Re: GDG definition for DB2 DSNUTILB TEMPLATE

2012-10-22 Thread af dc
Hi Seymour, I'm the SMS people and I'm not getting how can I change gdg dinamic alocation??? We say to all teams to define DASD GDGs as SCRATCH/NOEMPTY and TAPE GDGs as NOSCRATCH/NOEMPTY to avoid having gdgs rolled-off (more versions than gdglimit). The only way in SMS that could have something

Re: GDG definition for DB2 DSNUTILB TEMPLATE

2012-10-22 Thread af dc
Thx Mike. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Mike Wood mww...@ntlworld.com wrote: Antonio, A GDS on tape is never scratched - catalog processing just removes it from the catalog and GDG base. It is still on tape, and will be retained only as long as your tape management system

Re: Dynamic SMFU8X exits skipped

2012-10-22 Thread Donald Likens
IBM is looking at this as a problem in z/OS 1.13. The exit add statement used follows: DYNEX83 CSVDYNEX REQUEST=ADD,EXITNAME=EXITNAME,MODNAME=MODNAME, X MODADDR=CSASMFXA,ADDABENDNUM=1,POS=FIRST

Re: Nested enclaves and POSIX(ON)

2012-10-22 Thread Tom Marchant
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:21:52 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: ... I don't mind ad hominem criticisms of me, even when they take the puerile forms his take; but the technical content of his posts, once redemptive of his bad manners, I'm certainly no expert on the subject of ad hominem, but isn't a

Re: Nested enclaves and POSIX(ON)

2012-10-22 Thread zMan
...and what SHOULD be the IBM-MAIN logo becomes relevant once again: http://i.qkme.me/3r3ku1.jpg On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.comwrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:21:52 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: ... I don't mind ad hominem criticisms of me, even when they

Topicality (was Nested enclaves and POSIX(ON))

2012-10-22 Thread zMan
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:21 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote, in part: Shmuel is and should be free to post here. Freedom of speech must certainly include the freedom to express notions that seem to me to be devoid of merit. Notions, yes; but *ad hominem* attacks, off-topic

Re: IKJ56500I COMMAND BURN NOT FOUND/ Which loadlib should command processor be located in

2012-10-22 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 09:19:48 -0400, micheal butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: TSOLIB activate myloadlb I remember once debugging ISPF programs the way I should you in the example TESTAUTH 'LOADLIB(ISPF)' CP then Load myloadlib(commandprocessor) set breakpoints on commandprocessor type

Is Interruption Code in CEEDUMP displayed in HEX?

2012-10-22 Thread Jantje.
Dear Listers, I suspect the Interruption Code in the Condition Information for Active Routines sectoin of a CEEDUMP is desplayed in HEX, but the documentation in the infocenter (I have read http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zvm/v5r4/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r9.ceea100/dumphd64.htm

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Lizette Koehler
On Amazon I think it lists for $200.00 I would not pay that much for the book. You might try contacting Carmine directly. He might know of other sources. Lizette -Original Message- From: Raj Singh rajasingh8...@gmail.com Sent: Oct 22, 2012 8:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Why is such a demand for this book? I have a copy, although I've made scant use of it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 11:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Book

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Lizette Koehler
Not so much as in demand, but more like limited printing. And for some reason the $60.00 USD and it lists for like $200.00 (last time I checked) This is a good book to help understand some of the more interesting facets of assembler programming. Lizette -Original Message- From:

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Tony's office PC
Several years ago I traded my copy for a NY Yankees coffee mug. I still have the mug and have enjoyed it much more than I ever enjoyed the book. Sadly, I've forgotten the young lady's name who received my copy in trade and seriously I hope it's been helpful to her. No doubt she's a Yankees

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread shai hess
Good to IBM that in time of dying ZOS still new people like to study MF assembler. On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Richard Tsujimoto rtsujim...@nyc.rr.comwrote: Why is such a demand for this book? I have a copy, although I've made scant use of it. -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
That was cold. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony's office PC Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 12:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Book Enquiry Several years ago I traded my copy for a NY Yankees coffee

Re: COBOL Compiler Question

2012-10-22 Thread Rick Arellanes
The below information given to us by IBM states we are required by CICS to use LINK (or XCTL) and can't use CALL; we pass a COMMAREA and use EXEC CICS commands within our called module. COBOL does support the CALL statement under CICS even when you have EXEC CICS statements in the called

