IGGCSIRX - Catalog field name

2012-06-21 Thread Ravi Gaur
I am trying to use the IGGCSIRX for listing the GDS which are in the rolled-off status..could somebody give heads up how would i use the Catalog Field name "NVSMATTR" with C'M' for CSIFLD1 so that it list me only the rolled of GDG for the given filter key..?? Thanks in advance.. Using followin

Re: System AS vs a STC as?

2012-06-21 Thread Barbara Nitz
>//IEESYSAS PROC PROG=IEFBR14 >//IEFPROC EXEC PGM=&PROG >//* THE IEESYSAS PROCEDURE IS SPECIFIED IN THE >//* PARAMETER LIST TO IEEMB881 BY MVS COMPONENTS >//* STARTING FULL FUNCTION SYSTEM ADDRESS SPACES. > >AFAIK tasks that use IEESYSAS are all started by MVS, but I just verified >that it's possi

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Barbara Nitz
>IEF196I IOS071I 6F85,**,*MASTER*, START PENDING >IOS071I 6F85,**,*MASTER*, START PENDING 203 >IOS431I DEVICE 6F85 RESERVED TO CPU=.,LPAR ID=04 205 >SYSTEM= IIRC, if IOS reports for a system name, that means that it cannot determine which system it is. Which means that it isn'

Re: SMF volume - follow-up

2012-06-21 Thread Barbara Nitz
>This is just type 100 - 102 records on 2 out of 11 LPARS BTW. >For some reason - the word "overkill" came to mind. Yes, whoever had the bright idea to put DB2 tracing into SMF should be shot. Whenever the DB2 admins turn on their tracing, the in-storage SMF buffers cannot keep up, and even setti

Away friday, back monday

2012-06-21 Thread John Stevenson
I will be out of the office starting 21/06/2012 and will return on 25/06/2012. For anything urgent contact the Mainframe Services support number, x79371 or 04 924 9371 CAUTION - This message may contain privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named abo

Re: SMS processing setup for secondary extents

2012-06-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 06/21/2012 07:47 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: On 06/21/2012 06:42 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: From: "Joel C. Ewing" And better yet, also use a DATACLAS with the Extended attribute so you are not constrained to only 16 extents per volume. With Space Constraint Relief. Extended attribute, and Dyn

Re: SMS processing setup for secondary extents

2012-06-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 06/21/2012 06:42 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: From: "Joel C. Ewing" And better yet, also use a DATACLAS with the Extended attribute so you are not constrained to only 16 extents per volume. With Space Constraint Relief. Extended attribute, and Dynamic Volume Count, both primary and secondary

Re: difference between JZOS Launcher and COZBATCH Launcher

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Bishop
thx John and Steve... I hadn't understood until now the difference between the Co:Z Launcher and the Co:Z Batch products. I agree, it could be interesting to use the Launcher within as well as between hosts. The graduation of usage of Java that you describe below is succinct and new to me. S

Re: SMS processing setup for secondary extents

2012-06-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
>From: "Joel C. Ewing" > >And better yet, also use a DATACLAS with the Extended attribute so you >are not constrained to only 16 extents per volume. > >With Space Constraint Relief. Extended attribute, and Dynamic Volume >Count, both primary and secondary allocations will use as many extents >a

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Andy Wood
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:45:05 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: . . . >>Not the SYSTEM level ENQ that you have shown, unless you have added IPOSMF01 >>to the INCLude list in GRSRNKxx. > >It is not there in GRSRNLxx (or GRSRNKxx which you wrote... ;-D ). > Any GRS exits? ---

Re: System AS vs a STC as?

2012-06-21 Thread Skip Robinson
One last time. As 'new' message rather than reply. Looks like I got hit by the ghost of Christmas alien. I'll try one more time. One big distinction of true 'system STCs' is the ability to start a task using this proc: //IEESYSAS PROC PROG=IEFBR14 //IEFPROC EXEC PGM=&PROG //* THE IEES

Re: System AS vs a STC as?

2012-06-21 Thread Skip Robinson
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Re: SMS processing setup for secondary extents

2012-06-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
And better yet, also use a DATACLAS with the Extended attribute so you are not constrained to only 16 extents per volume. With Space Constraint Relief. Extended attribute, and Dynamic Volume Count, both primary and secondary allocations will use as many extents and volumes as necessary to get

Re: System AS vs a STC as?

