Re: How much CPU percentage can be expected to be reclaimed?

dispatcher doesn't need to check the shared CPs that are only activated. Case (2) will probably be as good as case(1). Simply deactivating them will get lpar to redistribute those resources. Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Spin Loop Calculation - zOS 1.12

. That also means that the SFM intervals get computed automatically and can be displayed with a D XCF command. I believe there is an XCF health check that tells you you did right if you didn't specify anything. Barbara Nitz

Health checks - was: Re: Spin Loop Calculation - zOS 1.12

What's this? Do my eyes deceive me? Barbara singing the praises of a health check - any health check? :-) (just kidding!!) Well, must have been one of the few that I didn't delete. On the other hand, one couldn't help but notice the D XCF,CPL output has become even larger on 1.12. When

Re: Enabling RRS Error

and have done it themselves, without consideration for other departments/applications, much less for the overall picture. Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Clarification on IXC267E

since that message that might have caused the alternate dataset to be temporarily unavailable? Barbara Nitz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: supervisor state vs. problem state

Could having a logical processor to physical processor ratio of greater than 2 (e.g. 8 logicals in a 3 CP cec) be bad? In my opinion, it depends on the box you're running on. We ran a z196 at a 4:1 ratio. The result was that up to 1.5% of all cpu consumed on that box across all apars was

Re: curious: display *MASTER* in SDSF

On one monoplex it also has RESOLVER, on another (which is a one-system sysplex with a CF) the stepname changes from an in-house STC to APPC. What they all seem to have in common is that the names appearing do not have a JES id. That inhouse-STC gets me 'JCT unavailable' when I try to see the

Re: Address space puzzle

So my current fundamental question is: what identifies an address space besides the ASID? The STOKEN is the only thing that uniquely identifies an address space for the life of the IPL. That is, I would have thought that ASID X'1234' meant the same address space, whoever referred to it. An

JES3 job ids

This is probably a very basic JES3 question, but I have been unable to find an answer both searching the internet and the JES3 books. Can somebody running JES3 please tell me what the jobid for a TSO user looks like? In JES2 it would be TSUx or T0xx. Same for a started task - in JES2

Re: JES3 job ids

Thanks so much, Klaus! The things you've cited fit the note on the JES3 service that I had found. I had gotten the impression that JES3 primarily uses job numbers and that it is up to the product presenting information to get a jobid and present it one way or another. Barbara

Re: Health Checker for z/OS checks - to check or not to check, now is the..

Check: ASM_LOCAL_SLOT_USAGE Adding more locals is always an option (again), my question was more on experiences people have with locals on WebSphere LPARs. We're using quite large locals (as big as the DASDs they are located on - 10k CYLS, one full model 9 3390 DASD). Does it make sense

Re: Rational Development and Test (RDT) aka z/OS on a PC

For me, the breakthrough here is that IBM is agreeing to license z/OS to ANYONE, That's not how it works for us. An RDT system (and I have been maintaining ours for almost two years now, but RDT has been around longer than that) has licenced the z1090 code (RDT) and that code only. That's

Re: Rational Development and Test (RDT) aka z/OS on a PC

Does the RDT license allow you to get updated ADCD images when they become available? E.G., when an ADCD version is made available for z/OS 2.1, can you load it on your RDT system? Yes, you can. Having gone through that two times (migration 1.10 - 1.13 and then moving 'the system' from

Re: Rational Development and Test (RDT) aka z/OS on a PC

This will make things slightly easier (but only slightly) when upgrading in the future. At the next upgrade, the S1CFG1 disk can be made part of the new configuration, for the time it takes to complete the job. During that time, the contents of libraries on S1CFG1 can be used as a source for

IEBCOPY - was: Re: Rational Development and Test (RDT) aka z/OS on a PC

// SPACE=(TRK,(4000,0,0)),UNIT=3390,VOL=SER=TGT001 Somewhat irritatingly, IEBCOPY exhibits this behavior even when I specify such as: SPACE=(TRK,(4000,0)),DSNTYPE=LIBRARY Exactly. Which lead me to (erroneously) conclude that it doesn't matter what you specify for directory when

Re: Rational Development and Test (RDT) aka z/OS on a PC

The ADCD release for RDT is currently running 6-9 months behind the ADCD for PWD, primarily due to testing the Rational development components for compatibility. Which is a joke in itself, since the release of RDz we have been getting from the ADCD system for *both* z/OS 1.10 and 1.13 has been

Re: Dump Defaults (Was: SLIP IF Trap?)

