R: R: Differences between CPU values from SMF30 and DB2 stats

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Re: R: R: Differences between CPU values from SMF30 and DB2 stats

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R: R: R: Differences between CPU values from SMF30 and DB2 stats

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Re: Multiple timezones?

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 8 Aug 2013 22:23:23 -0700, Donald Russell wrote: zVM 6.1 (6.2 coming) The system runs with a UTC timezone, but it would be convenient if I had a userid that could run in a different time zone. UTC doesn't change with Daylight Saving Time, and I have a process I want to schedule at a

Re: Multiple timezones?

2013-08-09 Thread Donald Russell
H, yes, I can run Linux, and in fact have Linux running in the same lpar already. I can just create a Linux Userid (no need for another linux instance) and set their time zone accordingly and use a cron tab to trigger the event. Brilliant! Thanks for the tip. :-) Donald Russell On Friday,

Re: The z/OS V2.1 Migration PDF available

2013-08-09 Thread Bonno, Tuco
most emphatic ditto to what Louis Losee said, with this addendum: ... and doing so is driving me nuts /s/ tuco bonno; Graduate, College of Conflict Management; University of SouthEast Asia; I partied on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - tiến lên !! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: determine sysplex name in use

2013-08-09 Thread Peter Relson
If doing it from a program, you can go one of the complicated routes of - Using IXCQUERY REQINFO=COUPLE,PLEXNAME=outputplexname or - Using ASASYMBM to substitute for SYSPLEX or you can go the easy route of looking at ECVTSPLX. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design

Certificate for FTPS Support to IBM

2013-08-09 Thread Mark Jacobs
This might be a dumb question, but is the process to obtain the certificate for FTPS the same as it is for HTTPS ( ShopZSeries Certificate Order)? Did I also read something where IBM's statement that they're shutting off their FTP servers and forcing FTPS at the end of next month is being

RES: How GET a Return Code from a Caller.

2013-08-09 Thread Sérgio Lima Costa
Hello Lizette. How are you? Our REXX is running undex Z/VM, and now is ok. Thanks very much, and very glad see you here again. Grretings from São Paulo - Brazil. Sergio -Mensagem original- De: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Em nome de Lizette

Why computer languages need to have specific parsing rules and exact semantics.

2013-08-09 Thread John McKown
OK, this isn't really about a computer language. It is a joke from Reader's Digest, in English. But it makes a good point as to why semantics is important. Wife: Go to the store and buy a quart of milk. If they have avocados, get six. Husband: OK Husband comes back with 6 quarts of milk Wife:

Re: MVS ROUTE command is a bad influence on DB2 ERLY code

2013-08-09 Thread Peter Relson
It would have been helpful to know what sort of approach you were taking to create a new linklist. If you simply defined one and activated it, then it would depend on whether you activated it before or after the DB2 space started. Unless you did an UPDATE in which case nothing can be stated or

FEW VLF RETRIEVES

2013-08-09 Thread Monika Amiss
Dear group, at our shop we use the LLA-freeze-option for all our LLA-Dataset, mostly Lnklst-Datasets but also some non-Lnklst-DS (non-PDS/E). We defined our CSVLLA-Class big enough: CLASS NAME(CSVLLA) EMAJ(LLA) MAXVIRT(131072) but the amount of storage is only

Re: Multiple timezones?

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 01:35:52 -0700, Donald Russell wrote: H, yes, I can run Linux, and in fact have Linux running in the same lpar already. I can just create a Linux Userid (no need for another linux instance) and set their time zone accordingly and use a cron tab to trigger the event.

Re: ECTG usage

2013-08-09 Thread Peter Relson
Therefore, using ECTG when you're not in an disabled state during the entire timing process will not produce the results you want. That is not correct. ECTG was created specifically to avoid the need for disablement. (Pretty much all other time-related things do need disablement.) Having said

Re: Why computer languages need to have specific parsing rules and exact semantics.

