http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2012/bin/assets/2012_ibm_annual.pdf
Forbes published a dumb article, in my opinion. Of course IBM has a
strategy, and there it is in the annual report, in clear language. An
article analyzing whether or not IBM has the correct strategy might be
interesting. An
Hi
Any possibility to find an SMF record in the SMF logstream again ?
(It would be some kind of SMF browse, and if I interested in the details
of an SMF record, I would like to find it again)
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Kind regards, / Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Miklos Szigetvari
Research Development
ISIS Papyrus
We have a production job that is abending with S0C7 reason 0007. I set a
slip to capture a dump but I can't seem to find the input record that is
causing the S0C7 in this dump. I also have a CEEDUMP but that's not real
helpful in diagnosing the issue. I looked a setting a slip with a
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 4:10 AM, Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)
norma.e.mowry@mail.mil wrote:
We have a production job that is abending with S0C7 reason 0007. I
set a slip to capture a dump but I can't seem to find the input record that
is causing the S0C7 in this dump. I also have
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:10:18 + Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)
norma.e.mowry@mail.mil wrote:
:We have a production job that is abending with S0C7 reason 0007. I set a
slip to capture a dump but I can't seem to find the input record that is
causing the S0C7 in this dump. I also
The LE is clearly involved. It would help to know what
language---COBOL?---this application was written in and to have a DCB
for the input file that contains the offending record.
You have provided too little information to enable anyone to help you.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
a) Irrelevant to what ? To the world of Picasso and John Gilmore..
b) Criticisms or the observations of the Forbes magazine can be done
better by your GrandChild ?
Amazing Grandchild you have Mr Gilmore from Ashland, MA and maybe you
should ask your grand child to comment on the Forbes
tks Leo
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If it is in the linklist, it is not SMSPDSE1 that takes care of this
Would adding a CEEOPTS DD override work? I've never tried it but maybe?
//CEEOPTS DD *
TERMTHDACT(UAONLY)
DYNDUMP(*USERID,DYNAMIC,TDUMP)
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I say yes to most. #4 is being forced to learn or use some specific
technology (one person said COBOL grin/). I still like to learn new
technology. But I hate being _forced_ to use it when I think it is
Being old, I have occasionally turned off LE's abend handling and just
gone for the throat using a recent compile (with generated assembler
shown) and a SYSUDUMP.
The programmers have forgotten how to do this entirely. They require
AbendAid to pinpoint the problem for them or it is unfixable.
The program abending is written in COBOL.
Norma Mowry
DECC-Mechanicsburg
Operating Systems Support (ESB11)
(717)-605-7865 DSN:430
e-mail address: norma.e.mowry@mail.mil
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Hi All
Of all places, I would expect a little more enthusiasm of the members of this
list.
Let me please explain the rationale behind publishing the PCRE library on z/OS.
Regular expressions are available in most modern languages such as Perl, Java
and PHP, to mention only few (BTW, PHP is
Thanks all for the help...
In this case we don't have abendaid to help find the issue. Sorry I forgot to
mention that the program taking the abend is COBOL and that the program
abending is doing a sort using syncsort.
Norma Mowry
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Being forced to use inappropriate technology is very disagreeable, but
it is hard to judge the appropriateness of a technology until one has
mastered at least some part of it.
My own guess is that few of us know too much, I spent part of
yesterday with a sysprog who has been doing what he does
On 7/3/2013 5:10 AM, Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US) wrote:
We have a production job that is abending with S0C7 reason 0007. I set a
slip to capture a dump but I can't seem to find the input record that is causing
the S0C7 in this dump. I also have a CEEDUMP but that's not real helpful in
We do have z/OSMF installed at z/OS V1.13. I've asked our system techs to test
and give feedback on functionality. I got mixed comments from testers as to
the value in our environment. Most testers had a negative view of the
functionality.
Norma Mowry
DECC-Mechanicsburg
Operating
I have occasionally used SLIP+IPCS to debug an application program. The
best advice I can offer is to set a SLIP trap for *any* abend. That is, do
not specify an abend code. Something like
SL SET,J=,END
In a complex the task environment, it's possible that the abend you see
(S0C7) is a
I am grateful for your work on this. Unfortunately, if other shops are
like mine, the programmers can't use your PCRE library in production
because it is not a vendor supported product. I did download the
previous version. And _I_ can use it in my own code for __my own__
purposes. But, then, I'm a
If this were an Open Source project I might be able to persuade my
employer to allow me to work on it. Or at least to use it.
