Re: IPL Probelm.

2012-09-06 Thread Anthony Thompson
As Gadi said, these are the last messages you will see while in NIP. Seems to me that the system has transferred control to a console somewhere else. I think you need to put the hardware console into problem determination mode to see any post-NIP messages V CN(*),ACTIVATE Ant. Northern

Re: Issue with JES SPOOL

2013-09-25 Thread Anthony Thompson
Also check SPOOLDEF TGSPACE(MAX= parameter. If you have actually bumped up against the maximum TGS defined here (as opposed to filling up your spool volumes) then adding another spool volume won't help. This parameter requires a cold start to change, you can't avoid that. As the JES2 Init and

Re: Confused by BPX1CON

2013-09-25 Thread Anthony Thompson
A socket descriptor (which seems to be a fancy name for a number) is 4 bytes. The output of BPX1SOC includes a 'socket vector', where the socket descriptor is returned, which is a double word. It is eights bytes long because BPX1SOC can request a socket pair. I don't know where you got 16

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-03 Thread Anthony Thompson
OT in a mainframe forum, but why the desperate need to reduce software costs for z/enterprise platforms? Surely management could make more savings by using open source software on end-user platforms rather than Windoze rubbish (e.g. OpenOffice instead of Microsoft Office, which, as usual, needs

Re: NSLOOKUP on MVS vs OMVS

2013-10-03 Thread Anthony Thompson
I suspect your basic problem is that you don't have a consistent source for your resolver/TCP parameters. It does no good to have them higgledy-piggledy stored in OMVS files, or z/OS files, or whatever from individual SYSTCPD DD-cards in various jobs/started tasks, unless there is a real need

Re: JCL Symbol Resolution

2013-10-07 Thread Anthony Thompson
You need to review the Control/M CTMAPI function, described in the Control/M User's Guide. This allows you to create/order new 'tables' which essentially define scheduling parameters, such as where the JCL is stored, when to run, dependencies on other jobs etc, time/date restrictions, etc.

Re: SMF DUMP SB37 - what am I doing wrong?

2013-12-10 Thread Anthony Thompson
If I read this correctly, your output is 89 (type) 8(number or records) .07% (percent of type 89's) 1794.00 (avg. record length) 326 (min. record length) ... (rest of output line missing) Can't see any way 8 type 89's would demand more than 157 tracks, even if SMS was getting in your face

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Anthony Thompson
WTO doesn't write to SYSPRINT. Use normal OPEN - WRITE/PUT - CLOSE to the SYSPRINT DCB processing. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Friday, 20 December 2013 9:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: LLA exists

2013-12-26 Thread Anthony Thompson
From MVS Installation Exits, Chapters 6 and 7 - CSVLLIX1 runs under the user's TCB that issued the LOAD/LINK/XCTL/ATTACH CSVLLIX2 runs under a TCB attached by LLA's job-step TCB Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: Is _BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT would be honored by a listener ?

2014-02-18 Thread Anthony Thompson
Assuming the listener is a started task, you can try the following: 1) As you say, set the _BPXK_SETIBMOPT_TRANSPORT variable. If the listener is a z/OS UNIX C/C++ program, you can set this in the EXEC PARM field: //LISTEN EXEC PGM=your_listener, //

Re: List of uncataloged datasets

2013-05-27 Thread Anthony Thompson
The CATLG filter is valid only when using an input volume list. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Monday, 27 May 2013 5:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: List of uncataloged datasets Hi,

Re: z/os 1.13 and BCPII internal protocol

2013-06-05 Thread Anthony Thompson
No idea. Secret squirrel stuff. Do you really have a need to know? From 'MVS Programming: Callable Services for High-Level Languages, Ch 14': An SNMP community name is associated with a particular CPC. The same SNMP community name that was defined in the support element configuration for a

