Re: Changing OMVS prompt to indicate SuperUser state?

2016-04-18 Thread Mark Zelden
#=== alias rehash="hash -r" alias ll="ls -l" alias la="ls -a" alias lal="ls -al" alias l=&q

Re: SMF dump processing

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Zelden
anged them to SYSSTC until we can track down the bone head that left the trace on. :-) Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems

Re: SMF dump processing

2016-04-14 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 12:09:49 -0500, Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> wrote: >On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:02:07 +, Lopez, Sharon <sharon.lo...@nc.gov> wrote: > >>We have noticed that our dumping for SMF MAN files are taking longer than >>usual. We see in the job

Re: BCPii (Was: can a program determine the capacity setting of a z-box?)

2016-04-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 07:58:23 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 4/25/2016 5:20 PM, Pinnacle wrote: >> :-P BCPii is fairly prevalent these days. >> It's enabled everywhere I've been. > >Now that we're talking about BCPii, despite it being a _totally, >completely and

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Mark Zelden
ays? What if we >chose 3390-27? > I know if you assumed 3390-27 was available, it would be a problem for some, shops I know of. 3390-9 would have been a problem a few years ago for some of those shops, but I'm pretty sure everyone has 3390-9 available now. Best regards, Mark -- Mark Z

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

2017-03-17 Thread Mark Zelden
SMPPTS2_ SMPPTS3_ SMPPTS4_ = my exclude list ====== Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Con

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

2017-03-18 Thread Mark Zelden
are not shared, so the apply has to be done in the proper sysplex. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelde

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

2017-03-20 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 15:27:25 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: >On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:51:43 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >> >>Thanks for the explanation. Normally I have no reason to run REJECT PURGE >>since I do purge at accept time. For my

Re: "embedded" ISPF panels/message/etc

2017-03-14 Thread Mark Zelden
Some I can think of: IPLINFO, LPROG, REXXMEM, RXSTOR64. Best regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

2017-03-20 Thread Mark Zelden
to run REJECT PURGE since I do purge at accept time. For my z/OS zones I do have to do that because the 2 companies each have their own dlib zone to go along with the 2 target zones, so I can't purge on accept. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS,

Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

2017-04-04 Thread Mark Zelden
online gen'd. For one of the DLm tape libraries and associated devices they are shared between two sysplexes with CA MIM (MIA) controlling tape allocations, so those are gen'd offline at IPL time and MIM puts them online when it "synchs". The MIM/MIA LPARs also have AUTOSWITCH=NO. No i

Re: RLS for catalogs

2017-04-10 Thread Mark Zelden
missed that point. I assumed once you went to GRS STAR you started converting SYSVTOC and SYSVVDS. So much for that theory. I'm back to my first one then... different code path that is more efficient. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MV

Re: Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory

2017-04-11 Thread Mark Zelden
, I don't get it... with mod-27s and mod-54s for locals, how could ASM not find enough contiguous slots to be efficient even if the page DS is 50% utilized. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@m

Re: Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory

2017-04-11 Thread Mark Zelden
can to eliminate the others after changing IEASYSxx.See the warning in the MVS commands manual. Yes, I ran into that problem many years ago when going from mod-3 to mod-9 local page data sets. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL

Re: RLS for catalogs

2017-04-06 Thread Mark Zelden
. Also, with the cheaper cost of ICF engines and inexpensive memory, I would think the cost would at least be similar to licensing MIM. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Uti

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

2017-04-06 Thread Mark Zelden
out 20. See if you have APAR OA51343 and prereq's installed. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?crawler=1=isg1OA51343 The APAR talks about a zero or negative count, but we saw a high count. It also applies to z/OS 2.1 but we never say any problem on z/OS 2.1. We started seeing the problem w

Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

2017-04-06 Thread Mark Zelden
anks. Maybe 3490 vs. 3590 would matter for SHARABLE causing a problem. Or not.. :-) Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Prog

Re: RLS for catalogs

2017-04-06 Thread Mark Zelden
ys in propagating ENQs. Or maybe there were reserves involved that went away with GRS STAR, but I wouldn't think so with just a LISTCAT. Going back to the "old days" if you really had a single system you didn't want to gen the DASD as shared and that would avoid RESERVEs from

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

2017-04-07 Thread Mark Zelden
Both WLM and JES2 keep track of the number of WLM initiators there are by SRVCLASS. It's the JES2 code that is doing that incorrectly. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certifie

Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

2017-04-05 Thread Mark Zelden
>532 0090 LIBRARY ID: 1 > > It does show it as 1 - the same as the gen. > >Mark Zelden asked " Are you sure the library id and libport match what &g

Re: RLS for catalogs

2017-04-05 Thread Mark Zelden
t comment on that aspect. I have used catalogs in RLS without any issues. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html ---

Re: RLS for catalogs

2017-04-05 Thread Mark Zelden
splex environment. If so, then they should not convert those reserves just like you shouldn't with GRS STAR. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html

Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

2017-04-05 Thread Mark Zelden
MC tell you the library ID was going to be 1 and the Lib port was 01 or did you choose those numbers? Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.htm

Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

2017-04-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 15:49:06 -0500, Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> wrote: >On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 20:41:30 +, O'Connor, Ruth <rocon...@bu.edu> wrote: >

Re: Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory

2017-04-18 Thread Mark Zelden
s I execute it using one of my execs to capture TSO output instead of "TSO %execname". https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bit.listserv.ibm-main/bVaW_PGzbaI/Wut56jByETMJ Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foun

Re: JES2 Spool Volume size

2017-03-09 Thread Mark Zelden
DD DSN=SYS1.HASPACE,UNIT=SYSDA,DISP=(,KEEP), // SPACE=(CYL,1,,MXIG), USE LARGEST CONTIG SPACE // DSNTYPE=LARGE, ANYTHING LARGER THAN 64K TRACKS // VOL=SER=SPLP16 Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden

Re: timely

2017-03-13 Thread Mark Zelden
You posted a link to a good joke. Now I know why Stonehenge was abandoned... >;-D > >Many thanks Paul for sharing it! > >Groete / Greetings >Elardus Engelbrecht > When I saw the 2nd frame, I thought this was going to be a reference to big endian thread. -- Mark Zelden -

Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

2017-04-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 16:49:20 -0500, Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> wrote: > >Yes. The devices are only allocated / in use by one LPAR at a time. The word I should have used instead of "allocated" was "assigned". 3480 and later devices get assigne

Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

2017-04-05 Thread Mark Zelden
e even the HCD manual says to set it to no for an MTL. One of the first people that responded to your post said they had the same definitions as you so I didn't really check them closely. I wonder if they really have DLm in use with OAM and have SHAREABLE=YES. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden C

Re: RLS for catalogs

2017-04-07 Thread Mark Zelden
CA-DISK IXMAINT function that als does massive > catalog searches. > >Kees. What lock structure would there be in a single system GRS ring configuration? Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Cell: 847-602-6

Re: RLS for catalogs

2017-04-07 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 11:35:47 -0500, Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> wrote: >On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 15:56:29 +, Jesse 1 Robinson <jesse1.robin...@sce.com> >wrote: > >>This goes back several years when CF and memory resources were more expensive >>and less flexibl

Re: REXX procedure needed

2017-04-14 Thread Mark Zelden
common storage allocation by ASID as there were many other tools for that. Monitors like Omegamon, TMON etc. and RMF. Best regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http

Re: setrog lnklst question

2017-05-17 Thread Mark Zelden
limited to a smaller subset. Yet I continue to see people using it as a matter of habit instead of an "emergency" basis. The only place I have used it regularly is in a sysprog sandbox LPAR and since "delay" was added as an option, I use that along with it. LNKLST UPDATE JOB(*

Re: setrog lnklst question

2017-05-17 Thread Mark Zelden
be a good idea just in case to help resolve a theoretical problem. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert

Re: AUTOIPL SADUMP LOADPARM flag value

2017-05-12 Thread Mark Zelden
the doc or knew how to do an SADUMP and do it correctly! Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html

Re: Java on z/OS?

2017-06-09 Thread Mark Zelden
and 1.7 with the fix for APAR OA11699 allowed MVS files (including SYSOUT) to be used for STDOUT / STDERR / STDPARM. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com

Re: How to associate the PID number in D OMVS to the ENC in SDSF

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Zelden
fusing ENC (enclave display) with the PS (process display) command? Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://w

Re: Setting of LNKAUTH available to a program?

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Zelden
; > DlcbAPF=Off does imply LNKAUTH=APFTAB. > Thanks for explaining that distinction. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://w

Re: How to associate the PID number in D OMVS to the ENC in SDSF

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Zelden
s. > >How can I determine the NAME column (or another col???) in SDSF to a specific >PID? > >Thanks > >Lizette > Apples and oranges. Why do you think the enclave is or has to be associated with a unix process? Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390

Re: Setting of LNKAUTH available to a program?