So, is it?
If not I have to wish you well and decline to play. :-(
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer,
zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator,
Worldwide Banking Center of
Finally I have finished wading through the HSM starter set and customized it
the way we want to use it - just migrating to ML1, no ML2, no backup, no
recovery, no dumping, no tapes, a really minimal environment. That means I only
start DFHSM with an MCDS (OFFCAT, BAKCAT, JOURNAL, ARCLOGX,
You might look at some of these Share Proceedings. They may help
● LE Crime Scene Investigation - Finding Debugging Clues in LE Dumps
● Slowed Down by LE? Perhaps the CEEPIPI Service Can Help!
● LE for Dummies
● COBOL Performance - Myths and Realities
● Comparing
Well, he does distribute the source. The original source is licensed
with a BSD license:
http://pcre.org/licence.txt
From looking at the source from Mr. Atlas, the BSD license is still
embedded in it. And I have not seen any changes to it mentioned.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Martin Packer
I found this thread that might help in an internet search. They maybe
helpful
http://ibmmainframeforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=7035
Redbooks:
z/OS Diagnostic Data Collection and Analysis
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247110.html?Open
Lizette
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I guess that might be covered under hurting the user. I don't write
APF code, so I don't think that I can create a security hole. I don't
do RACF or other ESM type calls. I assume that RACF has been set up
properly and all I do is normal non-APF type work. I used to write
some z/OS or product
Hi ,
During IPL , I am getting a wait state. PSW is 000280878040
.
Please let me know what could be the issue.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Srinivas G
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The SMF dump program will let you select by record type and time period.
There are tools on the CBT tape (e.g., DAF) that will let you select records
by other criteria.
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I don't know the workings of HSM, but I can offer some advice on dealing
with 'optional' files. In general, an application checks for the presence
of any file by checking for the DDNAME in the allocation. For a file
that's truly optional, absence of the file is 'noted' at start-up so that
no
Did you receive and check IEA303W?
From the Waitstate Codes manual:
040
Explanation: The system abended a task during nucleus initialization
program (NIP) processing.
The right-most four bytes of the program status word (PSW) have the
following format:
x0cccwww
where:
x
00878040
X0CCCWWW
Wait state code 040
Abend 878
Most likely insufficient CSA/ECSA or SQA/ESQA provided.
See INIT and TUNING Guide for member IEASYS00, parameters CSA and SQA for
details.
HTH,
snip
From the Waitstate Codes manual:
040
Explanation: The system abended a task during nucleus
What operating system? z/VM, z/OS, z/VSE, z/Linux, other?
From looking at:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2H7B0/3.38
on z/OS, a hard wait code of 040 (last 3 hex digits of PSW) would
indicate that an abend 878 occurred. This seems to be a GETMAIN type
error of some
I would do a stand alone dump when you get the wait state - only for the nip
log.
If you have access to the HMC you might be able to see the NIP log there.
If so, see what got the 878 abend.
Lizette
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Found it. IPCS option 6 and entered SYSTRACE TIME(LOCAL)
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I seem to recall
What release of z/OS? And what is meaningful?
Is this what you are seeing? (Sorry about wrapping)
--- SYSTEM TRACE TABLE
-- -- -- -- -- -- PR ASID WU-ADDR- IDENT
Hi ,
Thanks a lot to all who helped. My heart nearly skipped a beat.
Worked with INITSQA0004M in the LOADxx .
Regards,
Srinivas G
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I don't know if it applies back at z/OS 1.10 but check the INITSQA option for
your LOADxx member.
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Subject:
DUMMY muddies the water because
the DDNAME is truly allocated even though there is no tin can at the other
end of the string. A component that wants to use that file may well try to
open it. Depending on how the file is accessed, DUMMY can cause OPEN
failure.
Well, not in the case of
On 7/3/2013 8:34 AM, Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US) wrote:
The program abending is written in COBOL.
