Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-02-24 Thread Mike Schwab
IBM used to have remote job entry devices consisting of a card reader / printer optional punch. https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_3850.html Here is the announcement of an emulator with one window for each.

Re: Are JNI required to be re-entrant and/or re-usable?

2023-02-15 Thread Mike Schwab
If you init fields that are updated it should work as serially reusable. If you work with getmain storage then it would be reentrant. If results are dependent on the value in the load module and it gets changed, you have to reload each time. On Wed, Feb 15, 2023 at 4:06 PM Michael Stein wrote: >

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Impact or got'cha's on changing SYSNAME

2023-02-14 Thread Mike Schwab
You can add the new ID to the SMS definitions before the change then remove the old value after. Our site did do a removal. On Tue, Feb 14, 2023 at 10:40 AM Pommier, Rex wrote: > > Hi Al, > > Thanks for the SCRT information. As far as how to change it, I would be > looking at doing it at an

Re: Irish data centers....an opportunity?

2023-02-12 Thread Mike Schwab
The cost to the fixed length fields and records is padding with blanks. That results in streaming files having a 2/1 compression ratio and fixed length files having a 4/1 ratio. On Sun, Feb 12, 2023 at 12:34 PM Hobart Spitz wrote: > > IMHO, the fault lies in the character stream orientation of

Re: I want to cry

2023-02-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Actually, if just a burning smell, might be a lot of dust inside the computer. On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 7:15 PM Bob Bridges wrote: > > LOL! I had a customer whom I repeatedly nagged about error messages. One > day he called and said my program "didn't work". What did it do?, I asked. > No,

Re: HOLDDATA Not Working as Expected

2023-01-25 Thread Mike Schwab
++HOLD ACTION(Apply xx) On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM Ed Jaffe wrote: > > Actual Sysprogs, > > Recently I was surprised by an unexpected REPORT ERRSYSMODS behavior. I > think I've had a misconception about this for a long time... > > Like many vendors, we maintain HOLDDATA with FIXCAT

Re: KMOD1 DS8k box

2023-01-19 Thread Mike Schwab
846,236,160 bytes * 1990 M1s is 1,684,009,958,400 bytes. On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 3:53 AM Mike Schwab wrote: > > 3390-1 is 846,236,160 bytes. Divide by 1000 or 1024 three times for a > Gigabyte factor, or four times for a Terabyte conversion factor. > > On Thu, Jan 19, 2023

Re: KMOD1 DS8k box

2023-01-19 Thread Mike Schwab
3390-1 is 846,236,160 bytes. Divide by 1000 or 1024 three times for a Gigabyte factor, or four times for a Terabyte conversion factor. On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 1:29 AM Jake Anderson wrote: > > Hello > > I was going through the storage usage in DS8K Gui login And I can see the > utilization of

Re: How to determine if Enhanced HOLDDATA received?

2023-01-18 Thread Mike Schwab
I think that if there is a problem with a ptf then a holddata item be present. List some sort of error, like an abend or even just 'incorrect results in obscure cases'. On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 2:11 PM Gibney, Dave <03b5261cfd78-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Is it possible for a

Re: Beware IBM PTF UJ09197 (APAR OA63062)

2023-01-17 Thread Mike Schwab
z900/800 was last IBM machine with bare IPL. z990+ require LPAR. On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 3:30 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > > Once IBM started using LPARs was there ever another option? I don't > remember or was never involved. Today I call running under an LPAR > "bare metal", as opposed to z/VM

Re: Beware IBM PTF UJ09197 (APAR OA63062)

2023-01-15 Thread Mike Schwab
I look forward to when system functions are 64 bit native and 24/31 bit apps call stubs that call 64 bit system calls. On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 7:00 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > > Still, the methods IBM used to go from 24bit through 64bit are probably > the best possible solutions while remaining

Re: VSEn 6.3 hardware requirements

2023-01-14 Thread Mike Schwab
OS/390 v2.10 had PTFs to add 64 bit mode. z900 announcement z/OS 1.01 had 64 bit mode included. Default 64 bit with 1.04. About 1.10 64 bit required. z14 Around 2.01 IPLed in 64 bit. On Sat, Jan 14, 2023 at 5:07 PM Steve Thompson wrote: > > I get the understanding that it and the current release

Re: Soc7 abend

2023-01-12 Thread Mike Schwab
Looks like you included the whole record. Display numeric field seems to be: F...FFF4FF 0...035B65 > 05 INP-VNDR-PACK-COST PIC 9(9)V9(4). The x'4B' is a period character generated by a PIC 9(9).99. Can't have that in the data in order to perform math. Break it into 2 fields, dollars and

Re: PDS compression needs a new name - defoam? unfoam? degas? I hope someone has a better idea!