Re: Allocated a Non SMS managed Multi volume HFS dataset

2013-06-06 Thread Anthony Thompson
allocation attempt would fail . But it did not . Looks like the HFS code is setup to fail the mount of non-sms multivolume dataset whereas system still allows the allocation of the dataset .Is there a specific reason for this ? Regards, Baby On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Anthony Thompson

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread Anthony Thompson
I'm wondering if CEE05101x and CEE5101x aren't the same animal. When is a leading zero significant? I don't see any CEE messages with more than 4 digits. I dearly wish LE (C/C++) return value/reason codes were documented with their numeric values, instead of having to relate a header file to a

Re: Dataset hold lock

2013-08-28 Thread Anthony Thompson
SMF record type 77. There's also SMF type 14/15's, but they won't say if the file was only allocated and not opened. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Chokalingam Thangavelu Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013 5:59 PM

Re: Deleting multiple data sets

2014-02-20 Thread Anthony Thompson
DF/DSS can be useful for deleting datasets, with all its filtering capabilities on dataset attributes as well as dataset name... INCLUDE / EXCLUDE / BY Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Friday,

Re: S0C4 abend on old assembler program when upgrading to z/OS 1.13

2014-04-09 Thread Anthony Thompson
-Original Message- Hi list, Here is a snippet of the code disassembled by dumpmaster: _9748 -10 4B20 C17ASHR2,378(,R12) _974C -C 9140 2174TM372(R2),X'40' _9750 -8 4710 C04ABC

Re: Pages used by PDSE members?

2014-04-30 Thread Anthony Thompson
There is also a Redbook entitled 'Partitioned Dataset Extended Usage Guide' that provides a brief description of the internal structure of a PDSE. It's rather dated (May 2005), hopefully it will be updated with PDSE V2 information at some near or distant future.

Re: IFASMFR

2014-05-14 Thread Anthony Thompson
The CICS SMF records can be mapped via SDFHMAC(DFHMN*) macros. But be aware that, by default, since CICS TS 3.2, CICS SMF records are written in a compressed format. The only part of a compressed 110 record that is not compressed is the SMF record header (DFHMNSMF), which contains the usual

Re: IKJPOSIT question

2014-06-30 Thread Anthony Thompson
Quote ' I am looking for to enter a string following a keyword towards that end I use IKJPOSIT SPACE,VALIDCK=' Making a positional parameter follow a keyword doesn't make much sense to me. For further help, I think you'll need to supply: 1) the intended syntax of your command; 2) the

Re: ECSA Survey

2014-06-30 Thread Anthony Thompson
Another small shop, four production LPARs 1) DB2/CICS/MQ Series: ECSA 262M, in use 33%. Main users DB2 (production) VTAM, DB2 (UAT), MQ, SMSVSAM, BMC CICS monitor and automation 2) DB2/CICS (old stable application): ECSA 92M, in use 59%. Main users DB2, VTAM, SMSVSAM 3) CA-Datacomm/CICS/MQ

Re: ECSA Survey

2014-06-30 Thread Anthony Thompson
Of Anthony Thompson Sent: Tuesday, 1 July 2014 10:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ECSA Survey Another small shop, four production LPARs 1) DB2/CICS/MQ Series: ECSA 262M, in use 33%. Main users DB2 (production) VTAM, DB2 (UAT), MQ, SMSVSAM, BMC CICS monitor and automation 2) DB2/CICS

Re: Telnet issue

2014-07-14 Thread Anthony Thompson
Perhaps you meant the command NETSTAT CONN Or even NETSTAT CONN (PORT 623 Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2014 2:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Telnet issue I

Re: Telnet issue

2014-07-15 Thread Anthony Thompson
mainframe1...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, NETSTAT CONN (PORT 623 command tells that in my older system INETD1 is listening on 623, but EZZ2587I INETD1 000F 0.0.0.0..623 0.0.0.0..0 Listen in new system its not.. Any clue. On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Anthony Thompson

