Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 1/29/2019 10:07 PM, Brian Westerman wrote: No, just one single CP, no specialty processors are available. We have two CF LPARs (CF01 and CF02) sharing a single ICF engine. From both CF consoles I see: 2019029 22:56:50 => display dyndisp 2019029 22:56:50 CF0512I Dynamic CF Dispatching is

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Mike Schwab
What is the percent busy at peak times? How big a percent do you need? 10% for the ICF partition? Would you save that much by converting Ring to Star? On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:07 AM Brian Westerman wrote: > > No, just one single CP, no specialty processors are available. > > Brian > > --

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 1/29/2019 10:17 PM, Brian Westerman wrote: This particular box has just a single CP, no specialty processors, 3 LPARs, one of them production, one application programmer test, and the other a sandbox that is extremely low use and in any case shares only the res volume. They "need" to run GR

Re: Using IPCS ACTIVE and alt ASID to display extended private storage

2019-01-29 Thread Binyamin Dissen
You have failed to answer as to what you see when you try to display x'5000' in the target address space. On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:28:24 -0600 Wendell Lovewell <01e9c0ee0673-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: :>Thanks for your replies. I had done a REFRESH in RACF for the FACILITY profile

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Brian Westerman
This particular box has just a single CP, no specialty processors, 3 LPARs, one of them production, one application programmer test, and the other a sandbox that is extremely low use and in any case shares only the res volume. They "need" to run GRS because it's not really safe to run without it

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Brian Westerman
I agree that before the current CF20 implementation of the micocode only version, it was supposed ot be almost fatal to try it, but with the new z13s and z14 it's "supposed" to be "low" impact, but it doesn't really talk about how low the impact is, and if it can be done with a single CP and no

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Brian Westerman
Do you have any figures for how much "more" friendly the CPU usage is? This box is a single CPU, no ICF, Zipp or zapp. Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.e

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Brian Westerman
NO, I'm trying to use the Microcode Implementation, it has no CTC, and is just memory to memory between LPARs on the same physical box. Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Brian Westerman
No, just one single CP, no specialty processors are available. Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Mike Schwab
I think you can REJECT specific PTFs. On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:07 AM Bob Bridges wrote: > > I'm the Top-Secret admin for a client whose system programmer retired a > couple years ago. The client tapped another employee to take his place, and > she's learning the job with frantic haste but in

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Timothy Sipples
I agree with the recommendation to get a CF engine as the best/first choice all around. I also agree to proceed with caution if you're going to share one or more CPs between the Coupling Facility Control Code (CFCC) and z/OS and/or other operating systems. "Proceed with caution" is not the same thi

ARC1139I RC39 RSB08

2019-01-29 Thread Munif Sadek
Dear listers we are SNSPLex and common recall queue between our Production and test LPAR ARC1500I PLEXNAME=ARCPLEX0,PROMOTE PRIMARYHOST=NO,PROMOTE SSM=NO,COMMON RECALL ARC1500I (CONT.) QUEUE BASE NAME=HSMPLEX,COMMON RECALL QUEUE Problem is a valid user with valid access recalling a dataset

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Tony Harminc
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 11:07, Bob Bridges wrote: > > I'm the Top-Secret admin for a client whose system programmer retired a > couple years ago. The client tapped another employee to take his place, and > she's learning the job with frantic haste but insists with some justification > that she'

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
We've used ICF on pretty much every model of hardware since z10. We're currently on z14 and z13s. We use internal coupling links with external links to another CEC. We do have--and always have--CF engines shared among non-prod LPARs using thin interrupt protocol. I would hesitate to suggest bu

Re: External dsect

2019-01-29 Thread scott Ford
Yeah, guys this what I thought ECVT entry was the way to go..Rob I agree very 80s. We have a ECVT table entry, so this much better way to go. I wanted to make sure i know my options before I try to design it. Thanks one and all, it’s very much appreciated. On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 3:18 PM Charles

Re: External dsect

2019-01-29 Thread Charles Mills
Let me recommend that vendor word approach. We use it and it works well. You just want to define the structure that the word will point to in such a way that you do not paint yourself into an upward compatibility corner. The word is zero if you have not initialized it. Access could not be easie

