Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

>>Put the address of the new ACEE in ASCBSENV and/or TCBSENV as appropriate? >>J R >I think it's ASXBSENV. >For my test application TCBSENV is 0. >I get a S0C4 when I do attempt to replace ASXBSENV despite being authorized >and in supervisor mode. It feels like there is a RACROUTE macro or

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

>Put the address of the new ACEE in ASCBSENV and/or TCBSENV as appropriate? >J R I think it's ASXBSENV. For my test application TCBSENV is 0. I get a S0C4 when I do attempt to replace ASXBSENV despite being authorized and in supervisor mode. It feels like there is a RACROUTE macro or

Re: How set CVTLSO?

On 12/10/2016 07:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > I understand that the TOD clock continues to be updated during that spin. > Are processes otherwise quiesced or may they continue to execute until > they do (e.g.) STCK? > > What happens to the clock comparator and to other STIMER-queued events? >

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

Put the address of the new ACEE in ASCBSENV and/or TCBSENV as appropriate? Sent from my iPhone On Oct 12, 2016, at 21:36, Janet Graff <004dc9e91b6d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: >> Thanks for the info. It helps a bit, but not enough. > >> First, just to make sure you know, you

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

>Thanks for the info. It helps a bit, but not enough. >First, just to make sure you know, you can't do a RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFY >while running in cross-memory mode. You would need to create a >request for >another task running in your server primary, queue the request to the task, >and

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

I am by no means an expert on this topic but keep in mind of course -- in addition to Walt's excellent tips -- that not every customer uses RACF: some use CA TSS and some use CA ACF2. While a lot of the behavior of the three subsystems is the same, some behavior is definitely different. Does it

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:53:29 -0500, Janet Graff wrote: >I am writing a test program for a system level task. The system level task >accepts cross memory service calls from various address spaces including CICS, >IDMS and IMS so it needs to be able to handle secondary

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

On 12 October 2016 at 18:25, Janet Graff <004dc9e91b6d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I changed the TERMID to point to a D'0' but I'm getting the same error message > > ICH408I JOB(JIGRACF ) STEP(RUN ) 944 > LOGON/JOB INITIATION - USER AT TERMINAL NOT RACF-DEFINED >

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

I'm going to try to walk a delicate line here. I don't want to offend the fine folks at IBM, and IBM's compiler people are a bright, bright bunch of folks up in Toronto. They know more about compilers than I ever will. But, that said ... I agree with you on testing. A recompile of unedited

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

>It would help to know why you want to do that, and what you intend to do after >you have the ACEE. It's possible that there are alternatives that >would be >better, which we might recommend if we had some more information. >However, you don't _need_ a TERMID unless you're doing a RACROUTE

Re: How set CVTLSO?

On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:52:09 -0400, George Kozakos wrote: > >z/OS does not affect the hardware TOD clock. If the leap second change is >positive, Timer processing spins on all CPUs for the amount of the leap >second change and CVTLSO is updated. STCK time does not change but UTC/GMT >jumps

Re: How set CVTLSO?

Got it! Thanks much. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of George Kozakos Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 3:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How set CVTLSO? On 12/10/2016 05:45:48 PM, , Charles

Re: IBM Education Assistance for z/OS - Useful??

> On Oct 12, 2016, at 3:35 PM, Marna WALLE wrote: > > Hello IBM-MAINers, > I wanted to ask about the usefulness of the IBM Education Assistance (IEA) > for z/OS. > > A little background: IEA is found here: >

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

"Eeek" pretty much sums it all. Even between latin1, latin9 and utf-8 is a huge eek. They got their own problems, too. ISPF-L, no, MVS-OE list, yes. But since it's often a system wide setting that IBM may or may not recommend, that’s why I chose IBM-Main first to ask. It affect the entire

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On 12 October 2016 at 13:56, Kirk Wolf wrote: > You are correct: you don't need an LE environment to use the BPX kernel > service calls. Indeed. I do it from non-LE assembler all the time. > REXX doesn't have/use an LE environment AFAIK. I don't know > much about the

Re: SMS Volume Status

You could save yourself a lot of trouble and do a SAVESCDS before you make your ACS routine changes. On 12 October 2016 at 18:08, Chuck Kreiter wrote: > Thanks for the reply. > > The problem I'm having is that the definition for each volume as defined > in the

Re: How set CVTLSO?