Re: PPT NOPASS setting

2012-11-11 Thread Anthony Thompson
IEAVTDSV is set to NOPASS is the IBM-supplied PPT, there shouldn't be any need to specify it in your SCHED member. GIMSMP sounds dodgy to me... maybe it was once set to be allowed to access it's DDDEF datasets to save cycles (?), but then anyone could compose a DDDEF / Usermod to update just

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - DUPLEXING CHECKLIST

2013-02-28 Thread Anthony Thompson
Chapter 9 (Making Disaster Backup Copies of HSM-Owned Tape Volumes) of the DFSMShsm Storage Administration manual and Chapter 10 (Implementing HSM Tape Environments) of the DFSMShsm Implementation and Customization Guide. I don't think there are any Redbooks on the subject other than those in a

Re: SDSF Rexx Issue - to copy SYSOUT into PDS

2013-02-28 Thread Anthony Thompson
I can only echo Shane's reply. I don't know why you are messing around with external utilities when SDSF Rexx provides you with the function you are after. Why re-invent the wheel? Below is a snippet of Rexx invoking SDSF functions to write held sysout to a PDS:

Re: jj$lwa - list of allocated userids

2013-03-13 Thread Anthony Thompson
Or you can use the SDSF ISFSLASH command to do a D GRS,RES=(*,dsn) Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Thursday, 14 March 2013 8:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: jj$lwa -

Re: exit add in progxx for cnz_wtomdbexit and setprog

2013-03-19 Thread Anthony Thompson
Does it work if you add the exit via COMMNDxx (later in the IPL) rather than PROGxx? Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bernard Coeytaux Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2013 4:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: TPUT fullscr NOT working getting abend 66D

2014-08-21 Thread Anthony Thompson
A reason code 8, if that is to be believed, indicates an 0C4 while validating user pointers, or a pointer was set to zero. Set a SLIP trap to capture a dump for your 66D abend and diagnose the problem. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SMPE DDDEF modify Issue

2014-09-03 Thread Anthony Thompson
At this site we use a different HLQ (SMPE) for our distribution libraries, largely for this reason. A ZONEEDIT DDDEF can easily be used to change the target libraries without affecting distribution libraries, whether they be on an alternate residence volume or not. Of course, you have your

Re: JES2 v2.1 exit question

2014-09-04 Thread Anthony Thompson
Isn't this simply a case where your JES Exit 52 code hasn't been modified to cope with job classes greater than one character? I'm assuming the logic of the code goes something like: -Ignore comment cards. -Search jobcard (or statement buffer) or for text CLASS=, save the next byte in a

Re: RSU APPLY ISSUE GIM23911E

2014-09-04 Thread Anthony Thompson
Our apply of UI18451 got a binder RC of zero. AMBLIST of STRXFRM is somewhat different, both it and EDS@@248 are aliases of EDC4$09E: LISTLOAD DDN=DD1,MEMBER=STRXFRM,OUTPUT=XREF *

Re: MSG IKJ56961E LISTBC TERMINATED

2014-09-15 Thread Anthony Thompson
The full IKJ56961E message should have supplied dynalloc return / reason codes, which the OP didn't supply but would have helped. Skip may have it right with regards to SYS1.BRODCAST, but the OP should check his IKJTSO member is see if TSO/E userlogs are being used instead (SEND statement,

Re: MSG IKJ56961E LISTBC TERMINATED

2014-09-15 Thread Anthony Thompson
Of Anthony Thompson Sent: Tuesday, 16 September 2014 9:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MSG IKJ56961E LISTBC TERMINATED The full IKJ56961E message should have supplied dynalloc return / reason codes, which the OP didn't supply but would have helped. Skip may have it right with regards

Re: SCEELKED Restore

2014-10-01 Thread Anthony Thompson
I think you can do this by: 1) remove the LLA enqueue by shutting down LLA on all system in the sysplex (and wear the performance hit for a while) 2) remove the XCFAS enqueue by issuing command SETPROG LNKLST,UNALLOCATE on all systems Restore your dataset. Maybe to an alternate residence

Re: JCT is not available!

