Re: Questions about IARST64

2012-09-25 Thread David Stokes
Steve Comstock wrote: Can anyone enlighten me about the function / purpose of IARST64? Not that I've used it, but there certainly are several references to cells in the IARST64 doc and no general description of use in the normal documentation. I did find the following in zOS 1.10

Re: MQ monitoring

2012-09-25 Thread Fabio Massimo Ottaviani
Ron I recently wrote a white paper on that. You can find the abstract and you can request it here http://www.epvtech.com/resources/newsletter.html If you have any problem please let me know. Best regards Fabio At 19:38 24/09/2012, you wrote: Antyone out here monitor MQ..and what are you

Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

2012-09-25 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Chris Mason wrote: 'Maximizing the SNA RU size reduces end-to-end acknowledgments at the 3270 application level.' This is just common sense. Thanks. Agreed. In order to illustrate the point I'm assuming you have to send 10K of data and the flow control parameters are such that each unit of

RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

2012-09-25 Thread Jake anderson
Dear Group, I am looking for Sysplex resources (CF Structure) utilization report and for doing this I am trying to configure RMF Spread sheet reporter. I tried following RMF user guide to configure but it didnt help me much as I am new with this product. Till now I

Re: Return Address from IKJPARS ?

2012-09-25 Thread Peter Relson
So, as has been asked, what were the regs/PSW at the time of the PIC 6? It seems likely that the OP's code did not restore registers as the interface required it to do (particularly GR 2). If you return via reg 14 and reg 14 points to CVTBSM2, then the next thing that will be issued is the

Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

2012-09-25 Thread Staller, Allan
There is not much to configure here. It is pretty much canned. 1) Download the current version from http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/rmf/ 2) Run an RMF Post processor report and create overview records. 3) Download records and feed to Spreadsheet Reporter.

Re: Official current definition of MVS

2012-09-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDH+r00Q87x75=xz7z7kfdkpdq2w53t6xz_b7kkrxbx...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/24/2012 at 09:39 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: and he has here committed a [vulgar sense] oxymoron. Actually a typo; that should have been It started as a feature of OS/360 MVT. -- Shmuel (Seymour

Re: DFSMSHSM is a not deleting expired datasets

2012-09-25 Thread Richard Marchant
A couple of things to check (not mentioned so far): May be HSM is trying delete these datasets, or at least some of them, but is being unsuccessful for some reason. Check the HSM activity logs for possible errors. Also remember that HSM will only delete expired datasets if HSM is managing the

Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

2012-09-25 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you do an internet search for RMF SPREADSHEET REPORTER you should find many links that can assist you Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jake anderson Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 4:42 AM To:

Re: DFSMSHSM is a not deleting expired datasets

2012-09-25 Thread Steve Conway
Thanks to all respondents. A big thanks to Richard for the suggestions. At this point, my management is concerned about changing anything because there must be a reason it's set this way. Cheers,,,Steve Steven F. Conway, CISSP LA Systems z/OS Systems Support Phone: 703.295.1926

Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

2012-09-25 Thread Lizette Koehler
I forgot, If you include SHARE at the front SHARE RMF SPREADSHEET REPORTER it should be some of the Share Presentations to the top. They should be very helpful. Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette

Re: DFSMSHSM is a not deleting expired datasets

2012-09-25 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Steve Conway wrote: At this point, my management is concerned about changing anything because there must be a reason it's set this way. Probably yes. Perhaps the (previous) owners wanted to keep them due to some policy/rule. Is it possible for you to list them by 'last used' date and then

Re: DFSMSHSM is a not deleting expired datasets

2012-09-25 Thread Steve Conway
Interesting thought, Elardus, but I'm just going to leave it alone for now. It's not like I don't have anything to keep me busy. :-) Cheers,,,Steve Steven F. Conway, CISSP LA Systems z/OS Systems Support Phone: 703.295.1926 steve_con...@ao.uscourts.gov From: Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: Official current definition of MVS

2012-09-25 Thread John Gilmore
In rereading that portion of my post that Shmuel quoted it has occurred to me that it could be read as characterizing his 'typo' as vulgar. That was not at all my intent. In classical rhetoric oxymora were and are figures of speech that make use of an apparent but in the event not substantive

Re: DFSMSHSM is a not deleting expired datasets

2012-09-25 Thread Michael Wickman
Are you doing the release expirebv command on some schedule? font size=1 div style='border:none;border-bottom:double windowtext 2.25pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in' /div This email is intended to be reviewed by only the intended recipient and may contain information that is privileged and/or

Re: SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNETWORK vs. fchattr()

2012-09-25 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
I've long wished that: o GIMZIP could build its product from non-catalogued data sets, perhaps unloaded RELFILEs on tape, passed temporary DSNs, or MCS/JCLIN in PDS members or UNIX files. I'd like to be able to transform an SMP/E installation tape to a GIMZIP archive without copying

