Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

We kept a 120 MIP system on "hospice" for several years starting with 4 FTE and dwindling down to 1.5 FTE. Even a doomed system required 2 hardware upgrades, several OS versions, encryption for TN3270, distributed printing, internet data transfer and general hand holding. Len Rugen

Re: z/OS MF environment - effort estimation.

Hi Elardus - Thanks very much for your support. I was specifically looking at effort / man hours estimate for supporting standard z/OS MF infrastructure which does not include H/W support. Basically wanted to how many FTEs does the industry standard recommend for no of LPARs. etc., for DB2

TSSO question

(Posting for a co-worker) We have installed TSSO (PRE Z1 .8 version) Our test: DIPLINF TABENTRY MSG=IEE254I,ACTION=OSCMD,MATCHLIM=17,ECHO=YES, X TEXT='D A,L' IEE254I is the message response from a D IPLINFO. When we issue D IPLINFO and the message fires... TSSO rapidly

Re: Question for COBOL users

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 20:00:47 -0600, Jim Ruddy wrote: >Wouldn't a 64K byte parameter list run into problems with programs such as >HLASM, compilers, and other programs which allow an optional DD name list to >be passed as a second parameter when invoked from a program? As I recall, they >detect

Re: Question for COBOL users

Nevermind - wrong bit - been too long and too long of a day. Sorry. Jim -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Question for COBOL users

Wouldn't a 64K byte parameter list run into problems with programs such as HLASM, compilers, and other programs which allow an optional DD name list to be passed as a second parameter when invoked from a program? As I recall, they detect whether the DD name list is passed by testing the high

Re: Question for COBOL users

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 17:46:28 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >And no real reason a program could not support 64ki-1 bytes. Not looking at >the specs for "standard linkage" but there is no real good reason to treat the >length as signed. > Tradition? ("real good reason"?) A while ago, I

Re: Is this possible to expand only one row in table display?

Hello, I am not sure if it is possible using TBDISPL service. I am able to do that using dynamic area in panels. Of course, more work, more controls... Dan Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Monday, February 12, 2018, 3:39 PM, ITschak Mugzach wrote: Tried that. it does

Re: Question for COBOL users

And no real reason a program could not support 64ki-1 bytes. Not looking at the specs for "standard linkage" but there is no real good reason to treat the length as signed. Beyond that would require a significant change in the linkage. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Question for COBOL users

On Tue, 6 Feb 2018 10:49:38 -0800, Tom Ross wrote: >IBM COBOL development needs your help! > >We are reviewing a request to change our support for OPTFILE and SYSOPTF >to allow usage of DD SYSOPTF without the compiler option OPTFILE. > >For background, this is where

Old-timer question

Today, during a 'back when' discussion, this came up. Back in '81, during my last year in college (Management Information Science they called it then), the advanced students 'played' with a training database written in Fortran. We had the source, compiled it, and added features. One of the

Re: IEA303W ABEND 878 REASON 00000004

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Re: InfoPrint GUI

Hi Anne, Redirect might sound like administration, but I know Infoprint Central can display the printer definitions from the inventory but it does not edit them. You need Administrator authority to change the printer definitions either with the ISPF panels or with the pidu command in OMVS. The

Re: Question for COBOL users

On Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00:10 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >PMFJI here but the limit with PARMDD is 32K I believe. JES/JCL limit is 100, >not 255. The COBOL questions is, does the compiler correctly process PARMDD >input > 255 characters, and if so which version(s)? Only V5+? I could

Re: Question for COBOL users

Tom, PMFJI here but the limit with PARMDD is 32K I believe. JES/JCL limit is 100, not 255. The COBOL questions is, does the compiler correctly process PARMDD input > 255 characters, and if so which version(s)? Only V5+? I could understand V4 not supporting it, but not V5+. Peter

Re: Question for COBOL users

We added OPTFILE as a response to customer request, I believe it was well before PARMDD, but not positive. Someone else asked what the COMPILER limit for reading the PARM= options string is, but there is none. There is a JCL/JES limit of 255 bytes. There is no limit for SYSOPTF (using OPTFILE).

