Re: One last question on TAPELESS delivery

Anyone: I talked with my boss yesterday and he told me to get up a short presentation on DVD’s and maintenance from IBM over the internet. Since I still do not know some of the issues (PC SIZE etc) he shot me down in about 3 minutes. I could not answer most of his questions so he told me to

Re: Theology (was: Many arguments to a Rexx function call)

We have a 1800 conference number we call 3 times a week. I'm the only guy in the office who knows from memory the number and the pass code. Yes, the number is easy because it's 1-800 followed by 6 digits. The pass code is 10 digits. I still remember our first home phone number that we

Re: Volume for Z/os USS

I would first do the command in OMVS df -kP /pathname Look to see if it is full Second do a LISTC ENT('zfs file name') all See how it is defined What is PRIMARY and SECONDARY allocations, how many extents, what is Hi RBA U Is the file over 4GB in size, if yes, then is it allocated as

Re: Volume for Z/os USS

I could ask many questions. Let's start with: What version z/OS? How is SMS configured? How are your ZFS files arranged( root and others) and mounted? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Ambrose Jr > Sent: Wednesday, April

Volume for Z/os USS

Hi All, My Z/os unix volume is out of space, i'm unable to create or load files to OMVS. I have no clue how to add volume dedicatedly for USS purpose ,please share link or doc to fix it. -- Regards, Ambrose jr.

Re: Message ID for Storage pool threshold

Hi Jake, I just noticed on my z/OS 2.2 system that there are some additional lines of output that were added to the message IGD002I in response to the D SMS,SG(storage_group) command. CA-OPS/MVS should be able to issue that command and parse the IGD002I message output. Glenn

Re: Message ID for Storage pool threshold

No message unless you cross a threshold. DCollect of the volumes, add up the utilization and capacity of each volume. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idai200/apxdcol.htm On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:

Re: Message ID for Storage pool threshold

We set up a every half hour DCollect to catpture a snap shot of the Dasd (Volumes) Pools usage. We also had a program that would read (SAS/MXG) the Dcollect data and report and issue minor and major alerts, Plus a quick readable sequencaly file with the Poll usage by 30mins for the last

Re: CFSizer site move

"What we have here Luke is a failure to communicate" In a message dated 4/11/2018 1:33:58 PM Central Standard Time, nei...@us.ibm.com writes:   But I'll be working on getting the various publications and websites that point to CFSizer updated with the new URL. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Re: CFSizer site move

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 12:50:41 +, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: >Can you explain why pages have to move? >In the huge IBM website, the only way to keep interesting pages at hand, once >you finally found them, is b.m.o. bookmarks, favorites etc. >However it is

Re: Theology (was: Many arguments to a Rexx function call)

BR549 and ask for Junior of Junior Samples Auto Sales, or BroadLane 9972 after 5 o'clock. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chris Hoelscher Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 2:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Message ID for Storage pool threshold

Hi I am trying to write an automation rule using ops/MVS to capture a particular storage pool usage. Is there a message id which might of any help ? Or else if there is a different way to capture the usage of storage pool ? Jake

Re: Theology (was: Many arguments to a Rexx function call)

Add to that (list of things incomprehensible today) a party line ... (not the 1-900 variety) Chris Hoelscher Technology Architect, Database Infrastructure Services Technology Solution Services Humana Inc. 123 East Main Street Louisville, KY 40202 Humana.com (502) 476-2538 or 407-7266

Re: Theology (was: Many arguments to a Rexx function call)

Phil Smith III wrote: >Ah, the good old KLondike-5-. One of my favorite obsolete jokes: What an obsolete good joke ... uh... zorry and sorry ... I meant Absolute good joke! ;-D >Just try explaining THAT one to a modern teen: >Kid answers home phone? House HAS home phone? No

Re: Any C++ regex template class gotchas?

On Mon, 9 Apr 2018 10:28:34 -0400, Charles Mills wrote: >To clarify, by "works" you mean does NOT ABEND? Oops, yes, I meant "does not ABEND". -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Theology (was: Many arguments to a Rexx function call)

Gil wrote: > I recall two letters and five digits, and earlier two letters (the first two of >a word) and four digits. An abbreviated word may be easier to remember >than two arbitrary digits. But Telco gave up when they exhausted >pronouncable digraphs. Ah, the good old KLondike-5-.

Re: Theology (was: Many arguments to a Rexx function call)

I thought the problem was that small telcos did not want to go to 8-digit local numbers, which the common telco equipment of the time did not support. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent:

Re: Theology (was: Many arguments to a Rexx function call)

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 10:31:43 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > >And ISTR was one of the reasons for seven-digit phone numbers. Either that >or it was a happy accident, but I know I've read at least someone claiming >it was chosen because "seven is magic". How many of us remember shorter >numbers? I

Re: [EXTERNAL] JCL "diagramming"?

the product I worked on used the output from CA-7's FSTRUC command I believe, and created a JCL flow with all the dataset and job x-ref into, Docutext IIRC. it also would extract comments from the JCL and or PROC to create PROS or JCL documentation if needed. Carmen Vitullo -

Re: Theology (was: Many arguments to a Rexx function call)

David Crayford wrote: >It may sound like dogma but It's a psychological theory known as Millers >law. Seven is a magic number for people's comprehension. Psychological >research has found that people generally cannot keep track of more than >about seven chunks of information at once (Miller

Re: [EXTERNAL] JCL "diagramming"?