On 12/10/2016 05:45:48 PM, , Charles Mills wrote: > @George, thanks. I'm looking at the from a software development point of > view, not a sysprog point of view. > > So if a shop is using an ETS and does not schedule the change then the TOD > clock will be steered into reflecting the leap seconds,

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

In our experience the need for PDSE datasets was far from the only difficulty in migrating to COBOL V5 (and that really wasn't the hard part). Many compiles take drastically more CPU time as well as require more region. While this is documented we were stunned by the orders of magnitude.

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

Was I being clear? You asked "where do I get the TERMID?" and I meant "why not pick up your current TERMID from your existing ACEE? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Janet Graff Sent: Wednesday, October 12,

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

On 2016-10-12 15:20, R.S. wrote: > > Well, I always use non-US codepage on my 3270 emulator. Reason: I'm Pole, > speak Polish, sometimes write Polish naational characters. ;-) Usually I use > CP 870, but there is also similar codepage with EURO sign. For C programming > I've used to use CP

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:58:12 -0500, Janet Graff wrote: >I have an application and I want to change the the userid. I have the RACF >macros coded but I'm having trouble coming up with the >source of TERMID. >Where do I get the TERMID? It would help to know why you want

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

>From your current ACEE? >http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ichb200/ich2b2_ACEE_and_related_control_blocks.htm > >52 (34) ADDRESS 4 ACEETRMP Address that points to the terminal ID. The field is >zero for non-terminal users. >Charles Yes, the Batch job is

Re: How set CVTLSO?

On 2016-10-12 15:45, Charles Mills wrote: > @George, thanks. I'm looking at the from a software development point of > view, not a sysprog point of view. > > So if a shop is using an ETS and does not schedule the change then the TOD > clock will be steered into reflecting the leap seconds, right?

Re: IBM Education Assistance for z/OS - Useful??

W dniu 2016-10-12 o 22:35, Marna WALLE pisze: Hello IBM-MAINers, I wanted to ask about the usefulness of the IBM Education Assistance (IEA) for z/OS. A little background: IEA is found here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/pages/IBMIEAV22avail?Open and provides concise and

Re: How set CVTLSO?

@George, thanks. I'm looking at the from a software development point of view, not a sysprog point of view. So if a shop is using an ETS and does not schedule the change then the TOD clock will be steered into reflecting the leap seconds, right? The TOD clock will slow down until it falls back to

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

>From your current ACEE? http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ichb200/ich2b2_ACEE_and_related_control_blocks.htm 52 (34) ADDRESS 4 ACEETRMP Address that points to the terminal ID. The field is zero for non-terminal users. Charles -Original Message-

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

W dniu 2016-10-12 o 19:26, Lindy Mayfield pisze: Hello, I read in places where IBM gives both pros and cons to running USS with a code page other than 1047, if for example your 3270 terminal emulator is set to Danish. I also find instructions such as this, though I'm not sure if this is

Re: IBM Education Assistance for z/OS - Useful??

I never heard of it, either. Sent from my Verizon 4G LTE Smartphone -- Original message-- From: Bonnie C Barthel Date: Wed, Oct 12, 2016 5:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU; Subject:Re: IBM Education Assistance for z/OS - Useful?? Noone on my team has heard of this. Sounds good but

Re: IBM Education Assistance for z/OS - Useful??

Noone on my team has heard of this. Sounds good but we'll check it out and give feedback. Thanks, Bonnie Bonnie Barthel | z/OS Support | IBM Strategic Outsourcing Delivery | 720.396.6755 | pager: cobon...@vtext.com From: Marna Walle/Poughkeepsie/IBM@IBMUS To:

Re: IBM Education Assistance for z/OS - Useful??

