On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 12:44:42 -0500, Rob Schramm rob.schr...@gmail.com wrote:
Does it really matter as much as it used to? The amount of cache on a dasd
subsystem and overall i/o seems more relevant for paging spikes. Not that
i am advocating a complete dismissal of all the normal
Timothy Sipples wrote:
1A. Users want Web-based access, OK. May I assume that means (or could soon
mean) mobile as well (iPads, Android devices, and so on)?
Can you do SSL connection on those toys? [1]
[1] - I have a free TN3270 client [2] on my iPhone 5 and connected it via a SSL
port using
Hi,
Another idea is to implement a VPN Gateway.
So the mobile device connect to the VPN Gateway via certificates. The VPN
connection would be encrypted. There are solutions by companies which could be
a manditory app install on the mobile devices for monitoring what is installed
there and
Nathan (and maybe any other youngster)
I think if you have some problem, you will get every support from this
newsgroup list , and if you need,
personally from me also.
Glad to see young people here.
On 06.01.2014 19:44, Nathan J Pfister wrote:
Harry has a good point. I am a 26 year old
All,
My history with z/OS is more about performance and tuning, rather than
hardcore sysprogging.
Tuning is almost always about doing it a new way, and I only wish there were
more newbies in this field with no preconceived ideas about how it has
always worked. Back when I was not Mr Congeniality
Rob,
You are correct, writes are done to cache or NVS are very fast until the
dirty cache full threshold is hit.
Then writes are done to cache are done very slowly. If you don't have paging
in its own cache partition then other host writes are delayed.
Paging IO used to be the cache IO from
Some good solutions there Denis. Although for modern web services EJBs
are a little bit bloated. It would be much better to have a lightweight
framework like Spring. It seems to me that the mainframe (z/OS) is
seriously lagging behind on that front. The whole SOA SOAP/WSDL approach
is
On 4/01/2014 7:15 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
One possibility: an XML document with a grammar that included elements for
each data type used by SMF records, including dates, timestamps, triplet
defined structures, etc. You could then have utilities or XSL style
sheets that generated language
You might want to put this issue to the IMS list.
im...@imslistserv.bmc.com
Mark Hammond
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I also work for a legacy migration company. Please feel free to contact me
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On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 16:56 -0500, Sanya Off wrote:
I wonder if some of you may share the experience and opinions with regards
to approaching a grand task of making an old IMS-based monster application
more friendlier to users and developers:
We use Rocket's Legasuite screen scraper. (And do
Hi:
I have a question regarding JCL and date variables. I need to run a job daily,
whose output must be written to a partitionned dataset with a member name
referring to the day before job execution.
Example:
If the job runs today, january 7 of 2014, it must create the member F140106 (
and
As far as know, this is not possible using only JCL.
You will have to use a separate job to either create the full job, or a small
section that will be included.
Any job scheduler will be able to do this easily.
Gadi
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You could do it with a Rexx script that built the JCL and then submitted it.
You could do it with a front-end written in assembler, or probably Rexx or
COBOL, that created the file name in program logic, dynamically allocated
it, and then called your existing processing program.
But no, there is
Amen, Chris. Great point. I remember a colleague of mine, at IBM, in 1972, new
to her job in the programming center, as I was in the the Project Office, who
told me: there is so much stuff left in the operating system ( her department
was the FLIHs, the first level interrupt handlers) from
On 12/28/2013 5:42 AM, Steve Comstock wrote:
On 12/28/2013 4:42 AM, jan de decker wrote:
Hi list,
I corrected the errors that Steve found but to no avail.
The structure of the file system on the HTTP server is
/jedsp/web/pub
underneath are directories for cgi, css and images
The HTML is
Years ago I created an application that somewhat resembled your
requirement. I had to read a file that contained various values and
write each variable value as a PDSE member whose member name reflected
that value. I used DFSORT to create an 'include' member of DD cards
containing the
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 06:09:37 -0800, Juan Mautalen jgmauta...@yahoo.com.ar
wrote:
Hi:
�
I have a question regarding JCL and date variables. I need to run a job daily,
whose output must be written to a partitionned dataset with a member name
referring to the day before job execution.
�
Example:
Juan Mautalen wrote:
I have a question regarding JCL and date variables. I need to run a job daily,
whose output must be written to a partitionned dataset with a member name
referring to the day before job execution.
Can you not use automation software? Control-M and others, for example, can
Daniel Skwire wrote:
with Carol S.
Carol Srna? She was active on IBM-MAIN some time ago.
Groete / Greetings
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On 07/01/2014, at 6:57 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote:
The first step to successful diagnosing and repair of a software failure
is to be certain it IS a software issue and not some random hardware
glitch. This is made more difficult in the Intel world by the very
thing that makes
No, sorry, not Carol Srna. I don't know her.