Re: External dsect

2019-01-29 Thread Matt Hogstrom
The approach would work but I think even a LOAD in a system exit is not a good idea. As Chris said, if you are an ISV you may already have an ECVT entry. Today I’d almost expect that someone would update a dataset with the changes and then issue a MODIFY urApp,NEWPARMS=xxx and urApp would read

Re: D U, , ALLOC GIVES MSGIEE106I *UNKNOWN (UNKNOWN) MVS DISPLAY ALLOCATED UNITS COMMAND

2019-01-29 Thread Stone, Marshall
There is a VARY command that uses UNCOND - vary online unconditional sometimes can override a BOXED device MS -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Rob Schramm Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 1:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA

Re: External dsect

2019-01-29 Thread Christopher Y. Blaicher
If you are an ISV, then I would contact IBM and ask to get an ECVTCTBL word assigned to your company. That word can be used to point to a CSA structure of your own making. You can have a program that reads a parm file and sets appropriate values. PS - Most system exits don't behave well with r

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Jerry Callen
> The other option is to see if the ISPF environment has the ISPF SMP/E panels > available. If you are coming from a Unix background, are comfortable with the USS command line and scripting, and have the xlc compiler available (a lot of "ifs"...), you might want to try this: https://github.com

Re: D U,,ALLOC GIVES MSGIEE106I *UNKNOWN (UNKNOWN) MVS DISPLAY ALLOCATED UNITS COMMAND

2019-01-29 Thread Rob Schramm
What happens if you box a device offline? Can you bring it back online? Rob Schramm On Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 2:19 AM Mehrshad Manshadi < 0056e0e17177-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: > In response to a D U,,ALLOC command, msgIEE106I is issued > indicating a jobname of *UNKNOWN for certain

Re: External dsect

2019-01-29 Thread Rob Schramm
Scott, Not to be overly critical, but isn't this scheme a little 1980's? I had thought most products had moved away from this and moved to parm-driven with some sort of refresh or command driven override. Not saying it won't work.. because it will. I will let others comment on the specifics.

Re: IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-29 Thread Charles Mills
"Programs" do not get to write or directly control the contents of SMF 30 records. IRXJCL would have no way to "record the member" (in the SMF 30). IBM would of course be free to add the PARM= information to the SMF 30 record, or to create a new record type for PARM= data, or a new record type f

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Chris Hoelscher
Just a few thoughts from my vast (well, half-vast) SMP/E experience Always receive HOLDDATA before doing anything - it may alert you to previously received fixes that are now marked PE (PROGRAM IN ERROR) Holddata can also inform you of previously-PE ptf that are now resolved The REPORT ERRSYSMO

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Tom Marchant
If PTF A has PTF B as a prerequisite, and both have been applied, but neither has been accepted, then in order to restore A, you must also restore B. GROUP will not help you here. IIRC, if you restore B and specify GROUP, SMP/E will restore both A and B, but I'm not at all sure about this. SMPL

Re: IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:08:07 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >To the best of my (possibly faulty, of course) recollection SMF does not >record PARM= anywhere under any circumstances -- other than if it somehow gets >used in a way that ends up in SMF, e.g. a program that takes PARM=ddname and >then

Re: Using IPCS ACTIVE and alt ASID to display extended private storage

2019-01-29 Thread Wendell Lovewell
Thanks for your replies. I had done a REFRESH in RACF for the FACILITY profile changes. If I start IPCS in an alternate session and then allow the application to abend, I can still view memory areas after the abend via ACTIVE in the alternate session, but not from a second TSO user. (But vie

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Dana Mitchell
Brian, We've actually been thinking about this too, as we evaluate moving to z14's. We currently have a 5 member GRS ring that could really benefit moving to GRS Star, but nobody want's to spend any $ for an ICF. As of BC12 generation IBM was still recommending against using GPs for CF proces

Re: Style (was: Newbie SMP/E questions)

2019-01-29 Thread Bob Bridges
BB5> My best friend and I developed a protocol when our long, long debates started going electronic back in the '80s. (He abandoned his Catholic upbringing just about the time I was baptized in the Holy Spirit, so we've been merrily arguing over it ever since.) The initials and numbers are slight

External dsect

2019-01-29 Thread scott Ford
All: I want to be able to have an options program for our product that the customer updates. Then they would assemble/bind it and we can call it to pass options to our exits. The exits are system type exits, so i know I/O is limited or not existent. My question is if i want a program to build the

