Re: Can I use a NAS attached to z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread David Crayford
On 12/1/22 8:34 am, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: Fundi, now Rocket, bought a licence for MFNetdisk. Dave Crayford might know if it's still available or in use. We used it up for HSM ML2 until we purchased a second hand ATL. It was a very innovative product and worked well. However, like all

Re: Can I use a NAS attached to z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Fundi, now Rocket, bought a licence for MFNetdisk. Dave Crayford might know if it's still available or in use. I used the free version for a while, it was a great concept. On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 10:18 AM PINION, RICHARD W. < rpin...@firsthorizon.com> wrote: > Let's not forget Shai Hess's

Re: DS6800

2022-01-11 Thread Mike Schwab
I've asked, and they only do FC, with a series of PCIe cards. https://www.synology.com/en-us/compatibility?search_by=category=fc_host_bus_adapters=1_log_p=1 On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 10:24 PM Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > > Does it support CKD volumes and FICON connectivity? > > > -- > Radoslaw

Re: Can I use a NAS attached to z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Let's not forget Shai Hess's MFNetDisk. I don't think it's available anymore. But, I used it extensively from 2010 to 2016. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 5:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Can I use a NAS attached to z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 10.01.2022 o 13:00, Colin Paice pisze: Having a playful and inquiring mind, I wondered if it was possible to get HSM etc to work with a Network Attached Storage box (Synology). For education - not production. Colin Yes and no. 1. Yes, you can configure your NAS as NFS (I hope so) and

Re: DS6800

2022-01-11 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Does it support CKD volumes and FICON connectivity? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 08.01.2022 o 21:44, AbsKerneels pisze: Why do you not just get yourself the latest SYNOLOGY device. Cost much less and can do 10 times more : https://www.synology.com/en-us/support/nas_selector

Re: RLS False Contention Statistics

2022-01-11 Thread Attila Fogarasi
What is your MAXSYSTEMS value? There is a false lock contention penalty when your MAXSYSTEMS value exceeds 7 or 23. Of course your MAXSYSTEMS has to match the actual number of parallel sysplex members :) Also what is your false lock contention rate? 1% is typically acceptable though it really

Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread Tom Brennan
I can't remember other than it was only around 10 lines. I think just variable access and some simple calculations. On 1/11/2022 10:47 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: What didn't your "small performance test" do? -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
(Subject: and content trimmed.) On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 09:41:23 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >... >finally pushed me over: I ran a small performance test and Rexx beat >CLIST by about 1000 times if I remember correctly. So I pulled out the >Rexx manuals. > Back in the day when fiche was available

Re: Ad message paradigm (Re: Ad NetRexx (Re: Ad programming features (Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread Tom Brennan
Nice! Now do CLIST Ok, just joking. I was probably the last person on my block to switch from CLIST to Rexx when it became available on MVS. A simple thing finally pushed me over: I ran a small performance test and Rexx beat CLIST by about 1000 times if I remember correctly. So I pulled

Re: COBOL V6 question

2022-01-11 Thread Carmen Vitullo
First thing I checked when the compile issues first appeared was to check the loadlib's luckily they all are PDS/E's :) I hate to assume all the V6 testing that was done before I was handed this uncovered most of these issues. I'm gonna try and research as much as I can so I can be

Re: COBOL V6 question

2022-01-11 Thread Dave Jousma
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:18:55 -0600, Dave Jousma wrote: > >There might still be reason for a level of panic. > >COBOL V6 required PDS-E load libraries. If you are already PDSE everywhere, >then no issue. Not hard to convert, but disruptive. >CPU to compile COBOL V6 goes up

Re: COBOL V6 question

2022-01-11 Thread Dave Jousma
On Tue, 11 Jan 2022 11:00:35 -0600, Carmen Vitullo wrote: >good to know ! > >seems there's been a lot of panic here for no reason, now that all the >programmers know we're using 6.2 COBOL compilers, ever issue they see is >related, seems about right, seen this reaction at more than one site. >

Re: COBOL V6 question

2022-01-11 Thread Carmen Vitullo
good to know ! seems there's been a lot of panic here for no reason, now that all the programmers know we're using 6.2 COBOL compilers, ever issue they see is related, seems about right, seen this reaction at more than one site. all issues have been resolved so far even some that were not

