Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-13 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 19:45 -0500 on 02/13/2014, Micheal Butz wrote about Re: WER027A control field beyond record: SORT FIELDS=(150,4,4,4,A,158,17,A),FORMAT=BI MODS.E35=(SORTEX,2,STEPLIB) END There are a number of records less than 158 Thanks Sent from my iPhone I assume that your records are V not F

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-13 Thread Chip
You can place is in a $ortparm dd statement. Send me a message off line and I'll make sure we get it working Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 13, 2014, at 8:57 PM, Micheal Butz wrote: > > I just have SORT FIELDS= > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Feb 13, 2014, at 8:55 PM, "Longabaugh, Robert E"

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-13 Thread Micheal Butz
I just have SORT FIELDS= Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 13, 2014, at 8:55 PM, "Longabaugh, Robert E" > wrote: > > From many years ago I remember using EXEC PGM=SYNCSORT,PARM='VLTEST=0' in the > JCL for sorting SMF records. > > I think VLTESTI is if you are using INCLUDE or OMIT. > > > -O

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-13 Thread Longabaugh, Robert E
>From many years ago I remember using EXEC PGM=SYNCSORT,PARM='VLTEST=0' in the >JCL for sorting SMF records. I think VLTESTI is if you are using INCLUDE or OMIT. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Micheal Butz Sent: Thu

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-13 Thread Gibney, Dave
It's a parm on the EXEC (I think :) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Micheal Butz > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 5:40 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: WER027A control field beyond record > > VL

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-13 Thread Micheal Butz
VLTESTI=1. Cannt figure out were it goes Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 13, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Alan Field wrote: > > Isn't there a VLSHORT keyword you can specify that will prevent this > error? > > Alan Field > Technical Engineer Principal > BCBS Minnesota > > Phone: 651.662.3546 Mobile: 6

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-13 Thread Alan Field
Isn't there a VLSHORT keyword you can specify that will prevent this error? Alan Field Technical Engineer Principal BCBS Minnesota Phone: 651.662.3546 Mobile: 651.428.8826 From: "Micheal Butz" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 02/13/2014 18:46 Subject:Re: WER027A contr

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-13 Thread Micheal Butz
SORT FIELDS=(150,4,4,4,A,158,17,A),FORMAT=BI MODS.E35=(SORTEX,2,STEPLIB) END There are a number of records less than 158 Thanks Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 13, 2014, at 7:30 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > > Michael: > > There are several possibilities, but from no real description on what yo

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-13 Thread Ed Gould
Michael: There are several possibilities, but from no real description on what you are doing its difficult to suggest anything. ie no display of sort control cards etc... Ed On Feb 13, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Micheal Butz wrote: Seems like one of my sort fields maybe beyond a short record Anyt

WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-13 Thread Micheal Butz
Seems like one of my sort fields maybe beyond a short record Anything I can do about this This Sent from my iPhone -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with t

Re: IBM and International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) Collaborate to Advance Adoption of EPUB Format for Enterprise Publications - Yahoo Finance

2014-02-13 Thread Scott Ford
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Re: IBM and International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) Collaborate to Advance Adoption of EPUB Format for Enterprise Publications - Yahoo Finance

2014-02-13 Thread John McKown
I've noticed that many of the Redbooks are now in epub as well as PDF format. Makes them easier to read on my tablet. I like reading on my tablet. Of course, it is a 10.1 inch one. My Kindle DX was better, but it has broken . On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > http://finance.yah

IBM and International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) Collaborate to Advance Adoption of EPUB Format for Enterprise Publications - Yahoo Finance

2014-02-13 Thread Ed Gould
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Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-13 Thread John Gilmore
The COBOL is Enterprise Version 5 under z/OS 2.1. My apologies for appearing to confound operating system and compiler version numbers. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access i

Re: Users of CSP and its successor migrating to COBOL 5.1

2014-02-13 Thread Clark Morris
On 13 Feb 2014 09:21:18 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:24:44 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: > >>Clarke Morris wrote: >> >> >>The problem is not the compiler options used for the COBOL generation >>of CSP programs, the problem is the compiler options of the programs

Re: Users of CSP and its successor migrating to COBOL 5.1

2014-02-13 Thread Clark Morris
On 13 Feb 2014 09:35:50 -0800, tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com (Tom Ross) wrote: >>If other programs that handle files created by CSP (and maybe its >>successors) were using NUMPROC(MIG) because it was more efficient than >>NUMPROC(NOPFD), then those programs may have to be recompiled with >>NUMPROC(N

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-13 Thread John Gilmore
Massimo, I have not been able to reproduce your problem, but I am almost certainly not doing exactly what you are doing. When I open a COBOL 2.1 [INDEXED DYNAMIC] file for input, I get input processing 1, output processing 0; when I open it for output, I get input processing 0, output processing

Re: Users of CSP and its successor migrating to COBOL 5.1

2014-02-13 Thread Tom Ross
>If other programs that handle files created by CSP (and maybe its >successors) were using NUMPROC(MIG) because it was more efficient than >NUMPROC(NOPFD), then those programs may have to be recompiled with >NUMPROC(NOPFD) because there can be problems. I ran into that with a >program that for wha

Re: Users of CSP and its successor migrating to COBOL 5.1

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:24:44 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: >Clarke Morris wrote: > > >The problem is not the compiler options used for the COBOL generation >of CSP programs, the problem is the compiler options of the programs >that use the output from CSP programs. > > >and I disagree. The problem h