Re: Style (was: Newbie SMP/E questions)

2019-01-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2019-01-29, at 10:09:25, Allan Staller wrote: > They were indented when I sent it. > Thanks. I blame much misbehavior on hypermodern mailer software (You appear to be using MS-Exchange) that aggressively reformats to optimize for handheld devices where character cells are precious. Too much

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread retired mainframer
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Bob Bridges > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 8:07 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Newbie SMP/E questions > > Question #1) We started by applying a PTF - call it A for simplicity - and its > prerequisit

Re: Style (was: Newbie SMP/E questions)

2019-01-29 Thread Allan Staller
They were indented when I sent it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 11:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Style (was: Newbie SMP/E questions) On 2019-01-29, at 09:52:18, Allan Staller wrote: > Co

Re: IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-29 Thread Charles Mills
To the best of my (possibly faulty, of course) recollection SMF does not record PARM= anywhere under any circumstances -- other than if it somehow gets used in a way that ends up in SMF, e.g. a program that takes PARM=ddname and then opens that DD name. (You would get an SMF 14, 15, 42 or 6x for

Style (was: Newbie SMP/E questions)

2019-01-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2019-01-29, at 09:52:18, Allan Staller wrote: > Comments interspersed. > > HTH, > Thanks. It would further be useful if you distinguished quoted material with the customary ">" prefix. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Bob Bridges > Sent: T

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Well, the messages from the RESTORE indicate that SMP/E thinks that they are applied. If you want to re-APPLY them, merely add the keyword REDO to the APPLY statement. But you also need to know the procedures that were followed at your shop. It is very rare that APPLY goes to a live system. It us

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:46:39 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: >Never heard of CA-MSM, but I'll look into it. (I've been in contact with Bob >Boerum at CA, but he's never mentioned it.) > >We've been using the SMP/E panels, and, as you say, letting them construct the >JCL. > Yes. And I always save t

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
And on top of that, backup, ACCEPT, backup, RECEIVE, backup, APPLY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rugen, Len Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 11:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Newbie SMP/E questions [External Email] Some of us de

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Allan Staller
Comments interspersed. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 10:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Newbie SMP/E questions I'm the Top-Secret admin for a client whose system programmer retired a coup

Style (was: Newbie SMP/E questions)

2019-01-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:23:06 +, David Spiegel wrote: >Hi Bob, >2) Yes for the current situation. If, however, PTFs between base and >your new PTFs are ACCEPTd, no. >> ... [about 20 lines skipped] >> Question #2) ... What ever became of the venerable practice of interleaving replies close to

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Rugen, Len
Some of us developed a maintenance cycle of ACCEPT, RECEIVE, APPLY. :-) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Bob Bridges
Never heard of CA-MSM, but I'll look into it. (I've been in contact with Bob Boerum at CA, but he's never mentioned it.) We've been using the SMP/E panels, and, as you say, letting them construct the JCL. --- Bob Bridges, cell 336 382-7313 robhbrid...@gmail.com rbrid...@infosecinc.com /*

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:06:51 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: >... >Anyway, we attempted the RESTORE, but we got lots and lots of error messages >saying we need to include other PTFs in the RESTORE. Some of these have an >indirect connection to A and B; B superceded at least three of them, for >exampl

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I will second what Lizette said, but also, I have to ask, the 'other' person tapped to take over, was she a sysprog ? new to SMP/E? seems 2 years is a long time for any maint not applied to any security product. you should concentrate on your current situation, research the use of APPLY/ RESTOR

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Bob, 2) Yes for the current situation. If, however, PTFs between base and your new PTFs are ACCEPTd, no. Regards, David On 2019-01-29 11:06, Bob Bridges wrote: > I'm the Top-Secret admin for a client whose system programmer retired a > couple years ago. The client tapped another employee to

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
The other option is to see if the ISPF environment has the ISPF SMP/E panels available. That also can help reduce the stress of using SMP/E REC/APP/REST/REJ/ACC are pretty easy to do. Try not to get lost in the details. The panels will wrap JCL around what you are going to do. I save tha

Re: Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
For supporting any CA Product, you should be using if possible, CA MSM. This is a gui interface that makes CA SMP/E maintenance easier It pulls the fixes, and you just select what you want it does the rest. Do you have CAMSM available to you? Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM M

