Re: SMF report

2014-03-21 Thread Massimo Biancucci
Hi, IFASMFDL is not a SMF formatter pgm but only an extractor in a raw format of the records. You need some product (from SAS or Tivoli or EPV Tech) or the RMF post-processor in order to have something readable. Best regards. Massimo 2014-03-21 6:46 GMT+01:00 Meenakshi, Vinoth - CW

Re: SMF report

2014-03-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 21/03/2014 18:05, Massimo Biancucci wrote: You need some product (from SAS or Tivoli or EPV Tech) or the RMF post-processor in order to have something readable. Or EasySMF. It makes it simple to find the top jobs - just select the time interval and look at the Job Status During Interval

Re: SMF report

2014-03-21 Thread Gibney, Dave
And of course MXG http://www.mxg.com/ is an option assuming SAS or that newish SAS substitute. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Rowley Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 12:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Java -Xdump:tool option on z/OS

2014-03-21 Thread Steve Austin
Thanks everyone for your contributions. The string below worked and I'm now looking at driving a REXX exec. -Xdump:tool:events=vmstart,exec=tsocmd submit 'SA.JCL(APFAUTH)' -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hank

Yan: SMF report

2014-03-21 Thread Kayhan Tanriverir
Hi,  The base SMF logstream shipped the IFASMFDL program with only a DUMP option.   The below job is run:  //RUNSMFDL JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1),NOTIFY=SYSUID,CLASS=A,REGION=0M //SMFDMP1 EXEC PGM=IFASMFDL //DUMP01 DD DSN=SYS1.SMF.DUMP5,DISP=(NEW,CATLG), // UNIT=3390,VOL=SER=SMF001,SPACE=(CYL,(10,10))

Re: SMF report

2014-03-21 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 18:26:33 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 21/03/2014 18:05, Massimo Biancucci wrote: You need some product (from SAS or Tivoli or EPV Tech) or the RMF post-processor in order to have something readable. Or EasySMF. LoL ;-) +1 Andrew has a vested interest, I don't, but

Re: AWS Header 2 Block Count

2014-03-21 Thread Mike Wood
Willie, Regardless of whether you are building and AWS tape or not, when it is IBM Standard Label format, the details of the labels you generate must be as per the IBM specification documented herre (for R12 - later versions of the book exist)

Re: SMF report

2014-03-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
This is an area where the RMF data is there, but understanding how to report on it is not easy. This is more like art than science, trying to isolate a system problem. Unless you have additional products like RMF Magic, EASYSMF, TIVOLI (not sure which one), SAS and MXG, SAS and MICS, and a few

Re: SMF report

2014-03-21 Thread Richards, Robert B.
You are using JCL to dump logstreams. Try using PGM=IFASMFDP instead for tape and MANx datasets. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Meenakshi, Vinoth - CW Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 1:46 AM To:

Re: Dynamic VIPA and Sysplex Distributor - Question

2014-03-21 Thread Mike Wawiorko
Have a look at this Share presentation. 14682: Sysplex Networking Technologies and Considerations Speaker: Gus Kassimis Project: Communications Server

Re: EZASOKET RETCODE

2014-03-21 Thread Don Poitras
Dean, First, you'll get a better response if you send your question to the listserv rather than the mirrored newsgroup. See the note at the bottom of this email for instructions to do that. Second, this call can only return 0 or -1. Check that you're really looking at RETCODE. Also,

Re: Now IEBGENER, Was Help with IEBCOPY?

2014-03-21 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Lizette, Thank you for your suggestion. This is a flat to PDS thing and does not include VSAM. I have got this to work: 'LMMREN DATAID('INDD') MEMBER(VTAMAPPL) NEWNAME(VTAMAPPP) NOENQ' I will look for a copy. Copy and rename can be interesting, especially with VSAM and ADRDSSU.

Re: AWS Header 2 Block Count

2014-03-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 17:54:43 +, Rouse, Willie wrote: When building an AWS tape, say from a dump volume dataset, how do you know what the block count is for the EOF header 2? I'm not sure why this should be a question. Maintain a counter. As you process each input block, add one to the

Re: Now IEBGENER, Was Help with IEBCOPY?