2022-12-24 Thread Mike Schwab
How about an command to expand the directory by moving the early members back? On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 10:19 AM Michael Oujesky wrote: > > Wrong end, Passing gas occurs at a different orifice. > > Michael > > > At 08:40 AM 12/21/2022, Paul Gorlinsky wrote: > > >Burping ... because we are

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-22 Thread Mike Schwab
I used to save my documents in Rich Text Format .RTF. All the markup codes are stored in text (notepad) and several editors that use it. On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 5:38 PM Bob Bridges wrote: > > I got quite a few nominations from the two forums where I posted this > question, and it's early days

Re: [EXTERNAL] ICKDSF

2022-12-22 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=devices-buildix-commandckd BUILDIX reads the VTOC to build the index. Does not rely on current contents. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=devices-buildix-commandckd On Thu, Dec 22, 2022 at 1:34 PM Pommier, Rex wrote: > > Steve, > > I'm

Re: Xephon MVS magazines from January 97 thru May 97

2022-12-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Define Alias? On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:56 AM Martin Trübner <047eec287bd9-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Shmuel (and Sam), > > > >> index cross-referencing issue number to date, with links to the > actual files? > > I am prepared to produce that (as alternative to renaming the

Re: Sysplex environment perform DEFRAG

2022-12-12 Thread Mike Schwab
Run defrag. Files open will not be touched. On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 9:44 PM Tommy Tsui wrote: > > Hi all, > > Anyone can share how to perform disk DEFRAG at the parallel sysplex > environment? Anything need to aware ? > Thanks for sharing > >

Re: Split JES2 MAS

2022-12-08 Thread Mike Schwab
The easiest option would be to create a new environment and volume(s) for test and development and IPL to the new volume(s), leaving the production alone, and disable some volumes if you need to reclaim space. On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 1:16 PM Michael Babcock wrote: > > We have a 3 system plex,

Re: Hillgang reminder

2022-12-05 Thread Mike Schwab
e I-66 > and US Rt 50 intersect > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of > Mike Schwab [mike.a.sch...@gmail.com] >

Re: Hillgang reminder

2022-12-05 Thread Mike Schwab

Re: DASD I/O response time affects CICS transaction MIPS, why?

2022-11-30 Thread Mike Schwab
PPRC synchronous completes the I/O when the result is posted to the secondary dasd. PPRC asynchronous completes the I/O when the result is posted to the primary dasd. During busy times you might get multiple updates to a track before the last update is sent. On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 2:33 AM

Re: SET IBM-MAIN NODIGEST

2022-11-25 Thread Mike Schwab
send to lists...@listserv.ua.edu, not the group. On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 9:24 AM Don Parrott wrote: > > SET IBM-MAIN NODIGEST > > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to

Re: Bytes in a 3390 track

2022-11-23 Thread Mike Schwab
Thats why we have storage groups, 64K cyl volumes with 56GB, and EAV volumes up to 1TB so far, 220TB possible but not implemented.. On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 7:20 PM Leonard D Woren wrote: > > True. > > Yet... why is space still such a big deal on mainframes? I have > almost as much disk space

Re: Bytes in a 3390 track

2022-11-23 Thread Mike Schwab
-tracks, regardless of the BLKSIZE > specified. With zEDC, the BLKSIZE is just the size of data passed > to/from the application and no longer the physical data "written" to disk. > > Michael > > At 12:14 PM 11/23/2022, Mike Schwab wrote: > > >If you are doing se

Re: Bytes in a 3390 track

2022-11-23 Thread Mike Schwab
Multiply record size by number of records to calculate size. Divide by 50,000 for number of tracks, or divide by 800,000 for a firm estimate to 500,000 for a rough estimate for number of cylinders. If you won't need additional space, code RLSE to release unused cylinders / tracks. On Wed, Nov

Re: IBM sues Micro Focus, claims it copied mainframe software • The Register

2022-11-23 Thread Mike Schwab
If you re-implement the code using only the published API without referencing the old code was ruled legal in the Google re-implementation of JAVA. Google experienced problems due to incompatibilities between versions of Java, so this was their fix.