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Roberts, John J
I'll sell you mine for $200 plus shipping, unless someone else outbids you. I am waiting for computer historians to recognize that my library of Donald Knuth books is in the same class as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Magna Charta, etc. ;-) Maybe I'll get rich. Or maybe my collection of BYTE Magazine

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Pinion
Knuth Rockne, wasn't he the coach of ND when the Gipper played :)? Richard and Vickie Pinion --- jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us wrote: From: Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Book Enquiry Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:22:09

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I don't contribute much to this list; I have to this time! z/OS is NOT dying! And, you do a disservice stating so on a mainframe forum. Also, it (imo) shows that you can't be that closely involved if you spell it 'ZOS' without the lower case 'z' nor the '/'! I'll go back into hibernation, now.

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread shai hess
Ted, I did not intent to hurt anybody but in this forum I read some posts about closing sites of MF (z/os :)) and not about new sites. Sorry if I hurt anybody feeling but if we inform about closing sites why I can not post what I posted? On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 6:33 PM, Ted MacNEIL

IGGCSI00 DFSMS - ALIAS with SYMBOLICRELATE

2012-10-22 Thread Mil Hashoul
Hi, I am using the IGGCSI00, the catalog search interface, the dataset name is an alias which is resolve to dataset name with symbolicrelate how couls I ask catalog to resolve the dataset name and find the dataset. right now if I use the dataset with the symbolicrelate variable, the IGGCSI00 R15=4

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Lizette Koehler
Actually, speaking of Professor Knuth, I use his name as an interview question. Any Candidate that doesn't immediately recognize the name doesn't get my recommendation. John We're not worthy We're not worthy. Lizette --

Internal Reader Number Jobs

2012-10-22 Thread Donnelly, John
We are z/OS V1R9 JES2. Besides the number of jobs that JES2 may have resident at any given time, what is the limit to the number of jobs that may be submitted to JES2 via a batch internal reader job? Don't ask but thankyou for the info John Donnelly Texas Instruments SVA 2900

Re: IGGCSI00 DFSMS - ALIAS with SYMBOLICRELATE

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Peurifoy
On 10/22/2012 11:53 AM, Mil Hashoul wrote: Hi, I am using the IGGCSI00, the catalog search interface, the dataset name is an alias which is resolve to dataset name with symbolicrelate how couls I ask catalog to resolve the dataset name and find the dataset. right now if I use the dataset with

Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-22 Thread Lizette Koehler
I regret I made an error when I quoted the cost of the Carmine book. So here is a quick table of costs. All numbers are in USD unless specified as CANADA) ChaptersNew Usually ships in 1 to 4 weeks 116.84 (Canada) Amazon.ca (Marketplace) Used Ready to ship

Re: Internal Reader Number Jobs

2012-10-22 Thread McKown, John
No, there is no such limit. There is a limit on the number of internal readers. So you can get an allocation failed if they are all allocated (say from CICS regions or other long running tasks). But there is no way to limit the absolute number of jobs submitted. -- John McKown Systems

Re: Internal Reader Number Jobs

2012-10-22 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Donnelly, John wrote: We are z/OS V1R9 JES2. Alert! Out of support! ;-D It does not matter (up to v1.12 too) if I got it right. ;-D Besides the number of jobs that JES2 may have resident at any given time, what is the limit to the number of jobs that may be submitted to JES2 via a batch

ADR405E - ERROR CODE 0214.

2012-10-22 Thread willie bunter
Good Day To All Members,   I am trying to find the explanation to the error message ADR405E (001)-DYNA (03), DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF VOLUME SNAP78 FAILED. ERROR CODE 0214   However the doc doesn't give me the explanation for code 0214.  I GOOGLED it but nothing came up for this particular code.   

Re: ADR405E - ERROR CODE 0214.

