Re: SWAREQ from Java

2015-09-24 Thread Jim Mulder
LENGTH OF SWA BLOCK (NOT * INCLUDING SWA PREFIX) */ * 2 SWCHNPTR PTR(31);/* CHAIN POINTER OR ZERO */ Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For

Re: length of "executable"

2015-12-07 Thread Jim Mulder
ded up to the next 4K or whatever) I a bit > perplexed as to why this (whatever their methods are) appears to be > something not readily available to me. See SYS1.MODGEN(IHAPDS) Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM

Re: Translation Exception address shown in PGM System Trace entries

2015-12-02 Thread Jim Mulder
e several flag > bits defined and other bits to the right that may be "unpredicatable" under > various circumstances. > > This all assumes that the data at A8-AF is copied exactly to the trace > record, and that the trace record as formatted by IPCS shows exactly those > sa

Re: Machine Types and Architecture Levels

2015-11-29 Thread Jim Mulder
TI_FCModFacility EQU X'02' Bit 134 FaclByte17DSB Bits 136-143 * Bit definitions: FACL_SharedTLBEQU X'80' Bit 136 FACL_TODClockEpochFacility EQU X'10' Bit 139 FACL_StoreCpuCtrMultiple EQU X'02' Bit 142 FACL_ScaledCpuTimer EQU X'01' Bit 143 Jim Mulder z/OS S

Re: Is first page always backed by real storage upon return from STORAGE OBTAIN?

2015-12-02 Thread Jim Mulder
3 machine with APAR OA46291 installed, in which case backing storage may not been freed during a subsequent FREEMAIN, so it remains backed for a subsequent GETMAIN. For requests where RSM is not involved (when the request is satisfied from free storage represented by a DFE or FQE), the backing is unchan

Re: at Re: AW: Re: Is first page always backed by real storage upon return from STORAGE OBTAIN?

2015-12-02 Thread Jim Mulder
A subpools 253 and 254) were also imbedded in the storage that they described. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: What does the 8th character of Load parm mean

2015-12-01 Thread Jim Mulder
loaded when ARCHLVL=1 (ESA/390 mode, which z/OS does not support after z/OS 1.5) IEANUC2y contains the additional modules loaded when ARCHLVL=2 (zArchitecture mode, which has been the only choice since z/OS 1.6). None of these are V=R. There has been no V=R nucleus since the

Re: Bind Breaks for z13

2015-12-16 Thread Jim Mulder
g in RSM to reduce the number of Bind Breaks that RSM needs to do when multiple jobs are doing DSPSERV DELETE concurrently. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: Critique my Binder RCF?

2015-12-16 Thread Jim Mulder
> I think the first CSECT in the Load Module (and the Load Module > itself) is automatically Page Aligned. That is definitely incorrect, at least for load modules in a PDS. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsi

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

2015-12-12 Thread Jim Mulder
entation is available at http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/OA47689.pdf Note that if you do not specify MAXARCH in IEFOPZxx, then MAXARCH defaults to the architecture level of the machine, so the MAXARCH displayed by DISPLAY IEFOPZ,STATUS will be the architec

Re: ENF event when a CPU is placed online or offline?

2015-12-17 Thread Jim Mulder
r Offline. And since these event code are not documented in the manual, they are not intended as Programming Interfaces. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

Re: D M=STOR causes disaster

2016-01-04 Thread Jim Mulder
COMPONENT LEVEL/SU: R7A0 PSY UA78514 UP15/08/19 P F508 For lower releases, you may want to avoid issuing that command in a logical partition where you have a large amount of real storage but only one general purpose CPU online. Jim Mulde

Re: D M=STOR causes disaster

2016-01-04 Thread Jim Mulder
INE-RECONFIGURABLE 88064M-103424M PENDING OFFLINE NONE 0M IN OFFLINE STORAGE ELEMENT(S) 0M UNASSIGNED STORAGE STORAGE INCREMENT SIZE IS 512M Jim Mu

Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?

2015-12-28 Thread Jim Mulder
,0(rI,rBase) may avoid some Address Generation Interlock effects (although various machines have various AGI bypasses for various instructions). And it may just transfer some of the AGI effect from the LG down to the AGS

Re: AW: Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

2015-11-24 Thread Jim Mulder
imit, not a processor architecture limit. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

2015-11-24 Thread Jim Mulder
> One question I would liked answered by the experts is why now with > 64-bit storage one would choose to use a hiperspace (or dataspace) over > just using storage above the bar? TYPE=CACHE hiperspaces continue to provide a function that z/OS has not provided with 64-bit memory objects.

Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

2015-11-24 Thread Jim Mulder
the original point. But when the price of real memory declined to the point where the ESA/390 31-bit real addressing architecture limit became a practical constraint, expanded storage provided a way to have more than 2GB of processor memory (real + expanded) in a logical partition. Jim Mulder

Re: Machine Types and Architecture Levels

2015-11-28 Thread Jim Mulder
For z/VM, some terminology which may concern you is "Virtual Architecture Level". And if you could be running under a Linux which is a z/VM guest, you may need to be concerned about "Live Guest Relocati

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

2015-11-28 Thread Jim Mulder
would recommend using FaclLongDisplacementHP instead of FaclLongDisplacement. The long displacement facility was eventually retrofitted (via a millicode implementation) to z800/z900 machines. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -

Re: Testing SFM policy

2016-06-07 Thread Jim Mulder
your system going into a wait state. > > Both should kill your system. That will not drive AutoIPL. To drive AutoIPL, the wait state must be loaded using the WTO macro with the WSPARM keyword specified. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM

Re: Testing SFM policy

2016-06-07 Thread Jim Mulder
ANUC01 BLWWSATC VER 0020 0013 REP 0020 0014 VER 0078 REP 0078 3CCC /* // Then reIPL to activate the changed WSAT. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: interesting SYSTRACE entries ?

2016-05-28 Thread Jim Mulder
reemain being done by TCB 8BA3E8 on CPU 0). When the local lock is not available for a type 1 SVC, the SVC FLIH backs up the PSW address in the RB/XSB so that the SVC will be reissued when the local lock is available. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY

Re: Highest address "below the bar"

2016-06-16 Thread Jim Mulder
ly larger than a region size could ever be, since above and below 16M are separate regions. The maximum region above 16M is constrained by 2048M - 16M - (ENUC + ELPA + ECSA + ESQA). Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkee

Re: Basic CICS Question

2016-06-16 Thread Jim Mulder
Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY > >​... Most shops any more use the APFTAB value which indicates that a > >data set's APF authorization is based on the APF table when a module is > >accessed via the link list or a STEPLIB. > > > Does

Re: Basic CICS Question

2016-06-16 Thread Jim Mulder
te unauthorized by including it in STEPLIB. This ought to > be a tolerable behavioral change.) How useful would that be? If the jobstep is running APF authorized, it cannot load anything from unauthorized libraries. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp.

Re: IARV64 GETCOMMON ownership and deallocation

2016-06-22 Thread Jim Mulder
OM on IARV64 is for diagnostic purposes only. There is no automatic freeing of common storage when something terminates. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / ar

Re: CPOOL DELETE in a cleanup situation

2016-06-24 Thread Jim Mulder
d not recommend making any assumptions in your code. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: AW: Re: Highest address "below the bar"

2016-06-17 Thread Jim Mulder
changes a few years later before MVS became interested in accommodating C and Unix. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to li

Re: PDS Directory Errors in zOS 1.13

2016-01-11 Thread Jim Mulder
ber this who could point me in the > right direction? IEBCOPY - APAR OA40379 Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@li

Re: SLIP and ESTAE

2016-01-15 Thread Jim Mulder
led before RTM (and thus before SLIP). And that is one of the reasons why I despise ESPIE and recommend against using it. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acce

Re: How to Dynamically add SUBSYTEM

2016-01-18 Thread Jim Mulder
STEM SSI IS NOT ENABLED FOR THE SETSSI COMMAND > > > Does anyone know how we can properly activate this subsystem, without an IPL If you are using the most current release (z/OS 2.2), you can use SETSSI DELETE,SUBNAME=SSI,FORCE Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie,

Re: Boundaries of the 64-bit LocalSystemArea

2016-02-08 Thread Jim Mulder
ure. LOCALSYSAREA is just a z/OS construct, and its size/boundaries are set by z/OS. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z14 Drops Support for ESA/390 Mode (Was: Re: zEC12)

2016-02-10 Thread Jim Mulder
namic Address Translation, either at SIE Guest 1 (in an LPAR) or at Guest 2 (under VM). So you certainly will not be able to run any operating system that uses ESA/390 virtual addressing, even under VM. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---

Re: z14 Drops Support for ESA/390 Mode (Was: Re: zEC12)