That invalidates my first guess g
Back in the late sixties I diagnosed my first 0C7, in a colleague's
production program that had been running problem free for some time. He
was reading
Again, I don't know HSM. But don't necessarily take whining and gnashing
of teeth as 'failure'. HSM is letting you know (loudly) that a DD
statement is missing in case you overlooked it. You might actually take
heart in
*ARC0134I BACKUP CONTROL DATA SET NOT OPENED, BACKUP
ARC0134I (CONT.)
As someone pointed out, a s0c7 may not really be due to a bad data field in the
last record READ. But, to answer that question, if you did get an SVC dump
using SLIP and you included RGN, SWA, TRT:
use IP SUMMARY REGS FORMAT to get the DEB chain printed or follow it yourself
to find the OPEN
It would be interesting to see the SMF logstream, till no solution
in sight, I will use the SMF dump.
On 03.07.2013 16:13, retired mainframer wrote:
The SMF dump program will let you select by record type and time period.
There are tools on the CBT tape (e.g., DAF) that will let you select
There have been several various good answers to this problem.
As a certified alte kacker, I would like to comment on what this tells us
about the state of mainframe IT.
- Apparently one can be in Operating Systems Support w/o having been an
application programmer. One of the advantages many
Cheers Mainframe’s Finest,
I’m going batty over this or perhaps already have. I have a management class
that works for recent data but fails intermittently at the moment of
performance. About half the datasets lose their backups around day 50.
I have date-derived dataset names that get
Not to discourage you, as I'm sure porting PCRE to z/OS is a fine idea, but it
would not be true to say that regex processing is not available for COBOL (or
PL/I) on z/OS. I was looking through the IBM XL C/C++ for z/OS Run-Time
Library Reference the other day (god knows why, since I don't
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Kirk Talman rkueb...@tsys.com wrote:
There have been several various good answers to this problem.
As a certified alte kacker, I would like to comment on what this tells us
about the state of mainframe IT.
- Apparently one can be in Operating Systems Support
The regexp in IBM's C is POSIX complaint. PCRE can be much more
powerful. The IBM sed UNIX command only allows POSIX regexps.
Frustrates the bleep out of me. So I don't use sed much any more. I
use Perl itself.
On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Frank Swarbrick
frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com wrote:
Not
On 7/3/2013 12:11 PM, Kirk Talman wrote:
There have been several various good answers to this problem.
As a certified alte kacker, I would like to comment on what this tells us
about the state of mainframe IT.
- Apparently one can be in Operating Systems Support w/o having been an
application
I am wondering how people can get along not being able to go through
a dump. Maybe I am way off base here but this would seem pretty straight
forward to me. You have the entry point to the abend and you have the entry
point of the problem program. Subtract one from the other and you have
Frank,
First let me say: Very cool, man! I was inspired by your 30 minutes to take
a few of my own to see if I could duplicate your experiment in our somewhat
more staid (i.e., no PDSE's for application COBOL load modules) environment,
and sure enough I can. I had to make a couple of small
Looking at the below, the underlying process seems to be a weekly activity.
From the below, a maximum of 3 backups will exist at any given time. When the
4th backup is created, the 1st backup is deleted, *regardless* of age (at the
next backup cycle).
If you were to look closer, I believe you
Kirk:
We had one of these issues and the programmer said since its a
system 0C7 its the systems people's responsibility . I called up to
his manager and dispensed him out the door .
Ed
On Jul 3, 2013, at 1:11 PM, Kirk Talman wrote:
There have been several various good answers to this
Alan, thanks for the quick response. Either I'm not understanding you or
something is missing from my initial post. The datasets don't change, there is
no guaranteed backup frequency, and the one and only backup disappears, not to
be replaced by anything. At that time, the LBACKUP changes to
You too? First name wouldn't have been Walter by any chance, would it? Same
programmer went to the DOS/VS sysprog with a DOS message similar to PROGRAM
TERMINATED BY PROGRAM REQUEST. Insisted the wasn't a TERMINATE verb
anywhere in his program, must be a compiler problem.
On Jul 3, 2013 2:50 PM,
1) Did you actually get it to work (execute) with DYNAM? That is our shop
standard as well, but when I try it I get a program not found error (S806),
or if I add CEE.SCEELKED to the JOBLIB I get an S0C1(?!?!). Also, do you use
codepage 1047 by default? I didn't expect it to work with
INITSQA started as soon as 65-bit started -- OS/390 2.10.
