Re: System abend 800 reason code 4

2013-05-30 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 29 May 2013 22:22:33 -0400 Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: : Running a program under TSO TEST :I got the above abend after a BSAM READ. Would anyone know what this is about What did you understand from looking up the abend in SYSTEM CODES? -- Binyamin Dissen

Re: System abend 800 reason code 4

2013-05-30 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Micheal Butz wrote: Running a program under TSO TEST Under what conditions of TEST? I got the above abend after a BSAM READ. Would anyone know what this is about Please post the full message text as well any message(s) found in SYSLOG. Can you repeat the problem with/without TEST? As

CICS V3.2 and IMS/DB 12

2013-05-30 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
*** Cross-posted to CICS-L, IMS-L and IBM-MAIN listservers *** Hi, Any problems/caveats/does/don'ts with IMS/DB V12 connected to CICS V3.2 ? A customer of mine will go CICS V4.2, but his installation upgrade planning starts with IMS/DB V12(coming from UNsupported IMS/DB V9). IMS 12's

ISPF screen pre-occupied message

2013-05-30 Thread Shameem .K .Shoukath
hi All,    In all ISPF screen(s) there is one place been configured to have a ' PROD ' message (in row 20,col 40 to 45) stamped there. I feel somebody at some stage might have tweaked the LOGMODE or something for this. This becomes irritating when we look thru the log for certain problems  

Re: ISPF screen pre-occupied message

2013-05-30 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Shameem .K .Shoukath wrote: In all ISPF screen(s) there is one place been configured to have a ' PROD ' message (in row 20,col 40 to 45) stamped there. I feel somebody at some stage might have tweaked the LOGMODE or something for this. This becomes irritating when we look thru the log for

Re: ISPF screen pre-occupied message

2013-05-30 Thread Roger Bowler
On Thu, 30 May 2013 03:22:46 -0700, Shameem .K .Shoukath shameemkshouk...@yahoo.com wrote: In all ISPF screen(s) there is one place been configured to have a ' PROD ' message (in row 20,col 40 to 45) stamped there. I feel somebody at some stage might have tweaked the LOGMODE or something

Re: ISPF screen pre-occupied message

2013-05-30 Thread Shameem .K .Shoukath
hi,    This is only on ISPF application. I can't see it in READY prompt or CICS either.    I seriously doubt the netview relation to it. The application ids defined are like below TSOP  TSOD  TSOQ1   but the display field for respective systems are like, PROD TSO QA1 DEV  

Re: IBM Debug Tool IKJ56228I prob

2013-05-30 Thread Graham Hobbs
Hello Barbara, other kind folk, Am not ADCD, am Dallas guest z/OS with seven days left to get Debug working, not a sysprog, User Guide is only 576 pages, Installation Guide similiar:-))). Have dug into EZA111.SEQATLIB, found EQAZDFLT (which refs IGY.SIGYCOMP), EQAZDSYS and EQAZDUSR,

zEC12 Hiper MCL alert

2013-05-30 Thread Jousma, David
All of you on zEC12, running in parallel sysplex heads up. There are apparent bugs in CF code on these boxes that will cause CF failure in your sysplex. We experienced the CF failure. The first fix .008 has been out for a month, while the final 2 MCL fixes .009, .010 for this problem became

Re: ISPF screen pre-occupied message

2013-05-30 Thread Shameem .K .Shoukath
Hi,   my apologies for sending below email before giving it a try.    I tried steps Roger Bowler suggested and it worked.. Life made easy  Thanks Guys ...appreciated    Thanks and Regards Shameem K Shoukath     From:

Re: ISPF screen pre-occupied message

2013-05-30 Thread Rob Scott
I seem to recall there being some sort of public domain utility program, modification or TSO/ISPF exit that forced the z/OS system name on ISPF screens. This facility predated the ISPF provided SYSNAME command. I would check with your systems programmer to see if they have record of this