Re: Questions about IARST64

2012-09-25 Thread John Gilmore
I should have thought that Peter Relson's post had clarified these issues more than adequately. IARCP64 makes above-the-bar storage available in chunks, one mibibyte at a time; and requesters must submanage this storage themselves. IARST64 submanages such chunks for you. Does the 'CP' in

Re: DFSMSHSM is a not deleting expired datasets

2012-09-25 Thread retired mainframer
EXPIREBV will never touch an ML0/ML1/ML2 dataset. It deals only with backup copies of datasets. :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of Michael Wickman :: Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:57 AM :: To:

Re: ADR405E (041)-DYNA (02), DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF VOLUME FB8ACC FAILED. ERROR CODE 0218. INFORMATION CODE 0000.

2012-09-25 Thread willie bunter
Good Day All,   I haven't received any replies to my post.  Perhaps I have the problem re-occuring again with lost posts. From: willie bunter williebun...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, September 24, 2012 12:29:22 PM Subject: ADR405E

Re: DFSMSHSM is a not deleting expired datasets

2012-09-25 Thread Steve Conway
Hi, Michael. Not that I know of. Where would that commonly be specified? Cheers,,,Steve Steven F. Conway, CISSP LA Systems z/OS Systems Support Phone: 703.295.1926 steve_con...@ao.uscourts.gov From: Michael Wickman mwick...@waddell.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 09/25/2012

Re: Questions about IARST64

2012-09-25 Thread Jim Mulder
IARCP64 makes above-the-bar storage available in chunks, one mibibyte at a time; and requesters must submanage this storage themselves. IARST64 submanages such chunks for you. IARV64 makes above-the-bar storage available in chunks, one mibibyte at a time; and requesters must submanage

Re: Questions about IARST64

2012-09-25 Thread David Stokes
John Gilmore wrote I should have thought that Peter Relson's post had clarified these issues more than adequately. Ah. As enjoyable as always to hear your opinion, Mr. Gilmore, although I couldn't myself find very much in Peter Relson's posting that seemed especially helpful (not that I was

Re: Questions about IARST64

2012-09-25 Thread John Gilmore
The patent that Jim Mulder cited: http://www.google.com/patents/US20090100243 contains very useful information. It begins with the text: begin extract A virtual storage technique is provided to manage a cell pool or a set of cell pools which can be used to satisfy variable-size storage

Re: SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNETWORK vs. fchattr()

2012-09-25 Thread Art Gutowski
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:19:38 -0400, Kurt Quackenbush ku...@us.ibm.com wrote: I've long wished that: o GIMZIP could build its product from non-catalogued data sets, perhaps unloaded RELFILEs on tape, passed temporary DSNs, or MCS/JCLIN in PDS members or UNIX files. I'd like to be able

Re: Questions about IARST64

2012-09-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Nitpick on an error that is getting repeated: 2**20 Bytes = MiB is mebibytes (not mibibytes), as it is derived from mega binary. I hope the erroneous form is not a quote from a some manual. Reference: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html JC Ewing On 09/25/2012 01:26 PM, Jim

Re: GIM39001E in SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNTS

2012-09-25 Thread Art Gutowski
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:18:09 -0400, Kurt Quackenbush ku...@us.ibm.com wrote: Presumably the MCS for each SYSMOD is in a unique data set? If so, then yes, the order in which the archives for those data sets appear in the GIMPAF.XML file determines the order in which they will be processed during

Re: GIM39001E in SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNTS

2012-09-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:24:32 -0500, Art Gutowski wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 09:18:09 -0400, Kurt Quackenbush wrote: Presumably the MCS for each SYSMOD is in a unique data set? If so, then yes, the order in which the archives for those data sets appear in the GIMPAF.XML file determines the order

GIM44336S

2012-09-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
OK. This was entirely a user error. I was pointing at the wrong archive in RECEIVE FROMNETWORK. But I got: GIM45500S ** VERIFICATION OF HASH VALUE OF FILE /*/*.gimzip/GIMPAF.XML FAILED. SMP/E WILL NOT RETRY FILE RETRIEVAL. GIM44336S ** AN UNUSUAL CONDITION OCCURRED.

CBT File745 (File Formatter aka OS)

2012-09-25 Thread Tom Rusnak
G'day - I've downloaded this utility from the CBT tape and I get a loop in the OSCOMM module, according to Strobe. I'm running z/os 1.11. Has anyone at this level assembled this program successfully, or more importantly, has anyone run into a loop and have a quick fix before I start

Another Light goes out

2012-09-25 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231499/ Ohio_mainframe_exodus_wraps_up_in_84_500_hours?taxonomyId=68 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the