Newbie SMP/E questions

2019-01-29 Thread Bob Bridges
I'm the Top-Secret admin for a client whose system programmer retired a couple years ago. The client tapped another employee to take his place, and she's learning the job with frantic haste but insists with some justification that she's not a system programmer yet. Me, I came into security thr

Re: IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:19:07 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: > >Let's say there's a REXX program being run in batch with >PGM=IKJEFB1B,PARM='%SOMETHING'. >I'm sure SMF records program names.. but is there any field that also captures >the REXX that's being run via IKJEFT01 or IKJEFT1B? >

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-29 Thread Carmen Vitullo
The DDnames are available on the 30_4 I believe but SYSIN, or SYSTSIN if used can tell you the dataset used if -- invocation via SYSTSIN was used, most likely the PARM is used Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Vignesh Sankaranarayanan" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-29 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
How about the SYSIN, is that available in any SMF, if I were to look at records related to the ones with PGM=IKJEFT1B... ? – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure On 29-Jan-2019, at 20:44, Charles Mills wrote: I have a lot of SMF record field experience and I do not recall the PARM= data being reco

Suggestions on SMS options for DB2 VSAM Datasets

2019-01-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
Cross posting to IBMMAIN and DB2-L Just looking to see if there are any suggestions on how to set up a Dataclas in ISMF for DB2 tables? With V2.2 or V2.3 the following entries are new or some or older and maybe need adjustments. Space Constraint Relief Reduce Space Up to (%) Guaranteed Spac

Re: IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-29 Thread Charles Mills
I have a lot of SMF record field experience and I do not recall the PARM= data being recorded anywhere, not in SMF 30, nor elsewhere. SMF 14 should record the SYSLIB dataset being closed but that is about it. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAI

Re: IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-29 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I've never seen the CLIST or REXX EXEC being recorded in the SMF 30 record, but I've never had a need to look. I think a product like TSOMON had that ability IIRC. Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Vignesh Sankaranarayanan" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, J

Re: REXX syscalls and the dirty bit

2019-01-29 Thread Steve Austin
Thanks. As the culprit program was not apparent I got around this by writing my own version of the REXX storage function and added a profile for it to the PROGRAM class. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent:

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13 [EXTERNAL]

2019-01-29 Thread Feller, Paul
If the lpars are in a base sysplex you can use XCF to carry the GRS traffic and still be in a RING setup. GRS using XCF is better than letting GRS try to handle things. We have been using both an internal and external CF for years. Currently the internal is on a z13. All the lpars on that CE

Re: SYSAFF and SCHENV [EXTERNAL]

2019-01-29 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Sorry Kees, I got a bit off track, the outsourcer I worked at used a number of JES2 exits to add SCHENV dependant on the specific client, it was pretty cool because all batch, unless your ID was entered into a table, ran via the scheduler, the schedulers resources + SCHENV and WLM resources mana

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2019-01-29 o 07:23, Brian Westerman pisze: Hi, Has anyone had any experience with using the internal coupling channels on a z13. "supposedly" IBM has removed the active wait problems (where the CF lpar would try to use 100% of whatever it gets from PR/SM), but I was wondering if it's r

IKJEFT1B program name SMF

2019-01-29 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Hello List! Let's say there's a REXX program being run in batch with PGM=IKJEFB1B,PARM='%SOMETHING'. I'm sure SMF records program names.. but is there any field that also captures the REXX that's being run via IKJEFT01 or IKJEFT1B? Thanks in advance! - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure MARKSA

Re: SYSAFF and SCHENV [EXTERNAL]

2019-01-29 Thread Feller, Paul
Kees, yes we do run into from time to time someone who wants to run a job that might have conflicting resources. An example might be MQ and SAS. If there is not an MQ task running on the same lpar as SAS then the user needs to rethink how they have the job set up. They may have to break the j

Re: SYSAFF and SCHENV [EXTERNAL]

2019-01-29 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM
Allen, Carmen, I know how SCHENVs work, we used them for limited purposes. My question to Paul was, how does he get the right SCHENV added to a job. With our 'dependencies' we moved almost all handling to Exit60, require users to use standard PROCs and put the info for the 'dependencies' in the

Re: SYSAFF and SCHENV [EXTERNAL]