2014-10-21 Thread Anthony Thompson
The JCT is a JES control block. That message is entirely appropriate. As you surmise, it is because the work unit has not been started under JES auspices (it was started before JES became the primary job entry sub-system, or deliberately afterwards with the SUB=MSTR parameter, or it's some

Re: IEAMDBLG. Filter by SYSNAME

2014-11-06 Thread Anthony Thompson
You'll need to modify the assembler source for IEAMDBLG in SYS1.SAMPLIB to provide for that functionality. That's what I did. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jorge Garcia Sent: Thursday, 6 November 2014 6:58 PM

Re: IEAMDBLG. Filter by SYSNAME

2014-11-06 Thread Anthony Thompson
Sent off-list. Cheers, Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jorge Garcia Sent: Friday, 7 November 2014 12:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEAMDBLG. Filter by SYSNAME Anthony, Do you have any problem

Re: VLF Caching

2014-11-25 Thread Anthony Thompson
Not sure this is worth mentioning, but IBM's Health Checker has a check called IBMVLF,VLF_MAXVIRT that tells you how many times VLF has trimmed objects from various caches, depending on the parameters specified on the check. The check runs hourly by default. Of course, the check won't give you

Re: Utility to replace occurrences of string in PDS?

2014-12-15 Thread Anthony Thompson
I typically use the PDSPDS program from CBT file 40. Uncertain who to credit that too. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, 16 December 2014 9:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Health Checker and SMF

2015-01-26 Thread Anthony Thompson
Predictive Failure Analysis provides a health check called PFA_SMF_ARRIVAL_RATE, but that's a PFA thing, of course. Health Checker records the results of the checks run in either its HZSPDATA file or in a log stream if you want historical information, so I'm not sure what cutting SMF records

Re: Candidate for forum motto ?

2015-01-23 Thread Anthony Thompson
other coloured armoured mask* Microsoft, or any entity that owes its existence to an IBM-PC platform or derivative, I am your father! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Anthony Thompson Sent: Friday, 23 January 2015 5:19

Re: Candidate for forum motto ?

2015-01-22 Thread Anthony Thompson
Forum motto: *Fist clenched and breathing heavily through an armoured black mask* Microsoft, I am your father! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Friday, 23 January 2015 5:11 PM To:

Re: Comic cells about computer languages.

2015-03-18 Thread Anthony Thompson
An IBM systems programmer, an IBM engineer and an IBM salesman need to attend a conference at a city some distance away, so they jump into a company car and head off down the road. After a while the car gets a flat, so they stop the car, get out, and regard the flat tyre in perplexity. The

Re: Migrating z/os version and increase of cpu usage

2015-03-13 Thread Anthony Thompson
That's a big upgrade. From an unsupported release of z/OS to a version of z/OS that isn't the latest anyway. You don't say how you measure CPU usage (your 'detection' methodology). Are they standardized RMF reports? Has there been an associated hardware upgrade (i.e. any change in MSU's)?

Re: Knowledgecentre versus the library server

2015-03-12 Thread Anthony Thompson
As per Barbara and Tony, I generally don't join into opinion threads. However, I haven't noticed anyone mention the advantage (and as far as I can tell, the only advantage) of Knowledge Centres: they are web-searchable, they will turn up in insert favourite internet search engine results.

Re: $HASP311 jobname re-queued at end of memory and held

2015-03-24 Thread Anthony Thompson
Note also the DIAGxx parameter VSM CHECKREGIONLOSS(above,below) which looks at an initiator address space at the end of each job and automatically restarts the initiator if a loss of virtual storage exceeding the specified values is detected. This parameter is intended to avoid or minimize job

Re: $HASP311 jobname re-queued at end of memory and held

2015-03-24 Thread Anthony Thompson
Oh... of course the proper syntax is VSM CHECKREGIONLOSS(below,above) not (above,below), if anyone cares. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Anthony Thompson Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2015 6:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Symbol in OMVS HOME directory?