2012-10-22 Thread Lizette Koehler
This is a dynamic allocation error code that you can find in ISPF 0214 A DIRECT ACCESS DEVICE IS NOT AVAILABLE. What was wrong - Unknown since DFDSS does not tell you if it was enqueued or offline or what. I have rarely been able to capture the reason behind a DAIR error of 214 with

Re: Internal Reader Number Jobs

2012-10-22 Thread Lizette Koehler
What problem are you trying to solve? Many products use Internal Reader. Are you trying to restrict them all? IMS, CICS, TSO, Batch? and probably others. Lizette -Original Message- From: Donnelly, John john.p.donne...@ti.com Sent: Oct 22, 2012 10:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Internal Reader Number Jobs

2012-10-22 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 12:43:17 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: 1. 32760 bytes of SYSIN (as input to internal reader) depending on record format (FB, F, VB, etc) [1] I don't think so. That would be less than 410 records at 80 bytes each. Are you thinking of the maximum length of a record that

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-22 Thread Bill Fairchild
But if no one is buying any of these books, then there's no reason to be sad. I am beginning to sense a new market for Carmine book futures. I'll offer one for sale at $999.99. If I get a buyer, then I'll buy one for $113, or even $505 (but only after my buyer's payment is received) in order

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
Almost everything you do (did) under S/370 does still run under z/OS 1.13, excluding ISAM, VSAM IMBED / REPLICATE characteristics. Everything done under S/360 that was incorporated into S/370 is included. You could download the Turnkey3 CD and run it on your PC as a developement environment. If

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-22 Thread Tony's office PC
For the record I'm not giving up my Yankees coffee mug. - Original Message - From: Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012 1:25 PM Subject: Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost But if

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Robin Wayne Jackson, HCL America
That is not North Dakota, represented by ND it is Notre Dame. Besides the author mentioned Knute Rockne and the Gipper. Rob Jackson HCL America (Contractor) 'The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT a moustache' No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times. Oh go

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
http://xkcd.com/163/ On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us wrote: deleted Actually, speaking of Professor Knuth, I use his name as an interview question. Any Candidate that doesn't immediately recognize the name doesn't get my recommendation. John --

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Bill Fairchild
Not North Dakota? No way. Next you'll try to convince me that the HCL in HCL America is not hydrochloric acid. The author mentioned knutH rockne, not knutE rockne. Knuth was Knute's cousin who coached at North Dakota where there was an awesome player named Gipper Nagurski. This post and my

Re: New DFSMSrmm retention method

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Wood
On Monday, 22 October 2012 10:08:36 UTC+1, Walter Marguccio wrote: Hello all, ever since we migrated from CA-1 to rmm in 2008, I have been told that the latter would never delete a cataloged dataset, even if the dataset had a RETPD or EXPDT specified at allocation time. In other words, the

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html#vol4 On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Actually, speaking of Professor Knuth, I use his name as an interview question. Any Candidate that doesn't immediately recognize the name doesn't get my

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Raj Singh
Hi Listers, I am overwhelmed by the response from this group.Thanks to all and to those who are ready to sell me the book(will send a separate mail to them). Tried to search for Mr Carmine's email ID but not able to get it,If anyone has it,please pass it on to me(rajasingh8...@gmail.com). Long

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Rozeboom, Kay [DAS]
MVS Assembler Language by Mike Murach and Associates, Inc. This is an introductory book. Kay Rozeboom Information Technology Enterprise Iowa Department of Administrative Services Telephone: 515.281.6139   Fax: 515.281.6137 Email:  kay.rozeb...@iowa.gov -Original Message- From:

Donald Knuth and The Art of Computer Programming - was RE: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Roberts, John J
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html#vol4 I think Mike's point is that Professor Knuth is still alive and actively writing at Stanford. When I was given a copy of Volume 1 back in 1972, I expected Professor Knuth to be some 60-ish professor, complete with a tweed suit, pipe and

Re: Donald Knuth and The Art of Computer Programming - was RE: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 14:56:49 -0500, Roberts, John J wrote: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/taocp.html#vol4 I have an interesting story to tell regarding Volume 1 of The Art of Computer Programming. Buried within this tome is an algorithm for storage allocation and de-allocation. The

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Bill Fairchild
Two minutes of Googling produced no email address but this looks possible, so try sending a real, non-electronic letter to Carmine Cannatello ATZ Consulting Inc. 6 Durland Rd. Lynbrook, NY 11563-4208 Or call this number and ask if it is the Assembler book's author: +1- 516-599-4173 Bill

