Re: Seperate Password for OMVS

2015-02-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Hi Group, Apology for asking a dummy question. Is it possible to keep a seperate Password for OMVS alone ? Not out of the box, but so long as RACF supports password and password phrase as separate

Re: COBOL v5.1 - PTF UI24300

2015-02-17 Thread Chase, John
Seems that UI24300 did not ship an updated SRC member (just the MOD member) for IGYCDOPT, so the resolution was to specify both PTFs in the PRE of the USERMOD. -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chase, John Hi, All, On z/OS 1.13 I tried

Re: Shipping Culture Is Hurting Us, or what's wrong with I.T. development

2015-02-17 Thread Chase, John
Sounds a lot like Agile. :-) But then Steve Jobs made a fortune building things people didn't know they wanted. :-) -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Too good not to pass to this group. Preach it, Brother! quote ...

COBOL v5.1 - PTF UI24300

2015-02-16 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, On z/OS 1.13 I tried to re-apply our Installation Options USERMOD (IGYWD51) after APPLYing UI24300 to COBOL v5.1, but the re-apply failed because it did not PRE the previous PTF level (!). Among other fixes, UI24300 adds a new compiler option, so the options module IGYCDOPT gets

Re: How to identify program language from program object

2015-02-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken MacKenzie In the old days, as far as I remember though I can't prove it, you used to be able to look at a load library member, check for a certain string (e.g. C2 mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss) and establish that the

Re: How to identify program language from program object

2015-02-13 Thread Chase, John
CORRECTION: See below. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chase, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken MacKenzie In the old days, as far as I remember though I can't prove it, you used

Re: XREF Members of JCL libs and their datasets

2015-02-13 Thread Chase, John
You originally wrote complimentary, which in some contexts does mean free (of charge or cost). Perhaps you meant complEmentary instead? -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mitch Sent: Friday, February 13,

Re: a bit of hope? What was old is new again.

2015-02-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:37:12 +, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote: We the willing, Are doing the impossible, I remember it as We the willing, led by the unknowing... Also We the

Re: Strange comment in PTF.

2015-01-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:31:14 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: I should add that in general in the US and most countries copyright notices are unnecessary. I compare them to a Private Property sign on

Re: OT: Friday joke :-)

2015-01-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sam Siegel The question of the day is, were

Re: OT: Friday joke :-)

2015-01-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sam Siegel The question of the day is, were the balls fully inflated our not? Precisely define fully inflated. Dig me up when everybody's satisfied with your definition. :-) -jc- On Jan 23, 2015 6:28 AM,

Re: OT: Friday joke :-)

2015-01-23 Thread Chase, John
- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 9:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: OT: Friday joke :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Overlaid VCON in load module

2015-01-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On 2015-01-21 15:12, Greg Dyck wrote: Normal (non-directed) LOAD processing serializes fetch processing for a module and only performs relocation of ACONs/VCONs once when the module is fetched.

Re: SMF RDW

2015-01-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Hunkeler Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 12:33 AM I just want to understand ?how?. Why? I genrally say there is no stupid question, but this one is an exception. There is no use in asking why someone

Re: z13 unanswered question.

2015-01-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 10:41 AM [ snip ] How fast could a fully enabled machine mint bitcoins or other cryptocurrency? How much power would such a machine use while doing so? Inquiring

Re: z13 new(?) characteristics from RedBook

2015-01-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 1:49 PM I'm reading the Redbook mentioned by Timothy Stipples on the z13. Some interesting things, to me. [ snip ] 10) Curious statement: quote If only Linux on z

Re: Another z13 questions

2015-01-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 1:32 PM W dniu 2015-01-15 o 20:08, zMan pisze: The other 5 LPARs are used by the NSA. Do you mean No Such Agency or I missed yet another overloaded acronym used here in

Re: z13 unanswered question.

2015-01-15 Thread Chase, John
Context plus smiley suggest he meant there is no BitCoin machine. -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 1:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z13

Re: Boston - what a place

2015-01-13 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony's Basement Computer Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:26 AM The entry for Congerville, IL is incorrect. A farmer called it in using the C scale. I drove right by that morning and laughed at the radio.