On 2016-10-12 16:35, Marna WALLE wrote: Hello IBM-MAINers, I wanted to ask about the usefulness of the IBM Education Assistance (IEA) for z/OS. A little background: IEA is found here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/pages/IBMIEAV22avail?Open and provides concise and technical

Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

I have an application and I want to change the the userid. I have the RACF macros coded but I'm having trouble coming up with the source of TERMID. Where do I get the TERMID? The code in question looks like this: MODESET MODE=SUP LAR7,RACFWORK MVC

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:27:58 -0500, John McKown wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > >> HLQ (tousercat) .varname.value > > > >​What if "value" is does not

IBM Education Assistance for z/OS - Useful??

Hello IBM-MAINers, I wanted to ask about the usefulness of the IBM Education Assistance (IEA) for z/OS. A little background: IEA is found here: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/pages/IBMIEAV22avail?Open and provides concise and technical information about a specific function

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 14:27:58 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: >> HLQ (tousercat) .varname.value > >​What if "value" is does not adhere to a DSN node restrictions?​... > What would the dreaded DISABLE(DSNCHECK) do for you? -- gil

Re: How set CVTLSO?

> Ah! I am starting to understand. Leap Second steering is accomplished with > the PTFF instruction and is independent of CVTLSO. PTFF appears to slow down > the physical clock. > > So ... steering and CVTLSO are essentially alternatives, right? CVTLSO > should not include any leap seconds that

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 17:26:47 +, Lindy Mayfield wrote: >Hello, > >I read in places where IBM gives both pros and cons to running USS with a code >page other than 1047, if for example your 3270 terminal emulator is set to >Danish. I also find instructions such as this, though I'm not sure

Re: System REXX and UNIX

Valid point :) For another wild idea, use ENQ :) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 12:28 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: System REXX and UNIX > > On

Re: RFE 73512 - "Better use of ISPF screen names in SDSF"

Robert, I was adding to your code the new panels that are available in z/OS 2.1. It looks like now there are some that do not have unique display values: RES and RM both display RESOURCE SP and SO both display SPOOL... So I tried this instead. Self maintaining and relatively easily

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > HLQ (tousercat) .varname.value > ​What if "value" is does not adhere to a DSN node restrictions?​ Using bpxwunix() in a TSO REXX environment seems to be the way to go, at least at present. I can do things like: stdin.0=0

Re: System REXX and UNIX

HLQ (tousercat) .varname.value > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of John McKown > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 9:59 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: System REXX and UNIX > > On Wed, Oct 12, 2016

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > IIRC, I've used BPXWUNIX from IRXJCL. I was trying to invent a smarter > BPXBATCH. Worked well. I was able to allocate stdout and stderr to > SYSOUT in the era before BPXBATCH supported

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

l...@garlic.com (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes: > count of latency to memory (& cache miss), when measured in count of > processor cycles is comparable to 60s latency to disk when measured in > count of 60s processor cycles. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016f.html#91 ABO Automatic Binary

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

On 10/12/2016 12:29 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: IBM is wrong. Tom is right. He lives for moments like this. ;-) I resemble that remark ;-) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Running USS with locale other than 1047

Hello, I read in places where IBM gives both pros and cons to running USS with a code page other than 1047, if for example your 3270 terminal emulator is set to Danish. I also find instructions such as this, though I'm not sure if this is all that is necessary to switch USS encoding:

Re: z/OS V2.2 and using IEFOPZxx

On 10/12/2016 12:35 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Since this was added, is anyone using it? What I am curious about is does the JCL or SMF Records indicate what library the program was loaded from when executed? Would I report on it like I would a Steplib/Joblib process? Or is there a different

Re: SMS Volume Status

Thanks for the reply. The problem I'm having is that the definition for each volume as defined in the storage group doesn't show up on this list as best I can tell . The status that is shown is the current status of the volume. I need to identify those that have a status different than what

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: System REXX and UNIX

You could write a routine to use system name/token pairs for the info. Here is an article I wrote at the turn of the century about them http://www.lbdsoftware.com/Using_System_Name-Token_Pairs.pdf -- Lionel B. Dyck (TRA

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Rob Schramm wrote: > Create/delete catalog entries in a dedicated usercat. > Hum, would be difficult to store a value into the catalog entry. But a DEFINE & DELETE should be fairly quick, at least compared to actually creating a data set.

