Health Check for datasets ?

2014-04-21 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Searching for some kind of health checkfor datasets , which could understand the IEBPDSE messages or IDCAMS lists (CA/CI split , allocation , reorg etc etc) or a SEQ dataset allocation, blocking etc. -- Kind regards, / Mit freundlichen Grüßen Miklos Szigetvari Research

Re: Emulator Screen Size with Attachmate Extra X-treme 9.3

2014-04-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5354420b.8020...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 04/20/2014 at 02:54 PM, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: I was unaware that such a restriction existed. Both the 3180 and the 3192 had one set of terminal type configuration options for a fixed screen geometry and a separate set of options

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

2014-04-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of35d04e20.c5643349-on48257cc1.0019cee7-48257cc1.001d0...@sg.ibm.com, on 04/21/2014 at 01:14 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com said: IBM first introduced VSAM (in a more basic form of course) back in the 1970s for DOS/VS, OS/VS1, and OS/VS2 (Access Method Services). IDCAMS is just a

Hillgang reminder

2014-04-21 Thread Neale Ferguson
A reminder that the Hillgang meets at the Herdon offices of CA in Northern Virginia. - IT Economics of the Mainframe - Christopher T von Koschembahr, IBM - Running x86 Binaries on Linux for System z- Jim Porell, Mantissa - Cloud Storage for System z - Mike Melillo, CA - 50 years of System

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

2014-04-21 Thread Joel C. Ewing
I'm pretty sure the original motivation behind VSAM was to provide a more efficient keyed-access alternative to an earlier ISAM (Indexed Sequential Access Method) keyed-access method --ISAM had abysmal performance when the number of inserts became large. But, just as a clarification, while it is

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

2014-04-21 Thread Ed Gould
On Apr 21, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: ---SNIP IDCAMS is just a utility that was included with VSAM. IBM initially offered VSAM as an Incremental Change Release (ICR), but the ICF came in with the program product DF/EF.

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

2014-04-21 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 4/21/2014 7:59 AM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: DB2 required greater flexibility and control to achieve its performance and data consistency goals than was possible with VSAM keyed-access support. A very cursory look at Experiences Installing Oracle Database 10g on z/OS would suggest Oracle on z/OS

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

2014-04-21 Thread John McKown
For whatever reason, such as insanity?, I have always viewed a VSAM LDS as a private, permanent paging space. Similar in concept to using the UNIX shmat() series of functions on a UNIX file to do I/O basically just using paging operations. At times, I wish that using DIV windowing services were

Re: SORT ando MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:01:50 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:07:29 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Are there separate pools of real storage for above the bar and below the bar? Pools? No. Pools are a software concept. Real storage with real addresses 2 GiB are below the bar.

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

2014-04-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 09:09:37 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 4/21/2014 7:59 AM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: DB2 required greater flexibility and control to achieve its performance and data consistency goals than was possible with VSAM keyed-access support. A very cursory look at Experiences Installing

Re: SORT ando MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:44:01 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:01:50 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: Real storage with real addresses 2 GiB are below the bar. Real storage with real addresses 2 GiB are above the bar. ITYM = 2 GiB Right. But what do you call real storage with a

Re: SORT ando MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:44:01 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 07:01:50 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 14:07:29 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Are there separate pools of real storage for above the bar and below the bar? Pools? No. Pools are a

Enterprise COBOL v5.1 and RDz v9.x

2014-04-21 Thread Tom Ross
I learned via PMR that Rational Developer for System z (RDz) v9.x (latest greatest) does not officially support Enterprise COBOL v5.1. The workaround suggested by RDz Support was to specify COBOL v4.2 and XMLPARSE(XMLSS) in the RDz wizard, because COBOL v5.1 does not support XMLPARSE(COMPAT).

Re: Slow vary commands processing

2014-04-21 Thread Jim Mulder
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

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

2014-04-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:52:01 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: The German Telefunken mainframe TR440's operating system BS3 also had keyed file access services (different types) and a common run time environment Like LE is supposed to be? for all languages (ALGOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL, PL/1, COBOL, BCPL,

Re: Slow vary commands processing

2014-04-21 Thread John Clifford
We had this issue back in early 2000's. Ended up being something with GRS across 4 LPARs. We ended up writing a small rexx to delay next step for xxx seconds. /* REXX */ /* SLEEPS FOR THE SPECIFIED NUMBER OF SECONDS.

Re: SORT ando MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-21 Thread Martin Packer
I think the term pointer compression is relevant here - to java heap just above 2GB. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker

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

2014-04-21 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
I know that DB2 does not use VSAM KSDS - only for very limited purposes, IIRC - some logfile directories or boot strap data sets, don't recall the details. The tablespace data sets are VSAM LDS - linear data sets. Anyway: there are some improvements done to VSAM for DB2, AFAIK ... I believe

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

2014-04-21 Thread Sam Siegel
VSAM Media Manager On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.dewrote: I know that DB2 does not use VSAM KSDS - only for very limited purposes, IIRC - some logfile directories or boot strap data sets, don't recall the details. The tablespace data sets are VSAM

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

2014-04-21 Thread Timothy Sipples
I wonder if it would be possible to have an XMLPARSE(RUNTIME) compiler option that defers the decision about which XML to use to runtime, preferably with a choice of automatic decision (if zIIP then...) or explicit operator specification at program invocation. Yes, the two XML choices are

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 20 Apr 2014 to 21 Apr 2014 (#2014-111)

2014-04-21 Thread David Boyes
On Apr 22, 2014, at 12:00 AM, IBM-MAIN automatic digest system lists...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: IBM first introduced VSAM (in a more basic form of course) back in the 1970s for DOS/VS, OS/VS1, and OS/VS2 (Access Method Services). I don't think VSAM was ever separately licensed, but someone

Enterprise COBOL v5.1 and RDz v9.x

2014-04-21 Thread Tom Ross
I should have done more research before opening my mouth...RDz does in fact support generating COBOL programs with XML PARSE in 2 different flavors. You can specify 'generate for XMLPARSE(COMPAT)' or 'generate for XMLPARSE(XMLSS)'. Generating for XMLPARSE(XMLSS) should have worked for COBOL V5.