I can tell you the intent. Each allocation of above-2G storage fits into one of 5 should I include it in the dump? categories -- - like region (default for private) - like LSQA - like CSA (default for common) - like SQA - do not dump automatically The intent is to dump like x when 'x' is

Re: Dump Defaults (Was: SLIP IF Trap?)

For HVCOMMON, I would think that SDUMP should be turning on the common storage bit in the dump record prefix, and IPCS should be respecting that and allowing you to access the storage via any ASID. Big thanks (again) to Jim Mulder for looking at this. SDUMP does indeed everything it should and

Re: EAV bug or feature?

Tom, >I'll be covering this in the Bit Bucket at SHARE in Atlanta. Thanks for >giving me some more information about this. If you go to zTechU in >Munich, I'm presenting there, so please look me up. I had planned on it when I saw your name on the roster... Barbara

Re: Dynamic Exit and SDSF DYNX

I was kinda blind. The Exit command without DIAG shows both exits, it just doesn't show them vertically. Why are the LoadPt and ModLen for the IPL-loaded Exits not shown in either DYNX or the DIAG output? Barbara >you're completely right, SYS.IEFUSI is a different *exitname* to

Re: Dynamic Exit and SDSF DYNX

Rob, you're completely right, SYS.IEFUSI is a different *exitname* to SYSTSO.IEFUSI. That explains why I saw DYNX with only the default IEFUSI - I looked at the wrong statement. Now I see that DYNX shows me two lines: SYSTSO.IEFUSI 1 IEFUSITS YESYES 8E0A0EA8 0E0A0EA8 0158

Re: IEE114I header line summary figures - what do they mean exactly?

>Since we do not use APPC, are type "AO" address spaces all UNIX process >running in BPXAS initiator address spaces? It appears so. I recently implemented OPERCMDS security for START/STOP commands, and when a SAS User tries to kill his hanging process/thread/whatever into USS, the CANCEL

Re: How determine effective architecture level of a z/PDT?

> However, keep in mind that this is a statement about the CPU >architecture, and not >the I/O architecture. For example, zPDT does not support MIDAWs, which >were >introduced on the z9 machines. And there are other hardware features that are NOT implemented, which I found out the hard

Re: Dynamic Exit and SDSF DYNX

>It specifically is LPA vs not. Thanks Peter (and Rob). Also thanks for that DYNX panel - now we can see the many exit that are silently established without traces in our parmlib... More to check and cleanup. Barbara -- For

Re: Maximum size of a PDSE library?

Last time I looked at PDSE performance was before PDSE V2. And I checked specifically PDSEs with RECFM=VB. About 1 member in a 18000cyl PDSE library. ISPF 3.4 took about 90 seconds. That time was spent on I/O (reponse time about 4ms for each I/O). During that time about 1 I/Os were

Dynamic Exit and SDSF DYNX

My system came up with an old default IEFUSI exit. SYS.IEFUSI and SYSTSO.IEFUSI are defined via SMFPRM. I need a new exit (IEFUSITS) for SYSTSO, so I did this: SETPROG EXIT,ADD,EN=SYSTSO.IEFUSI,MODNAME=IEFUSITS,DSN=SYS1.LPALIB CSV420I MODULE IEFUSITS HAS BEEN ADDED TO EXIT SYSTSO.IEFUSI Using

Re: Experience with GDDR

>The minimum specs we were provided insist on a 2-CP solution, but when I >pressed them, other than "commands took a long time", I received no >valid reason why a single CP with sufficient memory would not be enough. >Does anyone have experience with GDDR LPARs, specifically the CP >requirement,

HMCS consoles

When we started working with our z13, IBM recommended to use the integrated console(s) that are defined as HMCS to z/OS. So we put in the definition and managed to IPL the first system in each sysplex with the HMCS console instead of Operating System Messages console, which is hard to handle.