2016-02-10 Thread Jim Mulder
pecially in stand-alone dump, and I did not want us to have to do that in multiple releases via PTFs, so I did in in z/OS 1.12, long before there was a plan as to when a z/Architecture-only machine would be built. Jim Mulder z/OS Sys

Re: Query on IPLing with 64 bit

2016-02-11 Thread Jim Mulder
which LPSW expands to a 128-bit z/Architecture-format PSW. The LPSWE operand is a 128-bit z/Achitecture-format PSW. This has been documented in z/Architecture Principles of Operation for 15 years. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Pough

Re: System Trace Table SSIR entries

2016-01-25 Thread Jim Mulder
@L3A * DCL ASVTREUS BIT(*) BASED(ASVTREUA) /* ONE BIT FOR EVERY ENTRY @L3A*/ Note that these things are not designated as Programming Interfaces. But you were asking about how to tell from a dump. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp.

Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.

2016-01-29 Thread Jim Mulder
he situation of having separate catalogs and SMS-plexes within the same sysplex (and thus allowing more than one SMS-managed data set with the same name in the same sysplex) was not a design consideration for that project. Jim Mulder

Re: Prefix save area - confused

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Mulder
MVS/ESA did map addresses 0-4095 in data spaces on those processors. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@

Re: IPCS

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Mulder
members which IBM provides. Typically, these are found on the sysres volume in a data set named SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB (or some similar name chosen by the systems programmer). Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY --

Re: Real Storage Allocation

2016-02-12 Thread Jim Mulder
one dump output data sets. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Enterprise COBOL 6.1 announced

2016-02-16 Thread Jim Mulder
> The requirement for z/OS 2.1 is disappointing. We haven't been on > 1.13 for all that long, and I don't know that we have an upgrade due > any time soon... :-( Support for z/OS 1.13 ends soon (Sept. 30, 2016). Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkee

Re: DASD device not going offline

2016-02-21 Thread Jim Mulder
lder than z/OS 2.2, you should specify a DELAY=nn value in order to reduce the danger. z/OS 2.2 implements a default/minimum of DELAY=1. On older releases, the default/minimum was DELAY=0. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Po

Re: Query on IPLing with 64 bit

2016-02-11 Thread Jim Mulder
, with the restrictions that there is no concept of RMODE(64) yet, so you need to get the code loaded above the bar some other way, and very few system services document that they support being invoked from a program which resides above the bar. Some might work anyway. Others might not.

Microprocessor Optimization Primer

2016-03-30 Thread Jim Mulder
This may be of interest to some of you. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/topic?id=5cf34211-c8e6-4747-a8c2-f8ff7379150b Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: VINPUT VMSG and VINPUT PVMSG

2016-04-07 Thread Jim Mulder
ole communication, and for disabled console WTORs, it enables only for priority responses. So if z/OS running under VM uses SCLP for a disabled console WTOR, and you try to reply to it with VMSG, it will be ignored. You have to use PVMSG to respond to z/OS disabled console WTORs. Jim

Re: CSVFETCH exit

2016-03-23 Thread Jim Mulder
CSVFETCH exit would no nothing about this. The Rexx compiler also has an option to generate OBJs, which you subsequently bind into load modules or program objects that would be invoked via CSV services. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkee

Re: What happens with no working SE?

2016-03-24 Thread Jim Mulder
ew years since I have seen a dump of an MVS hang due to the SE being unavailable. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email t

Re: IPCS SYSTRACE command

2016-04-02 Thread Jim Mulder
t it into an IO buffer which is prefixed by a DRPX (Dump Record PrefiX). But the I/O buffer ASID and address are not how the data is represented in the dump. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM

Re: IPCS SYSTRACE command

2016-04-01 Thread Jim Mulder
determine the current position within the current trace buffer for each CPU. The high order part of the real address in CR12 is used only by the machine in order to determine where to put a trace entry. Jim Mulder -- F

Re: IPCS SYSTRACE command

2016-04-01 Thread Jim Mulder
d described in MVS Data Areas Volume 4, and are not a Programming Interface. And of course, I am interested in the reason why you want to work with the raw data. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY

Re: An explanation for branch performance?