2014-03-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you are going to use DFDSS to dump/restore VSAM, remember in your control cards to include SPHERE. This is helpful for VSAM files. Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN Sent:

SMS Question

2014-03-21 Thread Nathan J Pfister
Hello; I am relatively new to SMS, and rather ignorant (read: uneducated) about how it fully works. I'm learning more and more by reading, but I've hit an issue which I can't find a quick solution to using google or finding in the manuals. We just set up a new SANDBOX system, and set up SMS

Re: SMS Question

2014-03-21 Thread Jake anderson
Show us your JCL , Did you tried putting the STORCLAS,MGMTCLAS(for the target System) where you are trying to restore... I think your JCL should give us some hints on where you are missing On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Nathan J Pfister npfis...@aessuccess.orgwrote: Hello; I am relatively

Re: SMS Question

2014-03-21 Thread Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM
I think I know what you run into: are the errors related to authorization? DFDSS has a very irritating habit to do something with the original volser if it is online. If you make sure the original volser from the production lpar is offline on your sandbox lpar, it should work. Of course

Re: AS400 iSeries connecting to z/OS

2014-03-21 Thread Victor Gil
Thanks to everyone responded. The question was posted on behalf of our AS400 team so I don't know the specifics and will follow up as soon as I get them. [Although RPG has been mentioned as one of the development languages] Thanks again! -Victor-

Re: SMS Question

2014-03-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Nathan J Pfister wrote: I am relatively new to SMS, and rather ignorant (read: uneducated) about how it fully works. Like the rest of us... ;-D When we dump with ADRDSSU some datasets (from a production lpar) to be restored to the Sandbox LPAR, we are getting errors where it is trying to

Re: EZASOKET RETCODE

2014-03-21 Thread Scott Ford
Don, They are in the back of the Communication Server IP Socket Programmer’s manual, I use them all the time. Regards, Scott www.identityforge.com From: Don Poitras Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎March‎ ‎21‎, ‎2014 ‎9‎:‎47‎ ‎AM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Dean, First, you'll get a

Re: SMS Question

2014-03-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
It would be helpful for you to include Level of z/OS Complete error message Complete control cards. If you show us what you are doing, it will help us provide better answers. Also, what DASD/TAPE hardware are you using? Do you only have DFDSS? Or is FDR or other product available to you? Is

Re: SMS Question

2014-03-21 Thread Nathan J Pfister
z/OS 1.12 We get the following not telling it where to go: ADR405E (001)-DYNA (02), DYNAMIC ALLOCATION OF VOLUME PR38E3 FAILED. ERROR CODE 0218. INFORMATION CODE RESTORE INDD(TAPE) DATASET(INCLUDE(**)) We get the following if we tell it what volume to go to: 0ADR472E (001)-NEWDS(06),

Re: EZASOKET RETCODE

2014-03-21 Thread J R
The ones at the back are the ERRNO descriptions, which don't apply to GETHOSTBYNAME. As Don said, the only RETCODE values for GETHOSTBYNAME are 0 and -1. === Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:49:14 + From: scott_j_f...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: EZASOKET RETCODE To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

NJE Clarifications

2014-03-21 Thread Jake anderson
Hi, For an NJE to work we must have to two different nodes. Is there a way for NJE to work within a single Node(Monoplex) just to communicate to another product(As a socket-Running in same Node) ? Is there a case study for the NJE to work on a Monoplex environment ? I tried looking at the share

Re: SMF report

2014-03-21 Thread Ed Gould
Or DFSORT (etc). Ed On Mar 21, 2014, at 2:26 AM, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 21/03/2014 18:05, Massimo Biancucci wrote: You need some product (from SAS or Tivoli or EPV Tech) or the RMF post-processor in order to have something readable. Or EasySMF. It makes it simple to find the top jobs -

Re: NJE Clarifications

2014-03-21 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-03-21 16:18, Jake anderson pisze: Hi, For an NJE to work we must have to two different nodes. Is there a way for NJE to work within a single Node(Monoplex) just to communicate to another product(As a socket-Running in same Node) ? Is there a case study for the NJE to work on a

Re: SMF report

2014-03-21 Thread Meenakshi, Vinoth - CW
Thanks all for your info Regards, Vinoth Sent from my iPhone On 21-Mar-2014, at 8:51 pm, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: Or DFSORT (etc). Ed On Mar 21, 2014, at 2:26 AM, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 21/03/2014 18:05, Massimo Biancucci wrote: You need some product (from SAS or

Re: NJE Clarifications

2014-03-21 Thread Jake anderson
Hi, I was just trying to understand this feature for our POC. NJE is for JES to JES commnunication. Can this be possible in a MAS environment(Where two LPARS have same Node) and communicate to a product running in either of 1 LPAR. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:00 PM, R.S.