Re: HMCS consoles

>The real question is whether dynamic _deletion_ and subsequent >_replacement_ of a wrongly-defined IPL-time HMCS specification will >work. On the surface it seems like it ought to work, but I think there's >a reasonable chance it won't... Well, it does. :-) The only surprise was that I had to

Re: Real Storage Display

>I discussed this further with Jim Mulder. The z12, where I recently noticed >the 'unassigned' value, introduced 2 GB pages, one of whose consequences is >that LPAR boundaries are rounded up as needed to the nearest 2 GB boundary. If >an image profile specifies any other value, the 'excess' is

Re: How large are your system trace & master trace on z13?

>I feel that our system trace is a bit small, especially since we moved to z13. >We currently have set them to 15M (per processor). >What do others use? We're still at 1M per processor (even on z13), but then there isn't much system trace reading done here. If your central storage layout can

Re: CEEDUMP possible following 'new' failure

>I cannot remember exactly, but what happened was that in IMS the STOP REGION >command was issued and the address space was not listed anymore in IMS >(Display active showed it was gone). >It was visible in JES but nothing could be done about it, it did neither >accept cancel nor force. Do you

Re: HMCS consoles

>If you need help setting them up, send me an offline email and I can direct >you through it. It will take you all of about 10 minutes to do the OSA >changes and another 5 to generate the NIP OS consoles in your IODF. Thanks Brian, we do have those consoles set up (someone else did it), and

Re: HMCS consoles

Hi Tom, >I found this forum post, which says you can have one HMCS console per >z/OS image (WTW). I have this in my (shared) CONSOLxx: CONSOLE DEVNUM(HMCS) NAME(HMCS) AUTH(MASTER) ROUTCODE(ALL) INTIDS(Y) LEVEL(ALL) UNKNIDS(Y) I had assumed that this definition would

Re: HMCS consoles

>> CONSOLE DEVNUM(HMCS) NAME(HMCS) AUTH(MASTER) ROUTCODE(ALL) >> INTIDS(Y) LEVEL(ALL) UNKNIDS(Y) > >I've noticed SHARE and IBM Tech-U presentations full of the same silly >example that can't possibly work. They recommend exactly what you have: >CONSOLE DEVNUM(HMCS) NAME(HMCS) etc. which

Re: SAS user abend code documentation?

>Have you seen this http://support.sas.com/kb/54/206.html Chuck, yes, we did. And we are at a higher maintenance level already. One of the problems is that u1335 seems to occur in all kinds of problems, which is why I want to see what it actually *means*. Barbara

SAS user abend code documentation?

We are currently experiencing abend u1335 in SAS 9.4_m3 in different jobs. My first step would be to determine what that user abend actually tells me - but I cannot find the book containing the abend code meanings. Does anyone know what book contains that information? (We already have a

Re: SAS user abend code documentation?

>We don't document internal abend codes as the vast majority will >(hopefully) never be seen. They can change from release to release >and even at a maintenance release. They're used when the program >can't continue to run for some reason. Usually, they are accompanied >by a message to the SAS

Re: AW: Re: Seeking for help finding cause of S23E/S53E with preceeding S202, and PGM 011/004

>a) I see a couple of FREEMAIN (SSRV 78) trace entries pointing to a TCB in >read/write nucleus (TCB address is 00FDD4F8). Do these hold some useful >information for me? The only tcb I know of that actually, really is located in the R/W nucleus is the first tcb in the *master* address space.

Re: Job hold on jes2 input queue

RDT systems being based on ADCD distributions I suggest to discard all current JES definitions on that RDT system and cold start with a jes2parm similar to this (you'll need to adjust data set names and volumes): BUFDEF BELOWBUF=(LIMIT=100,WARN=80),

Re: Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory

>I don't want to turn this into a debugging session, but this is what I see in >RMF3 on the non-DB2 utility system. >All of the TPX 'regions' are below this list sorted by Aux Slots. No task >shows any page-ins. Not sure that you haven't already done this: Use IPCS active on that system, and

Re: INIT terminated at end of memory

Hi Greg, >A FORCE command becomes a CALLRTM TYPE=MEMTERM request which will drive >address space level resource manager routines in the *MASTER* address >space for the memterm'd address space. Ideally a resource manager >routine should never need, or at least wait for, serialization of a