2012-06-21 Thread Skip Robinson
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Re: SMS processing setup for secondary extents

2012-06-21 Thread David Betten
I personally prefer using a volume count of 1 but then setting Space Constraint Relief to YES with a dynamic volume count. That way my small files are allocated with 1 volume and additional volumes are only allocated if needed. Have a nice day, Dave Betten DFSORT Development, Performance Lead IB

Re: convert Decimal to bytes

2012-06-21 Thread John Gilmore
I come very late to this thread, but my conjecture is that the OP's problem is a terminological one. I think he wants to be able to convert display, character-string representations like '202' of decimal numbers into their internal, storage representations. He does need to tell us what environmen

Re: SMS processing setup for secondary extents

2012-06-21 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Sure, that's what the volume count is for. Make sure you do specify a secondary allocation. Kees. "Bill Ashton" wrote in message news:... > Hi again, friends! > > I have a question that should be simple to answer - I hope - and did not > want to try this and risk losing data until I asked. > >

Re: convert Decimal to bytes

2012-06-21 Thread Uriel Carrasquilla
Under your Linux machine, run sed with "s/bytes/decimal/gi" and your are done. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] on behalf of Charles Mills [charl...@mcn.org] Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 1:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu S

SMS processing setup for secondary extents

2012-06-21 Thread Bill Ashton
Hi again, friends! I have a question that should be simple to answer - I hope - and did not want to try this and risk losing data until I asked. I am trying to roll up multiple GDG files created every day into a single daily file. The files can be either very small or quite large, and so they may

Re: System AS vs a STC as?

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:18:34 -0400, scott wrote: >On 06/21/2012 02:38 AM, R.S. wrote: >> W dniu 2012-06-20 22:50, scott pisze: >>> What is the difference between a System Address Space vs a Started Task >>> Address Space? >> >> I think (and could be wrong) that the names are not precisely defined

Re: dfsort E15 exit

2012-06-21 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Sri Hari Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation Email: skol...@us.ibm.com Phone: 408-463-2403 Tie Line 543-2403 IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 06/20/2012 08:20:40 PM: > From: Ying YongJie > To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu, > Date: 06/20/2012 08:31 PM > Subject: dfsort E15 exit > Sent

Re: Vm & ZLinux VSWITCH question

2012-06-21 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
ronmac...@hotmail.co.uk (Ron MacRae) writes: > I'd already subscribed to this as an RSS feed in Google reader. That's > my prefered method of seeing all the detail when I want to rather than > getting interrupted by emails all the time. I use the same process for > IBM-MAIN and several other groups

Re: Vm & ZLinux VSWITCH question

2012-06-21 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
I'm afraid not - I use all the mailing lists as true mailing lists. Note that even this one is only gated one way to the newsgroup and that any posts to the newsgroup will NOT be seen by folks that are subscribed to the mailing list. Jerry Whitteridge Lead Systems Programmer Safeway Inc. 925 951

Re: System AS vs a STC as?

2012-06-21 Thread scott
On 06/21/2012 02:38 AM, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2012-06-20 22:50, scott pisze: What is the difference between a System Address Space vs a Started Task Address Space? I think (and could be wrong) that the names are not precisely defined. Example of system AS can be XCFAS or PCAUTH or CATALOG. Examp

Re: convert Decimal to bytes

2012-06-21 Thread Charles Mills
Converting decimal to bytes is trivial. Locate the first 'd' and replace with 'byt'. Locate the string 'cimal' and replace with 's'. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 8:47 AM T

Re: Vm & ZLinux VSWITCH question

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Post
>>> On 6/21/2012 at 12:54 PM, Ron MacRae wrote: > Do you, or does anyone, know of an RSS feed for IBMVM? According to the links on the Listserv web interface: http://listserv.uark.edu/cgi-bin/wa?RSS&L=IBMVM&v=ATOM1.0 http://listserv.uark.edu/cgi-bin/wa?RSS&L=IBMVM&v=1.0 http://listserv.uark.edu/

Re: VTAM & Cross Domain Resources - Help!