Re: Bytes in a 3390 track

2022-11-23 Thread Mike Schwab
@ Format of a PDS. N records of K8 Block256 for the directory plus an end of file marker. Adding or removing members involves rewriting the entire directory, member entry update in place is possible but not guaranteed. Text PDSs have members that are FB or VB blocks up to the block size until

Re: Bytes in a 3390 track

2022-11-23 Thread Mike Schwab
If you are doing sequential reads and writes, half track is the best you can do. If you are random reading small records, I.E. 80 byte, 400 bytes, 2000 bytes; then smaller blocks lead to less I/O per record, since you aren't using most of the data read, and the larger the block the less you use.

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Tom Brennan Vista (after 30 days $30). On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 10:06 AM Schmitt, Michael wrote: > > And now through consolidation, There's really only two TN3270 vendors left: > Micro Focus and IBM! > > Micro Focus now owns: > > - Rumba Desktop (Wall Data > NetManage > Micro Focus) > -

Re: Limiting quantity of tape drives used by user

2022-11-07 Thread Mike Schwab
We had that in production One step with a huge number of datasets, so allocates all available tape drives even though only 1 in use at any one time. On Mon, Nov 7, 2022 at 12:14 PM Dave Jousma <01a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > All, > > In many years, I haven’t seen this

Re: Need info

2022-11-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Not sure if that goes in subject and or body? try both. I think it is not working for several years. On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 9:54 AM William J Bishop wrote: > > INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Db2 z/OS Subsystem Cloning

2022-11-04 Thread Mike Schwab
Suspend PPRC, copy selected datasets, restart PPRC? Restore from replicated VTape? On Fri, Nov 4, 2022 at 12:57 PM Lance D. Jackson wrote: > > Can anyone suggest some approaches to cloning a subsystem w/o the use of a > tool? A client a sandbox environment where DDL changes are made, and rather

Re: Is there a TCPTRACEROUTE equivalent for z/OS ?

2022-10-21 Thread Mike Schwab
z/OS TCP/IP activity trace https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=capture-zos-tcpip-activity-trace On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 6:22 AM Jantje. <033acf17e42f-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Dear Listers, > > I tried PING and TRACERTE and failed because the firewall blocks ICMP and

Re: Is there a TCPTRACEROUTE equivalent for z/OS ?

2022-10-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Here's the source for Linux https://github.com/mct/tcptraceroute Here's the source for Win32 https://github.com/0xcafed00d/tracetcp On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 6:22 AM Jantje. <033acf17e42f-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Dear Listers, > > I tried PING and TRACERTE and failed because

Re: Is there a TCPTRACEROUTE equivalent for z/OS ?

2022-10-21 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=traceroute-tso-tracerte-command-debug-network-problems UDP but you specify the port. On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 6:22 AM Jantje. <033acf17e42f-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Dear Listers, > > I tried PING and TRACERTE and failed because the

Re: FYI: IBM sales jump shows the mainframe is not dead, with hybrid cloud alive and well | Network World

2022-10-20 Thread Mike Schwab
The big problem with mainframe reporting is the finances compare one year apart while models come out 2 years apart. Useful reporting would be by months since model release. On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 4:25 PM Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Oct

Re: A Million Years

2022-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
I think it is used when you don't have a security server up. On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 6:31 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > Yes, that is how TSO uses UADS. It's supported, but is anybody still using it? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > >

Re: A Million Years

2022-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.cbttape.org/freepds.htm PDS V 8.6 is current. On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 5:22 PM William J Bishop wrote: > > Are you talking about IPOUPDTE (?) ? > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 1:26 PM Steve Beaver wrote: > > > A million years ago the was an IBM Batch Utility to change strings > > > > In

Re: MARS - Details Manuals

2022-10-11 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.helix-int.com/ is the company site. Google search results: Helix MARS Real Time Viewer - IBMhttps://www-50.ibm.com › gsd › solutiondetails Nov 3, 2020 — Real Time Viewer (RTV) is an add-on to Data Migration services offered by HELIX International. It allows federated retrieval and

