Re: SORT ando MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-19 Thread Martin Packer
Except 1MB (and a fortiori 2GB) page frames were designed to do something else: Give better TLB effectiveness - fewer entries to cover the same amount of memory. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

AUTO: Frank Krueger is in vacation. (returning 28/04/2014)

2014-04-19 Thread Frank Krueger
I am out of the office until 28/04/2014. mails will be read sporadically. In urgent cases use mobile phone or contact my manager Bernd Mueller. Note: This is an automated response to your message IBM-MAIN Digest - 17 Apr 2014 to 18 Apr 2014 (#2014-108) sent on 19/04/2014 6:00:00. This is the

Re: MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-19 Thread Martin Packer
I thought there would be the flags, Ed. So thanks for confirming. It just occurred to me that a useful query an installation could run would go something like this: Pick up all the CICS regions in SMF 30 - using the Usage section to pick up their CICS release. Compare the MEMLIMIT in the same

Re: ISPF - TSO cmd

2014-04-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Based on your TSO command, put an ampersand before the REXX program like this: T,'CMD(%DRLEINIT)' That's a percent; an ampersand () would be wrong. Arrh. Thanks for spotting my error. I have not enough coffee... I must humbly say thank you very much for

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 and RDz v9.x

2014-04-19 Thread Clark Morris
On 18 Apr 2014 19:42:01 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On 4/14/2014 8:26 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: How many ISVs reading this list would decline to support their products under z/OS 2.1 because they were purchased at 1.13? But I'd expect some latency for development and testing

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 and RDz v9.x

2014-04-19 Thread John Gilmore
No, IBM is not an ISV, as hopefully you know, Mr. Morris. Lately, I seem to have been casting myself in the role of a defender of IBM. That is not my wont, and IBM can anyway defend itself. I have, however, grown tired, very tired of cheap shots like this one. Easy to dismiss out of hand, they

Re: OORexx (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-19 Thread David Crayford
I've got a drop in replacement for all of those environments bar SDSF with Lua and I'll add multi-threaded programming, HTTP, websockets, XML, JSON, SOAP, regular expressions and a whole lot more. In a z/OS UNIX environment luaposix http://luaposix.github.io/luaposix/docs/index.html covers a

Re: OORexx (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-19 Thread Scott Ford
To be honest, if I wanted to do what Vig wanted it would be in C or Assembler on OMVS Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Apr 19, 2014, at 11:39 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a drop in replacement for all of those environments bar SDSF with Lua and

Q1-Q10 - 1965 IBM Cards with Question on Front and Answer on back

2014-04-19 Thread Barry Merrill
My button collection www.mxg.com/TheButtonMan, button numbers 359-368, I have the images of the front of those OS/360 marketing cards with the ten questions, If your customer asks: : Q1 - What does dynamic space allocation mean Can You answer thru Q10 - Why OS/360? (which

Re: Q1-Q10 - 1965 IBM Cards with Question on Front and Answer on back

2014-04-19 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I got a 404 error. - -teD -   Original Message   From: Barry Merrill Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2014 12:09 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Q1-Q10 - 1965 IBM Cards with Question on Front and Answer on back My button collection www.mxg.com/TheButtonMan,

Re: Q1-Q10 - 1965 IBM Cards with Question on Front and Answer on back

2014-04-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Ted MacNEIL wrote: I got a 404 error. http://www.mxg.com/thebuttonman/index.htm HTH! (as long you don't press on MY button. ;-D ) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 and RDz v9.x

2014-04-19 Thread Clark Morris
On 19 Apr 2014 08:00:49 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: No, IBM is not an ISV, as hopefully you know, Mr. Morris. Lately, I seem to have been casting myself in the role of a defender of IBM. That is not my wont, and IBM can anyway defend itself. I have, however, grown tired, very

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 and RDz v9.x

2014-04-19 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
IMO, programming language and file organizations are complete different things and should be discussed seperately. Furthermore, you have direct access on all platforms, including Windows and Unix; this is not a matter of programming language at all. And: you have keyed access, because it is easy

Slow vary commands processing

2014-04-19 Thread baby eklavya
Greetings , In our shop , we see that vary commands are processed slow most of the time . We have not applied any maintenance recently and there are no messages or dumps which actually tell us why this happen . Can someone share some possibilities in general when this can happen ? We are running

Re: Slow vary commands processing

2014-04-19 Thread Lizette Koehler
How did you determine they are slow. How long do you think they should take? How long would it normally take? How long does it now take? How many devices are in the vary command at one time? What analysis have you done to determine slow What timings do you get when you vary one device compared

Re: Slow vary commands processing

2014-04-19 Thread Jake anderson
When you say the response is slow then did you check the enqueues or cpu or any exception messages in rmf or something should be in logrec. Have you started experiencing it recently ? On 20 Apr 2014 09:36, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: How did you determine they are slow. How

Re: Slow vary commands processing

2014-04-19 Thread baby eklavya
That's the problem with us now ...we don't see significant difference from the logs . When one device is varied offline , it gets processed instantly When vary is issued against a set of devices (may be 10 ) , we see a delay of 15 to 20 seconds . But our storage person keeps complaining that

Re: Slow vary commands processing

2014-04-19 Thread Lizette Koehler
Do you have any automation tools like OPS/MVS or Tivoli or other? Perhaps you need a timer in the VARY command step to delay the time the next step runs. The vary may not be slow, but the IO Subsystem to the array may not be coming back quickly enough. Have you run performance reports on the

Re: Slow vary commands processing

2014-04-19 Thread Jake anderson
I agree with lizette. I/O reports should tell you. On 20 Apr 2014 10:18, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Do you have any automation tools like OPS/MVS or Tivoli or other? Perhaps you need a timer in the VARY command step to delay the time the next step runs. The vary may not