Re: STP Dialout Failure

Clifford McNeill wrote: Anybody else experiencing failures with STP/ETR dialout to NIST ACTS? http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/acts.cfm Point a browser at that link. Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: TSOLIB BLDL abend

Bill Godfrey wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 10:28:42 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: RCF submitted. Assuming that you meant z/OS MVS Programming: Assembler Services Reference, Volume 2 (IAR-XCT), the note conflicts with the preceding text, which is correct. Why? Where? The use of that book name

Re: Is it possible to write an exit to add DEFER to a VTAPE allocation?

Mike Schwab wrote: We have some job steps that use ICETOOL to copy 50 DASD or VTAPE datasets to two VTAPE datasets. We have not been able to convince the owner of the job to add DEFER to the allocation. So when a couple of these jobs run at the same time, we run out of our 512 VTAPE drives.

Re: HSM and changed or archive bit

David G. Schlecht wrote: HSM is intermittently failing to backup new datasets. I suspect that someone/something is resetting the changed or archive bit on the dataset before HSM gets to it. Can anyone tell me how I can view the state of the changed bit on a dataset? Look at the bits in

Re: Security exposure of zXXP was Re: zIIP simulation

Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: PMFJI here Ed, but PSPI and DMTI aren't acronyms that I recognize. Translations please? Peter Product-Sensitive Programming Interface (The underlying software can change and this interface can change or disappear.) Diagnosis, Modification and Tuning

Re: EXCP Counts in SMF Exit

Does your IEFACTRT deal with continuation type 30-4 records? From the Installation Exits book: When the data for an SMF record exceeds 32,756 bytes in length, the system constructs one or more continuation or additional records to ensure that no individual record exceeds that length. The

Re: Re : JES2 / TCP/IP Network Printer Definitions....

Jim Thomas wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a network printer to be useable (via tcp/ip) from JES2. LINE(n) UNIT=TCP, CONNECT=YES NODE(n) CONNECT=YES, LINE=n, NAME=noden SOCKET(socketn),CONNECT=YES, IPADDR=1.2.3.4, LINE=n,

Re: ServiceLink hosed?

Thomas Conley wrote: Every time I click on something it ServiceLink, it keeps blowing me back to the signon page. Anybody else having issues? Tom, I don't do ServiceLink but other authentications, e.g. Sign in with your IBM ID, are returning We're sorry, there has been a problem while

Re: Longer SMFWAIT during IPL MSI

I suggest this Redbook: http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247816.html?Open Bob Shameem .K .Shoukath wrote: hi there, I was just going thru the IPL statistics of all LPARs in out org. I see in one LPAR the SMFWAIT is taking fairly longer comp to others. out of total 00:01:12 MSI

Re: Quick question about soft capping

Tom Sims wrote: Is it possible to enable LPAR soft capping in a basic sysplex, or does WLM require a CF for this? Thanks! It has been working quite happily in our basic sysplex. Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: zBC12 article on one of my PC sites!

Pommier, Rex R. wrote: On another note, can someone point me to the announcement for end-of-availability for purchasing upgrades to a z10BC? I must be brain-dead because I haven't been able to find it, and in this GINMF (Google is not my friend).

Re: The Rubicon has been crossed: no more hardcopy IBM publications from the IBM Publications Center

John Gilmore wrote: If you don't really want to inventory and sell hard copies anymore raising their prices to very high levels is an elegant thing to do. It discourages most people from asking for them, and those few hard copies that continue to be sold will each be very profitable even on a

Re: COBOL 5.1 Share presentations

Lose the 3D, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21634215 Bob Steve Comstock wrote: On 9/23/2013 2:23 PM, Tom Ross wrote: Tom, Could you share the SHARE presentations you have given on COBOL V5? I just sent them over, they should be live soon at:

Re: Force indivdual job to ABEND on LINES EXCEEDED

Barry Merrill wrote: It appears that there is no JCL option for an individual job that can be enabled to cause the job to terminate when /*JOBPARM LINES=10 is used and the job has produced 10,001 lines of output. LINES=(10,CANCEL) or LINES=(10,DUMP) the JOB statement. Bob

Re: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?

Chase, John wrote: Hi, List, z/OS 1.13 at RSU1312. The other day, a user did something in ISPF that caused allocation of a Production JCL library to his TSO session with DISP=OLD instead of DISP=SHR, causing a hiccup in batch processing when the scheduler was locked out for a few seconds.

Re: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?

