Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread Massimo Biancucci
Hi John, it's the same for me. Sometimes I get the right behaviour and other times no ! The COBOL program does the OPEN I-O and the SMF64 states the step did both READ and UPDATE (the flag in the SMF64 is coherently incoherent). Look at the SMF64 record below. In my understanding, if at CLOSE

Re: Default OMVS segment

2014-02-14 Thread venkat kulkarni
Hello, I am trying to setup BPX.UNIQUE.USER. While upgrading RACf template, I am getting below issues. //RACFAIM JOB (657),'VENKAT',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,NOTIFY=SYSUID //STEP EXEC PGM=IRRIRA00,PARM=STAGE(3) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* IRR66017I The system is currently operating in stage 2.

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:55:27 +0100, Massimo Biancucci wrote: 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

Re: Query group capacity settings

2014-02-14 Thread Scott Chapman
Since RMF has it, I would presume that it's in a control block somewhere, but where I can't say. Maybe it's only internal to RMF. If you have the RMF Distributed Dataserver up, you can access: http://{rmfsys}:{port}/gpm/reports/CPC?resource=,{lpar},MVS_IMAGE Where {rmfsys} is the system where

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread John Gilmore
Is this [SMF record] flags byte recording behavior? Or is it recording [only] open option(s) specified? If the latter, should not opening for update set both the IN and the OUT bits? How otherwise is the specification of update reflected in this byte? I think Massimo has an adequate basis for

RACF AIM Stage 3 Issue

2014-02-14 Thread venkat kulkarni
Hello, I am trying to setup BPX.UNIQUE.USER. While upgrading RACF template, I am getting below issues. //RACFAIM JOB (657),'VENKAT',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,NOTIFY=SYSUID //STEP EXEC PGM=IRRIRA00,PARM=STAGE(3) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* IRR66017I The system is currently operating in stage 2.

Checking Years( was - Re: Storage Obtain .....)

2014-02-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Lloyd Fuller wrote: Actually in some products quite a lot. Some other applications like your example: 1. Astronomy: (Calculating position/movements of space things from x year/month/day/etc to y year/etc...) 2. Statistics and Mathematics: Census processing of population of people, animals,

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:39:24 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: Is this [SMF record] flags byte recording behavior? Or is it recording [only] open option(s) specified? If the latter, should not opening for update set both the IN and the OUT bits? How otherwise is the specification of update reflected

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-14 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Micheal Butz Seems like one of my sort fields maybe beyond a short record Anything I can do about this DFSORT has an OPTION VLSHRT to handle that situation. I'm confident that Syncsort has something similar if

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread Massimo Biancucci
Thanks to Bill for his update. I agree with John that IBM should better explain the meaning of the byte and, furthermore, the Cobol behaviour. In my opinion, from version to version (or single PTF) the Cobol Behaviour could had been changing. Puzzling ! Thanks to everybody, of course I'll give

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread Martin Packer
It's SMF 64 which gives you a clue as to what actually HAPPENED - with Read, Update, Insert and Delete counters, plus the CI / CA Split counts, level changes etc. No 62. 64 is CLOSE, 62 is OPEN. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Checking Years( was - Re: Storage Obtain .....)

2014-02-14 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Actually NOMAD.  The dates can be stored in NOMAD internal databases, IMS, IDMS, DB2, SQL/VM. And the suggestion to use the input window for dates dated to 1979 or so.  It was actually implemented in the early 1990s.   Lloyd     From: Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: RACF AIM Stage 3 Issue

2014-02-14 Thread Dennis Trojak
Well if you check the manual you'll see that you need to be at STAGE 3 to setup BPX.UNIQUE.USER. RACF Security Administrator's Guide 17.4.2.1 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of venkat kulkarni Sent: Friday, February 14,

Re: RACF AIM Stage 3 Issue

2014-02-14 Thread venkat kulkarni
Yes, I checked it before. It just talked about UNIXMAP class should be active and profile should be defined under that. But the return code Return code 80. Reason code 0. 80 (128) This is a data sharing mode return code. A coupling facility function had a problem when dealing with the ICB talks

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread John Gilmore
Bill, I value your contributions here. They are always appropriately informed, as was your last post in this thread. That said, it seems clear to me beyond argument that the appropriate way to record an open-for-update macro instruction is to set BOTH the in and the out bits, which is not being

Re: RACF AIM Stage 3 Issue

2014-02-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
venkat kulkarni wrote: 80 (128) This is a data sharing mode return code. A coupling facility function had a problem when dealing with the ICB talks about CF with ICB issue, and I have no idea on this to solve this issue. Show us the result of RVARY. Is it in DATASHARE or not? Groete /

