time ha

SMPE problem

My SMP/E CSI consist of GLOBAL zone and several pairs of DLIB/Target, let's name it DLIB1/TGT1, DLIB2/TGT2, DLIB3, TGT3. An IBM product, downloaded from ShopzSeries (indirectly, using PC) was RECEIVEd. The product was ordered with a service (PTFs), based of SMP/E report. It happened in begini

df/sort parameter error. fixlen with leading zero

I have a minor DF/SORT application that works on one LPAR and fails on another. The leading zero appears to be the culprit. PARSE=(%01=(ABSPOS=31,ENDBEFR=C'.',FIXLEN=8)), works cc=0, but if I specify 08 (zero-eight) for FIXLEN PARSE=(%01=(ABSPOS=31,ENDBEFR=C'.',FIXLEN

z114 added capacity with added engine

Just added capacity to our 2818-S01 to make a 2818-V02. Our activation profile shows one GP and one zIIP with no reserves. Short of an IPL, is there any way for my single z/OS 1.13 LPAR to see and use the 2nd engine? CE seemed to remember some one one time had this magic command ... D M=CPU s

Re: Strange REXX SAY behaviour.

In , on 06/19/2014 at 06:30 PM, Massimo Biancucci said: >I'm puzzling about a strange behaviour of a REXX under ISPF. Do you have appropriate use of address ISPEXEC CONTROL LINE address ISPEXEC CONTROL -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: z/OS technical overviews for new(ish) system programmers (UNCLASSIFIED)

In , on 06/20/2014 at 04:37 PM, "Storr, Lon A CTR USARMY HRC (US)" said: >We have a couple of team members wanting to learn more about MVS >internals. That used to be easy, but with OCO (ptui!) most of the information is no longer available. A lot of what IBM documented for OS/360 and OS/VS2

Re: Also Posted In ISPF-L; ISPF SPLITV

In , on 06/19/2014 at 10:14 AM, George Rodriguez said: >Just one question... Is the product expensive? The ISPF Work Station Agent (WSA) is bundled. As long as you can run an SNA or TCP/IP session from z/OS to your PC, you've already got what you need. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, Sy

Re: Also Posted In ISPF-L; ISPF SPLITV

In , on 06/19/2014 at 08:02 AM, George Rodriguez said: >If memory serves, It doesn't; SPLITV is part of the 3290 support, has nothing to do with a session manager, and requires a session that supports explicit partitions. >I used SPLITV instead of SPLIT to split the screen of a regular >327

Re: z/OS technical overviews for new(ish) system programmers (UNCLASSIFIED)

If you can find them, the programing login manuals (LY or SY prefix on the manual number) will be a big help. You might try bitsavers.org or possibly the IBM doc web site. As you mentioned below, the ABC's of Systems Programming are also very good sources. Last but not least, SHARE and CMG may

Re: z/OS technical overviews for new(ish) system programmers (UNCLASSIFIED)

Storr, Lon A CTR USARMY HRC (US) wrote: >We have a couple of team members wanting to learn more about MVS internals. Excellent! >They already understand quite a bit of usage (e.g. SMP/E, PARMLIB, TSO and >JCL) but are interested in soldifying their understanding of operating system >fundament

Re: z/OS technical overviews for new(ish) system programmers (UNCLASSIFIED)

Decades ago, early 1980's, NYU here in New York offered an "MVS Internals and Debugging" two-semester course as part of their School of Continuing Education. At the time it was taught by the VP of systems programming at the Irving Trust bank, whose name I have forgotten, but he was a darn good

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

Well, I downloaded that. Unfortunately, I am running X86_64 (64 bit) and their software only runs on the i386 Linux. They are still working on porting to 64 bit. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM < kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote: > Try this: http://wps-community.org/ > I

Re: z/OS technical overviews for new(ish) system programmers (UNCLASSIFIED)

Although it is outdated, I have found "Invitation to MVS" to be a good overview of MVS. http://www.amazon.com/Invitation-MVS-Debugging-Harry-Katzan/dp/0894330810 Good Luck -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Storr, Lon A CT

z/OS technical overviews for new(ish) system programmers (UNCLASSIFIED)

Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Hello List, We have a couple of team members wanting to learn more about MVS internals. They already understand quite a bit of usage (e.g. SMP/E, PARMLIB, TSO and JCL) but are interested in soldifying their understanding of operating system fundamenta

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:44 AM, John McKown > wrote: > > > Another thing which is a "biggie" is the 4 hour rolling average MSU. Why? > > Because if we are running below our cap, then we are "saving up" MSUs. > What > > this does is mean th

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:44 AM, John McKown wrote: > Another thing which is a "biggie" is the 4 hour rolling average MSU. Why? > Because if we are running below our cap, then we are "saving up" MSUs. What > this does is mean that we can use some of these "saved" MSUs to exceed our > Group Capaci

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

You might want to look at what the RMF SPREADSHEET REPORTER can provide. RMF data and/or RMF Reports are used to produce pretty pictures w/Excel. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/rmf/ HTH, -- For IBM-MAIN subsc

Re: Historic computer part collectors: chip prototype auctioned.

Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) wrote: >http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-06-19/nerd-memorabilia-market-arises-with-microchip-auction.html Very very interesting! Thanks! >If you are deep-pocketed, according to the article, this is your chance to by >the 'birth certificate of computing'. I'm too poor or

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

Thanks. I'll take a look at it. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM < kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote: > Try this: http://wps-community.org/ > I have asked a friend who uses it, if this is what he uses and if it is > free. He has converted everything he did with MXG to WPS.

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

Obviously the effect of capping depends on your workload peaks, how long they last, how close the cap is to the physical hardware limits, etc., but since capping is based on 4-hour average MSUs the speed limit analogy used is not really accurate. It's more like the required system throughput has g

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

Try this: http://wps-community.org/ I have asked a friend who uses it, if this is what he uses and if it is free. He has converted everything he did with MXG to WPS. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown S

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

I'll see what I can get out of BMC's Mainview. It's really been a long while since I looked at what sort of reports it can produce. On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Ken Porowski wrote: > I use the RMF "CPU Activity" report "Partition Data Report" and strip out > Date, Time, LPAR, DEF and ACT MS

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) wrote: >I believe I remember from posts that people are processing SMF records with >DFSORT to produce reports. Indeed, since Frank Yeager re-wrote DFSORT processing so you can directly use date, time and other packed fields with easy ICETOOL keywords. With easy arranging

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

I use the RMF "CPU Activity" report "Partition Data Report" and strip out Date, Time, LPAR, DEF and ACT MSU and capping %. Gives me a nice graph of MSU by interval and capping % if capped. You can also show when the LPAR is using more than its defined capacity and why soft capping is better tha

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM < kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote: > I believe I remember from posts that people are processing SMF records > with DFSORT to produce reports. > Anyway, the RMF records contain way more info that you get from the > CMFCPU* messages. It might

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: > John McKown wrote: > > >The original spark was from one of our Production Control people. She > basically wanted to look at whether it would be "helpful" in any way to > reduce our active initiator coun

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

I believe I remember from posts that people are processing SMF records with DFSORT to produce reports. Anyway, the RMF records contain way more info that you get from the CMFCPU* messages. It might be worth to try to get some SMF processing running in your Linux hobby shed. I know it is done wit

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

John McKown wrote: >The original spark was from one of our Production Control people. She >basically wanted to look at whether it would be "helpful" in any way to reduce >our active initiator count during certain time frames. She must be bored enough to give you unneeded work... >If the CEC

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: > John McKown wrote: > > >I have a program, on Linux, which takes this and produces lines like: > >LPAR LIH1 was capped starting at Mon 2014-06-16 21:52:41 until Mon > 2014-06-16 21:55:31 for a duration o

Re: z/OS 1.13 ADRDSSU ECB WAIT

I'm on the coast that barracks for NSW... Go the Blues! Mwahaha. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 6:18 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] z/OS 1

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM < kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote: > John, > > I usually hate replies, that don't answer the question, but instead state: > why don't you try it this way. However, this time I would like to ask some > 'what are you doing' questions, in spite

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

John McKown wrote: >I have a program, on Linux, which takes this and produces lines like: >LPAR LIH1 was capped starting at Mon 2014-06-16 21:52:41 until Mon 2014-06-16 >21:55:31 for a duration of 00.02.50 >I can the process this information in another program which puts the fields: >LPAR (LIH1

Re: How to? Designing a "graph" of information

John, I usually hate replies, that don't answer the question, but instead state: why don't you try it this way. However, this time I would like to ask some 'what are you doing' questions, in spite of your last remark. 1. The product that produces the CMFCPU13/14/15 messages also produces your R

How to? Designing a "graph" of information

We use PR/SM Group Capacity to regulate our aggregate MSUs from two LPARs on a single CEC. This is for cost containment. We have a product which runs on both z/OS images on the LPARs which produce messages similar to: N 402 LIH1 14169 22:07:51.36 STC16813 0090 CMFCPU15 LPAR NO LONGER

Re: Using DFDSS to copy non-extended format dataset to extended format?

My apologies for not responding earlier, but I wanted to try the AMS REPRO first. Unfortunately, I didn't have time for this until now. First, regarding. more detail in my original post. I can understand, and usually post all information I think might help. This time, I probably should have jus