INIT terminated at end of memory

Apparently we ran into another of those PDSE latch contention bugs. While terminating the holder of the latch, we had to force the batch job since cancel had absolutely no effect. We got messages IEF743I INIT FORCED - CODE SA22 - IN ADDRESS SPACE 0040 IEF743I AUTO39P FORCED - CODE SA22 -

Re: z/OSMF-Based Installation (WasL Re: AW: Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES)

>But is it a valid data point? We use z/OSMF only insofar as we are forced to >for IP configuration and upkeep. We did not use z/OSMF to install v2.2, and I >don't know whether we'll use it to install v2.3. There is talk of it, but it >seems to be largely motivated by the thought that we

Friday question: ISPF Statistics Manipulation

A colleague of mine just asked me if ISPF statistics in a data set, especially the USERID field, can be manipulated. We used ISPF 3.5 and we were both astonished that I was easily able to fake a userid as the one who last changed a member (testing in my own dataset, of course). This

Re: Friday question: ISPF Statistics Manipulation

>Evidence of what Barb ? Don't hang anyone on this evidence. Anyone with >update access to the pds can update this field.. My colleague asked me on Friday if it is possible to fake the ISPF Statistics. I already knew that you can write them yourself using something other than ISPF. So we tested

Re: What casues IPL/XCF to read the CFRM data set for the policy ?

>soon after the system were up and verified, an incorrect policy0 was written >into the CFRM data set, had the wrong serial number and wrong partion number >for the CF LPAR. >both systems have been IPL'd successfully multiple times since the install. Not surprising. You must have activated the

Re: Formatting a ZFS

>Weird one. Since IOEZPARM is saying 8K block, I'd try CISIZE(8192). If >it still doesn't work, scheisse zeit. Bingo. The collective wisdom of this group is great! With CONTROLINTERVALSIZE(8192) I get the same problem as before, so I left it off completely (as Peter suggested), and the ZFS

Re: Formatting a ZFS

TSO BPXMTEXT EA0B0248 BPXMTEXT does not support reason code qualifier EA0B That was the first thing I tried. Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Formatting a ZFS

I am fighting with USS. Again. I am installing HCR77C0 and am trying to get a ZFS formatted: //ZFSALLOC EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD *

Re: AW: Re: Formatting a ZFS

>Would you mind, and do you have time to open a PMR? If zFS cannot cope with >non-default CI size, it should say so clearly when asked to format a new >cluster. At the very least, the 0248 reason code must be documented. Amen. But I really really really hate SR, so I really want to avoid

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

>I opened a hardware issue for this same reason and hardware support reported >that MCL patches needed to be applied to the HMC. Those patches were recently >put on but I haven't had a chance to be at the HMC during a sandbox IPL to >verify if it is fixed. When I first detected this last

Re: SLIP with ACTION=NOSUP

Peter, go into IPCS, option 3.5. Then put a t for takedump in front of the symptom string. In the background, that will turn off DAE, set a marker and re-establish DAE. Make sure that your ADYSETxx members are properly customized and that you have ADYOPCMD in the authorized command section of

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

>I'm trying to use the new Java-less Operating System Messages console on >the HMC. My version is Blippy McBlipperson, which makes it extremely >difficult to use, because you can't watch it. As new messages are sent >to the console, the display collapses and expands at least 10x/sec. >Anybody

Re: ServerPac download 0 observations

>For this one, though, since we built the download code into the dialog >itself, we thought it safe to assume you had a copy of it already. So, >we did not see the need to allow a first-time installation path for it. > Since I wrote that design (quite some time ago), I have never heard >anyone

Re: Downloading publications from IBM

I am using a different url to access pubcenter, and I get thrown back to the initial page, too. Using IE (company mandated). Is that IBM's way of enforcing the use of knowledge center? Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Question on some z/OS Tuning Parms USEZOSV1R9RULES and MEMDSENQMGT

>So, my question is, are there any repercussions changing to USEZOSV1R9RULES( >NO) for shop running, lets say z/OS 2.2 + all OEM products up to date with >compatibility? >we're not a large DB2 shop be most of our workload is DB2, DB2 data sharing in >a 3 system sysplex. >any recommendations?