Re: RACF AIM Stage 3 Issue

2014-02-14 Thread Dennis Trojak
You are looking at the wrong return code I think. Decimal 80, Hex 50. 50 (80) An attempt was made to update one of the following (by a request other than ALTERI): The RACF database that has been locked by a RACF utility The RACF database from a system that is in read-only mode (in a RACF

Re: RACF AIM Stage 3 Issue

2014-02-14 Thread venkat kulkarni
1) My RACFDB was not locked. 2) Yes, my RACF DB is in SYSPLEX Env. . But how can I check that its in READ only mode. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Dennis Trojak dennis.tro...@radioshack.com wrote: You are looking at the wrong return code I think. Decimal 80, Hex 50. 50 (80) An attempt was

Re: RACF AIM Stage 3 Issue

2014-02-14 Thread Mark Jacobs
Are you sure you're in Sysplex, Data Sharing Mode? On our system it says this; ICH15013I RACF DATABASE STATUS: ACTIVE USE NUM VOLUME DATASET -- --- --- -- --- YES PRIM 1 XRACF1 SYS1.RACF.PRIM.DBASE YES BACK 1 XRACF2 SYS1.RACF.BACK.DBASE MEMBER IS SYSPLEX

Re: RACF AIM Stage 3 Issue

2014-02-14 Thread venkat kulkarni
RACF DATABASE STATUS: ACTIVE USE NUM VOLUME DATASET -- --- --- -- --- YES PRIM 1 RCF051 SYS1.V2R1.RACFP YES BACK 1 RCF052 SYS1.V2R1.RACFB RVARY COMMAND HAS FINISHED PROCESSING. *** On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:16 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 09:43:28 -0500, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Bill, I value your contributions here. They are always appropriately informed, as was your last post in this thread. That said, it seems clear to me beyond argument that the appropriate way to record an open-for-update

Re: RACF AIM Stage 3 Issue

2014-02-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
venkat kulkarni wrote: 1) My RACFDB was not locked. Really? How did you see it? 2) Yes, my RACF DB is in SYSPLEX Env. . But how can I check that its in READ only mode. How are you sure it is in SYSPLEX Env? Your reply on my question shows it is not in a CF environment. Check your SYSLOG. Or

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Bill Godfrey wrote: Are you saying that the IN bit should be set for updates, and not for writing new records, as a way of distinguishing between the two? [... snipped ...] I think the documentation about those SMF records are somewhat not clear. I really wish someone from IBM Storage would

DFSMSrmm Command Log for audit

2014-02-14 Thread Minoru Massaki
Is there any way to take log for auditing RMM CHANGEVOLUME and DELETEVOLUME? I think that RMM journal may be used but format of RMM journal is not disclosed. Your help would be highly appreciated. -- 全先 実 - Minoru Massaki (M*M) E-mail: mmass...@gmail.com

CPU Model Change -- Required activities

2014-02-14 Thread Mark Jacobs
Are there any activities that operations has to perform when a CPU model change is dynamically made by IBM for it to take effect? We're going from a 406 to a 603 on our z196 processor soon, and we're not sure if zOS will disable three of the six CPU's automatically, or if we have to do

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread John Gilmore
Bill, The 'compatibility problem' you mention is not obvious to me. Currently--I have tested all of the permutations---either the IN bit is set or the OUT bit is set. Both are never set. My view is, yes, that both the IN bit and the OUT bit should be set in the ACB at open time when the file is

Re: CPU Model Change -- Required activities

2014-02-14 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Mark Jacobs wrote: Are there any activities that operations has to perform when a CPU model change is dynamically made by IBM for it to take effect? We're going from a 406 to a 603 on our z196 processor soon, and we're not sure if zOS will disable three of the six CPU's automatically, or if we

Re: CPU Model Change -- Required activities

2014-02-14 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 02/14/14 14:52, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Mark Jacobs wrote: Are there any activities that operations has to perform when a CPU model change is dynamically made by IBM for it to take effect? We're going from a 406 to a 603 on our z196 processor soon, and we're not sure if zOS will

Re: CPU Model Change -- Required activities

2014-02-14 Thread Ed Finnell
What did the vendor say in the PASR? In a message dated 2/14/2014 1:52:19 P.M. Central Standard Time, elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za writes: Same z196 machine or new machine? It depends -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: CPU Model Change -- Required activities

2014-02-14 Thread Skip Robinson
We do periodic CBU activation for DR testing. At the end of a test, we turn off CBU and the extra CPs go away. By that time however we've shut down the DR systems that used them, and no extras have been configured online to the SDM/XRC systems. In other words, not quite the same situation.