Longer SMFWAIT during IPL MSI

2013-05-30 Thread Shameem .K .Shoukath
hi there,  I was just going thru the IPL statistics of all LPARs in out org. I see in one LPAR the SMFWAIT is taking fairly longer comp to others. out of total 00:01:12 MSI time this takes 00:00:53.586  I am  not sure what happens in this process, took a chance compared the SMFPRMxx and

Re: ISPF screen pre-occupied message

2013-05-30 Thread Gonzalo Cengotita
I think the tweak is this: You have to go to Settings, then in the action bar choices put the cursor on the Identifier field and supposing PROD is your system name, select 4 System Name and de-select the field Display System name. Please let me know if this helps, Regards Gonzalo Cengotita

Re: ISPF screen pre-occupied message

2013-05-30 Thread Roger Bowler
On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:06:16 +, Rob Scott rsc...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: I seem to recall there being some sort of public domain utility program, modification or TSO/ISPF exit that forced the z/OS system name on ISPF screens. This facility predated the ISPF provided SYSNAME command. Hey

How does DFHSM determine what datasets to migrate

2013-05-30 Thread Mike Wojtukiewicz
I have DFHSM running on z/OS 1.11. It migrates certain SMS managed volumes when they hit a certain percent full and keep migrating until a lower threshhold is hit. My question is this. What order does it dump datasets? Does it start in the vtoc and go in sequential order? The customer seems to

Re: Longer SMFWAIT during IPL MSI

2013-05-30 Thread Staller, Allan
Check to see if the image is recording SMF19. This can take a lot of time HTH, snip  I was just going thru the IPL statistics of all LPARs in out org. I see in one LPAR the SMFWAIT is taking fairly longer comp to others. out of total 00:01:12 MSI time this takes 00:00:53.586  I am  not

Re: How does DFHSM determine what datasets to migrate

2013-05-30 Thread Staller, Allan
Oldest datasets are migrated first until the low threshold is reached. The theory behind this is that the relationship between reference time and current date is inversely proportional to the likelihood the dataset will be referenced. i.e. longer interval = reduced likelihood of reference. HTH,

To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am looking to see how other shops are currently doing Backups for DR and OR. I think this will be valuable for the archives. Currently I have the following processes in Place. Any suggestions or guidelines for this analysis will be appreciated. 2 EMC VMAX arrays (could be Hitachi or IBM). 2

Re: Longer SMFWAIT during IPL MSI

2013-05-30 Thread Bob Rutledge
I suggest this Redbook: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247816.html?Open Bob Shameem .K .Shoukath wrote: hi there, I was just going thru the IPL statistics of all LPARs in out org. I see in one LPAR the SMFWAIT is taking fairly longer comp to others. out of total 00:01:12 MSI

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Staller, Allan
Although very few shops actually do this, IMO the procedure should be: Management walks in the room and says You, you, and you are dead as of time/date. The rest of you go recover as of that time/date. The dead people cannot be consulted with during the DR exercise. You, you, and you should be

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Ed Finnell
Yeah after losing a data center and DR to Semtek it changes your perspective. Wish we had a Cloud! Well the tertiary cold site kicked in and they were back on the air in about a week. YMMV... In a message dated 5/30/2013 2:09:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time, allan.stal...@kbmg.com writes:

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Charles Mills
You are dead right of course. Disasters don't come on schedule, neatly tied up in a bow. A good thing might be a brainstorming session on what are our implicit disaster-related assumptions? and then questioning those assumptions. Charles Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Back before I got into the Software industry, I worked for a public utility in Chicago. My first foray into DR was pushing for data-comm fallbacks at our remote sites. At first we got questioned, but finally we got them approved. Then I brought up the dead pool test idea, and was laughed at.