But which Carol S. is not nearly as important as recognizing the desire by the
kids to 'clean up that old stuff' with 'something better', not realizing that
working code (that is documented and whose source code is available, and is
still
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 06:09:37 -0800, Juan Mautalen wrote:
�
Example:
If the job runs today, january 7 of 2014, it must create�the member�F140106 (
and not F140107). That is because the job processes information from the day
before (and not from the day it is indeed running).
�
Is there a way to
Dan Skwire wrote:
No, sorry, not Carol Srna. I don't know her.
Oh, ok. Sorry for wasting your precious time. I was just wondering.
But which Carol S. is not nearly as important as recognizing the desire by the
kids to 'clean up that old stuff' with 'something better', not realizing that
As mentioned by others, you must write such a feature yourself.
We have this as follows:
- Each day a member is created in proclib that contains a large number of SET
statements, with all possible date variations required by production jobs.
- Each production job contains an // INCLUDE
Sorry for the bad JCL example, this asks for last month's SMF data.
Kees.
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Subject: RE: JCL and date variables
As mentioned by others, you must write such a feature
In 50b183ed-12c8-4404-915c-4ce8217f2...@yahoo.com, on 01/06/2014
at 03:54 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said:
I agree, a lot of the young kids don't want to dig thru doc ,
research or learn how hardware and software work.
Sure, but is it a higher percentage than for the older folks?
In 20140106191027.17d7b33...@panix2.panix.com, on 01/06/2014
at 02:10 PM, Don Poitras poit...@pobox.com said:
Sure it does.
No; you're giving the right answer to the wrong question.
From the help file:
That confirms what Hank and I wrote. Specifically, However, when you
invoke SDSF as a TSO
In
cajb5jbtq_vynhg012mbaqvk4sfy+uwuehprfqvbx7hty4zi...@mail.gmail.com,
on 01/06/2014
at 04:56 PM, Sanya Off sanya...@gmail.com said:
I wonder if some of you may share the experience and opinions with
regards to approaching a grand task of making an old IMS-based
monster application more
Try doing this:
(1) Run a job that does nothing except dynamically construct the JCL for the
real job. The jobstep would get the system date and then do the date
subtraction to calculate the member name. The generated JCL would then be
submitted via the internal reader.
(2) The dynamically
dcrayf...@gmail.com (David Crayford) writes:
Is that still the case today? Even cheap x86 blades have machine check
architecture which can signal software on hardware failures. It must
be over a decade or so since IBM started stuffing mainframe quality
RAM modules into x86 servers, chipkill
I agree with Joel. PC based platforms in my experience has been very hardware
error prone, maybe due to the components. Like Joel, I haven't seen a hardware
failure in the Z/OS world since the 70s.
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
from my IPAD
On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:59 AM, David Crayford
Hi
Searching for the program directory for z/OS 1.13.
Any standard place or naming convention for this ?
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Agreed, but they also have work ethic and desire
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On Jan 6, 2014, at 8:03 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
In 50b183ed-12c8-4404-915c-4ce8217f2...@yahoo.com, on 01/06/2014
at 03:54 PM, Scott Ford
Would this link work?
http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US
FNC=SRXPBL=GI10-0670-13
Lizette
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On 07.01.2014 17:17, Lizette Koehler wrote:
http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US
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Yes super, thank you Lizette and Happy New Year
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On Jan 6, 2014, at 7:57 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
In 20140106191027.17d7b33...@panix2.panix.com, on 01/06/2014
at 02:10 PM, Don Poitras poit...@pobox.com said:
The following scenario: machine 2817-607 is planned to be upgraded to
model 2817-706.
It is CPU power upgrade in terms of MSU or MIPS, but it is also
reduction of # of CPUs by one.
So, in some sense it will be deactivation of one of the CPs.
It is quite obvious that LPAR using *this one* CP
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes:
slight topic drift ... Why Programmers Work At Night
http://www.businessinsider.com/why-programmers-work-at-night-2013-1
and old post with Real Programmers Don't Eat Quiche
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001e.html#31
Real Programmers never work 9
Juan,
If you are comfortable submitting the job to INTRDR then the following
DFSORT JCL will generate the dynamic JCL. verify the output from step0100
and if everything looks good then , change the following statement
//SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=*
to
//SORTOUT DD SYSOUT=(*,INTRDR),RECFM=FB
This
Might want to start here:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.iean100%2Flgspec.htm
Thanks;
Nathan Pfister
zOS Systems Programmer
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Date:
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 17:45:35 +0100, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote:
The following scenario: machine 2817-607 is planned to be upgraded to
model 2817-706.
It is CPU power upgrade in terms of MSU or MIPS, but it is also
Hello,
I am looking where the logstream definitions are for the RRS logstream data
sets. In particular, I am looking for the definitions
for RM.METADATA, including what the size should be for STG_SIZE and LS_SIZE
Thank you.
I haven't looked before asking this question (cardinal sin perhaps), but
the thread on stand alone dump performance made me wonder if there is a
performance guideline for number of page data sets. The last number i
recall was minimum of 6 with no more than 2 on a volume.
Rob Schramm
On Jan 7,
All:
Darren seems to be alive but it isn't clear who is in charge.
