CPU service unit for JOB

2012-10-30 Thread Tommy Tsui
Hi all, Is there any formula to calculate the service unit for the job after execution. How can we use the JOB ENDED information TCB+SRB to find out the service unit and convert to MSU? Any help will be appreciate -- For IBM-MAIN

DASD and Cache Fast Write & DS8800/DS8700

2012-10-30 Thread Ken Leidner
Does setting the DASD FW or Cache FW on or off still exist on the DS8800/DS8700 devices. I know when they first came out for a 3990-6 controller, the performance different was night and day. But on the newer devices isn't it always on? Can I really still turn it off? Do I still need to che

Re: Strange z196 LOAD behavior

2012-10-30 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-10-30 21:26, Mark Zelden pisze: Correct. I don't know how R.S. does it in Poland, but in the US I would call the service number and open a PMH (hardware PMR).I've done it on more than a couple of occasions.There are all sorts of lpar dumps and transmits of various log data tha

Re: HCD Graphical Configuration Report PC exploitation

2012-10-30 Thread Ed Finnell
If you've got DCF(Script) enabled, think device type is PS(A) to make a POST SCIPT file. then you could _www.irfanview.com_ (http://www.irfanview.com) it. My boss was a whiz with Catia so I'd just ship him the PS file as an attachment with XMITIP and he'd make pretty with his NEC display and

Re: Strange z196 LOAD behavior

2012-10-30 Thread Mark Zelden
Correct. I don't know how R.S. does it in Poland, but in the US I would call the service number and open a PMH (hardware PMR).I've done it on more than a couple of occasions.There are all sorts of lpar dumps and transmits of various log data that can be done from the SE and that hopefully w

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread Eric Bielefeld
The CBT tape is not searchable, however if you download file 1, the index for the CBT tape, you can browse the file in ISPF and find things. I used to do that a lot when I worked at P&H Mining. I found a lot of great stuff. Now, I have File 1 downloaded, but we can't install stuff from the CB

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread Ed Gould
On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Rob Schramm wrote: Plus, the CBT is not really searchable. It would be really nice if all the code and examples were searchable. Wading through the CBT is tedious. Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group --SNIP--

Re: Strange z196 LOAD behavior

2012-10-30 Thread Mike Schwab
Hardware / License Internal Code / ESC hardware service call. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:32 PM, zMan wrote: > ? So the HMC isn't a component? Sure it is... > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:59 AM, R.S. wrote: > >> Well, I do have hardware and I do have a problem (actually I found >> walk-around - LPA

Re: Strange z196 LOAD behavior

2012-10-30 Thread zMan
? So the HMC isn't a component? Sure it is... On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:59 AM, R.S. wrote: > Well, I do have hardware and I do have a problem (actually I found > walk-around - LPAR re-Activation). > > I'm not sure wheher it's APARable, since no z/OS software is started yet > when the error occur

Re: HCD Graphical Configuration Report PC exploitation

2012-10-30 Thread Bob Rutledge
Roberto Ibarra wrote: Hello everybody, When you print an HCD Graphical Configuration Report to a GML file, does anybody knows if there’s a free PC software (editor, image editor) to exploit it? I know HMC does just that but we don’t have it. I haven't tried it with HCD output, but I use B2H

Re: OT? But a nice article about IDEs

2012-10-30 Thread Tony Harminc
On 30 October 2012 10:30, Kirk Wolf wrote: > Let's suppose that there were similar Eclipse plug-ins for coding in > Assembler: > - It would not only checks syntax, but would interatively assemble as you type > - macros would be looked up as you type; you would get code completion > assistance

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread McKown, John
Thanks! I didn't see that link on the left hand side for the DFDSS download. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets® 9151 Boulevard 26 . N. Richland Hills . TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone . john.mck...@healthmarkets.com . www.HealthMarkets.com Confid

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread Knutson, Sam
>> I am now trying to figure out how to directly download a CBTTape file to a >> z/OS system and process it there. I.e. eliminate the need to download to a >> "desktop", unzip, then ftp to the mainframe. It is available. All you need to FTP access to cbttape.org from your z/OS mainframe and eit

Re: Strange z196 LOAD behavior

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Schramm
The only thing I can think of is that the RESET does clear any channel status that would cause a conflict. Since IPL Text is at the other end of a channel.. maybe that is the issue. After shutting down a system, we always performed a RESET. Got burned a few times with channels that caused issues

Re: OT? But a nice article about IDEs

2012-10-30 Thread Gord Tomlin
Editors and IDEs are unfortunately a religious topic. Too many people feel that one size fits all, and that everyone that does not make the same choice is, well, stupid. For me, the choice of editor or IDE is strongly affected by the syntax and indentation style of the language. ISPF is my edi