2015-03-03 Thread Anthony Thompson
I don't think any kind of symbolics can be used in RACF profiles, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong. In the (RACF Commands Language Reference) description of the HOME sub-parameter for ADDUSER ... The fully qualified pathname should be specified. RACF does not ensure that a valid pathname has

Re: [DB2-L] - ICF catalog management for a new DB2 subsystem

2015-05-10 Thread Anthony Thompson
Catalog performance generally isn't any kind of problem if you are using Enhanced Catalog Sharing, or, better, Record Level Sharing on the catalogues. Having said that, catalogues shouldn't get so large that they use more than one index level. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Catalog Recovery Software

2015-04-15 Thread Anthony Thompson
Is CIM (from both ASPG and Hostsystems GmbH) the one and same product? Supplier dependent on country? Of course, there is always the free ICFRU, documented in the IBM Managing Catalogs manual. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

2015-04-17 Thread Anthony Thompson
Ditto. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Friday, 17 April 2015 2:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Ads in Redbookd. How long have we had ads (sorry, Promotions) in Redbooks ?. Just pulled

Re: /tmp issue

2015-04-17 Thread Anthony Thompson
As mentioned, thoroughly inappropriate to use /tmp for mass Serverpac /ShopzSeries downloads or decompressions. I have always used a personal zFS for such purposes (SMPNTS, or SMPWKDIR). Which can be easily re-sized/re-mounted depending on needs. I'm wondering what the OP thinks SYSTEM/tmp is

Re: murach's os/390 and z/os jcl pdf

2015-04-12 Thread Anthony Thompson
Exactly. The OP is looking for a free ride. I will also point out that the book is somewhat dated, and there have been improvements to JCL since (access to system symbols, promotion of such to SYSIN, PARMDD, etc.). Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Leap Second today!

2015-07-02 Thread Anthony Thompson
It depends on how much a z/OS site needs, or doesn't need, precise timing. Server Timer Protocol can add a leap second at the appropriate time (goes into a wait for the second), or it can gradually 'steer' the time over seven hours, gradually correcting the system time. Attached is nice

Re: IDCAMS DELETE MASK and Recalls

2015-08-20 Thread Anthony Thompson
Created eleven datasets, ANT.DELETE.TEST, where was to 0010. Migrated the first 5 files (TEST000 to TEST0004) yes, used IBM's HSM, and on a z/OS 2.1 LPAR. Ran an IDCAMS job to delete the files, output from job was: DELETE ANT.DELETE.** MASK

Re: s013-68 on JES2 EVENTLOG?

2015-11-03 Thread Anthony Thompson
I'm wondering if you can use PARM='SDB=INPUT' (or YES) to get IEBGENER to copy EVENTLOG? I'd try to test this myself on our sandbox z/OS 2.2 system but we're not generating EVENTLOG datasets, even though JES2 checkpoint is at Z22 level and JOBDEF SUP_EVENTLOG_SMF is set to NO. Scratching my

Re: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-09 Thread Anthony Thompson
List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Anthony Thompson Sent: Friday, 10 July 2015 10:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Product Remove from z/OS I don't like your ++VER statement. Firstly, the srel should be C150 (CICS), Z038 is for z/OS. Secondly, depending on what

Re: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-09 Thread Anthony Thompson
I don't like your ++VER statement. Firstly, the srel should be C150 (CICS), Z038 is for z/OS. Secondly, depending on what elements you have installed, you'll want to delete more than fmid HCI6400 . From the CICS TS 3.1 program directory ( http://publibfp.dhe.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/i1025860.pdf )

Re: Product Remove from z/OS

2015-07-08 Thread Anthony Thompson
All that UCLIN does is get rid of the GLOBAL zone pointers to the Tzone/Dzone's. It does nothing to the tzone/dzone themselves or to the (presumably separate) VSAM clusters that contain those Tzone/Dzone's. You can delete the VSAM clusters either before or after, it doesn't matter, since the