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 06:59:36 -0500, John McKown wrote: Wife: Go to the store and buy a quart of milk. If they have avocados, get six. Husband: OK Husband comes back with 6 quarts of milk Wife: What? Why did you get 6 quarts of milk? Husband: They had avocados. Obviously the husband is a systems

Re: Why computer languages need to have specific parsing rules and exact semantics.

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Mills
Promote all employees in pay grade A to pay grade B. Then promote all employees in pay grade B to pay grade C. These days, more likely Rightsize all employees in pay grade C to pay grade B. Then rightsize all employees in pay grade B to pay grade A. Charles -Original Message- From:

Re: Is there a TSS mailing list?

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Mills
Hmmm. How active is the list? I went through the sign-up including sending a justification to Joe Denison, Moderator, tssadmin-ow...@yahoogroups.com over 24 hours ago and have heard nothing back. Does anyone know Joe? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Is there a TSS mailing list?

2013-08-09 Thread Ken Porowski
Last message I got was in 2011 CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc. or its

Re: determine sysplex name in use

2013-08-09 Thread Ted MacNEIL
IIRC, one of the 'Z' variable in ISPF contains the active SYSPLEX name and another the current SYSID. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -Original Message- From: Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

z10 Memory

2013-08-09 Thread Longnecker, Dennis
Since IBM dropped the z10 from marketing, it seems impossible to get anything done to the box from them. Does anyone know if it is possible to acquire memory, from a third party, and have it put in the z10 and be actually operational? I'm told everything is done via microcode now and IBM

z/TPF question

2013-08-09 Thread Sam Siegel
Hi - Does anyone know if zIIP engines can be used with z/TPF? Thanks, Sam -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Is there a TSS mailing list?

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Mills
Hmmm. http://www.linkedin.com/in/joedenison last update 2010. Company Web site still active at least. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 12:33 PM To:

Re: Is there a TSS mailing list?

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Mills
This looks a little more active. There was a TSS-specific post in July, for example. (It is a CA Z security products forum and mostly ACF2.) I do see that Joe Denison is active there ... Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: z10 Memory

2013-08-09 Thread Staller, Allan
I don't know about 3rd party support, but if you have minimal storage config (32GB) a different chip is used. The upgrade from 32GB to 32GB requires replacement of *ALL* memory chips and a disruptive outage. HTH, snip Since IBM dropped the z10 from marketing, it seems impossible to get anything

Re: Is there a TSS mailing list?

2013-08-09 Thread Tony Harminc
On 9 August 2013 12:32, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com wrote: Last message I got was in 2011 There was one topic in March 2013, and about 15 separate topics in 2012, so it's perhaps not quite as dead as that. Tony H. -- For

Re: z/TPF question

2013-08-09 Thread zMan
Given that there seem to be NO documents that discuss it, I'd say No. And that makes sense -- TPF shops have deep pockets, and IBM isn't interested in curing that (well, they're interested in it in the sense of transferring the money to IBM, but not in the sense of doing TPF shops any favors!).

Re: Why computer languages need to have specific parsing rules and exact semantics.

2013-08-09 Thread zMan
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: And this may have have been reported here, or it may be urban legend: A shop set a task scheduled, at 0159 on a certain Sunday in Fall, to reset the localtime to 0059. Employees were astonished to come to work at 0730

Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread Roberto Halais
Listers: We are doing a VSE to z/OS conversion and had to do the following since we have no source. We punched out a CIL phase from a VSE system. We put the phase in a z/os pds member (lrecl 80) and it looked like this: Phase modname ESD TXT RLD END /* We edited the phase so that it looked

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Mills
I would think what you described might well work. I don't see any inherent flaws in the process. RLD cards are documented and not at all impossible to decode. You could post the offending RLD here (in hex) and I'm sure folks would love to demonstrate their skills. You could also try a

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread Roberto Halais
Charles: Thank you for your comments. I cannot identify the offending RLD. I'll revise the loading procedure to see if I garbled the RLD. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I would think what you described might well work. I don't see any inherent flaws

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread efinnell15
Couple things to check. BLKSIZE less than 3200. Nulls off. FF is like EOL for editor with Nulls on. HLASM also has disassembler but have never used on conversion attempts. In a message dated 8/9/2013 3:36:08 PM Central Daylight Time, roberto.hal...@gmail.com writes: I'll revise the loading

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread Hardee, Chuck
I don't know if what you are attempting to do will work. There are most likely VCONs to VSE transients that aren't going to be resolved in z/OS. Also, I believe there are structures like COMREG that won't translate to OS because they aren't there, at least not by name and not by location though

Re: Why computer languages need to have specific parsing rules and exact semantics.