Re: DFSORT: Get part of a file between to records

2022-10-10 Thread Mike Schwab
IEBGENER RECORD statement? https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=statements-record-statement On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 10:17 AM Jack Zukt wrote: > > Hi, > I am trying to use DFSORT to get part of a dataset. > We are directing the output of an ABAR job to a dataset and I would like to > get

Re: FW: RMM Question

2022-10-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Here's the previous version. https://ibmdocs.pocnet.net/SG24-4998-00.pdf On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 12:08 PM Steve Beaver wrote: > > Does anyone in the group have the following Redbook on their PC or Laptop > > > > SG24-4998-01, Converting to Removable Media Manager: A Practical Guide > > > > >

Re: IBM python documentation?

2022-10-01 Thread Mike Schwab
Any text in any code page can be translated into UTF-8 (since it is a merge of all existing ASCII/EBCDIC code pages). A particular UTF-8 string can be converted into a code page IF, AND ONLY IF, all characters are from that code page. If you have any characters outside that code page, you get a

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread Mike Schwab
On a screen, wouldn't PF keys be a kind of Object programming? And how about a online transaction, where one screen updates a particular table in your overall system. And the different transaction ids would be like an Object / function. Just leaves the batch job to use structure programming,

Re: System parmlib concat

2022-09-23 Thread Mike Schwab
https://share.confex.com/share/124/webprogram/Handout/Session16955/SHARE%20PDSE%20Best%20Practices%20%282.1%20update%29.pdf PDSEs HARD to share. Update from 1 system only, not from outside sysplex. CLPA has to be completed before PDSEs can be read.

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

2022-09-23 Thread Mike Schwab
Create SYS1.IEBCOPY(IEBCOPY)? On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 8:28 PM Gibney, Dave <03b5261cfd78-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Maybe, somewhere in the middle, IEBCOPY is relocated... > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > > Behalf Of Mark Zelden > >

Re: Using DFSORT over DCOLLECT to get dataset extent number

2022-09-23 Thread Mike Schwab
Yes. There are Unpack field types to do this. On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 2:59 AM Jack Zukt wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a rexx that reads a DCOLLECT output, processes the type "D" records > and creates a file with a list of datasets that have over 200 extents. As I > am using a SORT between the

Re: IPCS VERBX 64bit storage

2022-09-21 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=dialog-examining-64-bit-dump-data-sets On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 3:59 PM David Janicek wrote: > > Hi all. I am new to this list but I have searched the archives for an answer > to my question already without any luck. > > I am responsible for

Re: CRTIME Field on $DJ(xxxxx),LONG command output

2022-09-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Illinois does use one time zone. Indiana has always used multiple time zones. Some counties have chosen not to use daylight savings time until 2006 mandatory use.. Various counties have chosen to switch time zones, daylight savings use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana Various

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-20 Thread Mike Schwab
Yes. A 4K difference between registers would be USING label,R12,R11,R10 etc. On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 12:22 AM Brian Westerman wrote: > > Can you do that and use multiple base regs? > > Brian > > On Mon, 19 Sep 2022 07:32:07 -0500, Paul Gilmartin > wrote: > > >On Sun, 18 Sep 2022 22:03:34

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
When you enter a program, R15 points to the first byte of PROGNAME. You usually have a USING R15,PROGNAME. If you are going to be calling OS functions or programs, you will copy R15 to another register (often R12), issue a USING R12,PROGNAME and DROP R15,PROGNAME. So when using a label within 4K

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Nows your chance. https://gunkies.org/wiki/Running_TOPS-20_V4.1_under_SIMH On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 4:38 PM Joe Monk wrote: > > My GE 1101 (1st level Gen Engineering) class was PASCAL programming on a > DecSystem running TOPS20. > > Never used it again. > > Joe > > On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 3:55

Re: omvs man pages

2022-09-16 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=sys1parmlib-ephwp00-bookmanager-topic-extraction Last version for topic is 2.3. On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 7:53 AM Michael Babcock wrote: > > I was thinking that EPH datasets are no longer shipped with z/OS. They are > not on my z/OS 2.4 system. > > On