Re: Boston - what a place

2015-01-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 8:04 AM When I was in Boston in August and walked up to Fenway, it was bloody hot. I mean seriously hot. And the footy was just played in sub-zero. I live outside of

Re: [IBMTCP-L] Logmode Setting - Screen Size for 3270

2015-01-08 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 3:27 AM Cross Posted to IBM main Hello, I am using QWS emulator to connect mainframes. One of our LPAR i am able to logon using IBM DYNAMIC with the screen size

Re: [IBMTCP-L] Logmode Setting - Screen Size for 3270

2015-01-08 Thread Chase, John
connect to the session managers? -jc- On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 6:57 PM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2015 3:27 AM Cross Posted to IBM main Hello, I am

Re: I want to add data of 30 VSAM files to one PS flat file.

2014-12-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Butler Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 8:19 AM I'd like to state that even after 30 years of MVS, I still use the term file when referring to mainframe datasets. In fact, if you look at the IBM COBOL

Re: I want to add data of 30 VSAM files to one PS flat file.

2014-12-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 9:03 AM On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 8:36 AM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon

Re: RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32767?

2014-12-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin [ snip ] My question is, why should there be a limit of 32761? I understand the signed halfword format imposes a limit of 32767. I see no reason for any smaller limit. In a VSAM Control Interval

Re: Regular Expressions in ISREDIT z/OS 2.01

2014-12-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alan Watthey Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 11:45 PM David, Yes, this function works perfectly for me. You need to use R or RC in front of what you are finding or changing (first parameter). You have to

SLIP SET vs DISPLAY SLIP

2014-12-11 Thread Chase, John
Hi, List, I set a SLIP IF trap that included DATA=(0R,EQ,0,AND,12R,EQ,25BD8),ID=ID01. The response to a D SLIP=ID01 command shows DATA=0,0R,EQ,,AND,12R,EQ,00025BD8 . Where did that leading zero immediately after the DATA= come from? I deleted and reset the SLIP, and the leading zero

Re: SLIP SET vs DISPLAY SLIP

2014-12-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 2:29 PM Hi, List, I set a SLIP IF trap that included DATA=(0R,EQ,0,AND,12R,EQ,25BD8),ID=ID01. The response to a D SLIP=ID01

Re: Regular Expressions in ISREDIT z/OS 2.01

2014-12-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 10:08 PM On 12/12/2014 11:38 AM, David Speake wrote: I did a double DUH! when I saw the missing R reply. It wasn't quite that bad.I cannot cut/paste the brackets

Re: I want to add data of 30 VSAM files to one PS flat file.

2014-12-10 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of MURALI KANNAN Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 4:13 AM I would sort the VSAM files using a key and then copy the data to flat file, to avoid duplication or merging of data. Correct me if I am wrong. The OP did

Re: Ancient IEFUSI

2014-12-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Monday, December 08, 2014 6:54 PM On Mon, 8 Dec 2014 06:03:50 -0500, Mitch wrote: ... but why check when a job is submitted? Why not check before ... Wheww - tuff requirements. I've done

Re: RSU UNZIP space issue.

2014-12-09 Thread Chase, John
We have a full-volume zfs on a Mod-9 set aside for this kind of situation. Gives us about 8 GiB. Just hang it on a convenient mount point and point //SMPWKDIR at it, and away we go. -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: LPAR IPL order within a Sysplex

2014-12-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Ten Eyck Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 10:10 AM Sorry for the confusion... these LPARs are in a Parallel Sysplex (using CF), but not utilizing many of the Parallel Sysplex features. Reading through the

Re: Setting up a sysplex and OMVS/zFS

2014-12-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Chu Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 2:10 PM Hi Doug, Ok, so I need to make the z2.1 dasd volumes that contains the datasets to be mounted available to the zOS 1.13 system. How would I catalog the z2.1

Re: Death of spinning disk?

