Re: What address space is using AUX slots?

2014-10-24 Thread Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM
We don't have Flash, so I have no experience there, but you have history available. Maybe online in Mainview for some period, if Mainview has been configured so. Otherwise in the RMF records (produced by CMF). Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Thank you very much. Of course, it is all about the quality of the implementation. The implementation on a certain environment may be bad or not very motivated ... but the language REXX should not be blamed for this. Some time ago (maybe 10 years) I tested REXX on OS/2 vs. Regina on Linux on

ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Anyone else having trouble getting into Shopz? Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Beesley, Paul
Yes, I just get a display that says 'null' which is not helpful when I'm trying to acquire some IMS PTFs :( Paul -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 11:18 AM To:

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Richards, Robert B.
I get the same 'null'. I am trying to get a Security Integrity APAR (SIA) PTF for MQ. :-( -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Beesley, Paul Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 6:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Scott Chapman
FWIW, JavaScript runs on the mainframe in a JVM as well, which has the advantage of being zAAP/zIIP eligible. I've done a fair bit of that. Some of it to pretty good productive use. Lua does look interesting and has the benefit of having an actual I/O library included. On Thu, 23 Oct 2014

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Jousma, David
Yep, the website does not appear to be functioning. However, if you are setup for receive order you can still get all your maintenance. The only time I ever logon to ShopZ anymore is to order product upgrade PDO's. _ Dave Jousma

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Richards, Robert B.
So much for that upgrade that had it down all last weekend. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 7:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ShopzSeries down? Yep,

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Richards, Robert B. wrote: So much for that upgrade that had it down all last weekend. Ouch. Are there not an alternative site or methods available? Groete / Greeting Elardus Engelbrecht PS: Connectivity and availability problems are the reasons why I try to use IBM's LMS site on the 5th

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford On 24/10/2014 6:50 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: Doesn't the example in the benchmark show performance problems in EXECIO instead of REXX? EXECIO, IMO, is not part of the REXX interpreter, but instead

Re: BPXOINIT and SYSPLEX Mode Question

2014-10-24 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Peter, Thank you for your insight on this. I was just hoping on a single system BPXOINIT could somehow tell me more. Lots of changes for stuff like filling /tmp when we move from V1R13 to V2R1. Thanks again, Dave -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. I get the same 'null'. I am trying to get a Security Integrity APAR (SIA) PTF for MQ. :-( Have you not configured a RECEIVE ORDER job for obtaining PTFs? Greatest thing since sliced bread. :-)

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Beesley, Paul
Oh for a mainframe with an internet connection ... sadly, not... customers say no. A RECEIVE ORDER capability here would be welcomed... Paul -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, October 24,

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I am trying to run a benchmark test as David suggested using the clists in http://users.tpg.com.au/crayford/rexx-lua-c-io-benchmark.htm the only big files I have to read (containing alot of data) are SMF archives. LUA4Z reads them without a problem but REXX/EXECIO gives this error:

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Beesley, Paul Oh for a mainframe with an internet connection ... sadly, not... customers say no. A RECEIVE ORDER capability here would be welcomed... Our sandbox system is allowed client only external access, and

Re: BPXOINIT and SYSPLEX Mode Question

2014-10-24 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Peter, I can get very confused reading the books. This is from the V1R13 MVS System Commands book for D OMVS,U: U=userid Displays process information for all processes associated with the specified TSO/E user ID. Use this operand when a user requests that a hung process be canceled. You can

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread John Gilmore
Like landing at Thanet, having Lua usable under z/OS UNIX is a good thing. It may make its way against REXX, or again it may not. The matrix-algebra test case is not, however, an appropriate one for the comparative evaluation of these two implementations of Lua and REXX. It is not indeed a good

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Thanks for the update, John! :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014 10:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ShopzSeries down? The Shopz team knows it's down, and they

AW: Re: BPXOINIT and SYSPLEX Mode Question

2014-10-24 Thread Peter Hunkeler
So HEX PID 50331938 is DEC 1345526072 My bad. I didn't lookup the description of fuser. due to the c in the process id of the first process, I was concluding it was a hex value. It is not, it is decimal! The c is a usage indicator. So drop any trailing c or r from the process id and take

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Barkow, Eileen
LUA could use some good tutorials or at least some more samples of code. The reference manual is no help for someone trying to learn the language. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Friday, October 24,

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread John McKown
On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Barkow, Eileen ebar...@doitt.nyc.gov wrote: ​snip​ the only big files I have to read (containing alot of data) are SMF archives. LUA4Z reads them without a problem but ​snip​ So LUA4Z is probably better for this reason alone – it can read any file.