Re: z/VSE Support Education and Manuals

2022-09-12 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zvse/6.2?topic=SSB27H_6.2.0/zvse_welcome_6.2.0.html If you want a practice system, Hercules has 5 downloads. DOS has had minimal updates beyond what was needed to run on newer hardware. https://hercules-390.github.io/html/ On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 1:09 PM Jasi Grewal

Re: DFSORT: BRE vs. ERE

2022-09-02 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 7:33 AM Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > The basic regular expression metacharacters are: > ¬ $ . * \( \) [ \{ \} \ > > The extended regular expression metacharacters are: > |¬$.*+?()[{ } > > How can the programmer

Re: IWS Scheduling

2022-08-23 Thread Mike Schwab
Well, the second day of the week occurs on 8th to 14th. 2 days earlier is 6th to 12th. So Thursday and 6-12 of month. On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 11:21 AM Philippe Tessier wrote: > > You define second Saturday with rule > > Cordialement > > Philippe TESSIER > Systèmes et Documents > 162 rue Maurice

Re: IBM Z13 and Z13s EOL

2022-08-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Ask them for a price quote on a used z15. On Thu, Aug 18, 2022, 14:53 Carmen Vitullo wrote: > Thank you Eric, luckily we don't have a need for any hardware changes, > and as long as the box is 'supported' MLC updates, card replacements due > to an error, my feeling is leadership is OK to

Re: Restore from virtual tape

2022-08-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Dump the one line of characters of each file, the first 44 should be the Dsn of the contents, the rest will be compressed. On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 14:37 Peter wrote: > Hello > > Is it possible to recover the migrated dataset from the virtual tape > directly ? > > As one of the MCDS got corrupted

Re: Problems caused by Health Checker?

2022-08-17 Thread Mike Schwab
So the proper response is to enable recalls if possible, wait to enable recalls if recalls will become available, or cancel and leave down until recalls can be enabled. Correct? On Wed, Aug 17, 2022, 10:36 Peter Relson wrote: > > One problem we've seen is that sometimes when HZSPROC starts

Re: HMC and zombie USB device

2022-08-16 Thread Mike Schwab
Might have been included on the USB subsystem and not connected. You could look up the schematics or observe the circuit boards and chips. On Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 16:33 Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > As many of us know HMC reports all external devices connected via USB - > mice, keyboards,

Re: rexx and IDCAMS functions

2022-08-16 Thread Mike Schwab
RACF, DSN authorization. On Tue, Aug 16, 2022, 16:19 Lizette Koehler wrote: > I am going to write a process in REXX using things like DCOLLECT LISTC > etc.. > > > > I am running into S913-70 > > > > I am trying to figure out what I need to do to resolve it > > > > Something in RACF? Pads

Re: ARM

2022-08-09 Thread Mike Schwab
What is the 24 bit region size? Some people move the TSO LPA modules to private libraries to get more private memory. z/OS S878 is the job requests more memory than what is available in THAT address space. I think IBM added some code to restart address spaces to prevent this abend. On Tue, Aug

Re: Mainframe outage affecting W.Va. state agencies could take 48, 72 hours to resolve

2022-07-27 Thread Mike Schwab
Yep. Banking standards require everyone to take 1 or 2 weeks off with no work contact. On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 9:36 AM Bob Bridges wrote: > > Absolutely right. I have impression that they sometimes do this during > military exercises: A key officer "dies", now what? > > Normally I just stick

Re: "Mainframe outage affecting W.Va. state agencies could take 48, 72 hours to resolve"

2022-07-26 Thread Mike Schwab
When one part goes down, all you get is a message. You don't get an outage until enough parts go down and the devices stops working (enough raid volumes to not rebuild blocks, all communications channels). On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 1:05 PM John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote: > > Seems 2 parts failed and

Re: Finding uncatalogued datasets

2022-07-23 Thread Mike Schwab
I did a DCOLECT to list all volumes then added up the space totals in the records. Of course it is a multiple of K, so you are missing tiny amount of space on every volume. On Sat, Jul 23, 2022 at 2:29 PM David Staudacher wrote: > > Jack Zukt wrote: "I would prefer a more standard approach if I

Re: Finding uncatalogued datasets

2022-07-22 Thread Mike Schwab
SMS storage groups can't have uncataloged data sets, so you can eliminate those volumes. On Fri, Jul 22, 2022 at 9:01 AM Jack Zukt wrote: > > Hi all, > As a byproduct of what I am working now, I have found out a few > uncatalogued datasets. Now I would like to find out all the uncatalogued >

Re: SMS volume status of QUINEW?