2014-12-01 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 2:14 AM [ snip ] - smoke/vapor-based recording; I use the word recording here quite consciously. These recording systems could not be played back when they were

Re: Archive search problems

2014-11-26 Thread Chase, John
Google 'bit.listserv'. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2014 11:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Archive search problems Dave, thanks that's awesome. Is

Re: No surprise: Bloomberg report on no shortage of tech workers

2014-11-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 8:01 AM Just a shortage of LOW COST workers who can do the job. quote The real issue, say Salzman and others, is the industry’s desire for lower-wage,more-exploitable

Re: SOC1 and SYSUDUMP and CEEDUMP

2014-11-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 8:14 AM Peter Ten Eyck wrote: LE runtime is TERMTHDACT(UADUMP,,96) Ok. I will bite. I see in LE book, this: Under non-CICS, if the appropriate DD

Re: SOC1 and SYSUDUMP and CEEDUMP

2014-11-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 8:42 AM Lizette Koehler wrote: Also these share presentations may be helpful http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/lang_environment/confer

Re: SOC1 and SYSUDUMP and CEEDUMP

2014-11-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 9:46 AM On 11/25/2014 8:19 AM, Chase, John wrote: [ snip ] Indeed. We're currently working a PMR in which, to get an SVCDUMP of a S0C4 before LE's condition

Re: z/OSMF audit (was Re: WLM in batch?)

2014-11-25 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 12:25 PM I was told that System Programming would be reduced to PARMLIB updates. Circa 1981. And.. In a previous job as a CSR for an ISV, we got a new boss. In

Re: Getting ptfs for a specific FMID

2014-11-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 7:55 AM Hi, Is it possible to use RECEIVE ORDER for a specific FMID? I am running SMP/E 36.11 on z/OS 1.13. Yes, but only if the specific FMID is the only FMID in a

Re: Getting ptfs for a specific FMID

2014-11-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 10:01 AM On Mon, 24 Nov 2014 07:41:14 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21225816 You can order maintenance in the

Re: Tail of MVS SYSLOG

2014-11-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 8:08 AM One solution I saw was using a Screen Scrapper process. Have a PC setup that only has SYSLOG streaming to it. Then have the screen scrapper monitor. I'm

Re: RDz v9.0 and DIAGxx VSM USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO)

2014-11-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of nitz-...@gmx.net Is anybody out there running the RSE server on z/OS (1.13) with USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO) successfully? Anybody have any other idea why today the developers cannot authenticate to the RSE server as

Re: SMP/E APPLY output capture question

2014-11-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hardee, Chuck No, at least not intentionally. When I run my usermod using no changes to the CSI and/or JCL, the output is directed, via the MSGCLASS parm on the JOB statement to class X, which is a hold queue.

Re: SMP/E APPLY output capture question

2014-11-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hardee, Chuck See, that's the rub. As I understand SMP/E, if there is no DD in the JCL, then SMP/E will allocate based on the DDDEFs. If there is a DD in the JCL, then SMP/E will use it. The first attempt at

Re: SMP/E APPLY output capture question

2014-11-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hardee, Chuck No, I have an APPLY CHECK step executing separately, ahead of, my APPLY. It's the APPLY step I'm trying to capture. To the extent you can do so without divulging any proprietary information, could you

RDz v9.0 and DIAGxx VSM USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO)

2014-11-10 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, This past weekend we IPLed our DEV lpar with VSM USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO) for the first time. After a brief period (on Sunday), it was noticed that one subsystem failed to start (an ancient Oracle API of some kind). A fresh DIAGxx containing USEZOSV1R9R7LES(YES) was dynamically

Re: What address space is using AUX slots?

2014-10-27 Thread Chase, John
Reaching 100% might make you SAD. :-\ -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 7:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What address space is

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford On 24/10/2014 6:50 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: Doesn't the example in the benchmark show performance problems in EXECIO instead of REXX? EXECIO, IMO, is not part of the REXX interpreter, but instead

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. I get the same 'null'. I am trying to get a Security Integrity APAR (SIA) PTF for MQ. :-( Have you not configured a RECEIVE ORDER job for obtaining PTFs? Greatest thing since sliced bread. :-)

Re: ShopzSeries down?