Re: ZIIP engine utilization

> Can you point me to the best place to see if Ziip is getting maxed out. Look at the TYPE70 SMF records. They will show you if the ZIIP is 100% busy. Regards, Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

HWIBCPII

We had the (admittedly not so) bright idea to accomate the request from application development to activate the HEAPCHK LE Option generally. We did this in conjunction with upgrading from 2.1 to 2.3. As a result, the crappy design of HWIBCPII address space revealed itself. (It had been

Re: HWIBCPII

>> HWIBCPII is one of those magical address spaces that is started by >> Abracadabra: >> >> S IEESYSAS,PROG=HWIAMIN2 > >Or by: > >S HWISTART (which essentially does the same) Not quite. S HWISTART waits for JES2 to come up, it does NOT start HWIBCPII immediately. (Which is why I tried the

Re: HWIBCPII

Ed, please reread my first post! >If that's the case, then the fault lies with LE and not BCPii. How is LE to know that it runs under an implicit sub=mstr? That is not how your standard Cobol/PL/I program runs. What started this off was our general setting of HEAPCHK(ON) on request of

Re: Update: Server Certificates Expiring - Sooner!

>Hree, I thought it was just me doing something dumb in FF and IE. :-) I second that. It kind of made me angry that the link opens the certificate in IE, with readable (ASCII) characters in it. I expect a page with choices of how to download! I also tried searching that digicert site for the

Re: IBM ZD

zD comes with an ADCD system, which used to lag behind 12-18 months (when I worked on an RDT system) about 2 years ago. ADCD does not have *any* z/OS support as we know it (when you only have an RDT system, you cannot order ptfs). The process of 'migrating' to a new ADCD version is cumbersome

ServerPac download reports CSRF attack

I took a chance (since a colleague had set up internet access directly from the host) and ordered z/OS 2.3 via ShopZ as downloadable from internet. The only browser I can use is Chrome, and I cannot change anything in the settings (corporate mandate). IE will not even let me log in to ShopZ.

Re: ServerPac download reports CSRF attack

>I get the "Error: CSRF attack detected" frequently if I am doing a page >refresh too quickly or trying to navigate backwards and it doesn't want to let >me do it. I end up >re-driving the url again and all is well. All this on FireFox. > >You might try Lvl2 support. Here is one person that has

Re: ServerPac z/OS 2.3

>I agree with the above under "normal" circumstances. tut what if RACF is >broken for some reason? >UADS may save you’re a**s. Allan, I completely agree. I am not saying not to have a sys1.uads on a running system, I am dissatisfied with having half (the definition) in SMPE but not the actual

Re: RACF DATASET protection WHEN(SYSID)

>So how do people protect the same dataset differently on various LPAR's, or is >it just not possible? We had to make sure that the compilers do not run on a system that doesn't have licence=z/OS. We used when(sysid) in class PROGRAM, for the names of the compilers as the program name to be

Re: RACF DATASET protection WHEN(SYSID) - Compilers

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:05:43 -0400, John Eells wrote: >Over the past few years, COBOL and PL/I have added support for Product >Registration Services, and can be disabled using IFAPRFxx entries. XL >C/C++ is a feature of z/OS and can similarly be enabled or disabled with >IFAPRDxx. > >This does

Failing to install zOSMF ptfs

What a good thing we are not using z/OSMF. Last Friday I downloaded a refresh for z/OS 2.3 from ShopZ. Everything went fine *except* ptfs UI55431, UI55737, UI56534, UI57065 and UI57212. They fail to go in. I install maintenance into /SERVICE, so the root is mounted under /SERVICE. SBBLZFS is

Re: Failing to install zOSMF ptfs

David, >Are you sure you had all of your Service filesystems mounted correctly? The >error indicates the possibility that maybe not? On my systems IZUUSRD is >mounted off /var/zosmf and is NOT updated by SMPE as it is the ZOSMF >operational data container. My V2.3 SMPE shows DDDEF SIZUFSD

Re: Failing to install zOSMF ptfs

>That’s correct Barbara. And it worked like a charm. Which made me wonder why I was able to mount on a non-empty mount point (assuming it was non-empty!). Turns out I only had the parm set to warning, not to fail. And sure enough, there was a message that I mounted on a non-empty mount point.