2012-06-21 Thread Barkow, Eileen
We use DRS going cross domain and have no problems with it. You need to: 1. define cross domain resource on lpar for DRS virtual device where application runs DRSLU001 CDRSC CDRM=HOSTMVS,ISTATUS=ACTIVE Make sure that DRSLU001 is not already defined as as APPL on the lpar and that the

Re: Vm & ZLinux VSWITCH question

2012-06-21 Thread Ron MacRae
Jerry, You pointed me at ib...@listserv.uark.edu. I'd already subscribed to this as an RSS feed in Google reader. That's my prefered method of seeing all the detail when I want to rather than getting interrupted by emails all the time. I use the same process for IBM-MAIN and several oth

Re: Vm & ZLinux VSWITCH question

2012-06-21 Thread Ron MacRae
Hi guys, Thanks to all of you who helped me get this sorted. It's all up and running very nicely now with multiple OSAs for redunancy etc and hipersockets. Lutz, Thanks for the clarifications. Chris, Thanks for the redpaper, it was much clearer, but perhaps that was because I had

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 01:51:21 -0700, Tom Ross wrote: > >For compiler messages all you need is the line of source gettin flagged, a >description of what is wrong (the messae) and the Language Reference Manual. > Amen. Mostly. It would be further helpful if the message text identified the specific

Re: Co:Z SPTF OMVS segment duplicate

2012-06-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Mark, Co:Z SFTP uses IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH for its ssh connection. The problem that you are seeing is because Ported Tools ssh looks up the home directory via UID number. (in Co:Z SFTP, we are more careful in how we look up the home directory). Keys, specifically the default "~/.ssh/id_rsa" ke

Re: Co:Z SPTF OMVS segment duplicate

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:41:59 -0500, Mark Steely wrote: >I have several ID's that share the same UID. > Don't do that. Would different UIDs and a common HOME directory work for you? Would separate home directories and symlinks to a project/group directory, group-writable work? >Some times the w

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:45:05 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >IOS431I DEVICE 6F85 RESERVED TO CPU=.,LPAR ID=04 205 >SYSTEM= If it is not SMFDUMP that is issuing the reserve, who is? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM

Re: convert Decimal to bytes

2012-06-21 Thread zMan
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Art wrote: > Hi would anyone know of a calculator and/or formal via rexx that I could > use/setup to convert decimal to bytes. I would like to multiply x > (decimal) by 80 and add an extra 80 bytes. > "Yes" to the question (even if it doesn't have a question

Co:Z SPTF OMVS segment duplicate

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Steely
I have several ID's that share the same UID. Some times the wrong ID gets used and the default home directory does not contain a RSA key. Is there a way to pass which or where to look for the RSA key within STDIN. Here is a sample of STDIN: remoteuser="ossbissh" server="xsabcl01.abccorp.com" co

Re: COBOL 3.4 and LE Considerations questions

2012-06-21 Thread Rick Arellanes
LE does support downward compatibility when using OS/390 2.10 and later, but you must follow the giudelines and restrictions listed in the LE Programming Guide in section 1.2.2 Downward compatibility considerations found here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/ceea21c0/1.

Re: VTAM & Cross Domain Resources - Help!

2012-06-21 Thread Robert Harrison
Matt, I hope that I can help you. We have VPS, VPS/PCL, and VPS/TCPIP. We do not have VPS/DRS. What has caught my eye is your statement "from LPAR-B, via CDRM06". >From "SC31-8791-10 z/OS V1R12.0 Comm Svr: IP and SNA Codes" manual: VTAM hint: Sense code 0888000n might be issued when an attemp

Re: VTAM & Cross Domain Resources - Help!