2016-04-29 Thread Jim Mulder
ng? Keep in mind that sampling which is software-based and driven by external interrupts will charge the time spent in the SVC interrupt handler to the beginning of the SVC routine, since the SVC interrupt handler is disabled for exter

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-27 Thread Jim Mulder
ng the DFSMSDSS IPLable DVD is not documented, and neither is the method for putting the volume dump images onto DVDs in a format that standalone DFSMSDSS can restore. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

2016-04-27 Thread Jim Mulder
he DVD to keep in the vault at the DR site in case it's needed. z/OS does not support being IPLed from a DVD. The stand alone restore utility of DFSMSDSS does support being IPLed from DVD, and restoring from DVD. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test I

Re: An explanation for branch performance?

2016-04-29 Thread Jim Mulder
ranch prediction tries to mitigate some of the effects of nonsequential execution. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: MES upgrade for processor

2016-05-24 Thread Jim Mulder
otifies z/OS that a configuration change event has occurred. z/OS then does an STSI, and updates whatever needs to be updated. ENF event code 20 is signalled to inform other components and products. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Pough

Re: MES upgrade for processor

2016-05-24 Thread Jim Mulder
chine notifies z/OS is unpublished architecture (so not in Priciples of Operation). You might be able to find information about it by examining Linux source code, if Linux pays attention to that notification. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY > On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 9:4

Re: MES upgrade for processor

2016-05-24 Thread Jim Mulder
> Thanks will there be any zOS message which I can capture in SYSLOG after > the processor upgrade? I was looking for a related message to ENF 20 but > couldn't find in the manual. IWM063I WLM POLICY WAS REFRESHED DUE TO A PROCESSOR SPEED CHANGE Jim Mulder z/OS System Test

Re: Old OS/390 1.3 loading in z890

2016-05-18 Thread Jim Mulder
uns in > a 64 bits machine (z890 that is actually available). I don't see an IEAVNP8B in the NIP rim list for OS/390 1.3 (or any other release). So unless you have an IEAVNP8B in SYS1.NUCLEUS that was supplied by some other vendor, and a zap to IEADRIMS to invoke it, I don't see how you woul

Re: S0D6 RC=27 using Latches

2016-04-15 Thread Jim Mulder
by the code underlying the ISGLOBT. And why > is the PC number good for several obtain and release cycles and then > suddenly fails? Look at the system trace in the dump of your 0D6 abend. Which module is issuing the failing PC? What is the failing PC number? What PC number was used for the succes

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

2016-07-22 Thread Jim Mulder
t how to find the TEA in this case. How about the TRNE and BEA fields in that same XSB? Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test, etc. IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archiv

Re: IPLing z/OS 2.1+ with no NIP console

2016-07-25 Thread Jim Mulder
ice. MIH monitoring starts during Master Scheduler Initialization. MIH is not active during NIP. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test, etc. IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / ar

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

2016-07-26 Thread Jim Mulder
-11 abend. Since the dumping program subsequently dumped that page, the page must have been GETMAINed after the 0C4-11 abend, presumably by the exception handling/dumping processing. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test, etc. IBM Corp. Poughke

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

2016-07-26 Thread Jim Mulder
> Thanks. What I do not yet understand: The TRNE address is 231A7800, > where as the address in R15 231A7BB8. Why the difference? TRNE is a copy of Translation-Exception Identification, which is defined in Principles Of Operation. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Tes

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

2016-07-22 Thread Jim Mulder
The most likely explanation is that the target address of the BASSM was not GETMAINed storage at the time of the abend (causing the 0C4-11 abend), but was subsequently GETMAINed and used before the dump was initiated or as part of the dump processing. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Developmen

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

2016-07-27 Thread Jim Mulder
E gets control before slip. So your slip trap probably > won't match at all. ESPIE for unauthorized programs (like LE) supports interrupt codes 1-15 (decimal), which does not include 17 (x'11') page fault. So SLIP SET,A=SVCD,C=0C4,RE=11,ML=1,MODE=PP,J=jobname,END should be able take a dump of

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

2016-07-28 Thread Jim Mulder
established for interrupt code 4 will also get control for any of those access exceptions when they cannot be resolved. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test, etc. IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

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

2016-08-02 Thread Jim Mulder
-8 abend to get into an RTM1 environment (for branch entry WTO) or RTM2 environment (for SVC entry WTO). This allowed us to avoid the development cost of creating a new SLIP environment. We retry from the 06F-8 abend without recording to logrec, so the only place it is easily visible is in system

Re: Setting dump options for SVC dumps taken by StarTool DA-Batch?