Re: System REXX and UNIX

Create/delete catalog entries in a dedicated usercat. Rob Schramm On Wed, Oct 12, 2016, 11:42 AM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:02:28 -0500, John McKown wrote: > > >On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Itschak Mugzach wrote: > > > >>

Re: System REXX and UNIX

Many useful replies here. Just a note of caution. Automation that depends on starting a new address space will probably work fine 99% of the time. We previously used a product like that. The problem is when automation needs to take action to recover from a resource shortage. Spool full and ASM

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

Well, I'm still going to disagree on the level of "testing" required. You (now) need to check for the stupid out-of-order PERFORM ... THRU ... but otherwise you are good to go. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

The only difficulty in migration to Cobol V5 and above is the need for PDS/E datasets. Since z/OS V2.2 is providing a way to not have to UPDATE all production JCL with PDS/E datasets, that issue with migration, imo, is greatly reduced. So once z/OS V2.2 is installed, migration plans to COBOL V5

z/OS V2.2 and using IEFOPZxx

Since this was added, is anyone using it? What I am curious about is does the JCL or SMF Records indicate what library the program was loaded from when executed? Would I report on it like I would a Steplib/Joblib process? Or is there a different process? My thought is a production batch

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

IBM is wrong. Tom is right. He lives for moments like this. ;-) Optimization occurs at the load module end only. You might view ABO as a stop-gap on the road to compiler upgrade. You get savings now even while (you may be) upgrading at the source end. ABO-optimized code is not as efficient as

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes: > Why is that useful? Because the speed gains in the last several generations > of mainframe are not in clock/cycle speed. System 370 object code does not > run any faster on a z13 than on a z10. The gains are in new instructions. > The same functionality

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

2 Thoughts to consider: - ABO only runs on z/OS 2.1 and above - ABO creates a new load module that (IMHO) needs as much Q/A testing as compiling in the newest compiler. IIRC, back in the day, going to Enterprise COBOL, there was less than 8% of COBOL source that needed to be

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

Having done some testing with ABO and COBOL V6, you will find that ABO (ARCH10) runs better than COBOL V4 and COBOL V6 (ARCH10) runs better then ABO. When you start using ABO you need to keep using ABO for new compiles (compile/link/ABO) or convert to COBOL V6. Depending on the size of the

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

Fix list for ABO. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27047229#28062016 Looks good... except for one thing: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1PI68138 " * USERS AFFECTED: Users of the IBM

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

So if you are not ready for COBOL V5/V6 migration and want the benefit of some of the optimizations, then ABO can take your program and attempt to optimize to a new program that is optimized. However, it is not a migration. And if you have a requirement for your applications to validate any

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

I suppose the cunning thing to do would be to write it into the contract, then you get IBM to do the migration to V6 "for free"... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

> I wonder why they would say that? Because they are sales reps, not techies? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Woodger Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 8:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

Mmmm... I wonder why they would say that? It takes the existing executable code of your Enterprise COBOL programs and optimises them for new instructions available on ARCH(!0) and ARCH(11). So if you hardware is up-to-date or so, it gives you a route for existing COBOL executables to take

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

Nope. Agree 100% with what @Tom says. The ABO is not a source code migration tool, it is a compiler. Really -- a very weird compiler. Most compilers take source code in and produce object code out. The ABO is a compiler that takes object code in and produces object code out. What good is that? It

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:02:28 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Itschak Mugzach wrote: > >> John, try calling bpxwunix. Works great for me. What is great he the that >> results are returned in an array stem variable). > >​I'll try that. I wonder if I can do that in a

Re: System REXX and UNIX

Send the msg to cn(00) as well just to verify that Mvs send works. נשלח מה-iPad שלי ‫ב-12 באוק׳ 2016, בשעה 18:00, ‏‏John McKown ‏ כתב/ה:‬ >> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Itschak Mugzach wrote: >> >> Don't make your mph exit serial. Just

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

On 10/12/2016 10:50 AM, Lopez, Sharon wrote: Does anyone know if this product, Automatic Binary Optimizer, will actually migrate Cobol V4 to V6 for you? Our IBM reps are telling us that it will actually do the migration for you. Based on what I've read, it is a performance product and I

Re: SMS Volume Status

Chuck Kreiter wrote: > What has happened over time is that some volumes have been DISNEW'ed to clear > them or ENABLED (from DISNEW) to allow for new allocations. These were all > done via the VARY SMS,VOLUME(xx),DISABLE,NEW type commands. Others gave you good and interesting replies.