2014-10-24 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Beesley, Paul Oh for a mainframe with an internet connection ... sadly, not... customers say no. A RECEIVE ORDER capability here would be welcomed... Our sandbox system is allowed client only external access, and

Re: Question about Enterprise COBOL 5.1 LE compatible level.

2014-10-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Yuhas I have been asked to install Enterprise COBOL 5.1 which went GA in October of 2013. We are currently running z/OS 1.13 with a current RSU Level of 1404. We have Enterprise COBOL 4.2 and the

Re: QUESTION ABOUT VSAM / VSAM EXTENDED

2014-10-22 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells What is the maximum number of cyclinders that can be used to define a dsn that is not VSAM EXTENDED. I think it is 4400 cylinders. I was trying to allocate a dsn at 4500 4500 but I kept on abending

Re: 64bit

2014-10-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 16:36:38 -0400, Don Poitras wrote: I guess it depends what you mean by I would like to use 64bit storage for some functions from Cobol. If the Cobol part is never going to

Re: 64bit

2014-10-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Chase, John wrote: But see APAR PI17184 for an instance when BSM did not return correctly. Curious PER, hmmm. Is that only for COBOL 5.1 programs running under CICS? That was the situation

Re: HSM Recall process

2014-10-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler z/OS V1.12 - Yes I know. Okay, I am sure this is in a very easy to locate part of the HSM Admin manual, but I just am not seeing it. This should be an easy question. I want to recall 5000

Re: Performance in S9(08) COMP

2014-10-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rick Arellanes You might want to read the COBOL Performance Tuning paper (for Enterprise COBOL 4.2) at: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=203q=7018287uid=swg27018287 to see the performance implications

Re: Performance in S9(08) COMP

2014-10-15 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ron Thomas Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 8:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Performance in S9(08) COMP Hi . In our cobol programs we have the variables declared as s9(09) COMP, now one of the

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer I only had similar problems once in 2008 ca., but then subtasking was involved and APL etc., and there was some sort of race condition where one subtask ran too fast and the POST/WAIT protocol dit

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-10 Thread Chase, John
It appears that we captured relevant problem data via GTF tonight, so we shall see what we shall see, when we see it. -jc- -Original Message- From: Chase, John Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 12:44 PM To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' Subject: RE: Upgrade to Enterprise

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jim Mulder [ snip ] I reviewed your PMR and dumps, and made some suggestions in the PMR. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY Thank you, Sir. We'll run it by Change Control, and

Re: Question on PER-SLIP and PRCNTLIM.

2014-10-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Hunkeler Jim, Peter Thanks a lot. I understand it is not some precise measurement. I understand this as a means to keep a badly written SLIP from negatively impacting the system. Out of curiosity: When

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-09 Thread Chase, John
the storage that holds the pointer that got corrupted in each previous dump, so we're gambling on it being at the same virtual address in each job next time we try to trap the corrupter. Note the generic job name in ASIDSA. -jc- On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Chase, John jch

Re: Upgrade to Enterprise COBOL v5.1

2014-10-09 Thread Chase, John
. Verify that the Language Environment runtime message module for facility IRZ is installed in DFHRPL or STEPLIB. The same source deck compiled with COBOL v4.2 runs fine. RDz Support is currently working a PMR for that. -jc- On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Chase, John jch

Re: RACF sysplex communication

2014-10-09 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Ten Eyck How do I tell if a given LPAR has RACF sysplex communication enabled? Console command RVARY LIST: . . . MEMBER smfid IS SYSPLEX COMMUNICATIONS ENABLED IN DATA SHARING -jc-

Re: IODF for OSA Exp3 Port 1

2014-10-07 Thread Chase, John
Hmmm.. Are you perhaps confusing this Chris Mason with the late SNA expert of the same name? -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 8:40 AM To:

Re: SMP/E Misleading Error Message

2014-10-03 Thread Chase, John
Having installed HCTG900 (CICS Transaction Gateway v9.0) into our CICS TS 5.1 GLOBAL CSI according to the instructions in its Program Directory, I cannot explain how HCTG900 was missing from the Global zone's FMID list, but it wasn't there. Adding HCTG900 to the Global zone's list allowed the

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-02 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Well, I suppose it is possible that it is removing the *code* but not the literal. Does COBOL 5.1 have a show me the pseudo-assembler listing option? That would provide a better test IMHO. MAP

SMP/E Misleading Error Message

2014-10-02 Thread Chase, John
OK, puzzle me this:   RECEIVE     ORDER(     ORDERSERVER(ORDSRVR)     CONTENT(ALL)  

Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-01 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Has anyone implemented COBOL 5.1 to the point that you have measured the promised performance improvements in application code over the same code compiled with earlier COBOL compilers? Any hiccups or other glitches or gotchas you'd care to mention with COBOL v5.1? TIA, -jc-

Re: COBOL 5 compile options

2014-09-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock On 9/26/2014 2:25 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: Hey Steve, Your recommendation for defining binary data items and using TRUNC(OPT) does not make the following truncate with COBOL standard rules:

Re: SIS?

2014-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Well, I'll whine. Where the F,,, is Ibmlink SIS now? On my ServiceLink page, it's between Product Cross Reference (PCR) and Service Request and Delivery (SRD), where it has been since Day One of the

Re: SIS?

2014-09-26 Thread Chase, John
Try www.ibm.com/ibmlink -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 1:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SIS? And, even now I know where to go, I can't

Re: Help finding CICS Application Programming Primer

2014-09-25 Thread Chase, John
GIYF -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN Dear Group, (Still waiting on the CICS-L Listserv) Back when my hair was a younger color I used to write online CICS programs. I found a sample CICS program shown

Re: SLIP IF Trap?

2014-09-23 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of nitz-...@gmx.net [ snip ] So every sysprog should have enough dump reading skills to at least ascertain when someone is giving them bullsh.. (Now I dream on.) You are not alone. :-) -jc-

Re: SLIP IF Trap?

2014-09-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Relson I also recommend MODE=HOME for PVTMOD= In general, you should try to use ASID and/or JOBNAME if you are going to use MODE=HOME. This avoids unnecessary space-switch interrupts (and their

Re: SLIP IF Trap?

2014-09-19 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chase, John [ snip ] The SA trap we were given for the same problem specifies RANGE(12R?+1C4,+1C7), but the example in the SLIP doc restates the register in the ending address as well. Is it necessary

SLIP IF Trap?

2014-09-18 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, IBM Lvl 2 has given us a SLIP IF trap to set for a problem we currently have open, but so far the trap has not triggered. The address range to monitor was specified as . . .,PVTMOD=(modname,C4),. . . . The instruction immediately preceding that offset is a STORE, so the instruction

Re: Emptiness (was: z/OS FTP client behavior)

2014-09-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) In 7227021730034872.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/16/2014 at 06:20 PM, Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu said: But empirically I discover:

Re: MVS

2014-09-16 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 07:25:10 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Can't we forget MVS (that's *so* 20th Century), and talk instead about z/OS, which is the topic of the Redbook (see URL)? Nope. Up to,

Re: Bizarre maybe-FTP problem

2014-09-15 Thread Chase, John
Been using Bluezone FTP for more than a decade, and have never encountered that sort of error. -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 11:55 AM To:

Re: SW XCEL and IBMLINK

2014-09-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Our shop was without a Software Xcel contract for a few months due to a contract mix-up. As of this morning, we have it back. My question is what changed in the interim? I used to be able

Re: Is there a CPU cost to using key9 storage while running with key8

2014-08-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Price What hardware are you on? I ask because a z196 has some high CPU costs for certain PSW Key-related instructions. For example, SPKA (Set PSW Key from Address) on a z196 shows up in CICS CPU

Re: Is there a CPU cost to using key9 storage while running with key8

2014-08-29 Thread Chase, John
Sorry: ... key-related instructions simply to access key9 storage. -jc- -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Friday, August 29, 2014 7:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: Possible method to post large files, for example and such