Bob Rutledge wrote: DSBSZ in the 42-6 is the block size; 256 implies directory activity. It doesn't smell like EDIT. On third thought, what would happen if you CREATEd a new member at the beginning of the directory? Bob

Re: Change tape block size

Victor Zhang wrote: Hello experts, I use DAT format SMF reocrd, but have difficulty understanding its meaning, can you explain: 021 VOL=M01621 CA=081E DEVTYPE=3490 SIO=3238 BR=1 BW=3197120 LST=199846 LBS=65536 021 VOL=M10992 CA=0B3F DEVTYPE=3490 SIO=56633 BLS=28672 BR=1 BW=3515420

Re: VSAM question/problem

Pommier, Rex wrote: REPRO'ing with the REUSE reset the statistics and did the mini reorg. This leads me to further believe there was an application hiccup that caused the problem in the first place. I can't say for sure, but my guess is there's something 'not-quite-right' in the enqueueing

Re: Is there a significant performance penalty for non-aligned operands?

Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 11:45:38 -0700 Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: :NIL and OIL are not required on z196 and higher machines. NI and OI now :do the necessary serialization. Do I understand correctly? NI/OI do the same serialization that CS does? That two

Re: Demonstrating Moore's law

Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 5395c8cf.1030...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 06/09/2014 at 07:46 AM, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: Moore's Law is all about chip density, not MIPS. You're both wrong; it's about performance. Chip density is relevant only to the extent that it

Re: OPEN not filling in DCBBLKSI for RECFM=U data set

This sets blocksize in the DCB on 1.13 whether pointing to a member or the library or whether MACRF=(GL) or MACRF=(R). TEST CSECT , PRINT NOGEN SAVE (14,12) LR12,15 USING TEST,12 LA14,SAVE ST13,4(,14) ST

Re: In RPTOPTS what does Programmer Default mean?

Charles Mills wrote: ... I'd still like to know what Programmer default is supposed to mean. If they can say the source of some options is 'DD:CEEOPTS' then wouldn't it make sense to say that the source of some options was 'CSECT CEEUOPT'? Or at least document what their labels meant? Programmer

Re: Submitting job name

I would prefer SMF. I couldn't find it in SMF type 30. Could it be somewhere else? If you're running JES2, it's in SMF26SUI. Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

Peter Relson wrote: I must admit that I'm surprised you'd get ASMA044E Undefined symbol - CVT in such a case. But you do. That does not seem like the best message for this situation. Here's a testcase: TEST CSECT SYSEVENT QVS CVT USING LCVT,11 LCVT DSECT LCVT1

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

Charles Mills wrote: My z/OS R13 collection contains HLASM documentation from 2008. Is there current HLASM documentation? Or has HLASM just not been updated? (I notice my z/OS R13 listings say R6.0.) I find that hard to believe. There could not possibly be no HLASM that supported post z10 op

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: PMFJI here, but documenting important changes only in an APAR leaves out all of the application programmers like myself who have no access to the APAR documentation site, which is restricted to systems programmers with valid IBM logons.

Re: C and Assembler question

Scott Ford wrote: Guys: I have an Assembler routine below i want to call in C. I have changed it to be LE conforming. GETSP231 START 0 GETSP231 AMODE 31 GETSP231 RMODE ANY EDCPRLG BASEREG=R12,DSALEN=WORKLEN USING LGINWORK,R13 SAVEAREA AND LOCAL VARS

Re: revisiting the documentation dilemma

IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote on 08/19/2014 11:24:52 AM: From: Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 08/19/2014 11:25 AM Subject: revisiting the documentation dilemma Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: U4093-92

Ron Thomas wrote: Hi . We are seeing U4093-92 in the loadlib of a module, but the programs are running in production with out issues. Kindly let me know is there any issue we need to worry about ? Assuming you meant that you are inspecting the load module with ISPF Browse or similar, I

Re: Deleting Cluster Using IEFBR14 or IDCAMS

IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote on 09/02/2014 09:31:45 AM: From: Christian D christianfe...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 09/02/2014 09:31 AM Subject: Deleting Cluster Using IEFBR14 or IDCAMS Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: How tell if have OMVS Segment

Charles Mills wrote: I am responsible for an LE-enabled program that runs as a conventional STC but uses various USS services and hence requires an OMVS segment. Currently, if it does not have one, it fails with a U4093/90 (?) ABEND. I would like it to be a little neater than that and put out a

Re: Any standard IBM tool to set ISPF statistics in a batch step?

Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Another sad fact is that when the z/OS FTP server does set the ISPF statistics, it seems to use a simple-minded STCK + STCKCONV algorithm, since in my tests the date and time are set to UTC instead of setting them to the local time using the CVT time zone values.

Re: Any standard IBM tool to set ISPF statistics in a batch step?

Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Rutledge Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2014 3:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Any standard IBM tool to set ISPF statistics in a batch step

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

I would guess that, as previously suggested, for i = 1, count do a[i] = a[i] * i end would really rather be for i = 1, count do a[i] = i * i end Bob Barkow, Eileen wrote: I keep getting this error both in MVS and UNIX. LUA: //'xcics.lua4z.samplib(cpu)':4: attempt to perform arithmetic on

Re: COBOL IGZBRDGE

Frank Swarbrick wrote: We got an interesting note from one of our vendors. They are using the IGZEBRG module (which I guess is invoked from the IGZBRDGE macro, though they don't seem to actually use the macro itself) for dynamic calls and are going to have to make invasive changes in order

Re: Full z/OS SPOOL

IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote on 01/05/2015 12:09:35 PM: From: Phil Smith p...@voltage.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 01/05/2015 12:10 PM Subject: Full z/OS SPOOL Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU We have an open-source

Re: Intermittent, not consistently reproducible problems with PDSEs on z/OS V2R1 (incl. infrequent S0F4-20 RSN 1C0752EE ABENDs)

On 3/20/2015 1:10 PM, Thomas Conley wrote: On 3/20/2015 9:13 AM, Karl Henn wrote: Hello, The description of the following problem (if you prefer to call it such) sounds a little unusual, and the sample JCL looks - and is! - trivial. I still kindly ask the world to please read it, and maybe try

Re: Intermittent, not consistently reproducible problems with PDSEs on z/OS V2R1 (incl. infrequent S0F4-20 RSN 1C0752EE ABENDs)

Have you seen OA47338? Bob IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote on 03/25/2015 12:27:33 PM: From: Henn, Karl k.h...@seg.de To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 03/25/2015 12:27 PM Subject: Re: Intermittent, not consistently reproducible problems with PDSEs on z/OS

Re: new version of DAF?

On 2/25/2015 10:47 AM, Jousma, David wrote: All, Just brought my z/OS 1.13 system up to current maintenance. Interestingly, DAF now abends with a 0C4. Tried reassembling it on latest macros, and that fails too. Looks like something changed in macro GFSAUSMF.

Re: SMFxTME field

On 2/20/2015 2:05 PM, Janet Graff wrote: We just noticed our product was setting the SMFxTME field inappropriately using the TIME BIN macro. What should we be using to set the SMFxTME field? The doc says 06 06 SMFxTME4binary Time since midnight, in

Re: IEFBR14 question

That bug is cited on page 6 of Software Testing Techniques, Finding the Defects that Matter, Loveland, Miller, Prewitt and Shannon (IBM System Test, Poughkeepsie). Bob On 5/4/2015 2:47 PM, J O Skip Robinson wrote: You might wonder what could go wrong in such a simple program. I never saw it,

Re: Notify for XMIT

On 5/12/2015 1:42 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 12 May 2015 at 10:57, Steve Thompson ste...@copper.net wrote: It seems to me, from years gone by, that if someone were to message me via TSO XMIT, that the next time I caused an interrupt (AID key of any kind), I would get notification that I needed

Re: CP to a fixed length output file

On 4/7/2015 12:32 PM, Dana Mitchell wrote: I'm working with developers to convert FTP jobs to use secure FTP. The first step is to cp the MVS dataset to a USS directory so sftp can transfer it. They noticed when transferring an FB 80 file that trailing blanks have been stripped off. Is

Re: IND$FILE Resource Log Monitoring

On 6/11/2015 3:58 PM, John McKown wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: ... That won't catch file transfers from an FTP command in a 3270 session. ​I'm a tad confused by this statement. The only file transfer that I am aware of

Re: useless but amusing: largest known prime

Why i+=8? Bob On 8/5/2015 5:11 PM, Glen Hermannsfeldt (Contractor) wrote: Instead of a file with 57885161 C'1', I tried a file of 57885161 X'FF'. BEGIN { for(i=0;i57885161;i+=8) printf %c,255; } 08/05/2015 02:02 PM 7,235,646 prime.out 08/05/2015 02:03 PM 7,046

Re: Cleaning Out a PDS (Was Re: Library out of space issue while APPLY RSU)

On 7/22/2015 3:59 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On 2015-07-22 13:45, John Eells wrote: So does IDCAMS DELETE these days (I forget when we added this). Both likely use STOW INIT. Syntax? delete pds.name(*) That would appear to DELETE the entire library. But DELETE followed by reallocate

Re: What are SMF30 fields SMF30HVO and SMF30HVH telling me?

IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 10/07/2015 09:51:47 AM: > From: Peter Hunkeler > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 10/07/2015 09:51 AM > Subject: What are SMF30 fields SMF30HVO and SMF30HVH telling me? > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

If the IODF has more LOCANY=NO devices, you can lose virtual storage below the line to UCBs. Bob On 8/27/2015 3:42 PM, phil yogendran wrote: Thanks all for the responses. I'm referring to private below the line. Unfortunately, there's no dump or map of storage to do any meaningful debugging.

Re: Submit job without messages

I believe RDINUM left us at the same time that internal reader processing left the JES2 address space and moved to the address space of the requester. Bob On 8/29/2015 7:48 PM, J O Skip Robinson wrote: Indeed this is not an unlimited resource, but it's controllable. The limit is specified in

Re: Submit job without messages

Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bob Rutledge Sent: Friday

Re: Way to change a PROC to add a concatenation to existing DD?

I'd use //STDENV DD DDNAME=STDENV //DD DISP=SHR,DSN=INST.ADD.JAVA.STDENV in the proc. Yes, it works. Bob IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 09/29/2015 04:50:54 PM: > From: Kirk Wolf > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date:

Re: Unicode Red Alert - Fix REQUIRED Before 15 December!

Here's an alternative: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA48941 Bob IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 10/01/2015 06:28:22 AM: > From: John Eells > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 10/01/2015 06:28 AM > Subject: Re:

Re: How distinguish User ABEND from return code?

On 12/12/2015 10:24 AM, Charles Mills wrote: Given the ECB of a completed subtask, and a pointer to its TCB, how does one distinguish a user ABEND from a "regular" return code? If, for example, the low-order bits of the ECB contain 8, how would a program determine whether that was RC=8 or ABEND

Re: SMF/RMF Reporting question

IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 11/20/2015 07:22:44 AM: > From: "Hardee, Chuck" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 11/20/2015 07:23 AM > Subject: SMF/RMF Reporting question > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

On 11/21/2015 10:11 AM, Charles Mills wrote: Amazing the folks on IBM-MAIN. What can be done with a 1937 Bugatti that cannot be more easily done with a 2015 Honda? I know of a 1937 Bugatti that could be sold for 4.4 million USD; I know of no such Honda. Bob

Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code

IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 02/12/2016 12:02:10 PM: > From: "Webster, Chris" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 02/12/2016 12:03 PM > Subject: Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code > Sent by: IBM

Re: DASD device not going offline

On 2/24/2016 5:34 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 21 February 2016 at 09:39, Mainframe Mainframe wrote: CSV540E LNKLST SET LNKLST00 is in error. DATASET SET SYS1.SERBLINK HAS VOLUME ID DOESNT NOT MATCH WITH CATALOG. Can you please give me little idea on this. Did it

Re: Disabled wait 000

IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 01/25/2016 05:39:41 AM: > From: "R.S." > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 01/25/2016 05:39 AM > Subject: Disabled wait 000 > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >

Re: can a program determine the capacity setting of a z-box?

On 4/26/2016 12:15 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: Assuming what you want to know is MSU counts (not clear to me from the discussion so far), here's a Rexx snippet to show you those for the CEC and the LPAR: /* REXX -- Looks at memory and displays MSU counts */ z =

Re: What does it indicate when an SMF 30 subtype 4 or 5 has no completion section?

On 5/17/2016 7:10 PM, Charles Mills wrote: From time to time I see SMF 30 subtype 4 and 5 records with no completion section. Kind of an oxymoron: a step or job completion record with no completion section. Can anyone educate me on what that would indicate? How would one "interpret" such a

Re: CSA Shrank in DR

On 5/5/2016 3:07 PM, phil yogendran wrote: Hello, We recently performed a DR exercise and on one of the LPAR's, the CSA was smaller by about 800k. Parmlib specification in DR and production were identical. The LPAR affected is our designated 'network' box so there are no apps or subsystems like

Re: AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

What is the Translation Exception Address? Bob On 7/22/2016 10:21 AM, Peter Hunkeler wrote: The storage R7 point to, and the storage at offset x'90' is in SP251 key 8. It is part of a load module. The fullword at R7+x'90' is the value seen in the PSW, so both the L as well as the BASSM have

Re: Follow-on: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

On 7/26/2016 4:21 PM, Peter Hunkeler wrote: In (late) response to Jim Mulder's comment: How about the TRNE and BEA fields in that same XSB? > XSBBEA and XSBTRNE confirm what I said before. The BASSM was executed. The target address in R15 was in a page of storage that was not GETMAINed at

Re: System symbols in batch JCL

I would expect that behavior for TYPRUN=HOLD; how about TYPRUN=JCLHOLD? Bob On 7/22/2016 5:03 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: Ed knows I was just kidding. More grist for your sysprog notebook. -- If a job is submitted with TYPRUN=HOLD, system symbols are substituted immediately during