Re: SMS Volume Status

That appears to show the current status, not what was defined in the SMS SG for the volume. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 10:22 AM To:

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:03 AM, Itschak Mugzach wrote: > Don't make your mph exit serial. Just issue a 'F AXR,rexxname parm' to > start the Rexx msg handler. This way the Rexx will wait until a TSO region > is available, but your exit is not waiting for it to start. > ​The

ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

Does anyone know if this product, Automatic Binary Optimizer, will actually migrate Cobol V4 to V6 for you? Our IBM reps are telling us that it will actually do the migration for you. Based on what I've read, it is a performance product and I didn't see that capability. Thanks to everyone in

Re: SMS Volume Status

QuiKref from Chicago-soft also has an option to list all dasd by various columns, one being STATUS. Great product and not very expensive. John Clifford On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Chuck Kreiter wrote: > I'm looking for a way to identify volumes in a SMS

Re: SMS Volume Status

What I meant was with option 6, then option 1, then LISTV in front of the SG. This will give you all the volumes, which you can sort on SMS status, e.g. col. 25. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Chuck Kreiter

Re: SMS Volume Status

I guess I should have clarified a little more. I'm looking to find volumes that have a current status that does not match what is defined in the storage group. We rarely make SMS changes. What has happened over time is that some volumes have been DISNEW'ed to clear them or ENABLED (from

Re: SMS Volume Status

Another option could be DCOLLECT data. The CONSTANTS FOR DSGSTAT AND DSGSYSST z/OS V2.1 DFSMS Access Method Services Commands z/OS SC23-6846 Contains information on the DCOLLECT data and record types. Naviquest or ISMF Option G (REPORTS) should help with running a report from DCOLLECT. However

Re: System REXX and UNIX

Don't make your mph exit serial. Just issue a 'F AXR,rexxname parm' to start the Rexx msg handler. This way the Rexx will wait until a TSO region is available, but your exit is not waiting for it to start. ITschak נשלח מה-iPad שלי ‫ב-12 באוק׳ 2016, בשעה 16:42, ‏‏John McKown

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 8:56 AM, Itschak Mugzach wrote: > John, try calling bpxwunix. Works great for me. What is great he the that > results are returned in an array stem variable). > ​I'll try that. I wonder if I can do that in a non-TSO server. I'm trying to avoid TSO

Re: System REXX and UNIX

John, try calling bpxwunix. Works great for me. What is great he the that results are returned in an array stem variable). ITschal נשלח מה-iPad שלי ‫ב-12 באוק׳ 2016, בשעה 15:31, ‏‏John McKown ‏ כתב/ה:‬ > OK, so I'm weird. That should be well known around here .

Re: SMS Volume Status

If you are looking for a way to report on what state a volume was when it was added to an SMS storage group and when did that state change, then SMF Type42 Subtype3 records should help. But that will be dependent on how long you keep your SMF Data, and when you noticed the state changed. Lizette

Re: SMS Volume Status

If this is sufficient, it can be done easier with ISMF: 6 storage group - listv - sort on SMS status as in col25. You will see the exceptions at the top Disnew before Enable before Quiesced Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: SMS Volume Status

Does this command give you want you're looking for? I can't test it because I don't have a STORGRP with volumes in a different status, but it does list the status of each volume in the group - if they aren't all the same that should be some kind of indication of difference. D

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Dana Mitchell wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 07:31:16 -0500, John McKown < > john.archie.mck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > What I'm trying to do is emulate the use of "global" CA-OPS/MVS > variables. I.e. variables which can > >be created in any

Re: RACF LISTDSD oddity

No worries. Sorry I wasn't clearer the first time. Byproduct of trying to write too quickly, I'm afraid. Regards, Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 5:47 PM

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 07:31:16 -0500, John McKown wrote: > What I'm trying to do is emulate the use of "global" CA-OPS/MVS variables. > I.e. variables which can >be created in any rule and read / modified / deleted in any other rule. John, I emulated the services

SMS Volume Status

I'm looking for a way to identify volumes in a SMS storage group that have a different status than what was defined in the storage group (i.e. volumes that are enabled in the storage group that are currently DISNEW because a vary command was issued). Anyone know of a way to identify this?