Re: Users of CSP and its successor migrating to COBOL 5.1

2014-02-13 Thread Ed Gould
On Feb 13, 2014, at 9:24 AM, John Gilmore wrote: Clarke Morris wrote: SNIP-- John Gilmore replied: More generally, the traditional COBOL-shop aversion to recompiling is one that urgently needs to be discarded. It was never sensible, and it is no longe

Query group capacity settings

2014-02-13 Thread zman
Hi all, I'm writing a program to query some system information. With SYSEVENT QVS I'm able to get the defined capacity and actual 4hr usage. Is there any way (macro function or control block) to get the Capacity Group the Lpar is belonging to and the Capacity limit for that group? Thanks f

Re: Users of CSP and its successor migrating to COBOL 5.1

2014-02-13 Thread John Gilmore
Clarke Morris wrote: The problem is not the compiler options used for the COBOL generation of CSP programs, the problem is the compiler options of the programs that use the output from CSP programs. and I disagree. The problem here is one of incoherence. All of the COBOL programs that access

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:42:32 -0500, Thomas H Puddicombe wrote: >If your application didn't want any storage, why did it waste the system >service's time by asking for none? > It might be that the size is variable, as John G. suggested, and 0 is so unlikely that it is on average a greater waste of

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread DASDBILL2
These legacy constructs were known as model DSCBs, not model DCBs.  I used them a few times long ago. Bill Fairchild - Original Message - From: "Thomas H Puddicombe" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 8:46:35 AM Subject: Re: Storage Obtain . It ha

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
No "S", (g,d,r) The model DSCBs - all allocated with SPACE=(TRK,0) - did at least once result in a full VTOC making the rest of the space on the volume unusable. Vacation Notice: None currently scheduled Tom Puddicombe Principal Systems Engineer Mainframe Performance & Capacity Planning C

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
It has been tested - and validated - long ago, when GDG datasets had to have model DCBs (this discovery lead to programmers being required to code a default model DCB name in the JCL DD statement) until the model dcb requirement was lifted many years later. Vacation Notice: None currently sch

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
If your application didn't want any storage, why did it waste the system service's time by asking for none? Vacation Notice: None currently scheduled Tom Puddicombe Principal Systems Engineer Mainframe Performance & Capacity Planning CSC 31 Brookdale Rd, Meriden, CT 06450 ITIS | (860) 428-

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <033a01cf2784$19dffdf0$4d9ff9d0$@TheThomasResidence.us>, on 02/11/2014 at 05:50 PM, Jim Thomas said: > MSTA R0 > MSTA R12 What are you trying to do? The second MSTA replaces the data stored by the first. > L R11,PSAAOLD-PSA > SETLOCK OBTAIN,

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <035b01cf27fa$791cc6b0$6b565410$@TheThomasResidence.us>, on 02/12/2014 at 07:58 AM, Jim Thomas said: >Twice because the first is for R0,R1 and the second is for R12,R13. Isn't there just a single slot in the stack frame, so that the second overlays the first? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

Re: Was: Implicit VVDS creation now: FDR & VVDS's

2014-02-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 02/12/2014 at 07:44 AM, John McKown said: >I thought FDR was the product (Fast Dump Restore) and IDP (Innovation >Data Processing) was the company. Whoops! The mind is the second thing to go (I can't remember the first.) -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <035901cf27f9$5ee6d5c0$1cb48140$@TheThomasResidence.us>, on 02/12/2014 at 07:50 AM, Jim Thomas said: >It's the workarea length ... 004C0 105 LCLDSCTL EQU >*-LCLDSECT LENGTH OF LOCAL WORK AREA 0041 That depends on what "it" is; >> L R1,=AL4(WORKAREA) What is W

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread John Gilmore
Two rather different situations need to be distinguished here. There is 1) the case of code that always executes a STORAGE OBTAIN (or GETMAIN) requesting zero bytes of storage, and there is 2) the case of code that executes a STORAGE OBTAIN (or GETMAIN) for a calculated number of bytes B, where B

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:10:54 +, DASDBILL2 wrote: > >This sounds like something that should be tested to make sure it would work >this way. > Ah! Found it: https://listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0910&L=ibm-main&P=84168 (presumably space was available for DSCBs. Presumably STORAGE OB

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:10:54 +, DASDBILL2 wrote: >If you are allocating such a data set with disposition=new, the request will >fail if there is not at least one available (Format 0) DSCB in the VTOC which >z/OS can change into a Format 1 DSCB in which to save all the information >about you

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread DASDBILL2
If you are allocating such a data set with disposition=new, the request will fail if there is not at least one available (Format 0) DSCB in the VTOC which z/OS can change into a Format 1 DSCB in which to save all the information about your new data set that occupies no real space.  At least the

Re: Storage Obtain .....

2014-02-13 Thread DASDBILL2
In a theoretical computer science class, one could debate the validity of requesting 0 bytes of storage or of "successfully" acquiring 0 bytes of storage.  In the real world, such an event should be an error, but this quirk is not going to be changed by IBM because of incompatibility issues.  So

SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-13 Thread Massimo Biancucci
Hi all, we started analyzing SMF62 to trace which A.S. use VSAM datasets and their intent (Read or Update). To do the task we analyze the SMF62MC1 flag (zOS 1.13). So, a Cobol program does the following: .. SELECT ARCAPPU ASSIGN TOTITAR02U