Hi John, I seem to recall that there was/is(?) a product called CA-JCLCHECK that could build JCL flow diagrams. Also, didn't OPC/TWS have a diagram function to show AD flow? At least that's my recollection from years back. Simon -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: IBM Introduces IBM z14 ZR1 and Rockhopper II Models

It is based on an industry-standard 19" server rack rather than a proprietary mainframe "frame" (which was perhaps 25"?). Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 9:55 AM

Re: IBM Introduces IBM z14 ZR1 and Rockhopper II Models

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:31:57 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/897/ENUS118-018/index.html=en_locale=en One thing that I notice is that is smaller. 2 x 3.5 feet, compared to 2.5 x 5 feet for the z13s. -- Tom Marchant

Re: One last question on TAPELESS delivery

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:40:51 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >John Eells wrote: > >>Let's all try to do this the easy way, folks. > Ed's employer apparently has a different idea. >One really extremely easy way to do it: Delegate it to someone else. ;-D > >On a serious note - Many thanks for

Re: Many arguments to a Rexx function call

On 2018-04-10, at 23:57:31, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > User-Agent: AltaMail Classic > ... > Another way to accomplish this is to enclose the whole set of parameters in > quotes or double quotes, thereby creating a single string parameter. You can > keep the comata as separators *within* the string.

Re: Dummy question on VSAM multivolume

You will need to know how many records, the average record length, and then if KSDS, just a DATA/INDEX or AIX or PATH The VSAM Demystified Redbook is good for working with VSAM. My thoughts are that the less splitting the better for the file. But that means understanding how much free space,

Re: CFSizer site move

Can you explain why pages have to move? In the huge IBM website, the only way to keep interesting pages at hand, once you finally found them, is b.m.o. bookmarks, favorites etc. However it is always only a matter of time (10 or 20 months or so) until the link breaks, because the page has been

Re: One last question on TAPELESS delivery

John Eells wrote: >Let's all try to do this the easy way, folks. One really extremely easy way to do it: Delegate it to someone else. ;-D On a serious note - Many thanks for your kind explanations. It will certainly help everyone. Please keep up with your good posts and advices. Thanks

Re: IBM ZD

Hi Dave. I don't have any ideas about the cost, but you might try googling "RD". Or, take a look at the article "Automate z Systems Application Testing on the Cloud" at http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/administrator/systemsmanagement/rdandt-cloud/ hth, Wendell

Re: Sungard question - floor z/OS supports UNIX environment?

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Veryl Ellis wrote: > Yes, the SungardAS z/OS Floor System has OMVS running zFS file systems. > > Call or email me using the information in my signature tag. > > Thanks, > > S. Veryl Ellis | Senior Systems Engineer | IBM Z Systems –

CFSizer site move

FYI: The CFSizer website has moved to http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027062. There are still a few glitches in the implementation at the new site, but we hope to get those ironed out over the next few days. Bill Neiman Parallel Sysplex development IBM

Re: Control D question on Deactivating a CLASS

or look at your generic mission where you obviously can do what you like to do for CLS as examble below is for Classs "Y" CATEGORY DAILY JOBNAME * GENERIC Y MONITOR 2 OWNERJOBLOGTASKTYPE REP GROUPJOBID DESC

Re: One last question on TAPELESS delivery

Let me repeat that setting up an FTP server on a workstation is *not* required for installing IBM software. I will also repeat that access to the HMC is required *only* for the starter system, the Customized Offerings Driver (aka the COD). If you stay within the n-2 coexistence window, you

Re: Control D question on Deactivating a CLASS

Look at Parm "GENDEC GENCLAS" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM ZD

Thanks Timothy. It wouldn't be for PROD use. Strictly DB2 SQL testing on test data is what they are looking at right now. I'm fine with using IBM provided image, in fact that would be my preference, as I don't currently have to staff to build/maintain another separate config for all of

Re: Many arguments to a Rexx function call

On Wed, 11 Apr 2018 05:58:47 -0500, Jantje. wrote: >On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:25:42 -0400, zMan wrote: > >>Well...not sure how you searched, but "rexx maximum arguments" finds it >>pretty quickly, albeit not as fast as "rexx 20 arguments" (of course,

Re: Many arguments to a Rexx function call

On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:25:42 -0400, zMan wrote: >Well...not sure how you searched, but "rexx maximum arguments" finds it >pretty quickly, albeit not as fast as "rexx 20 arguments" (of course, once >you know the answer already...) > I should have used Google from the

Re: Theology (was: Many arguments to a Rexx function call)

Phil Smith III wrote: >>Why 100? Is it documented somewhere in some REXX bookies? >As I said, this isn't a Rexx API, but the point of 100 was to pick a human >number (not "666") that was way more than likely needed. We could have picked >5, but that seems low; 10? 20? Ok. I was just curious.

Re: Dummy question on VSAM multivolume

Hello Lizette Thanks for the great explanation I am trying to make the KSDS as multivolume using extended addressability above 4.2G. The KSDS tends to grow in our shop So what would be your suggestion on the allocation for the above scenario. How much should I go for the data and index ? On