Re: [EXTERNAL] System REXX and UNIX

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) wrote: > What about looking into using TSSO (see CBT file 404). Then from your MPF > you can issue a TSSO command, or just use TSSO instead of MPF. > ​Oh, yeah. That does work on z/OS 1.12. I'll look at it.​ > >

Re: [EXTERNAL] System REXX and UNIX

What about looking into using TSSO (see CBT file 404). Then from your MPF you can issue a TSSO command, or just use TSSO instead of MPF. -- Lionel B. Dyck (TRA Contractor) Mainframe Systems Programmer Enterprise

System REXX and UNIX

OK, so I'm weird. That should be well known around here . I'm really getting into System REXX to help replace what CA-OPS/MVS does in our shop (remember we're dying and OPS license expires in Feb 2017). What I am doing is using the MPFLSTxx member of PARMLIB to run a user exit, given to me by

Re: Fwd: Shark Tank: Is this why mainframes almost never get rebooted?

The Sharky seems to be a "column" type thing. The "fish" are the people who provide the stories. Reality-check not required, as long as the story will be "popular". -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Fwd: Shark Tank: Is this why mainframes almost never get rebooted?

On Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:39:29 -0500, Bill Woodger wrote: >I think there's at best a great deal of "faulty memory" here. This story was posted by the same person who posted this: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3099975/data-center/blue-screen-of-death-mainframe-style.html#tk.drr_mlt which was

Re: RMF Spreadsheet report 4 hour rolling MSU

Jorge, If you have the Tivoli Decision Support product (MVS Performance Management Component), I have coding and reporting I can share with you. It provides me with daily reporting on hourly MSU usage and 4-hour rolling average MSU's by LPAR and by mainframe. The reporting matches the SCRT

Re: Fwd: Shark Tank: Is this why mainframes almost never get rebooted?

W dniu 2016-10-12 o 00:26, Charles Mills pisze: Ha! You can download COMMAND.COM here http://www.allbootdisks.com/disk_contents/dos.html. The 1988 MS-DOS 3.3 variant is 25.3K Every .COM file was limited to 64kB size. That's .EXE which could be larger. BTW: The story about "idiot user who

AW: Re: New CALLRTM command? Where is it described? (was: CEEDUMP ....)

>I believe what's being referenced is than in z/OS V2R1 they enhanced FORCE >with the ability to target a specific task i.e. FORCE jobname,TCB= Thanks, Sam And, yes, this informal technical discussions' value is what management does (often) not value high enough. Of course, informal

Re: New CALLRTM command? Where is it described? (was: CEEDUMP ....)

Hi Peter, I believe what's being referenced is than in z/OS V2R1 they enhanced FORCE with the ability to target a specific task i.e. FORCE jobname,TCB= https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ieag100/force.htm To accomplish this previously would have

New CALLRTM command? Where is it described? (was: CEEDUMP ....)

>The "callrtm command" will do no better than anything else that requires >private storage of the address space to run. It is nothing more than a >targeted cancel. Pardon my ignorance, but where is this new "command" described? I googled and searched IBM KC but only got references to the

Re: Question about memory usage under z/OS 2.2

Paul, Could you share the APAR number if it is available? We go to 2.2 before the end of the year and the fix might be useful to take along. Regards, Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Feller, Paul Sent: 11

OT: Larre Shiller please contact me off-list (private mails don't reach you)

Sorry for this OT but I see not other way. Larre, You wrote me private mail regarding my HiperDispatch thread. I tried to respond and ask some questions by replying to your mail address. These mails get returned after some days by the mail server. If you're willing to talk about the APAR you