2022-07-21 Thread Mike Schwab
equ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > So QUNEW can function to 'reserve' volumes for datasets with very large > primary allocations, requests that might not be satisfied if free space was > not consolidated on the QUINEW volume? > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: SMS volume status of QUINEW?

2022-07-21 Thread Mike Schwab
QuiNew keeps volumes as empty as possible, but if a dataset cannot be allocated on all the other volumes it will be allocated on a QuiNew volume. VS a DisNew volume is destined to be taken offline when empty and new datasets cannot be allocated on the volume.. On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 10:32 AM

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL

2022-07-20 Thread Mike Schwab
> OVERLAY=(FMT-YEAR:71,04, # YEAR Since you are getting the first three digits, I suspect you are getting a blank in front. Try 72 instead of 71. On Wed, Jul 20, 2022 at 3:11 AM Jack Zukt wrote: > > Hi Kolusu, > > Thank you very much for your help. It works almost as it

Re: Reading MCDS ML2 Tape on a different Lpar? Possible?

2022-07-13 Thread Mike Schwab
When we browsed a ML1 tape on dasd, we saw the real DSN at the start of each dataset. On Wed, Jul 13, 2022, 11:51 Nigel Morton wrote: > Two wildly different thoughts: > > 1. Might it be possible to mount the offending tape manually depending of > course on what's failed in the library? > 2.

Re: sys1.parmlib compare

2022-07-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Go through the ISPF menu. Mismatched member names will be listed, matching names will be comated. On Tue, Jul 5, 2022, 19:48 BM wrote: > I am trying to compare members of sys1.parmlib from two different > Operating systems (using SuperCE), Any other simple ways to do this, Like > mass compare

Re: z/OS TWS Late work

2022-07-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Long shot. Any numbers (?asid?) That he could have run out of? On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 11:35 Shaffer, Terri < 017d5f778222-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I was wondering if anyone can please point me into the right direction for > why my TWS scheduler stopped scheduling work? > > My

Re: Some UNIX file usage questions

2022-06-21 Thread Mike Schwab
24 byte blocks get 82 blocks per track. (96 blocks * 31 days) / 82 blocks = 37 tracks per month. Inefficient but a very small utilization. Copy to historical dataset to reblock. On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 9:36 AM Paul Gilmartin <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Mon,

Re: Some UNIX file usage questions

2022-06-20 Thread Mike Schwab
24 byte record would fit 82 records per track. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/dasd/reference_summary/GX26-4577-0_3390_Reference_Summary_Jun89.pdf On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 10:05 PM kekronbekron <02dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Hey Charles, > > Does the 96-files a day

Re: Old PL/I Optimizing compiler - COUNT & FLOW options

2022-06-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Might ask for help on the Hercules forums. They have updated the IFOX assembler with user mode z instructions, for example. On Sat, Jun 18, 2022 at 4:47 PM Robert Prins wrote: > > Thanks, that might help. I've found that for the 2.3.0compiler, the table > is printed via "ibmfefca", got the

Re: Modernize Mainframe Applications for Hybrid Cloud with IBM and AWS

2022-06-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Moshix signed up for an AWS instance, loaded up Hercules and Turnkey 4-, got it going, and allowed some other people to log in. On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:31 AM Bill Johnson <0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Cloud - Something the mainframe has been doing for decades. We

Re: Introducing IBM Virtual Dev and Test for z/OS

2022-06-17 Thread Mike Schwab
ADCD is what you can order to run on IBM's emulator. On Fri, Jun 17, 2022, 06:51 kekronbekron < 02dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Thank you, and ADCD is an alternative to zD? > So, zDT is supplied sysres whereas ADCD can be bring your own sysres? > > I totally forgot about

Re: SMS confusion on when system determined blocksize is used

2022-06-15 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cobol-zos/6.2?topic=entries-block-contains-clause Is BLOCK0 specified as a compiler option? For a way to apply BLOCK CONTAINS 0 to QSAM files that do not already have a BLOCK CONTAINS clause, see the description of the compiler option, BLOCK0 in the Enterprise COBOL