2017-05-25 Thread Mark Zelden
Thanks for the plug Lizette! It's in the IPA section. If you want only that section: TSO %IPLINFO IPA Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com

Re: Setting of LNKAUTH available to a program?

2017-05-25 Thread Mark Zelden
as to get the setting in IEASYSxx from the IPA set at IPL time. You can't change the setting dynamically, so it is reliable. The section of code you posted was actually added to IPLINFO at some point from an older exec of mine called "LPROG" that shows the LNKLST, APF list and LPA list. R

Re: Java on z/OS?

2017-06-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:20:56 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: >On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 17:16:36 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>On Fri, 9 Jun 2017 18:02:25 +, Frank Swarbrick >><frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: >> >>>What was the fi

Re: BPXWUNIX and BPXBATCH (was: Java on z/OS?)

2017-06-10 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 20:47:50 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: >On Sat, 10 Jun 2017 19:43:18 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >> >>No, what I meant was you can direct those DDs to a standard MVS file as >>opposed to only a unix file ... >> >

Re: SMFLIMxx sample?

2017-06-14 Thread Mark Zelden
/* REGIONABOVE(NOLIMIT) REGIONBELOW(NOLIMIT) */ /* SYSRESVBELOW(0K)*/ /* MEMLIMIT(10G) */ Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certi

Re: TIME jn JCL (again)

2017-05-02 Thread Mark Zelden
e correct.Unlike most JCL keywords, the STEP value is not an override for the JOB value. The 90 seconds for the JOB is cumulative for the entire time - but the step limit is 80. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mz

Re: CA-SYSVIEW on z/OS 2.2

2017-05-02 Thread Mark Zelden
none were to be had. In that specific case, the LPAR had two LPs, so the system didn't lock up, but it got really slow. ;-) Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: htt

Re: TIME jn JCL (again)

2017-05-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 4 May 2017 22:56:47 -0500, Joel C. Ewing <jcew...@acm.org> wrote: >On 05/02/2017 05:15 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: >> On Wed, 3 May 2017 00:05:31 +0200, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> >> wrote: >> >>> The topic was discussed recently, but I

Re: CA-SYSVIEW on z/OS 2.2

2017-05-02 Thread Mark Zelden
ple Gig of storage and try that. > >Thanks, >Ron McCabe >Mutual of Enumclaw I'm pretty sure that's it then. Looking at one of my sandbox LPARs systems I saw a 4G working set for Sysview. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3

Re: CA-SYSVIEW on z/OS 2.2

2017-05-02 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 2 May 2017 10:46:44 -0400, Tom Conley <pinnc...@rochester.rr.com> wrote: >On 5/2/2017 9:33 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: >> On Mon, 1 May 2017 21:29:00 +, McCabe, Ron >> <rmcc...@mutualofenumclaw.com> wrote: >> >>> It is a sandbox LPAR runni

Re: CA-SYSVIEW on z/OS 2.2

2017-05-01 Thread Mark Zelden
looked like loops and in each the root cause was the LPAR only had 2G of real storage and starting a task with "high" virtual storage requirements caused a problem due to lack of real storage. For example, the startup of DB2 or IMS during the IPL process. The solution was to add at l

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

2017-06-06 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:44:28 -0400, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: >On 6 June 2017 at 12:23, Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> wrote: >> Before I started my reply I intended to write that I was using Firefox, but >> forgot >> to mention it. I've been using

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

2017-06-06 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 10:49:51 -0500, Mark Zelden <m...@mzelden.com> wrote: >On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 10:42:25 -0400, Tom Conley <pinnc...@rochester.rr.com> >wrote: > >>On 6/6/2017 8:48 AM, John Eells wrote: >>> The HMC architect was not aware of this; he'd be than

Re: ShopZ order response

2017-10-06 Thread Mark Zelden
5 days from order to ready to download. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert

Re: DLIB volume for SAD

2017-09-28 Thread Mark Zelden
he SADUMP for the OS version. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techt

Re: DLIB volume for SAD

2017-09-28 Thread Mark Zelden
out. IBM supplies SYS1.SDWWDLPA with a dummy CICSVR module that NIP looks for at IPL time and I had to add that back into LPA. Mr. Murphy taught me a very long time ago that I should always ensure I have a working SADUMP that matches the OS level requiring it. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelde

Re: Last SAD (was: DLIB volume for SAD)

2017-09-29 Thread Mark Zelden
tion screen. I took the SADUMP just to see the wait message / module / reason code. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Progr