So no real answer to the original question is not answered.
Thanks for whoever suggested that Darren be contacted.
Ed
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I am not persuaded that age is the fundamental issue here. Age
disparities can be valuable. Whitehead's much quoted rationale,
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection
between knowledge and the zest for life, by uniting the young and the
old in the imaginative
John,
You agree it's work ethic and willingness to learn ?
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
from my IPAD
On Jan 7, 2014, at 1:08 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote:
I am not persuaded that age is the fundamental issue here. Age
disparities can be valuable. Whitehead's much
Charles,
We wrote a Top-Secret cfile to XML file converter. The DSECT utility you
mentioned gives me more ideas..
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
from my IPAD
On Jan 3, 2014, at 4:52 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:
Yeah, and world peace, too. g
On a more serious note, you
For once I can say about John Gilmore's statement. Well put.
Duffy
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On Jan 7, 2014, at 10:08 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote:
I am not persuaded that age is the fundamental issue here. Age
disparities can be valuable. Whitehead's much quoted rationale,
The
I wished someone could explain the HUGE delay I see in my messages posting
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
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On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:59 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote:
All:
Darren seems to be alive but it isn't clear who is in charge.
So no real answer to
Radoslaw,
Do any LPARs have dedicated CPs or are the CPs all shared? I've done what
you describe on a machine with several LPARs, but none with dedicated CPs.
Do any LPARs have the same number of logical processors defined as
physical processors installed?
In our case (504 to 703 and back
I'm just thinking out loud here ...
Create the dataset under some generic name - and then in the last? step run a
utility to rename to the desired final dsn ???
Idcams?
Iehprogm ?
Where the input to the utility is run-time creatable
Chris hoelscher
Technology Architect | Database
If you are running a very old level of IMS that still requires DFSMRCL0
(aka Mr. Clean), my suggestion would be to add a library to the very
end of the link list that contains a copy of IEFBR14 renamed to
DFSMRCL0. On systems with IMS, the real DFSMRCL0 in RESLIB will be
found in the link
ISPF has had File tailoring for 3 decades. Symbolic variables, arithmetic
expressions, boolean logic, MODEL templates. Oh well, G.O.F's down and
dirty
In a message dated 1/7/2014 1:45:27 P.M. Central Standard Time,
choelsc...@humana.com writes:
Create the dataset under some generic
There's an IEFUJV exit available on www.cbttape.org (sorry, I don't
remember the file number), that performs symbolic substitution in batch
jobs, including mathematical operations on date fields. An example is;
// SET LASTWEEK=ZJDATE-7.
This Will Give You The Julian Date For One Week Ago From
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 15:04:47 -0500, Mark Jacobs wrote:
There's an IEFUJV exit available on www.cbttape.org (sorry, I don't
remember the file number), that performs symbolic substitution in batch
jobs, including mathematical operations on date fields. An example is;
// SET LASTWEEK=ZJDATE-7.
This
On Tue, 7 Jan 2014 14:07:19 -0500, Scott Ford wrote:
I wished someone could explain the HUGE delay I see in my messages posting
I can't. I post usually from the Web; intermittently by email. In either case,
the message usually appears before I can refresh my browser screen.
Looking at the
On 7 January 2014 16:37, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
Why is LISTSERV sending me duplicate message complaints?
It's been doing this with/for/to me consistently for a number of weeks.
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On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote:
On 7 January 2014 16:37, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
Why is LISTSERV sending me
Since ancient times we have associated our in-house VIO esoteric ('VIODA'
for some reason) with a group of arbitrary devices. For decades SMS has
actually managed VIO requests. The defined devices were physically removed
a while back, but we only just now removed them from IODF. Now HCD warns
On 8/01/2014 12:05 AM, Scott Ford wrote:
I agree with Joel. PC based platforms in my experience has been very hardware
error prone, maybe due to the components. Like Joel, I haven't seen a hardware
failure in the Z/OS world since the 70s.
I've seen quite a few hardware failures on
Same here
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
from my IPAD
On Jan 7, 2014, at 5:07 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote:
On 7 January 2014 16:37, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
Why is LISTSERV sending me duplicate message complaints?
It's been doing this with/for/to me
David:
This goes back to the late 70's. We had a 168MP that after
installation got intermittent S0C4's. It seemed related to load of
the system.
The CE diagnostic's couldn't find a thing.
One of our sysprogs wrote a reasonably S0C4 proof program (It did a
load and delete of IEF21WSD
Scott Ford wrote:
Like Joel, I haven't seen a hardware failure in the Z/OS world since the 70s.
Lucky you. I wrote on IBM-MAIN in May/June 2013 about Channel Errors which
caused SMF damage amongst other problems.
These channel errors were caused by bad optic cables and some directors/routers.
Ed,
You're original question to the list, and I quote verbatim: Is the owner
of IBM-MAIN alive or dead?
Darren's first sentence in his response: Yes, Ed, I'm still alive.
What part of your original question was not answered?
Ron
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