Re: Apply error WAS product

I thought that if PTF A was superseded by B, and B superseded by C, then SMPE would only install only C and mark A and B as SUP'D. That logic, if it obtains, always made sense to me. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program

Re: Best Practices for z/OS Maintenance

On 2/13/2018 5:23 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: This schema looks good, but I don't understand how '/SERVICE/' alone can handle more than one z/OS release concurrently. We use '/OSRxx/' where xx represents the version/release such as 12, 13, 21, 23. That way any number of releases can be

Re: Apply error WAS product

On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:52:06 -0600, Matthew Stitt wrote: >With WAS, I've encountered certain PTFs (fixpacks) which supersede other ones >and create errors like this when both (or more) fixpacks are being applied at >once. The solution I've found is to apply each fixpack separately. > That

Re: Apply error WAS product

With WAS, I've encountered certain PTFs (fixpacks) which supersede other ones and create errors like this when both (or more) fixpacks are being applied at once. The solution I've found is to apply each fixpack separately. HTH Matthew On Tue, 13 Feb 2018 10:13:18 -0500, John Eells

Re: Best Practices for z/OS Maintenance

This schema looks good, but I don't understand how '/SERVICE/' alone can handle more than one z/OS release concurrently. We use '/OSRxx/' where xx represents the version/release such as 12, 13, 21, 23. That way any number of releases can be managed and *distinguished* concurrently. This has

Re: TCBFSA field in the TCB DSECT

TCBFSA is 0 when SVAREA=NO is specified on ATTACH. TCBFSA points to above-the-line storage for key 9 TCBs Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 02/13/2018 04:07:10 AM: > From: Steff

Re: Question on Autologon for JES2 REMOTES HASP207

There are some configuration mis-matches that could cause the Autologon to fail. As already mentioned, an incorrect LUNAME could cause this, also an incorrect password (if you are using them). I recall some vendor type RJE device that never successfully signed on with the JES2

Re: Question on Autologon for JES2 REMOTES HASP207

There is a chance that no one remembers :-) Is the LU active? Is the luname correct? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 1:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Question on Autologon for JES2 REMOTES HASP207

I guess no one remembers JES2 Remotes or can answer this very simple question Lizette ;-D > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 4:47 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: RMM question

My main worry about using WHILECATALOG is that there was an old practice were some tapes were manually set in CA-1 to have extended retention periods because of something that happened 'special' the day they were created. On the other hand, all the people that used to know the why those

Re: RMM question

RMM was designed around the assumption that tape datasets would be cataloged or else scratched. When we converted to it many years ago, we had to deal with a wholly different business practice: keep tape data sets, including 'GDG members', more or less forever. In the early days we had to

Re: TCBFSA field in the TCB DSECT

On 13 February 2018 at 07:44, Steff Gladstone wrote: > Or you could check if R14 is pointing to a SVC 3 instruction. That may or may not work. If you are running under TSO TEST it will point to an SVC 97 instead. > Actually the routine (not written by me) was using

Re: RMM question

On 2/13/2018 9:24 AM, Tony Thigpen wrote: Thanks Tom. Yes, I did mean VRS. No, IBM did not do the conversion. The output shows: Exit status:   EDGUX100 = NONE Are you suggesting that I not use EDGUX100, but instead use: RMM ADDVRS DSNAME(’**’) WHILECATALOG Will this affect all existing

Re: TCBFSA field in the TCB DSECT

The first save area must be below the line. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] on behalf of Steff Gladstone [steff.gladst...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Re: Apply error WAS product

Did you open a PMR? Please do, if not; and, please post the PMR number. Peter wrote: This time again it failed BPXF140E RETURN CODE 0090, REASON CODE 0549010C. A LINK FAILED FOR LINK NAME /usr/lpp/InstallationManagerRepository/HBBO850/IBM /../bbodrmak. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie

GSE - Large Systems Working Group - Virtual Event

I am pleased to invite you to a GSE Large Systems Working Group event. The event will be a virtual event via WebEx on the 21st February 2018 from 15:00 – 16:15 GMT. The event will contain a 1 hour session presented by Martin Packer and Anna Shugol from IBM on “IBM zHyperlinks: new low latency

Re: Question about ABEND Macro and IARV64

Yes... I've had the pleasure of working on many dumps with above-the-bar storage. Pro-tip: you use ! instead of ? to jump to an 8-byte address in IPCS Browse (or XDC, if that's your thing). I've avoided SYSUDUMP for years... they seem to be set up to print only what I don't need to see; besides