Re: IPL Shutdown Problem

2015-09-16 Thread Anthony Thompson
Stop the ZFS address space. It should stop as part of OMVS shut down anyway, but that's probably post-JES2 completion at your site. Issue command F OMVS,STOPPFS=ZFS. SYSLOG should close as part of normal JES2 shut down. Under z/OS 2.2, it is not recommended to run ZFS processing in its own

Re: IPL Shutdown Problem

2015-09-16 Thread Anthony Thompson
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Anthony Thompson Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 8:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IPL Shutdown Problem Stop the ZFS address space. It should stop as part of OMVS shut down anyway, but that's prob

Re: IPL Shutdown Problem

2015-09-16 Thread Anthony Thompson
] On Behalf Of Anthony Thompson Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2015 9:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IPL Shutdown Problem ROUTE command not working is a completely separate issue. It won't happen if that LPAR is outside of the sysplex. You'll need a console on that system. Use the HMC

Re: More "ageing mainframe" (bad) press.

2015-09-27 Thread Anthony Thompson
The big one in that is the Australian Federal Government's CentreLink. They are attempting to replace a mainframe-based solution with a SAP solution. The then Federal Treasurer, the esteemed Mr. Joe Hocking (now out on his arse after we got a new Prime Minister), claimed it was because the

Re: Dataset enqueue, how to find the culprit.

2015-09-24 Thread Anthony Thompson
For trapping the results in a REXX you could use the SDSF ISFSLASH service to capture the results of a D GRS, RES= or D GRS,C command. I imagine you could use the TSO CONSOLE command too. Assuming you have the authority for either... Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: OS/390 hard wait

2015-09-24 Thread Anthony Thompson
I stand corrected! Thanks Timothy. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Friday, 25 September 2015 2:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OS/390 hard wait Anthony Thompson wrote

Re: OS/390 hard wait

2015-09-24 Thread Anthony Thompson
The earliest version of MVS (sic) that is advertised to support ARCHLVL=2 is z/OS 1.6 Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Friday, 25 September 2015 12:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: any shops hiring in DFW?

2015-12-01 Thread Anthony Thompson
Maybe the BMC Campus in Houston? No idea if they are hiring but might be worth a try. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Post Sent: Wednesday, 2 December 2015 12:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

2015-12-07 Thread Anthony Thompson
No, it's a JES2 thing. And therefore you will find the mapping DSECT for $IRIS in SHASMAC. I think you can chase it down from the CVT by going through CVTJESCT to find the first SSCT (primary JES2) -> SSCTSUS2 -> HCCT (which is a sort of CVT for JES2, mapped by $HCCT) Otherwise you can get to

Re: MVS systrace size

2015-12-10 Thread Anthony Thompson
System command: TRACE ST,4M And put that in a PARMLIB COMMNDxx to set the system trace size after an IPL. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan Astle Sent: Thursday, 10 December 2015 5:40 PM To:

Re: Getting timely dump out of LE

2016-05-25 Thread Anthony Thompson
I was wondering if you looked in LOGREC to see if that recorded the first S0C4. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Don Poitras Sent: Wednesday, 25 May 2016 8:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Getting

Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How??

2016-02-04 Thread Anthony Thompson
Not sure if this helps... we don't have any such advanced gear. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1015538 Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Friday, 5 February 2016 12:58 PM To:

Re: Odd behaviour with DFHSM & DFSORT in batch.