Re: SMS Question

2014-03-21 Thread John McKown
My first guess is that the STORCLAS associated with the data set being restore had the GUARANTEED SPACE attribute. Either remove that from the STORCLAS or in the restore parameters include a VOLUME(*) parameter to override the volume that DFDSS wants to use. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:36 AM,

XMLSS performance vs COBOL 4.1 runtime XML

2014-03-21 Thread Tom Ross
One of my co-workers is trying to improve the performance of an Enterprise = 4.1 program that decomposes an input XML file into record fields for proces= sing by later programs. The volume of the XML input has increased quite a = bit and the performance may soon impact SLA's. This program is

Re: Enterprise Cobol 5.1

2014-03-21 Thread Tom Ross
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jousma, David =20 Both of your statements are correct. Not only that, but you also need PTFs for four LE APARs and three Binder AP= ARs. But you can INSTALL COBOL 5.1 on z/OS 1.12 (according to the Program Direct=

AW: AW: DSNTYPE?

2014-03-21 Thread Christian Birr
Earl, had a quick look at my toolboxes. Use the CSI (CatalogSearchInterface) described in DFSMS Managing Catalogs to get the information required. A few examples can be found in SYS1.SAMPLIB(IGG*). Another, more old fashioned method would be using the OBTAIN macro, Google will be your friend if

Re: NJE Clarifications

2014-03-21 Thread Tony Harminc
On 21 March 2014 11:18, Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com wrote: For an NJE to work we must have to two different nodes. Is there a way for NJE to work within a single Node(Monoplex) just to communicate to another product(As a socket-Running in same Node) ? For many years (decades,

Re: NJE Clarifications

2014-03-21 Thread Skip Robinson
NJE is more precisely a means to connect two or more network nodes, any of which might be for example (z)VM RSCS as well as JES2 or JES3. Any task that follows NJE protocol can play in the game. 'NJE with oneself' has no meaning. All JES2 systems in a single MAS communicate with each other

Re: XMLSS performance vs COBOL 4.1 runtime XML

2014-03-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
Tom, I have a question on your comment about offloading XML to specialty engines. To quote: Also, offloading to specialty processors does not change total CPU usage, and does not improve performance or throughput. It could change how much you pay to run it. My standard engines are

Re: EZASOKET RETCODE

2014-03-21 Thread Don Poitras
Dean, You can subscribe with your home email. Again, 21 or 43 aren't listed as possible values of RETCODE. Here is the doc: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.halc001/parm_ret_gethostbyname.htm If you really are getting other than 0 or -1, you should open an ETR

Re: SMS Question

2014-03-21 Thread Nathan J Pfister
We figured out the issuesince we're using ADRDSSU, it's getting a null dataclass...and we had a condition within the storage class that said if dataclas is '' then set storclas to ''. So I guess my next question...we attempted to code for dataclas = '' and pgm = 'ADRDSSU' to fall to our

Re: XMLSS performance vs COBOL 4.1 runtime XML

2014-03-21 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Thanks Tom, I did not see that tuning paper. Would you please provide a link? Also, in helping my co-worker analyze the performance of their program we discovered that a repeated MOVE to the whole of a very large WORKING-STORAGE table ( 16M) at certain processing breaks was the main culprit,

Re: SMS Question

2014-03-21 Thread Ken Smith
I've found that under DSSU, the DC ACS routine is not invoked at all and SC is the first ACS routine, which is opposite of normal allocation. Thus your SC cannot depend on a DC value under DSSU. I think the rational is that unlike the other classes DC is imutable in that a data sets

No subject

2014-03-21 Thread Tom Ross
With the change in Enterprise COBOL v5.1 to produce program objects inste= ad of load modules, including the DWARF debug information and (optionally= ) source statements in non-loadable segments of the program object, we = are curious how others handle the source statements: Include them in the

COBOL v5.1 Compiler Option TEST (was RE: No subject)