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Mason
Matt As I suspected: >> For example, have you just created the LPAR-B system as a "clone" with what >> are assumed to be minimal required changes of the LPAR-A system? It appears you have copied the APPL statement with name TCOM from system LPAR-A to system LPAR-B without paying attention to t

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:20:56 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Mark Zelden wrote: > >> As far as I can tell from one of your posts, I am using the same code you >> do. I do asm/lnk with other usermods / exits for each OS upgrade. > >>These are the only changes I have, and the last change was

Re: SAVING OUTPUT WHEN IN $AVRS

2012-06-21 Thread Silvio Camplani
>From the online interface enter option O (ODS), on the next panel fill in the dataset name to contain the output. Regards, Silvio Camplani zSeries Sr. Analyst, Systems Support Bombardier On Thu, Jun 21, 2012, at 04:02 AM, willie bunter wrote: > Good Day To All, >   > Could anybody tell me how

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mark Zelden wrote: > As far as I can tell from one of your posts, I am using the same code you do. > I do asm/lnk with other usermods / exits for each OS upgrade. >These are the only changes I have, and the last change was in 2000 (discussed >on this list also IIRC): All the sources I have,

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:59:13 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Mark Zelden wrote: > >>What do you mean you don't use reserves? You have commented them out in the >>code, or your IODF/HCD isn't coded for shared DASD thus not issuing the >>reserves? > >Hmmm, interesting. I will have a talk wit

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mark Zelden wrote: >What do you mean you don't use reserves? You have commented them out in the >code, or your IODF/HCD isn't coded for shared DASD thus not issuing the >reserves? Hmmm, interesting. I will have a talk with my HCD folks... >If you are seeing the start pendings, it looks like y

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Bill Fairchild wrote: >The behavior of your systems that you described sounds as if you have a global >enqueue that is systems-wide rather than an enqueue that should only affect >one system. The source code snippet you posted shows what looks correct for a >local enqueue (within one system) r

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Staller, Allan
IFASMFDP or IFASMFDL Thanks to all. I'm beginning to wonder if the SMFDUMP program may be corrupt and need to be re-assembled from scratch. Or tryout file 686 from cbttape.org. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:54:22 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: >>The reason is that we sometimes we get a deadly embrace where two SMFDUMP > >>issue those ENQs and then while the system is doing its 'I SMF' things, >>it still scans the DASD despite that we do not record SMF type 19. >> >>In the end I ne

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Tom Marchant wrote: >Not the SYSTEM level ENQ that you have shown, unless you have added IPOSMF01 >to the INCLude list in GRSRNKxx. It is not there in GRSRNLxx (or GRSRNKxx which you wrote... ;-D ). >So, the problem is not a deadly embrace, but delays in processing. I think >you need to deter

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:25:48 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Mark Zelden wrote: > >>I'm not sure exactly. Maybe to keep 2 of them start are started at the same >>time from causing a problem since nothing else uses that qname/rname. > >This is what I also guessed. Prevent two or more 'I SMF'

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Bill Fairchild
The behavior of your systems that you described sounds as if you have a global enqueue that is systems-wide rather than an enqueue that should only affect one system. The source code snippet you posted shows what looks correct for a local enqueue (within one system) rather than a global enqueue

Re: convert Decimal to bytes

2012-06-21 Thread Scott Ford
Elardus, Amen my friend, hard help when can't see what the are trying to do Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 21, 2012, at 5:38 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > Art wrote: > >> Hi would anyone know of a calculator and/or formal via rexx that I could >> use/setup to convert decimal to

Re: SMF volume - follow-up

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012 21:03:07 +, Campbell Jay wrote: > >The solution in this case was stopping type 100 - 102 collection. >Changing the Workload Management Class of the copy job to STCHI. > >The DUMPXY process caught up with itself in about 20 minutes. > My "SMFDUMP" jobs are also in STC SC w

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Doug Henry wrote: >This sounds to me like you are collecting SMF type 19 records. If this is the >case I would recommend not doing this. D SMF,O on any LPAR show this: SUBSYS(OMVS,NOTYPE(14,15,19,34:35,40,42,99)) -- PARMLIB SUBSYS(TSO,NOTYPE(14,15,19,40,42,99)) -- SYS SUBSYS(JES2,NO

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Doug Henry
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 04:25:48 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >I also don't use RESERVEs. I forgot to mention that I get a lot of IOS071I >,**,SMS, START PENDING messages during a switch. > >So, after my nightly jobs, I try to dump/clear all my SMF datasets around >07:00 and thus hopeful

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:17:33 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >Peter Relson wrote: > >>... the ENQ you show is a SYSTEM level ENQ, not a SYSTEMS level ENQ. > >Indeed, from source this: > ENQ (SMFQNAME,SMFRNAME,E,,SYSTEM) > >>... holding of this ENQ on one LPAR will have no effect on anothe