Re: z13s HMC remote console

2017-10-17 Thread Mark Zelden
instant open of the integrated 3270 console now! I remember reading the driver 27 exception letter that said something about the fonts not being as good (but will be improved in the future), but I don't notice that at all. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v

Re: z13s HMC remote console

2017-10-18 Thread Mark Zelden
at I don't like, but won't bash publicly) so there is never a conflict with operations using the integrated console at the same time as a sysprog might. It would be nice if z/OS and the HMC supported more than one of these integrated consoles active at a time though. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark

Re: z13s HMC remote console

2017-10-18 Thread Mark Zelden
the lines of "it worked yesterday but not today". :-) BTW, I use Firefox for HMC access as it has worked better for me ever since z196. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

2017-11-29 Thread Mark Zelden
bout" screen shows 20171108 S - 13.0.0.0 > >   The DEL key just beeps. Doesn't delete *any* characters! > > >   LOCAL FIX: >   None Love the use of "We" in the error description. So IBM just installed and deployed PCOMM 13.0 and found the problem.

Re: RSU maintenance strategy - Need expert suggestions

2017-12-07 Thread Mark Zelden
he IPLs and we didn't know. It caused days and weeks of re-runs of some applications because the problem with the data wasn't found immediately. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS

Re: RSU maintenance strategy - Need expert suggestions

2017-12-08 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 07:35:31 -0600, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> wrote: >On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 17:04:15 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 20:05:15 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >> >>>... As others have suggested, pay attention to HIPE

Re: Strange Things in JES2

2017-12-06 Thread Mark Zelden
Is this held output? What if you use the ST command and "INPUT ON" while looking at the DDs with a "?"? Does that provide a clue? Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: Strange Things in JES2

2017-12-06 Thread Mark Zelden
I had a feeling that was it. :-) Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com

Re: RSU maintenance strategy - Need expert suggestions

2017-12-09 Thread Mark Zelden
aintenance. However, it also does include critical maintenance as well - PE fixes, HIPERs and security / integrity. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@m

Re: RSU maintenance strategy - Need expert suggestions

2017-12-09 Thread Mark Zelden
e. You're putting on every single PTF related to some "function you can live without for a while longer" (because it will end up on RSU if not PE'd) or for a function / hardware you won't ever use. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundatio

Re: CA1 to RMM conversion

2017-10-25 Thread Mark Zelden
the Datacom implementation forced for some CA products years ago, but it did allow for continuous operations or significantly less disruption for maintenance to product files / databases. I'm glad CA-1 did it all without Datacom. :-) Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Serv

Re: LNKLST Question

2017-10-31 Thread Mark Zelden
module loaded in internal storage at startup time. If you still think you need it, I would add ",DELAY=5" and limit it to whatever address space(s) you are trying to "fix". See the archives for past discussions on using "UPDATE,JOB=*" . The FM has some warnings

Re: IKJEFTSR

2018-06-06 Thread Mark Zelden
.3. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search39

Re: RACF on a Sysplex??

2018-05-03 Thread Mark Zelden
those sysplexes have their own RACF DBs, have sysplex communications enabled in the DSNT and CF structures. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html

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

2017-10-27 Thread Mark Zelden
Curious now to see what others say about it. If changing it to NO would save CPU cycles from DB2 on our large sysplexes, I'm all for it! Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: ht

AMAPDUPL + Stand Alone Dump

2019-01-09 Thread Mark Zelden
ice a year, but when I need to it would sure be nice to just run AMAPDUPL pointing directly to my SYS1.SADMP disk data set. IPCS can open and process it correctly, why not AMAPDUPL? Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certifie

Re: AMAPDUPL + Stand Alone Dump

2019-01-09 Thread Mark Zelden
The SADUMP data sets are written to in parallel by the stand alone dump program but they aren't really a single striped data set. That's why IPCS COPYDUMP is needed to combine them all into a single data set. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS

Re: Volume compare utility

2019-06-16 Thread Mark Zelden
ls in the past (not FDRMOVE yet). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://sear

Re: SYS1.MIGLIB and LNKLST

2019-06-13 Thread Mark Zelden
o now!). You just need RACF (SAF) access to STGADMIN.DPDSRN.** (or STGADMIN.DPDSRN.dsn_to_rename) in the FACILITY class. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idas300/rname.htm Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation

Re: Assembly JCL for tpx 5.4

2019-05-09 Thread Mark Zelden
Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ On Thu, 9 May 2019 2