Re: CPU Model Change -- Required activities

2014-02-14 Thread Mark Jacobs
You're right, the zOS lpar currently has all six CPs assigned to it. I'll pass the information to the right parties asap. Thanks. Mark Jacobs On 02/14/14 15:05, Skip Robinson wrote: We do periodic CBU activation for DR testing. At the end of a test, we turn off CBU and the extra CPs go away.

Re: CPU Model Change -- Required activities

2014-02-14 Thread Mark Jacobs
On 02/14/14 15:02, Ed Finnell wrote: What did the vendor say in the PASR? In a message dated 2/14/2014 1:52:19 P.M. Central Standard Time, elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za writes: Same z196 machine or new machine? It depends

Re: CPU Model Change -- Required activities

2014-02-14 Thread Skip Robinson
At the time you perform the conversion, expect to see this message from WLM: IWM063I WLM POLICY WAS REFRESHED DUE TO A PROCESSOR SPEED CHANGE This message can indicate a true hardware problem, but we also see it routinely as part of CBU activate/deactivate. Just don't freak out. . .

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:33:03 -0500, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Bill, The 'compatibility problem' you mention is not obvious to me. Currently--I have tested all of the permutations---either the IN bit is set or the OUT bit is set. Both are never set. My view is, yes, that both the

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:28 + on 02/14/2014, Chase, John wrote about Re: WER027A control field beyond record: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Micheal Butz Seems like one of my sort fields maybe beyond a short record Anything I can do about this DFSORT has

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-14 Thread Ed Gould
Robert: My memory has faded a lot but IIRC there are regularly SMF records that are short all the time. Without digging into the books too much I would print a few out and find which type is the short ones and exclude those before the sort. It seems to me that most SMF recs(except for the

Is there a C macro for is z/OS

2014-02-14 Thread Charles Mills
Is there a standard IBM z/OS XLC macro for is compiling on z/OS? I looked for __ZOS and __MVS and so forth but did not find anything. I have code that runs Windows or z/OS and I have just been using #ifdef WIN32 to differentiate the two cases, but now I need code that will run Windows, z/OS or

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-14 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
There is the VLTEST parameter that can be specified as a PARM= option or as a $ORTPARM parameter. There are eight possible tests that it can perform, but for the OPS case there is only one answer. He should specify VLTEST=0, which says, for purposes of comparison, any short key fields will be

Re: Is there a C macro for is z/OS

2014-02-14 Thread Sam Siegel
Macros as you suggest (slightly different names) should be fully documented in the c/c++ users guide or language reference. On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Is there a standard IBM z/OS XLC macro for is compiling on z/OS? I looked for __ZOS and __MVS and

Re: Is there a C macro for is z/OS

2014-02-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:14:44 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: Is there a standard IBM z/OS XLC macro for is compiling on z/OS? I looked for __ZOS and __MVS and so forth but did not find anything. I have code that runs Windows or z/OS and I have just been using #ifdef WIN32 to differentiate the two

Re: Is there a C macro for is z/OS

2014-02-14 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks for your incredibly helpful answer. Stupid me -- I looked at Appendix A. XL C/C++ Macros in the library reference. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 3:57 PM To:

Re: Is there a C macro for is z/OS

2014-02-14 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 4:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a C macro for is z/OS On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:14:44 -0800,

Re: Is there a C macro for is z/OS

2014-02-14 Thread David Crayford
__MVS__ On 15/02/2014, at 7:14 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Is there a standard IBM z/OS XLC macro for is compiling on z/OS? I looked for __ZOS and __MVS and so forth but did not find anything. I have code that runs Windows or z/OS and I have just been using #ifdef WIN32 to

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
I do not have access to the SMF Record formats at hand but I have the impression that if you are doing a mass sort of SMF records (as opposed to sorting a subset of the records), you are going to run into problems. All SMF records share a common prefix (type, timestamp, and maybe some other

Re: RACF AIM Stage 3 Issue

2014-02-14 Thread venkat kulkarni
Yes, UNLOADED IRRUT400 worked for me and now RACF is at AIM stage 3. As I mentioned earlier, we have we have z/OS 1.13 and z/OS 2.1 system in sysplex. So, As per document upto z/OS 1.13, we can use BPX.DEFAULT.USER and then on z/OS 2.1, we will have to use BPX.UNIQUE.USER . But when I

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread John Gilmore
Does this existing code do updates only after checking to ensure that the In bit is not set (off)? I doubt that. Compatibility arguments are certainly not dismissible; some, even many, of them are substantive; but they are too often advanced as a convenient, not at all substantive rationale for

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 22:36:37 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: Does this existing code do updates only after checking to ensure that the In bit is not set (off)? I doubt that. Compatibility arguments are certainly not dismissible; some, even many, of them are substantive; but they are too often