2013-08-09 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:12 -0500 on 08/09/2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Why computer languages need to have specific parsing ru: On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 06:59:36 -0500, John McKown wrote: Wife: Go to the store and buy a quart of milk. If they have avocados, get six. Husband: OK Husband comes back with 6

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Mills
I cannot identify the offending RLD. Ah. I had thought the link editor printed offending cards. I know what I am thinking of -- if it can't identify the card at all it prints the first three bytes in hex. How many RLD cards are there? You could delete from the bottom until you found the

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-09 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
you wrote: shortening the functions' names to 8, upper case characters, COBOL API, etc. I suggest you consider adding #pragma maps for the long function names; if you do this, you don't need to change nothing else. I simply add an #include file containing the #pragma maps for the function

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread Charles Mills
Well sure, absolutely, lots of VSE things won't work in z/OS: COMREG and any other control block chasing DTFs Most or all SVCs including the one that ends a jobstep program I was assuming the OP knew that and that this was somehow pure non-OS code. But you're right, if it's an executable phase

Re: Why computer languages need to have specific parsing rules and exact semantics.

2013-08-09 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
I think this is called the Halloween problem, which is in some respect similar: update emp set salary = salary * 1.05 where salary 2.0; in some of the first test releases of System R, when the index on column salary was used in this update, the salary of - say - 1 was first updated to

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread Roberto Halais
I guess you all are correct. We will try the disassembler route. Thank you all for your pointers. (By the way I tried all the stuff some of you suggested but got same message.) It was a good try. Thank you again. On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Well

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread Ed Gould
Chuck, *WAY BACK* in the 70's I used to punch out the macro definitions and put them into a PDS (had to write a quick and dirty pgm to create ./ add name= and insert them before each MACRO definitions. Then I assembled DOS pgms on OS/360 (MFT if it matters) and took the object decks and

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread Hardee, Chuck
Yep, been there, done that too. Now that you mention it, maybe the OP should think about doing that as well after the disassembled source is available. I used to work for a software vendor and we distributed a VSE version of our product and we had macros like that as well as some in-house

Re: z/TPF question

2013-08-09 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 8/9/2013 10:13 AM, Sam Siegel wrote: Hi - Does anyone know if zIIP engines can be used with z/TPF? AFAIK, zAAP and zIIP are intended for z/OS only, ICF is intended for CFCC only, and IFL is intended for Linux only. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 8/9/2013 1:13 PM, Roberto Halais wrote: We punched out a CIL phase from a VSE system. [snip] We then tried to linkedit the phase with IEWL and got the following messages: Even if you could get this program through the binder, what are the chances it will work? How many programs don't

Re: Is there a TSS mailing list?

2013-08-09 Thread Lizette Koehler
On the CA Support forum under MYCA The Mainframe Security Global User Community is a global virtual CA customer community focused on CA ACF2, CA Top Secret, CA Cleanup and CA Auditor for z/OS (formerly CA-Examine Auditing). Has updates from the last few weeks. Fairly active Lizette

Re: Is there a TSS mailing list?