2014-08-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jantje. [ snip ] My company (and I guess many others) blocks access to all such file-sharing services, unfortunately. Maybe you could consider using attachments to the posts? I believe the listserv is

Re: revisiting the documentation dilemma

2014-08-19 Thread Chase, John
Not a flame, but I've finally gotten used to the InfoCenter delivery. But soon I'll be forced to accustom to the Knowledge Center delivery. The presentation is somewhat like the InfoCenter, but finding stuff initially is a bit more challenging. For example, to find the doc for the COBOL

Re: more about True North integrated circuits

2014-08-18 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing On 08/16/2014 06:14 AM, Mike Stayton wrote: and also http://www.research.ibm.com/articles/brain-chip.shtml Mike Stayton An interesting development, but if technology ever progresses to

Default TSO Region Size?

2014-08-15 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, Many of our TSO users have a 4MB default TSO Region size (Size === 4096 field on the logon panel), which nowadays is a relic of the 1970s, pretty much unusable for many utilities like Fault Analyzer, etc. I'm looking for suggestions on what should be a reasonable and realistic

Re: Happy New Year

2014-08-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht [ snip ] Sigh... I can't win or lose... ;-) I could just toss up a coin (rare collectable or damaged pick-up): Head - you win. Tail - I lose. ;-) You can't win. You can't break even. You

Re: INITILAIZE COST

2014-08-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg At 20:01 -0700 on 08/11/2014, Duffy Nightingale, SS wrote about Re: INITILAIZE COST: Heavy emphasis on that last sentence. Just had a customer who didn't keep track of the number of entries

Re: IBM Announcements

2014-08-12 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Can anyone post a good link for IBM Announcements? I have been through a couple of PCs in the last four months and have lost admin privileges (and FIREFOX) in the process. For now, I only

Re: Rational Development and Test (RDT) aka z/OS on a PC

2014-08-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:04:21 -0500, Norbert Friemel wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:45:36 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote: //SYSUT2 DD DISP=(,KEEP),DSN=SYS1.SIEALNKE.N,DSNTYPE=LIBRARY, //

HIPER PTF SUP'd by non-HIPER?

2014-08-11 Thread Chase, John
It seems logical to me that a PTF which supersedes a HIPER PTF should itself be ASSIGNed the HIPER SOURCEID flag, but in one current instance (UI19849, which supersedes UI18382 whose APAR is flagged HIPER and DATALOSS) the superseding PTF is not flagged HIPER. Is that perhaps an oversight by

Re: Rational Development and Test (RDT) aka z/OS on a PC

2014-08-11 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Norbert Friemel On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:24:00 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 09:04:21 -0500, Norbert Friemel wrote: On Mon, 11 Aug 2014 07:45:36 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote:

Re: LE APAR PM99349

2014-08-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg At 09:30 -0400 on 08/03/2014, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: LE APAR PM99349: In 2830304844335286.wa.ibmmaintpg.com...@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/03/2014 at 06:52 AM, Shane Ginnane

LE APAR PM99349

2014-08-01 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, One newly-available PTF for LE, UI18450, fixes APAR PM99349, but a search for PM99349 on IBMLink fails with a not found error. Am I to ass.u.me that it's a security / integrity APAR and just apply the PTF? TIA, -jc-

Re: LE APAR PM99349

2014-08-01 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dennis Trojak Yes it is a security/integrity APAR. If you subscribe to the Security Portal you can review it. Description: This issue may pertain to users of Language Environment for z/OS with FMID HLE7770,

RECEIVE ORDER server problems?

2014-08-01 Thread Chase, John
Anybody else having long delay times on SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER? I have a job for one PTF that's been waiting 30 minutes so far: GIM693ISMP/E HAS BEEN WAITING 15 MINUTES FOR ORDER ORDn. SMP/E WILL WAIT A MAXIMUM OF 120 MINUTES. GIM693ISMP/E HAS BEEN WAITING 30 MINUTES FOR ORDER

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