Re: System abend 800 reason code 4

2013-05-30 Thread Micheal Butz
For reason code 4 the explanation says A program issued a SVC 114 the EXCPVR macro but a error occurred durning page-fix or page-unfix processing A page-fix error can occur If the EXCP processor tries to fix pages That are not assigned to the callers ASID The blksize in the program is 27930 For

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Ed Finnell
There were several Chicago stories at SHARE and others. Still remember the Ryder presentation after Hurricane Andrew. They even had 'Helper' teams for families that had damage or were displaced. In a message dated 5/30/2013 2:52:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time, wdri...@us.ibm.com writes:

Re: System abend 800 reason code 4

2013-05-30 Thread DASDBILL2
First, something bad happened somewhere and very likely left some forensic evidence.  Then EXCP's recovery routines were invoked and decided to classify the error as an S800-4 ABEND.  Then maybe a dump was produced.  I suggest you look at the System Trace that is in your SYSUDUMP (you do have

Re: System abend 800 reason code 4

2013-05-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 30 May 2013 15:56:39 -0400, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: For reason code 4 the explanation says A program issued a SVC 114 the EXCPVR macro That may be a possible clue to your problem. It says you're using EXCPVR, and from z/OS V1R13.0 DFSMSdfp Advanced Services we can

Re: System abend 800 reason code 4

2013-05-30 Thread Micheal Butz
I am doing this @work in a problem state environment Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2013, at 5:02 PM, Walt Farrell walt.farr...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2013 15:56:39 -0400, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: For reason code 4 the explanation says A program issued a SVC

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 30 May 2013 11:44:32 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: So do I have overkill? . Software disasters can be the hardest ones to plan for. What do you do if one of your critical applications has a program change that causes it to start corrupting data? How long will it take before it is

Re: System abend 800 reason code 4

2013-05-30 Thread Micheal Butz
Sysudump is empty Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2013, at 4:11 PM, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net wrote: First, something bad happened somewhere and very likely left some forensic evidence. Then EXCP's recovery routines were invoked and decided to classify the error as an S800-4 ABEND.

Examples of getbuf and build usage

2013-05-30 Thread Micheal Butz
Would anyone have examples of Getbuf used with BSAM read I think it might help my problem Sent from my iPhone -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 30 May 2013 16:15:42 -0500, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2013 11:44:32 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: So do I have overkill? . Software disasters can be the hardest ones to plan for. What do you do if one of your critical applications has a program

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Jeffery Swagger
Yes, this! Prereq: The company must have a DR manager of which one of his responsibilities is to ensure the families of those who leave are taken care of. Here I'm thinking of natural disasters like hurricanes. Second: A real DR test would include actually running the business from the DR

Re: Examples of getbuf and build usage

2013-05-30 Thread John Gilmore
BUILD? Shades of 1966! It is not reentrant. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Examples of getbuf and build usage

2013-05-30 Thread Micheal Butz
So... Sent from my iPhone On May 30, 2013, at 9:52 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: BUILD? Shades of 1966! It is not reentrant. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Examples of getbuf and build usage

2013-05-30 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 30 May 2013 19:12:54 -0400 Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: :Would anyone have examples of :Getbuf used with BSAM read :I think it might help my problem I wonder what difficulty you have with GETBUF - it only has two parameters. -- Binyamin Dissen

Re: Longer SMFWAIT during IPL MSI

2013-05-30 Thread Ed Gould
Bob: I was puzzled by his question. Then I remembered one time a LONG time ago (when SMF first went to VSAM) that we IPL'd and did not know about having to format the MAN datasets and the system did automatically. Could that be his issue? Ed On May 30, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Bob Rutledge

Re: To Backup or Not to Backup Data - That is the question

2013-05-30 Thread Ed Gould
Alan, In a company I worked for they would have shot the people, Crazy company. Ed On May 30, 2013, at 2:09 PM, Staller, Allan wrote: -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: CICS V3.2 and IMS/DB 12

2013-05-30 Thread Timothy Sipples
Jan Vanbrabant asks: Any problems/caveats/does/don'ts with IMS/DB V12 connected to CICS V3.2? I don't expect so. That's a supported combination. Both IMS DB V12 and CICS TS V3.2 are still within their standard support periods as I write this.