2013-08-09 Thread Rob Schramm
You can always send me an email. If I know the TSS answer.. I will give it to you. I do seem to have a knack for trying to use features that aren't quite ready. Rob Schramm On Aug 9, 2013 6:54 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: On the CA Support forum under MYCA The

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-09 Thread David Crayford
Does COBOL support GOFF so you can just use the long names? Seems like a lot of unnecessary work shortening names. Uppercase can be done by the binder UPCASE option. On 10/08/2013, at 5:00 AM, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de wrote: you wrote: shortening the functions' names to

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 07:29:44 +0800, David Crayford wrote: Does COBOL support GOFF so you can just use the long names? Seems like a lot of unnecessary work shortening names. Uppercase can be done by the binder UPCASE option. If this is the upper case option I've encountered, it makes things

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-09 Thread David Crayford
That's the one CASE(MIXED), UPPER is the default. On 10/08/2013, at 7:35 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 07:29:44 +0800, David Crayford wrote: Does COBOL support GOFF so you can just use the long names? Seems like a lot of unnecessary work shortening

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-09 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Normally, if you compile C sources you got from somewhere on z/OS using the more classical compiler options, this is no problem, unless you have external function names that are longer than 8 characters and that don't differ in their first 8 characters, and for such situations, #pragma map is

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-09 Thread David Crayford
Yes I'm familiar with #pragma map and I use it for CEEBINT LE user exits. It may be preferable to COBOL programmer who prefer 8 char names because of inertia but I personally would prefer to use mixed case long names. On 10/08/2013, at 7:52 AM, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de wrote:

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-09 Thread Chuck Arney
The exact same thread is going on over on the VSE list. Pretty much the same answers too! Chuck Arney Arney Computer Systems On Aug 9, 2013, at 3:13 PM, Roberto Halais roberto.hal...@gmail.com wrote: Listers: We are doing a VSE to z/OS conversion and had to do the following since we have

Re: The z/OS V2.1 Migration PDF available

2013-08-09 Thread Marna WALLE
I'm sorry...I am really dense. I'm not following what dual columns are. Are you referring to the template table that is used after the Description, and before the Steps to Take? Is it something else that just now appears in the z/OS V2R1 Migration book, or has it been there all along? I

Re: The z/OS V2.1 Migration PDF available

2013-08-09 Thread Marna WALLE
Hi Timothy, It is unlikely that we'd put an unsupported coexistence path in the book - even as a checklist of items. As you know, you can see what one of those jumps would look like by putting a couple of books together. We'll keep all the documentation out there for you, though :). As the

COBOL names was Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-09 Thread Clark Morris
On 9 Aug 2013 17:02:54 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Yes I'm familiar with #pragma map and I use it for CEEBINT LE user exits. It may be preferable to COBOL programmer who prefer 8 char names because of inertia but I personally would prefer to use mixed case long names. Most COBOL

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-09 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
There was a time when there were no fancy compiler options like DLL, RENT, LONGNAME etc., and even then C programs had to be (and could be) ported to the mainframe, and that's the time when I started that business, and #pragma map was my primary option. As long as we are in the C world,

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 03:53:17 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: There was a time when there were no fancy compiler options like DLL, RENT, LONGNAME etc., and even then C programs had to be (and could be) ported to the mainframe, and that's the time when I started that business, and #pragma map was my

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-09 Thread David Crayford
On 10/08/2013 9:53 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: There was a time when there were no fancy compiler options like DLL, RENT, LONGNAME etc., and even then C programs had to be (and could be) ported to the mainframe, and that's the time when I started that business, and #pragma map was my primary

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-09 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Am 10.08.2013 05:01, schrieb Paul Gilmartin: On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 03:53:17 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: There was a time when there were no fancy compiler options like DLL, RENT, LONGNAME etc., and even then C programs had to be (and could be) ported to the mainframe, and that's the time when I

Re: Multiple timezones?

2013-08-09 Thread Donald Russell
Thanks Paul, Yes, a quick experiment found that to be true. And my workaround was just what you did, use the at command. Too bad cron doesn't respect the tz of the cron tab owner But apparently there is something called fcron which does. But vanilla cron + at should work fine for what I

Re: The z/OS V2.1 Migration PDF available

2013-08-09 Thread Louis Losee
Each page of the manual is formatted into two columns (like a newspaper. When you finish reading the first column (on the left half of the page) you then have to scroll up to see the start of the column of the right half of the page to continue reading. Most IBM manuals (with the notable