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Mark Zelden
ORG=PS, // SPACE=(TRK,(45,15)) //SYSTSIN DD DUMMY Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Mark Zelden
not found in catalog", I get an obtain error if I do what Mike did because my temp dsn is allocated to VIO because it is so small and that's what the SMS rules do. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzel

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Mark Zelden
added the EDIT option. :-) Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.tec

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-11 Thread Mark Zelden
ed to just use "TSO ISRDDN" or "DDLIST" and then edit the temp dsn that IPLINFO browsed and CUT/PASTEd the output where I wanted prior to adding that EDIT option. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

2019-05-13 Thread Mark Zelden
or a PDS >member. > > Right, exactly what I said in my first response. But cut/paste is still the easiest thing to me. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-22 Thread Mark Zelden
/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieaf200/ieaf200_How_to_Initialize_Your_Subsystem.htm "There are two ways to initialize your subsystem: Specifying an initialization routine Using the START command" Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certi

Re: ICHRDSNT Table. RACF in sysplex communications mode

2019-05-23 Thread Mark Zelden
ND IN " message. Of course deleting the linked table and IPLing is also proof, but I wanted something more after I migrated to the parmlib member before removing the linked table as a cleanup step. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3

Re: MODGEN vs AMODGEN

2019-05-08 Thread Mark Zelden
, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ On Wed, 8 May 2019 06:58:07 +, Vernooij

Re: MODGEN vs AMODGEN

2019-05-08 Thread Mark Zelden
OGL/370 is not a base z/OS component it is an old program product. I think my client dropped it finally at z/OS 2.1. But being that it is ancient (25 yrs old?), why wouldn't all the maintenance come accepted with a ServerPac order? Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting

Re: MODGEN vs AMODGEN

2019-05-08 Thread Mark Zelden
. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ On Wed, 8 May 2019 21:28

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Mark Zelden
Interface should have the details. https://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3SA380679/$file/ieaf200_v2r3.pdf Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: h

Re: [EXTERNAL MESSAGE] Re: COPYING PDS AND PDSE

2019-05-07 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 7 May 2019 15:54:19 +, Mark Jacobs wrote: >They're called program objects in a PDS/e ^ PDSE Pedants unite! ;-) > >Mark Jacobs > > >Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Zelden
" or used it), even if you were I woudn't think you would have it configured to use z14 instructions. If LE really is doing this, why even have an ABO product. I certainly would open an SR with IBM LE support about it. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS,

SMS ACS Routine Decompiler

2019-05-02 Thread Mark Zelden
Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://searc

Re: Assembly JCL for tpx 5.4

2019-05-02 Thread Mark Zelden
nt to go through if I don't have to do it to protect the integrity of the product installation. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.htm

Re: MODGEN vs AMODGEN

2019-05-08 Thread Mark Zelden
z/OS 2.2 (which a few systems are at) and z/OS 2.3. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://sea

Re: listcat with only dsn

2019-07-01 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 19:10:45 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >using "NAME" produces two lines (one that includes that catalog). Once you >know that catalog >adding "CAT(blahblah)" to the LISTCAT will give one line per dataset name. > >A better option is my ver

Re: listcat with only dsn

2019-06-28 Thread Mark Zelden
"LMMLIST DATAID("STATID") OPTION(SAVE) STATS(YES) GROUP("G")" End "LMFREE DATAID("STATID")" Best Regard

Re: listcat with only dsn

2019-07-02 Thread Mark Zelden
ry quickly even for thousands of data sets. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/

APAR OA56180 / RUCSA

2019-09-06 Thread Mark Zelden
rounds to 1M boundaries, but wasn't there any other choice when designing this "work around" for those shops that weren't quite ready yet? Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: APAR OA56180 / RUCSA

2019-09-11 Thread Mark Zelden
se IBM thought "hey, this sounds like a good idea" and did all the development work to take a step backwards. Big customers paying IBM big money have big voices. It may have just been one big customer, who knows (other than IBM). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consu

Re: APAR OA56180 / RUCSA

2019-09-09 Thread Mark Zelden
and Service > That I was not aware of. The PDF I downloaded (z/OS Documentation Updates for APAR OA56180) didn't mention it that I saw. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utiliti

Re: APAR OA56180 / RUCSA

2019-09-06 Thread Mark Zelden
there is some client or set of clients that really needed this to move forward (for now). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://

Re: CBPs (processors) - what is it?

2019-11-07 Thread Mark Zelden
More speculation... Capacity Boost Processor(s)? (z15) Maybe something planned that was eventually implemented with the use of zIIP or making sub capacity engines full capacity for System Recovery Boost? Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3

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