Re: ISF.CONNECT.*

I am curious: Why is Rocket Software defending missing SDSF actions and bad documentation??? Has IBM 'outsourced' the SDSFAUX server? I am annoyed with the ISFTABL thing (which we addressed in our logon procedure), too, because that message was irritating all of us. The ISF.CONNECT thing is

ISF.CONNECT.*

Something has changed with SDSFAUX between z/OS 2.1 and z/OS 2.3. Under z/OS 2.3, each and every user gets a RACF Message when they access their part of SDSF (that's the primary RACF panel). That missing right is for ISF.CONNECT.system, which is described as access to SDSFAUX. None of those

ServerPac z/OS 2.3

While installing my (downloaded :-) ) serverpac for z/OS 2.3, I have noticed three problems (so far): Datasets FFST.V120ESA.AEPWBENU and IOA.AIOAIBIN were both placed on my target volume instead of my DLIB volume. And SYS1.AUADS is in SMPE, but it is completely missing, even from the RESTORE

Re: Update: Server Certificates Expiring - Sooner!

>I believe your point is that if you do not intend for multiple userids >to use the same certificate, then you don't need to connect it to your >keyring with USAGE(CERTAUTH). Fair point. Thanks Kurt, for your answer. I did not set up the download capability (and did not read the book), and the

Re: ServerPac z/OS 2.3

>this has been my request for a long long long time. (with the exception of >the ZFS datasets of course). The problem with this is that the other >Serverpac jobs that massage the CPAC parmlib/proclib that come with it. That was my other 'problem'. I don't want that CPAC stuff on my

IRRPRMxx

We are in the process of migrating to z/OS 2.3, and I want to use the new IRRPRMxx parmlib member. The documentation in oa52560 is suspiciously silent on how to activate this in a sysplex data sharing environment, so I went through the RACF books. It seems that IRRPRMxx can only be activated

Re: Health Check JES_NJE_SECURITY

>Ouch. I never saw Walt's proviso mentioned in the doc. Yes, these nodes are >all totally under our control. However each node (sysplex) constitutes a >different business environment supported by a different RACF data base. A >person may have the same userid on sandbox and on production, but

Re: IRRPRMxx

Tom, >Your 2.3 system will use the IRRPRMxx member and your 2.1 systems will >continue to use the information you specified in the ICHRDSNT load module. All >we did was take the information that we specify in the load module and put it >in a parmlib member. We have not had any issues

Re: IRRPRMxx

Tom, >The way I read this is that the PARMLIB member does not agree with the >ICHRDSNT already in use by the RACF sharing group. Are you absolutely >sure that the PARMLIB member is correct and agrees with your current >ICHRDSNT in every respect? If so, then I would open a PMR for this issue.

Re: IBMVSM,ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

Replying to several posts: When I activated OA53355 on my z/OS 2.3 system, I activated that check. It tripped immediately and gave me the possibilities (other than what the diag trap we've been running with already excluded): - SCOPE=ALL data space - IARVSERV SHARE

Re: Friday Conundrum (aka Soap Box)

>Has anyone else gotten frustrated when opened an IBM Service Request in having >to select the Operating System, which should have been automatic after >selecting the Product and the applicable operating system release level? Me too. One *always* gets asked what had already been answered. Plus,

Re: IBMVSM,ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

Brian, >I would think your RASP dump would only be a point in time view of User Key >Common at the instant of taking the dump. User Key Common that didn't exist at >the time you took the dump wouldn't appear, right? Completely true. On the other hand: In my experience, user key common (CADS,

Re: Software Delivery on Tape to be Discontinued

On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:23:42 -0400, John Eells wrote: >In addition to that, you can take a laptop outside your firewall, >download stuff*, bring the laptop back in, connect to your internal >network, and upload it to z/OS to be processed. No, you cannot. Where I work, the

Re: JVM fails to intialize

>$ /usr/lpp/java/J8.0_64/bin/java >-version Try java -Xmcrs2048k -version My colleague who had figured that out set the specified parm somewhere in USS, so now it always works for us just using -version. Regards, Barbara --

Re: AW: Where are the IBMLINK SIS fuinctions today?