Re: COBOL V6 question

2022-01-11 Thread Matthew Stitt
Since 1990 (or so) //COBEXEC PGM=IGYCRCTL,REGION=4M,COND=(4,LT), // PARM=('CICS("COBOL3,SP")', // APOST,NOSSRANGE,LIB,MAP,OFFSET) //STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.IGY.SIGYCOMP // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=CICSTS51.CICS.SDFHLOAD Matthew On

Re: COBOL V6 question

2022-01-11 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Thanks Peter, in a former company that's what I was use to also. Carmen On 1/11/2022 10:24 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Bummer. I can't imagine having my SDLC admin not be at least a semi-skilled z/OS professional, or better yet a set of skilled professionals, but ours is a very large

Re: COBOL V6 question

2022-01-11 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Bummer. I can't imagine having my SDLC admin not be at least a semi-skilled z/OS professional, or better yet a set of skilled professionals, but ours is a very large shop so that's what I'm used to having. You have my deepest sympathy. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: COBOL V6 question

2022-01-11 Thread Carmen Vitullo
that helps Greatly thanks so much Peter, I was thinking a major project to rework the entire process. unfortunately our Endeavor admin has very little mainframe or Endeavor experience :( thanks again Carmen On 1/11/2022 9:34 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Carmen, Not *necessary* but

Re: COBOL V6 question

2022-01-11 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Carmen, Not *necessary* but still usable. We are V6 also (6.2, not 6.3 yet), and with 4.2 going off support this year management made a strong push to prevent 4.2 modules (changes or additions) from going into production on a going-forward basis. OTOH, we still have many production programs

RLS False Contention Statistics

2022-01-11 Thread Crawford, Robert C.
All, I can't reconcile RLS lock structure false lock contention between the various SMS statistics records. According to the type 42 subtype 17 we have a lot of false contention (field SMF42HCC). However, our type 42 subtypes 15 (storage class response time) and 16 (dataset response time)

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2022-01-11 Thread Mark Regan
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/manage/noops-it-operations-getting-closer-automated-future Regards, Mark Regan, K8MTR General, EN80tg CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991) Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017 z/OS Network Software Consultant (z NetView, z/OS Communications Server) Contractor,

COBOL V6 question

2022-01-11 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Well I just inherited COBOL support and our programmers have been trying to debug an issue with CICS COBOL, seems Ent COBOL V4 was still being used in CICS TS 5.4. the tool used is Endeavor, long story short, V6 was being tested in some processes but never updated in others. my question is

Re: Speedy, speedier, speedest (Re: Ad message paradigm (Re: Ad NetRexx (Re: Ad programming features (Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 11.01.2022 14:06, David Crayford wrote: > I've gone silent now Rony. But if you're a Windows user you may want to check > out Measure-Command > for PowerShell so you don't have to instrument your code with timers. > > [1] >

Re: Speedy, speedier, speedest (Re: Ad message paradigm (Re: Ad NetRexx (Re: Ad programming features (Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread David Crayford
I've gone silent now Rony. But if you're a Windows user you may want to check out Measure-Command for PowerShell so you don't have to instrument your code with timers. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/measure-command?view=powershell-7.2 On

Re: Speedy, speedier, speedest (Re: Ad message paradigm (Re: Ad NetRexx (Re: Ad programming features (Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
And here an example of ooRexx being used without any direct access to Java: d1=.datetime~new /* take time */ "java squares"/* run command */ d2=.datetime~new /* take time */ say "duration:" d2-d1 The results of running this program are:

Re: Speedy, speedier, speedest (Re: Ad message paradigm (Re: Ad NetRexx (Re: Ad programming features (Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
Now, if you want ooRexx to control an application and need to run the NetRexx program from it, you can do that with ooRexx (including timings) as such: /* ooRexx solution to control execution of NetRexx' squares */ clz=bsf.loadClass("squares") /* load NetRexx' squares class */ /*

Speedy, speedier, speedest (Re: Ad message paradigm (Re: Ad NetRexx (Re: Ad programming features (Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 11.01.2022 05:46, David Crayford wrote: > On 10/1/22 11:15 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote: >>> ooRexx will never be high speed because it's implementation is >>> fundamentally ineffecient. >> That seems to be begging the question. Certainly the current implementation >> is inefficient, but >> what

Re: Ad message paradigm (Re: Ad NetRexx (Re: Ad programming features (Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread David Crayford
On 10/1/22 11:28 pm, René Jansen wrote: I find that a very interesting question - I think there is no real reason, and that is one of the things CREXX is trying to prove. I've already said enough in this thread. CREXX looks interesting and fun. I'm happy to contribute. For the other