Re: IGGCSI00 DFSMS - ALIAS with SYMBOLICRELATE

2012-10-22 Thread Mil Hashoul
At the Return Area, I got the following: FS1E7A , the first one is the return code I guess and the second is reason code, Am I right? but the question is: will catalog resolve the SYMBOLICRELATED variable, when I use the CSIFILT with the DSN that include the SYMBILICRELATE like

Re: IGGCSI00 DFSMS - ALIAS with SYMBOLICRELATE

2012-10-22 Thread Mil Hashoul
I got FS1E7A, therfore I guess the return code is the first and the reason code is the second, but the question is : does catalog resolve the symbolicrelate? On Oct 22, 2012 7:14 PM, Richard Peurifoy r-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu wrote: On 10/22/2012 11:53 AM, Mil Hashoul wrote: Hi, I am using the

Re: Donald Knuth and The Art of Computer Programming - was RE: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Ah, but unless you implemented the CICS fences for the storage pieces, it must have been a bear when the apps started over-running memory. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Roberts, John J Sent: Monday, October 22, 2012

Re: Donald Knuth and The Art of Computer Programming - was RE: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Roberts, John J
Ah, but unless you implemented the CICS fences for the storage pieces, it must have been a bear when the apps started over-running memory. If I can recall correctly, we did a few things to address this problem: (1) We forced the minimum allocation to be 256 bytes. So small buffer overruns

Re: IGGCSI00 DFSMS - ALIAS with SYMBOLICRELATE

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Peurifoy
On 10/22/2012 3:26 PM, Mil Hashoul wrote: At the Return Area, I got the following: FS1E7A , the first one is the return code I guess and the second is reason code, Am I right? but the question is: will catalog resolve the SYMBOLICRELATED variable, when I use the CSIFILT with the DSN that include

Re: Donald Knuth and The Art of Computer Programming - was RE: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Very nice. Back in the day, IMS DC was similar to TSO under MVT, trying to multitask too many users in a small space, not unlike seeing how many clowns fit in a Volkswagen Beetle. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: New DFSMSrmm retention method

2012-10-22 Thread Mike Wood
Rex, The only way to link a VRS to the volume EXPDT is to use the UNTILEXPIRED retention type in the VRS. So, unless, UNTILEXPIRED is used, the WHILECATALOG VRS retains the data set until it is uncataloged, and only then, when the data set is dropped from VRS retention is the volume EXPDT

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 10/22/2012 12:22 PM, Roberts, John J wrote: I am waiting for computer historians to recognize that my library of Donald Knuth books is in the same class as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Magna Charta, etc. ;-) Maybe I'll get rich. You won't get too many takers for a Magna Charta Actually,

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Scott Ford
Ouch Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Oct 22, 2012, at 12:31 PM, Tony's office PC tbabo...@frontier.com wrote: Yea, but then I've never spared sympathy for Yankees fans. I've been

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread John Gilmore
The antecedents of Donald Ervin Knuth---not 'Erwin', as in Erwin Rommel usw.---are Scandinavian, not German. Still, Gerhard got it right, voiced 'K', silent 'h', roughly 'Knoot' in Swedish and most other Scandinavian languages, Finnish of course excepted. My own view is that a candidate having a

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3cc0958...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us, on 10/22/2012 at 11:22 AM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us said: I am waiting for computer historians to recognize that my library of Donald Knuth books is in the same class as the Dead Sea Scrolls, Magna

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6921522608355946.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/22/2012 at 11:50 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com said: If you are looking for an introductory text for learning Assembler, you could go to bitsavers and download IBM's A Programmer's Introduction to IBM System/360

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Steve Comstock
On 10/22/2012 9:03 AM, Raj Singh wrote: Hi Listers, Been a while that I am looking for 2nd edition-Advanced assembler programming and MVS interfaces by Carmine Cannatello.I have checked on Barnes and Noble and Amazon,was wondering if the used one's are worth a buy.Any other suggestions(like

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAL0RPHA81WkPDdTvUy0=mdvyknyc5iyyoouf0gjpqrpzkwy...@mail.gmail.com, on 10/22/2012 at 06:42 PM, shai hess shai.h...@gmail.com said: Sorry if I hurt anybody feeling but if we inform about closing sites why I can not post what I posted? You can; you have as much authority as ted does. --