2016-02-11 Thread Anthony Thompson
He did code WAIT. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Friday, 12 February 2016 3:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Odd behaviour with DFHSM & DFSORT in batch. I think what is happening is that

Re: z/VM "load from dvd or server"

2016-01-28 Thread Anthony Thompson
It's been a few years... but I think you have plugged in a z/VM install disc in the side of the Service Unit on the mainframe box (aka the Thinkpad) and booted it in an LPAR? Just go to the 'Integrated 3270 console', or just 'Operating System Messages' on the HMC for that LPAR and follow the

Re: Manipulating system symbols

2016-02-03 Thread Anthony Thompson
Please note that with z/OS 2.2 the length of system symbols names has increased from 8 to 16, and may include the underscore character. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, 4 February

Re: The Linklist

2016-02-01 Thread Anthony Thompson
By system command as well as well... SETPROG LNKLST,TEST,NAME=,MODNAME= Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lucas Rosalen Sent: Tuesday, 2 February 2016 4:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The Linklist

Re: CBPDO Order Install

2016-02-18 Thread Anthony Thompson
Did you bother to look up the explanation for your GIM45800S error message? GIM45800SPACKAGE package WAS NOT FOUND IN THE SMPNTS. Explanation: SMP/E could not locate the requested package in the

Re: Outsourcing Stories Good or Bad!

2016-02-29 Thread Anthony Thompson
And saving costs is just what the OP's managers are seeking to do by outsourcing. Of course, outsourcers will always present their case in the best financial light to gather business, and their business is to make a profit. In my experience the savings they advertise are rarely achieved (I've

Re: How to make USS ROOT read/write temporarily?

2016-04-12 Thread Anthony Thompson
I use the chmount command: chmount -w / (and the -r switch is used to turn the filesystem hosting the named directory back to read-only) By default this command is stored in usr/sbin, some sites moves it to /bin so it's in the default path. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Check for dynamic HCD activation

2016-03-03 Thread Anthony Thompson
I must still refer you to the 'D IOS,CONFIG' command, if you have the authority (in a REXX, use the SDSF ISFSLASH service). The command response gives you the date/time of the latest I/O configuration. If the date/time is later than the IPL time/date, then you know there been an IODF

Re: Check for dynamic HCD activation

2016-03-02 Thread Anthony Thompson
I'm supposing that when you say HCD you mean IODF. Further, when you mention REXX code, I'm guessing you are referring to Mark Zelden's IPLINFO REXX. This interrogates a couple of control blocks that I can't see documented, not in the Data Areas manuals, nor in MACLIB/MODGEN (IOVT and CDA ).

Re: New to RACF

2016-04-21 Thread Anthony Thompson
railing S, and would drop it if the number displayed was 1. For example: #PRINTF 'You have %d records',COUNT ... would result in good grammar no matter what number was displayed. Anthony Thompson wrote: > The error reason is actually 0B7F1C00, it's the C/C++ library functions being > c

Re: AXR04 System REXX

2016-04-28 Thread Anthony Thompson
z/OS 2.2 introduces some overdue commands/controls to manage system REXX address spaces. There is finally a stop command: P AXR There are a number of new modify commands, like F AXR,SR,STOPTSO to stop all TSO server address spaces, or F AXR,SR,CANCEL,REQTOKEN= to cancel a given system REXX

Re: New to RACF

2016-04-21 Thread Anthony Thompson
The error reason is actually 0B7F1C00, it's the C/C++ library functions being called from within copytree command (like printf, fprint, etc) that drop leading zeroes. I've seen it many times in error messages from z/UNIX commands . It is fixable in C/C++ code, but the programmer needs to count

Re: DAF on z/OS V2?

2016-04-19 Thread Anthony Thompson
I've both assembled and run it ox z/OS 2.2, but then again I turned off most of the customizable switches. SETC 'YES' Check DSN (YES/NO) SETC '025' Message Limit (nnn/000) SETC '025' SNAP Limit (nnn/000)

Re: Setting up z/OSMF under 2.1

2016-04-18 Thread Anthony Thompson
Obviously, they don't, since they are unique ISPF profile datasets. With z/OSMF, it's much like TSO. You are prompted for the TSO logon proc you want to use (with all the consequent allocations, either explicit or via a CLIST/REXX invoked from the logon proc). Ant. -Original Message-