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Norbert Friemel
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 07:54:22 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: > >You wrote about "your" SMFDUMP program. What is that? The one provided by >z/OS does not use that ENQ. > I think the sample programs "SMFDUMP" and "IEFU29" shipped with OS/390 (and earlier) used that ENQ. SMFDUMP is not shipped with z/O

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Peter Relson wrote: >You wrote about "your" SMFDUMP program. What is that? The one provided by z/OS >does not use that ENQ. The one as supplied by IBM. See copyright statement: MODULE NAME = SMFDUMP DESCRIPTIVE NAME = CUSTOM-B

Re: Calling idcams

2012-06-21 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2012-06-20 17:13, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: Calling idcams One could argue that creating LE enab

Re: difference between JZOS Launcher and COZBATCH Launcher

2012-06-21 Thread McKown, John
JZOS is designed to run Java programs in batch. Using PROC=EXJZOSVM to set up the JVM and specify the Java class or jar file to run. Co:Z Batch is used to run z/OS UNIX programs (and scripts). It is conceptually similar to running TSO in batch, which issues TSO commands from SYSTSIN and output

Re: difference between JZOS Launcher and COZBATCH Launcher

2012-06-21 Thread Steve Goetze
Peter, The IBM JZOS Launcher, as you suspect, is used exclusively to run Java from a batch job step. In addition to creating and running a JVM, the JZOS batch launcher handles std stream redirection and character set transcoding. It also provides Java - MVS console integration. It is packaged a

Re: VTAM & Cross Domain Resources - Help!

2012-06-21 Thread Matt Gourley
On 6/20/2012 19:20, Chris Mason wrote: Matt Is there someone who can help me troubleshoot this? To answer your question, precisely as posed, is probably yes. Now let's see whether this particular "someone" can answer the plea contained in the "Subject" line which would correspond to the foll

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Relson
>The reason is that we sometimes we get a deadly embrace where two SMFDUMP >issue those ENQs and then while the system is doing its 'I SMF' things, >it still scans the DASD despite that we do not record SMF type 19. > >In the end I need to cancel one of those SMF jobs, let the other run and >re

Re: SAVING OUTPUT WHEN IN $AVRS

2012-06-21 Thread willie bunter
William,   I downloaded a copy of the doc.  Now the fun part is to find all the STEPLIBS and other dsn  names.  Thanks for your suggestion. From: "Carroll, William" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:05:21 AM Subject: Re: SAVING OUTPUT

SAVING OUTPUT WHEN IN $AVRS

2012-06-21 Thread willie bunter
Good Day To All,   Could anybody tell me how I can save a job output which is in $AVRS to disk?  In SDSF we use XDC, is there something similar in $AVRS?  I GOOGLED $AVRS however I didn't see anything helpful.   Thanks. -- For I

Re: SAVING OUTPUT WHEN IN $AVRS

2012-06-21 Thread Carroll, William
Willie, You might want to look at the '$avrpull' utility. The output from that can be written to disk. This is a batch utility, provided with the product. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Thu

Re: convert Decimal to bytes

2012-06-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Art wrote: >Hi would anyone know of a calculator and/or formal via rexx that I could >use/setup to convert decimal to bytes. I would like to multiply x >(decimal) by 80 and add an extra 80 bytes. Is this a homework assignment? Based on the lots of feedback, it is still not clear what you

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
John Gilmore wrote: >The GRS ENQ and the RESERVE are alternatives. Never use both! Thanks for your kind reminder which I will NOT forget. :-) >Anciently, under OS/PCP and OS/MFT, the Linkage Editor issued a RESERVE for >the DASD volume on which the target PDS for its output load module resided

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mark Zelden wrote: >I'm not sure exactly. Maybe to keep 2 of them start are started at the same >time from causing a problem since nothing else uses that qname/rname. This is what I also guessed. Prevent two or more 'I SMF' happening at the same time in a Sysplex. >As for the RESERVEs done wh

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-06-21 Thread Tom Ross
>>The issue of COBOL compiler messages was discussed here, and most >>agreed it would not be that helpful, since it would mostly say >>'please see the COBOL Language Reference Manual'. > >Those calling for a messages manual were asking IBM for a real manual, >not for IBM to just go through the moti