2014-03-21 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Ross With the change in Enterprise COBOL v5.1 to produce program objects instead of load modules, including the DWARF debug information and (optionally) source statements in non-loadable segments of the program

Re: EZASOKET RETCODE

2014-03-21 Thread Scott Ford
J R, In the same manual: Return values The return value points to static data that is overwritten by subsequent calls. A pointer to a hostentstructure indicates success. A NULL pointer indicates an error or EOF. When a NULL pointer or 0 is returned, the value of errno is indeterminate,

Re: NJE Clarifications

2014-03-21 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-03-21 17:03, Jake anderson pisze: Hi, I was just trying to understand this feature for our POC. NJE is for JES to JES commnunication. Can this be possible in a MAS environment(Where two LPARS have same Node) and communicate to a product running in either of 1 LPAR. It seems to be

Re: Enterprise Cobol 5.1

2014-03-21 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-03-21 17:14, Tom Ross pisze: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jousma, David =20 Both of your statements are correct. Not only that, but you also need PTFs for four LE APARs and three Binder AP= ARs. But you can INSTALL COBOL 5.1 on z/OS

Re: NJE Clarifications

2014-03-21 Thread Ted MacNEIL
It has been around long before SYSPLEX of any sort. We called it 'Shared SPOOL'. Now it's Multi-Access SPOOL (MAS). - -teD -   Original Message   From: R.S. Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 16:12 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: NJE Clarifications W

Reflexivity (was: NJE Clarifications)

2014-03-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:21:57 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: ... 'NJE with oneself' has no meaning. ... There's a peculiar tendency of designers and testers to ignore, even shun, that reflexive boundary condition. o NJE can't communicate with the local host. o iconv used to reject input

Re: Reflexivity (was: NJE Clarifications)

2014-03-21 Thread Gibney, Dave
The SORTs (Sync or DF) will happily allow SORTIN/SORTOUT to be the same file. And in today's world of lot'o'region and space this is probably safer than it used to be. They didn't fire me when in the first few weeks (many moons ago) on the job I used this trick on the payroll master tape. Ran

Re: SMS Question

2014-03-21 Thread retired mainframer
You can eliminate any problems caused by the ACS routines by specifying the MGMTCLAS, STORCLAS, DATACLAS, and most importantly the BYPASSACS operands on the RESTORE command. :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of

Re: Reflexivity (was: NJE Clarifications)

2014-03-21 Thread Sri h Kolusu
The SORTs (Sync or DF) will happily allow SORTIN/SORTOUT to be the same file. And in today's world of lot'o'region and space this is probably safer than it used to be Dave, For DFSORT, your statement is true only if you are SORTING the data as for a copy application, the SORTIN data set

Re: Reflexivity (was: NJE Clarifications)

2014-03-21 Thread Gibney, Dave
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sri h Kolusu Sent: Friday, March 21, 2014 2:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reflexivity (was: NJE Clarifications) The SORTs (Sync or DF) will happily allow

Re: Reflexivity

2014-03-21 Thread TonyICLOUD
In the bad old days this was called a Suicide Sort. Sadly, it was often necessitated by lack of disk space, or horror of horrors, lack of scratch tapes. I remember a time, with a spendthrift company, that I routinely re-initialized old version vendor installation tapes to use for output. CA

Re: NJE Clarifications

2014-03-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
And note that in this context a network node does not correspond to an LPAR (or the main SNA or TCP/IP designations for some LPAR) but specifically means a JES MAS (which might be shared by one or more LPARS) or RSCS running under a VM LPAR. As Skip points out, a non-JES product (e.g., VM RSCS)

Medium scavenging (was: Reflexivity)

2014-03-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 17:06:05 -0500, TonyICLOUD wrote: In the bad old days this was called a Suicide Sort. Sadly, it was often necessitated by lack of disk space, or horror of horrors, lack of scratch tapes. I remember a time, with a spendthrift company, that I routinely re-initialized old

Re: NJE Clarifications

2014-03-21 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 12:19 -0400 on 03/21/2014, Tony Harminc wrote about Re: NJE Clarifications: For many years (decades, actually) there have been other products (IBM and non-IBM) that talk the NJE protocols. Most notably, IBM's RSCS on VM uses an overlapping subset of the same protocol, and is interoperable.