Re: Inappropriate posts

2016-07-17 Thread Anthony Thompson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sffSw-et9UM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2016 6:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Inappropriate posts Tom Brennan wrote:

Re: Already logged on message - Wrong System ID

2016-07-14 Thread Anthony Thompson
Don't really understand that JCL. What is the point of IEBGENER stuff there? Isn't the only DD-card of relevance the /*$VS 'CANCEL ' ? Wouldn't IEFBR14 do just as well? Why not the more modern // COMMAND syntax, avoiding the cumbersome $VS crap (and use C U= rather than the bigger hammer

Re: Netstat (EZANS) for z/OS 2.2

2016-06-28 Thread Anthony Thompson
It's not at all difficult to keep it working. Update the initialization section of the EZANS REXX from around line 180-ish on. I don't think there have been any changes to the netstat command syntax since z/OS 1.13. Ant. /**/

Re: Character data returned from

2016-07-06 Thread Anthony Thompson
Use the function. SET ASTER=(*) GETFILE INPUT SET PLACE = (,) IF =0 THEN - GOTO PROCESS ELSE - GOTO REJECT Ant. -Original Message- From:

Re: Soft Capping

2016-06-29 Thread Anthony Thompson
CVT + x'25C' = address of RMCT (SRM control table) RMCT + x'E4' = address of RCT (SRM resource control table) RCT + x'C4' = RCTLACS (4 bytes, unsigned, long-term no. Of MSU's consumed by LPAR) RCT + x'1C' = RCTIMGW (4 bytes, unsigned, no. of MSU's available to LPAR) If RCTLACS > RCTIMGWU, the

Re: Maximum size of a PDSE library?

2017-02-21 Thread Anthony Thompson
There was a Redbook entitled 'Partitioned Data Set Extended Usage Guide', document number SG24-6106-01, dated May 2005 (so it very much pre-dated PDSE V2). That Redbook stated that that PDSE directories entries were organised in a balanced B-tree, and that the PDSE pages were either directory

Re: OPERLOG vs SYSLOG

2016-08-19 Thread Anthony Thompson
More significant for us was the ability to look at any system's log via SDSF from any other system in the 'plex (we're not MASPOOL). Also the ability to diagnose IPL errors from another system by being able to scroll through and eyeball the problem system's IPL messages prior to its JES

Re: Elementary dataset alias question

2016-08-30 Thread Anthony Thompson
You can look forward to being neither surprised nor delighted. From Managing Catalogs, SC23-6853-02, page 19: "The symbolic string must not exceed 44 characters, including all name segments and periods." Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Capture REXX/CLIST software usage.

2016-09-14 Thread Anthony Thompson
Maybe you can add your REXX/CLIST libraries to VLF and use SMF type 41 records to see which ones are being called. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Massimo Biancucci Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2016 7:35 PM To:

Re: Capture REXX/CLIST software usage.

2016-09-15 Thread Anthony Thompson
with customer > in order to evaluate pro (a lot) and cons. > > I know that the more I monitor the worst I get, anyway we use TADz to > delete old applications and we'd like to do the same for system pgmr stuffs. > > Thanks again to everybody. > Massimo > > 2016-09-15 3:0

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: many OMVSKERN task not stop

2016-10-25 Thread Anthony Thompson
Just so. Check the AUTOLOG statement in the TCPIP PROFILE deck. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jerry Whitteridge Sent: Wednesday, 26 October 2016 3:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: Re:

Re: XCFAS high CPU after z13s upgrade

2016-10-27 Thread Anthony Thompson
Do you have Health Checker running? That has some nice checks for XCF, like storage constraints for coupling facilities and transport group limits. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tracy Adams Sent: Friday, 28

Re: SUPRESSING MESSAGES - DFHSM

2016-11-08 Thread Anthony Thompson
What about: SETSYS ACTLOGMSGLVL(EXCEPTIONONLY) Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2016 9:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SUPRESSING MESSAGES - DFHSM Sorry I

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