Re: RMM question

Thanks Tom. Yes, I did mean VRS. No, IBM did not do the conversion. The output shows: Exit status: EDGUX100 = NONE Are you suggesting that I not use EDGUX100, but instead use: RMM ADDVRS DSNAME(’**’) WHILECATALOG Will this affect all existing volumes? Is there a way to see the effect

Job opening - Assembler / C developer

Hi folks, As the title says Colesoft is looking to hire an additional developer. The full job posting can be found here: http://www.colesoft.com/careers/ Please contact us off list with questions. Thanks Calin Cole -- For

Re: Question about ABEND Macro and IARV64

On Sat, 10 Feb 2018 07:57:01 -0500, Peter Relson wrote: >>Will the Segment created by IARV64 be visable in a dump >>when the program issues ABEND ,DUMP,STEP > >A true z/OS answer: it depends. > >For SYSABEND/SYSUDUMP: no. >For SYSMDUMP, I think, yes. > >There is no support for 64-bit

Re: Best Practices for z/OS Maintenance

On Fri, 9 Feb 2018 04:46:33 +, Craig Pace wrote: >I always kept a SERVICE copy of the filesystems that were IBM related and then >applied and that is what SMP/E pointed to. Each shop usually has what works >best for them, but below are the two main ways that I have done it. > >1) Less

Re: ISPFCL sample

On 2/13/2018 8:57 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: Hi Does anyone have a sample copy of ISPFCL ? Jake Jake, From my Dynamic ISPF session: /* Rexx */ /* trace i */ msgsave = msg() x = msg('OFF') address tso "ALLOC FI(ISPPROF) DA('"userid()".ISPF.ISPPROF') OLD" if rc <> 0 then do profdsn =

Re: RMM question

On 2/13/2018 8:19 AM, Tony Thigpen wrote: We recently converted from CA-1 to RMM. I am having an issue with some tape volumes containing GDGs not scratching after x days. I have determined it is due to EXPDT=99000, and I am now waiting for the person who performed the conversion to let me

ISPFCL sample

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Re: InfoPrint GUI

Thanks Roger, Still a little confused though. Upon looking at (SA38-0693-00) Infoprint Server Operation and Administraion, Using Infoprint Central, Work with Printers, IP PrintWay printers. (I can) start, stop, and redirect ... which does appear to be an admin function. Again, the change does

RMM question

We recently converted from CA-1 to RMM. I am having an issue with some tape volumes containing GDGs not scratching after x days. I have determined it is due to EXPDT=99000, and I am now waiting for the person who performed the conversion to let me know if the EDGUX100 exit is installed and

Re: TCBFSA field in the TCB DSECT

Using R13 can be an issue if the linkage stack is used instead of the save area. Dennis Roach, CISSP AIG Identity & Access Management | Technology Services 2929 Allen Parkway, America Building, 3rd Floor | Houston, TX 77019 Phone: 713-591-1059 (cell) dennis.ro...@aig.com | www.aig.com

Re: TCBFSA field in the TCB DSECT

Or you could check if R14 is pointing to a SVC 3 instruction. Actually the routine (not written by me) was using the FSA to retrieve the pointer to the value of the PARM= parameter (saved R1). Presumably that's a valid use as well. It would make sense if the FSA is always below the line.

Re: Apply error WAS product

This time again it failed BPXF140E RETURN CODE 0090, REASON CODE 0549010C. A LINK FAILED FOR LINK NAME /usr/lpp/InstallationManagerRepository/HBBO850/IBM /../bbodrmak. *Reason Code : 0549010C* BPXFSLNK 03/10/11 JRLnkAcrossFilesets: The service tried to link across file systems Action:

Re: TCBFSA field in the TCB DSECT

Hi, IMO, the first save area should always be below the line. It is provided by the operating system so that the main program of the called application (EXEC PGM=...) can store the registers on call there. And the first program may be AMODE 24 :-) On the other hand, I would never use TCBFSA to

TCBFSA field in the TCB DSECT

Hi, I am in the process of converting several routines to AMODE=31 RMODE=ANY. One of them references the address of the first problem program save area found in the TCB. The field is defined as follows: TCBFSA DS0A -ADDRESS OF THE FIRST PROBLEM PROGRAM SAVE AREA DS