2016-07-21 Thread Jim Mulder
Under IPCS, what does VERBX IEAVTSFS display for Partial Dump Reason Codes? And what does CBF RTCT+9C? STR(SDUMP) VIEW(FLAGS) show for SDATA options? Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test, etc. IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY

Re: OA49677: Safe Cross-Memory POST

2016-07-14 Thread Jim Mulder
> V2R2 only, or ... ? APPLICABLE COMPONENT LEVEL/SU: R7A0 PSY UA82016 UP16/06/29 P F606 R790 PSY UA82017 UP16/06/29 P F606 Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Q: SYSTEM TRACE oddity

2016-07-05 Thread Jim Mulder
z/Architecture Reference Summary, the low order bit of the PC return address field in the trace entry indicates that the PC was issued in problem state. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN sub

Re: IPCS error help

2016-07-06 Thread Jim Mulder
, though it would > doubtless be a good idea. > > Or... Have I misunderstood: Is the problem not with the 2.1 MIGLIB at > all? Is there perhaps maintenance needed to z/OS 2.2 IPCS itself? You need to install PTF UA90783 (for APAR OA43495) on a z/OS 2.1 system, and then use that MIG

Re: AW: Re: Setting dump options for SVC dumps taken by StarTool DA-Batch?

2016-07-21 Thread Jim Mulder
ng the dump. If they specify the SDATA NODEFAULTS option, that would cause the options added by IEACMD00 to be ignored. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test, etc. IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signo

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

2016-07-29 Thread Jim Mulder
nd any such documentation. There is probably room for some documentation improvements in that area. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test, etc. IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: WAIT ECB=ECBLIST Storage Key

2017-01-31 Thread Jim Mulder
in? Is it an APF-authorized job step? What exactly are the ECBs on which you want to WAIT? How did you get the addresses of those ECBs? Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> wrote on

Re: BSAM vs QSAM

2017-02-03 Thread Jim Mulder
parameters. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> wrote on 02/03/2017 09:06:16 PM: > From: Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date

Re: BSAM vs QSAM

2017-02-04 Thread Jim Mulder
> Is this still, as Ed recalls, part of a separately-priced SAMe feature? I asked Wayne Rhoten. His recollection is that SAMe GAed as a product around 1978, and was integrated in the early 1980s. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie

Re: Layout CPC serial number z13S

2017-02-17 Thread Jim Mulder
, there are two zIIP threads online to z/OS, so one more to SIGP to for things that z/OS has to broadcast to all online threads. But I would not expect that to make much difference. The system trace in a dump taken while things are slow might provide some clues. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design

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

2017-02-23 Thread Jim Mulder
running a job, D A,ALL will show two entries for the same ASID (one for each CSCB). For BPXAS address spaces, both will be marked O (dubbed). But OAS will count that address space only once. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY IBM Mainframe Discuss

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

2017-02-24 Thread Jim Mulder
When OMVS was first implemented in SP4.3.0 (around 1993), I have a vague recollection that OMVS may have used the APPC Scheduler - ASCH) to manage its initiators, to reduce implementation cost in the first release. However, that is no longer the case. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design

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

2017-02-24 Thread Jim Mulder
n z/OS as a z/VM guest on zPDT, then AUTOIPL may work. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

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

2017-02-23 Thread Jim Mulder
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. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY Steve M Bohn

Re: VSMLIST

2017-02-21 Thread Jim Mulder
> I'm trying to find data for PGSER FIX > > would VSMLIST. For free space give me address of storage that have > been allocated but paged out No, VSM (and hence VSMLIST) knows nothing about if or where any virtual storage is backed. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Developmen

Re: Query regarding MVCSK/MVCDK

2017-02-09 Thread Jim Mulder
vicinity, machine model, system trace entry for the PGM 004 Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Current work unit

2017-01-15 Thread Jim Mulder
> Jim Mulder said the Current work unit is in the Web I said nothing about what is in the WEB. This is exactly what I said: "LCCACWEB (which is classified as not a programming interface) contains the address of the currently dispatched WEB." > I looked at that and saw

Re: CEEDUMP possible following 'new' failure

2016-10-07 Thread Jim Mulder
ace for memterm? Since memterm does not access the storage of the address being terminated, there is no connection between IEFUSI and memterm. There is no requirement for any available storage in the address space being memtermed. Task termination, yes. Memory termination, no. Jim Mulder z/

