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
Oh... of course the proper syntax is VSM CHECKREGIONLOSS(below,above) not
(above,below), if anyone cares.
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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
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
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)?
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.
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
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
other coloured armoured mask* Microsoft, or any entity that owes its
existence to an IBM-PC platform or derivative, I am your father!
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Of Anthony Thompson
Sent: Friday, 23 January 2015 5:19
Forum motto:
*Fist clenched and breathing heavily through an armoured black mask*
Microsoft, I am your father!
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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:
I typically use the PDSPDS program from CBT file 40. Uncertain who to credit
that too.
Ant.
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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:
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
You'll need to modify the assembler source for IEAMDBLG in SYS1.SAMPLIB to
provide for that functionality. That's what I did.
Ant.
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Of Jorge Garcia
Sent: Thursday, 6 November 2014 6:58 PM
Sent off-list.
Cheers, Ant.
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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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
*
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
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.
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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
Perhaps you meant the command NETSTAT CONN
Or even NETSTAT CONN (PORT 623
Ant.
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Of ??? ?? ???
Sent: Tuesday, 15 July 2014 2:02 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Telnet issue
I
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Mike Schwab
Sent: Friday,
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,
//
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.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of
WTO doesn't write to SYSPRINT. Use normal OPEN - WRITE/PUT - CLOSE to the
SYSPRINT DCB processing.
Ant.
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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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Chokalingam Thangavelu
Sent: Wednesday, 28 August 2013 5:59 PM
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
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
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
The CATLG filter is valid only when using an input volume list.
Ant.
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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,
Does it work if you add the exit via COMMNDxx (later in the IPL) rather than
PROGxx?
Ant.
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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:
Or you can use the SDSF ISFSLASH command to do a D GRS,RES=(*,dsn)
Ant.
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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 -
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
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:
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
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.
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