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
PMFJI here, but I just wanted to add one small issue I have with the lua language - The fact that it does not use POSIX extended regular expression syntax for string patterns. As a long-time [g]awk user, I am very experienced and comfortable with POSIX RE syntax, but I am totally unfamiliar

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread David Crayford
On 24/10/2014 11:03 PM, Barkow, Eileen wrote: LUA could use some good tutorials or at least some more samples of code. The reference manual is no help for someone trying to learn the language. The canonical programming guide is PIL (Programming In Lua) http://www.lua.org/pil/contents.html.

SLIP trap confusion

2014-10-24 Thread Phil Smith
I'm trying to set a SLIP trap to get a dump for IBM to figure out why some SAF calls are taking a long time. The module I want to trap is part of a load module called VSHDITSK in a started task named ZPHIL510. The instruction after the SAF call is at offset 794 in that module; the LKED output

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Bass, Walter W
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries snip OK, let's try

Re: SLIP trap confusion

2014-10-24 Thread Staller, Allan
Does the module live in private storage, LPA, CSA,.? snip I'm trying to set a SLIP trap to get a dump for IBM to figure out why some SAF calls are taking a long time. The module I want to trap is part of a load module called VSHDITSK in a started task named ZPHIL510. The instruction after

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread John Eells
And, it's back up (since at least 2:00 US Eastern time; i.e., a bit over an hour ago). ee...@us.ibm.com (John Eells) wrote: The Shopz team knows it's down, and they are working to get it up and running ASAP. -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I keep getting this error both in MVS and UNIX. LUA: //'xcics.lua4z.samplib(cpu)':4: attempt to perform arithmetic on field '? ' (a nil value) stack traceback:

Re: What address space is using AUX slots?

2014-10-24 Thread Gibney, Dave
Just because you are not paging due to lots of real/flash isn't a reason to not have sufficient page datasets in case you need them for dumping of some runaway memory gobbler. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Bob Rutledge
I would guess that, as previously suggested, for i = 1, count do a[i] = a[i] * i end would really rather be for i = 1, count do a[i] = i * i end Bob Barkow, Eileen wrote: I keep getting this error both in MVS and UNIX. LUA: //'xcics.lua4z.samplib(cpu)':4: attempt to perform arithmetic on

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Tom Brennan
This suggestion is probably unrelated to the actual issue, but I see the odd characters ÝC¨ in your note, which I think should display as square brackets. If your terminal emulator is currently set to use code page 37 (or similar), you might try code page 1047. Barkow, Eileen wrote: I keep

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Barkow, Eileen
Thank you - for i = 1, count do a[i] = i * i end fixed the problem. I get an elapsed time of about 0.14 - 0.15 running LUA on both UNIX and MVSs, But the REXX clist yields about 3.3 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I had to change the brackets to x'AD' X'BD', the same as I use for java. The for i = 1, count do a[i] = i * i end statement fixed the problem. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Friday, October 24, 2014

Re: SLIP trap confusion

2014-10-24 Thread George Kozakos
You are missing MODE=HOME Regards, George Kozakos z/OS Software Service, Level 2 Supervisor IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote on 24/10/2014 02:20:12 PM: From: Phil Smith p...@voltage.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 24/10/2014 02:21 PM Subject: SLIP trap

Re: What address space is using AUX slots?

2014-10-24 Thread Mike Schwab
As long as he doesn't exceed 30% usage, he should be fine. Maybe automatically issue the command hourly to find the peak? On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: Just because you are not paging due to lots of real/flash isn't a reason to not have sufficient page

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/10/2014 12:01 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: PMFJI here, but I just wanted to add one small issue I have with the lua language - The fact that it does not use POSIX extended regular expression syntax for string patterns. As a long-time [g]awk user, I am very experienced and

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread David Crayford
Lua4z was built using the IBM-1047 code page but the lexer and parser have been patched to tolerate IBM-037 http://lua4z.com/doc/manual/using.md.html#Square_brackets. Unfortunately, output is printed in IBM-1047 which is why the square brackets are garbled. I could fix this but you need to

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/10/2014 3:35 AM, Bob Rutledge wrote: I would guess that, as previously suggested, for i = 1, count do a[i] = a[i] * i end would really rather be for i = 1, count do a[i] = i * i end Good eye Bob! When I copy and pasted the snippet into the e-mail it dropped the square brackets.

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Might I suggest changing the variable name from A to SQ? Then you have the calculation of SQ[i] = i * i. On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 9:32 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/10/2014 3:35 AM, Bob Rutledge wrote: I would guess that, as previously suggested, for i = 1, count do a[i]