Re: CEEDUMP possible following 'new' failure

2016-10-06 Thread Jim Mulder
From some internal discussion after this issue was raised today, our intention is that LE will move the CEEDUMP modules to SCEELPA in the next release of z/OS. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > > So, when will CEE.SCEELPA be z/OS st

Re: CEEDUMP possible following 'new' failure

2016-10-06 Thread Jim Mulder
xhaustion. (And I say "our intention" because we do sometimes find cases where we did not do what we intended). Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: IEECV6CX

2016-08-18 Thread Jim Mulder
REUS but not RENT. It should not occur for IEECV6CX. So the possibilities are: 1. Your user somehow got a non-RENT IEECV6CX on the system, and that is what needs to be fixed. 2. Something else is screwed up, in which case a dump from SLIP SET,A=SVCD,C=A06,RE=4,ML=1,ID=DA06,END would be needed

Re: Interpreting an S202-0000

2016-09-29 Thread Jim Mulder
, and RTM2 is detaching a waiting subtask, under which LE's ESTAE took this dump. Or an SRB did the POST that got the 202 abend, and SRB-to-task percolation is ABTERMing this waiting task. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test, etc. IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY IBM Mainframe

Re: Interpreting an S202-0000

2016-09-28 Thread Jim Mulder
nd the work unit which is doing the POST. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test, etc. IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua

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

2016-10-27 Thread Jim Mulder
CE filtering to reduce the number of formatted lines. The new EXCLUDE(BEFOREALL AFTERALL) introduced for z/OS 2.2 in APAR OA49814 can be very useful for this purpose. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY --

Re: DAIR error 0470 allocating internal reader

2016-11-08 Thread Jim Mulder
The OA50565 fix changed the TSO/E environment service to turn on PSCBJCL when running in an APF authorized jobstep (i.e. when JCSBAUTH is on). IDCAMS is linked in SYS1.LINKLIB with AC(1), so an EXEC PGM=IDCAMS jobstep is APF authorized. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test

Re: DAIR error 0470 allocating internal reader

2016-11-09 Thread Jim Mulder
). There is no mechanism in TSO/E to serialize against deletion of control blocks created by IKJTSOEV, so it is not safe to delete them. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > Jim- > Thanks, so we need to apply the PTF. I will changes my code to check for >

Re: DAIR error 0470 allocating internal reader

2016-11-09 Thread Jim Mulder
to submit a requirement through the usual mechanism, or engage via the support process. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > > The OA50565 fix changed the TSO/E environment service to turn on PSCBJCL > > when running in an APF authori

Re: Problem with startup DB2

2016-11-10 Thread Jim Mulder
A 028-04000200 would not be due to either of those things. A more likely cause would be a page table overlay. The first step for doing any diagnosis would be SLIP MOD,ID=X028,DISABLE and then reproduce the problem. Open a PMR and send the dump to IBM. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis

Re: diagnose 8 / interesting dilemma

2016-10-17 Thread Jim Mulder
anages double frames (used for access lists, and before z/Architecture, for segment tables) and quadframes (used for segment tables and region tables). There are no external interfaces for double frames or quadframes. There is IARV64 GETSTOR with TYPE=FIXED and PAGEFRAMESIZE=1M. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnos

Re: When does compare-and-swap-and-store facility 2 come along?

2016-10-21 Thread Jim Mulder
X'01' Obsolete. Meant CPU-measurement *0037 facility supported. Use *00371000 FlceCpuMeasurementCounter & *00372000 FlceCpuMeasurementSampling 00373000 Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Cor

Re: When does compare-and-swap-and-store facility 2 come along?

2016-10-21 Thread Jim Mulder
IHAPSAE is in z/OS V2R2 MVS Data Areas Volume 2 . Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > Ah. I was looking in MVS Data Areas. Is it in there somewhere? I did not > find it. > > I suppose I could have looked at STFE. > > CSST

Re: AW: Re: Real Storage Display

2016-11-16 Thread Jim Mulder
ge online to the partition. LPAR assigns real storage, and now that real storage is unavailable to be assigned to other partitions. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY > >I discussed this further with Jim Mulder. The z12, where I recently >>n

Re: z/OS 2.2 and z9

2016-11-18 Thread Jim Mulder
> 1. As far as I know z/OS 2.2 will not run on z9 machine - is it true? > > 2. What message one can expect when trying to IPL the z/OS 2.2 on the z9? Wait state code 07B A required processor facility is not available. The wait state reason code identifies the missing facility. Jim

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