>And where can I look up PTFs? IBMLINK / SIS was my major website doing >this. >The "Granular APAR search" doesn't work for me with PTF numbers. What's wrong with SIS? I can get in and can do searches, just as always. My login link is

Re: The 64-bit version of LOOK from CBT File 264 is finally out

On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 20:33:36 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: >What does this give over IPCS of ACTIVE? > My question exactly, too. >Joseph Reichmann answered: "Going thru control blocks specially if there is >eyecatcher and it formats it >Makes it real easy to go thru control blocks " Well,

Strange issue with SDSF main panel

I have a strange issue with the ISPF main (first) panel. I have added permission to view the APF list: pe ISFCMD.ODSP.APF.* cl(sdsf) id(grpname) ac(r) and I have refreshed the raclisted sdsf class. I expected the APF command to show up in the ISPF main panel once I call ISPF. It does NOT show

Re: Strange issue with SDSF main panel

Again: The APF command is NOT failing, it 'just' does not show on the main panel! It only shows *after* the APF command was *successfully* executed! And then only for as long as I stay within that session. With the exception of 4 userids, *everybody* is in ISFUSER, which doesn't mean anything

Re: Strange issue with SDSF main panel

>Are you using the default panel ISFPCU41? Has anyone modified it? Vanilla ISPF/SDSF, no usermods, and the panel is always named ISFPCU41. >How are you invoking it? Like this?PGM(ISFISP) NOCHECK NEWAPPL(ISF) >SCRNAME(SDSF) Exactly like this: PGM(ISFISP) NEWAPPL(ISF) SCRNAME(SDSF) NOCHECK

Re: Strange issue with SDSF main panel

>How many lines in your ISFPCU41? 541 :-) with the copyright by Rocket Software. But then, the primary panel is one column only these days (which took some getting-used-to). >Ungodly? :-) I have 153 entries and almost never issue =blah.blah.blah.blah The problem is that many of the entries we

ibmvsm/ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

I know we've been through a few iterations of this, and I still have questions: We had one offender that was using a key=8 CADS. They have since provided a release where they use a system key for their CADS, and that release has been installed on all sysplexes/systems. I was really astonished

Re: SYS1.MIGLIB and LNKLST

>Not to hijack the thread, but... I thought ServerPac already >automatically adds 20% (25?) free space, but I could be wrong. In any >case, how much free space should be allocated by ServerPac? I saw 50% >mentioned. Is that enough? Should it be the same for every data set, >or just the three

Re: IGD17272I but lots of space in storgrp

One problem we had was unequal usage on the available volumes. The first volumes considered by SMS were almost full, no way to fulfill the primary space allocation. There was enough space in volumes that SMS would have checked later, but before SMS got there, the volcount was reached. We ended

Re: ibmvsm/ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

Hello David, parm(new) did the trick! This bit of information must have been buried in all the RUCSA stuff that I skipped over because it doesn't apply to us. We don't have oa56180 applied yet, so that explains why the audit bit wasn't on in some cases. I feel much more confident now to

Re: ibmvsm/ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

Hi Bruce, >I have the same query open with IBM at the moment. Well, it helps that I am not alone with that question. :-) >If you could provide an example of a RESET command I would most appreciate. I didn't use it. All I did was go into sdsf and then scroll to the extreme right of the health

Re: Clarification on DASD mod conversion of SYSRES

>There shouldn’t be Jake. I'm running MOD-54's for my sysres volumes and have >been for years. Probably the only issue you might have is if you are going >from a multi-sysres config where you had multiple system symbols for catalog >purposes, you'll just have to fix that to all use either

Re: Clarification on DASD mod conversion of SYSRES

>I just checked my master cat and EVERY entry has , 2, or 3 except >SYS1.PARMLIB on the SYSRES It has **. and both are set >to since we use mod 27s. We are at z/OS 2.3. All, thanks for checking. So my conclusion way back when must have been wrong. I had left SYS1.PARMLIB (that came

Re: Clarification on DASD mod conversion of SYSRES

>I have never has a problem using anywhere ** could have been used. >Actually, the resolution of occurs very early in the IPL, long before >CAS is initialized. > >The difference is that is resolved by CAS, which is not yet initialized >at that moment. Until then, ** does the built-in

Re: Clarification on DASD mod conversion of SYSRES

>What if the res volume is spreaded on two volumes ? Can we still use >'**' ? No, not according to how I read the book. Only the data sets on the volume that you specify in the IPLPARM can use **. Any other volume containing non-VSAM system data sets would be considered an *extension*

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