2019-01-29 Thread Carmen Vitullo
There are so many options with WLM and SCHDENV and WLM resources, you can get real sophisticated. at a very low level at the outsources we used SCHDENV to ensure the correct client ran on the correct LPAR in the PLEX, in one place I worked, SCHDENV and WLM resources were used to AID in moving wo

Re: SYSAFF and SCHENV [EXTERNAL]

2019-01-29 Thread Allan Staller
How do you add a SCHENV to a job? Does the user/submittor do this or is it done automatically? 1) JES can assign a default SCHENV on the JOBDEF/JOBCLASS(n) init parms 2) Modern schedulers (CA7, CTL-M) allow this to be added to the job as part of their processing. 3) SCHENV= on Job Card. There a

Re: Internal Coupling Channel on z13

2019-01-29 Thread Allan Staller
GRS RING can/will run over CTC's. Not sure I would want to do that in a 3 member ring. It was bad enough in a 2 member ring. I am currently using an ICF on a z/12 BC w/no issue. Howerr, I am not sure an ICF is the same thing you are describing. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: SYSAFF and SCHENV [EXTERNAL]

2019-01-29 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM
Paul, Thanks. That is similar to we do with our 'Dependencies'. The difference is that our jobs can have several 'dependencies'. Jobs can have only 1 SCHENV and 1 WITH. This gives less flexibility, e.g. for jobs that need IMS or DB2 or IMS+DB2. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM M

Z/os Work load Management (WLM)

2019-01-29 Thread Mehrshad Manshadi
There was a sample WLM(z/os work load management ) setting in the internet which i downloaded long time ago.  Anybody have that internet address? Thanks   -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

Re: SYSAFF and SCHENV [EXTERNAL]

2019-01-29 Thread Feller, Paul
Kees, we do this several ways. Users can add the SCHENV to their jobs if they know what resource they will need. As an example if they know they are using MQ in their job they will add the needed SCHENV to their job. We also add SCHENV during processing in JES2 exit 60. An example we will lo

Re: Strange issue with SDSF main panel

2019-01-29 Thread Barbara Nitz
>How many lines in your ISFPCU41? 541 :-) with the copyright by Rocket Software. But then, the primary panel is one column only these days (which took some getting-used-to). >Ungodly? :-) I have 153 entries and almost never issue =blah.blah.blah.blah The problem is that many of the entries we h

Re: IARV64 - why ABEND rather than return with reason code?

2019-01-29 Thread David Crayford
On 28/01/2019 12:47 pm, Jim Mulder wrote: It is unfortunate that IBM does not make PL/X (which has object-oriented capabilities) available to ISVs. Is OO PL/X still being used for active development at IBM? I can remember a conversation I had with a guy from Hursley who told me OO PL/X was b

Re: Strange issue with SDSF main panel

2019-01-29 Thread Richards, Robert B.
How many lines in your ISFPCU41? I just noticed a major drop in the number of lines from 2.2 to 2.3 (768 down to 541) Ungodly? :-) I have 153 entries and almost never issue =blah.blah.blah.blah -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: Strange issue with SDSF main panel

2019-01-29 Thread Barbara Nitz
>Are you using the default panel ISFPCU41? Has anyone modified it? Vanilla ISPF/SDSF, no usermods, and the panel is always named ISFPCU41. >How are you invoking it? Like this?PGM(ISFISP) NOCHECK NEWAPPL(ISF) >SCRNAME(SDSF) Exactly like this: PGM(ISFISP) NEWAPPL(ISF) SCRNAME(SDSF) NOCHECK >I

Re: Strange issue with SDSF main panel

2019-01-29 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Barbara, Are you using the default panel ISFPCU41? Has anyone modified it? Use ISRDDN to see if there is another copy somewhere: M ISFPCU41 How are you invoking it? Like this?PGM(ISFISP) NOCHECK NEWAPPL(ISF) SCRNAME(SDSF) I skip the SDSF primary most of the time by adding command table entr

Re: Strange issue with SDSF main panel

2019-01-29 Thread Barbara Nitz
Again: The APF command is NOT failing, it 'just' does not show on the main panel! It only shows *after* the APF command was *successfully* executed! And then only for as long as I stay within that session. With the exception of 4 userids, *everybody* is in ISFUSER, which doesn't mean anything b