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It is an open source port of an open source project. Can't be more open source
than that
BSD license
source is distributed
za
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Hmm, perhaps underscores did come with COBOL 4.2. I don't recall.
Can you do /D PROG,LNKLST in SDSF? That will get you the active linklist.
The only CEE libraries we have there are CEE.SCEERUN and CEE.SCEERUN2. I
though that CEE.SCEELKED was a link/bind-time library only, but I could be
Frank
You are absolutely correct that it could be done in COBOL and PL/I. The
problem is that the culture does not lend itself to that.
In any case, PCRE is mature and working library with most all (even esoteric)
options. So there is a value int it after all:)
Since I noticed that not all
Peter,
I will have to seeif I need to adopt some of your changes...
Frank and Peter, cool!!
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Thank you all for responding and I've learnt a lot from you.
Some notes:
1. As far as I can tell, my development is done on 1047, so the library is
compiled for that code-page. I do not have any access to any other code-page,
so I will need somebody to actually load and compile it according to
In
caajsdjjn4zk-csejvp4exf4ctxc5dnv6cfr5a19pnovvvgq...@mail.gmail.com,
on 07/03/2013
at 07:16 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said:
Being old, I have occasionally turned off LE's abend handling and
just gone for the throat using a recent compile (with generated
assembler shown)
In 5892125769715316.wa.zatlas1yahoo@listserv.ua.edu, on
07/03/2013
at 07:35 AM, Ze'ev Atlas zatl...@yahoo.com said:
Of all places, I would expect a little more enthusiasm of the members
of this list.
The lack of replies may indicate that nobody had problems with it
rather than a lack of
In
CAAJSdjg1jRs6DrNV7xzAftEoGcojyeGf=fvwkbdh_idvozp...@mail.gmail.com,
on 07/03/2013
at 07:10 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said:
http://www.itworld.com/it-management/363424/only-thing-programmers-have-fear-all-these-things
I say yes to most. #4 is being forced to learn or use
I knocked up a REXX regex package using ECMAScript grammer, which is
almost identical to PCRE with a few subtle differences. I wish the C++
TR1 regex library supported perl syntax like boost::regex.
I can't ship the source as it contains code which may be considered IP
at a later date but I
I've not run across many languages that I considered ugly. RPG II was
one. EasyTrieve Plus is not ugly, but I don't much like it. The newest
IBM COBOL is rather nice, albeit still wordy. The first COBOL that I
learned: ANSI COBOL back in the 1970s made me puke, after learning PL/I of
the same era.
On 4/07/2013 9:59 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In
CAAJSdjg1jRs6DrNV7xzAftEoGcojyeGf=fvwkbdh_idvozp...@mail.gmail.com,
on 07/03/2013
at 07:10 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said:
Rising to the defense of RPG, what other language had its own ruler? Talk about
ease of coding! Ah the nostalgia.sigh.
Sent from Tony's iPhone.
On Jul 3, 2013, at 9:50 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote:
I've not run across many languages that I considered ugly. RPG II
Sorry, application programmers here are not allowed ANY operator functions
(including /D).
And I realized after I wrote my prior reply that SCEELKED was required in your
case because you used NODYNAM, thus needing static bind-time merging of the
modules from SCEELKED. I didn't need it because
Assuming that IPCS is available to the application staff. In some shops it is
not generally available, but reserved for the systems staff. And there is the
issue of training in the product, which isn't always available either (outside
of reading the FM's).
Personally I have no problem using
In 7859492443392344.wa.zatlas1yahoo@listserv.ua.edu, on
07/03/2013
at 05:58 PM, Ze'ev Atlas zatl...@yahoo.com said:
In any case, PCRE is mature and working library with most all (even
esoteric) options.
Branch reset? Conditional patterns? Named backreferences? Recursive
patterns?
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In
1101901400-1372885815-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-27276874-@b28.c1.bise6.blackberry,
on 07/03/2013
at 09:10 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said:
INITSQA started as soon as 65-bit started -- OS/390 2.10.
There is no 65-bit support in OS/390.
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In 01bc01ce7820$59608f30$0c21ad90$@verizon.net, on 07/03/2013
at 03:05 PM, Carl Swanson carl.swans...@verizon.net said:
You have the entry point to the abend and you have the entry point of
the problem program.
In many situations it's easy to get the wrong addresses from the dump
if you don't
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