Re: Strange z196 LOAD behavior

2012-10-30 Thread R.S.
Well, I do have hardware and I do have a problem (actually I found walk-around - LPAR re-Activation). I'm not sure wheher it's APARable, since no z/OS software is started yet when the error occurs. Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2012-10-30 16:43, zMan pisze: Maybe you

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Schramm
Maybe Kurt would contribute his script that downloads all the z/OS manuals as a starter. Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:39 AM, McKown, John < john.mck...@healthmarkets.com> wrote: > That's the direction I was going. I was hoping to create a UNIX

Re: Strange z196 LOAD behavior

2012-10-30 Thread zMan
Maybe you have no hardware :-( Seriously, sounds APARable. Imagine this fun during a production emergency IPL! On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:42 AM, R.S. wrote: > The following scenario > An LPAR with z/OS. > The z/OS is shut down (Z EOD). > > After that, a LOAD is performed. (Load icon dropped on LP

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread McKown, John
That's the direction I was going. I was hoping to create a UNIX script which would use "curl" or "ftp" to download the file I wanted from the ftp://cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT???.zip to a newly made subdirectory. Then use jar to "unzip" it. The problem now comes in that the result is usually an XMIT

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Schramm
Plus, the CBT is not really searchable. It would be really nice if all the code and examples were searchable. Wading through the CBT is tedious. Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 < peter.far...@broadridge.com> wrote: >

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
That will be an option only if your corporate firewalls permit FTP from z/OS to the cbttape.org ftp server. Many companies have extremely strict and closed firewalls that permit access from z/OS only to known and approved sites for reasons of security and auditability. In such organizations, g

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:22:22 -0500, McKown, John wrote: >I am now trying to figure out how to directly download a CBTTape >file to a z/OS system and process it there. I.e. eliminate the need >to download to a "desktop", unzip, then ftp to the mainframe. Have you tried using jar to unzip? -- T

Re: OT? But a nice article about IDEs

2012-10-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
While I understand the point of view, I mostly disagree with this article. I suppose that if you think that Java is horrible, you would say that a slick IDE that compiles and checks your code while you are typing is a band-aid on a gun-shot wound. My best personal counter example is the first "r

Re: sort jcl

2012-10-30 Thread Ron Thomas
LRECL is fixed. I believe kolusu solution will work. Thanks, Ron T -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I'm quite surprised you asked that. There is a lot of information that isn't stored in IBM manuals, at least in a form that is easy to find. Otherwise, Carmine's book could have been a list of links to the IBM docs. Or a CD ROM that with code from CBT. CBT doesn't contain code snippets that

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread McKown, John
I don't feel that the CBTTape is a good place for general "documentation" which people need to "peruse" at their leisure. That's why I think that a Wiki-like site to parallel the CBTTape code site would be useful. Perhaps Sam would be open to a edit-restricted Wiki hosted at cbttape.org. Where p

OT? But a nice article about IDEs

2012-10-30 Thread McKown, John
http://www.recursivity.com/blog/2012/10/28/ides-are-a-language-smell/ This person, a PC type, has come to the conclusion that "IDEs" exist due to the horrible nature of the languages that they support (in his case Java). That, with a properly designed language, a simple highlighting editor (PDF

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread Bill Fairchild
How would this proposed data base, new list server, or whatever it may become, differ from the CBT tape? Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN 37069-2526 * USA t: +1.617.614.4503 * e: bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com * w: www.rocketsoftware.com -O

Re: ENF (event notification facility) health checker event

2012-10-30 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Thank you (in the meantime I have opened a PMR) On 30.10.2012 12:39, Peter Relson wrote: >From the description, not very clear the HZSZENF record content A more explicit question would be helpful. What is not clear? The only data is the event (field ENF067_Event) and, as the comment i

Re: ENF (event notification facility) health checker event

2012-10-30 Thread Peter Relson
>From the description, not very clear the HZSZENF record content A more explicit question would be helpful. What is not clear? The only data is the event (field ENF067_Event) and, as the comment indicates, that field is mapped the same as the bitqual area (ENF067_BitQual). There are 3 events:

Strange z196 LOAD behavior

2012-10-30 Thread R.S.
The following scenario An LPAR with z/OS. The z/OS is shut down (Z EOD). After that, a LOAD is performed. (Load icon dropped on LPAR icon) LOAD FAILED with the following message: "Status: Failed; details are available (red text in the HMC window)" Click on Details button and get the following me

SV: Disabling interrupt and trace for Rexx execs

2012-10-30 Thread Thomas Berg
There is also the "Signal On Halt" rexx stmt. Haven tested how much it helps in this case though. Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist AM/SM&S SWEDBANK AB (publ) > -Ursprungligt meddelande- > Från: IBM Mainframe D

Re: HCD Graphical Configuration Report PC exploitation

2012-10-30 Thread Roberto Ibarra
Graham: I downloaded and installed yEd, downloaded the GML output from HCD in text format (ASCII CRLF) and yEd said: "Could not import file...". The file starts with: :gdoc .df graph font X0GT20