Re: RIsks of sharing FICON adapters between LPARs on the same host

2022-06-14 Thread Mike Schwab
z/VM can share PCHPIDs. But we always had 4 FICON for every LPAR for DASD. On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 9:07 PM Laurence Chiu wrote: > > We had an interesting question raised recently in my work place by our > security team. > > They said, if you have multiple LPARs on a Z box and you share FICON >

Re: Rename Alias in a Load libary

2022-06-14 Thread Mike Schwab
Can't. Create another alias. Delete old alias name. On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 2:04 PM Shelia Chalk <03d9384cc8f1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Has anyone ever used a usermod to rename a alias in a lmod library? > > ERBSMFI *ALIAS > > If so, can someone point me into the

Re: mainframe CPU swap

2022-06-13 Thread Mike Schwab
Once you decide you can't fail back to old production, be sure to establish the new PPRC direction. If you IPL on the new dasd before setting up the PPRC you'll have to copy the new primaries back. If you swap before IPL at the new production site then you don't have to copy the new primaries to

Re: How do you Prove that you no longer need a working SKLM server or started task.

2022-06-11 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-brazen-airport-computer-theft-that-has-australias-anti-terror-fighters-up-in-arms-20030905-gdhc5q.html 2 mainframes. Convinced that lots of important files were stolen. Since most computers (but not most mainframes) have internal file storage. On Sat, Jun 11,

Re: dfsort -TASK I/O TABLE EXCEEDS TIOT LIMIT OF 0064K

2022-06-10 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/tiot-space-and-dynvol TIOT size is modifyable up to 64K in PARMLIB(ALLOCxx), which you have already done. >> The TIOT size is specified in the ALLOCxx PARMLIB member and has a default of 32K. This is sufficient for 1635 data sets on a single volume and 129 data

Re: HSM backups and CICS VSAM files,

2022-06-07 Thread Mike Schwab
If a transaction accesses the file, the dataset is opened until closed. To test. Issue HBACKDS / on the file. Do a transaction that reads the file. Issue HBACKDS / on the file (should not work). Do a CEMT to close the file. Issue HBACKDS / on the file (should work). Enable the file to be opened

IBM vs Global Foundries

2022-06-04 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/Judge-tosses-IBM-s-fraud-claims-against-16464321.php A fraud claim by IBM against Global Foundries was dropped. A counter claim by Global Foundries against IBM was dropped. 2015, IBM and Global Foundries reached an agreement. Two IBM chip plants,

Re: IBM ordered to pay $1.6b to BMC

2022-06-03 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/search/%7B%22query%22%3A%2217-CV-2254%20bmc%22%2C%22offset%22%3A0%7D 17-cv-2254 bmc for the case documents. On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 1:16 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > Well, #1 we are a bunch of jailhouse lawyers without even the source > documents in front of us. Who

Re: apply unix command under 3.4 to pathname dir

2022-06-02 Thread Mike Schwab
So you need a command like 'CD .' or 'set WD=.' to define the current directory as the directory for commands to work with. On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 1:36 PM Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 17:49:10 +, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > > > >Did

Re: my new z114

2022-05-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Maybe Sparkler filters has their 402 manual? http://ibm-1401.info/402.html On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 7:22 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > ObTeratology There were 1-digit adders that you cascaded with board wiring. > The 407 was not Turing complete, but it did have (very) limited conditional >

Re: Pricing for a single-user copy of PCOMM?

2022-05-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Tom Brennans Vista is highly recommended. On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 5:03 PM Farley, Peter x23353 <031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I've been roaming around the IBM websites looking for a published price for a > single-user copy of IBM Personal Communications, but I have

Re: my new z114

2022-05-28 Thread Mike Schwab
Android<https://bluemail.me> > On May 28, 2022, at 5:57 PM, Mike Schwab > mailto:mike.a.sch...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > You can't program for the specialty processors without a contract from > IBM. That is what got Neon to speed up DB2. > https://www.theregister.com/201

Re: my new z114

2022-05-28 Thread Mike Schwab
You can't program for the specialty processors without a contract from IBM. That is what got Neon to speed up DB2. https://www.theregister.com/2011/06/01/ibm_prevails_over_neon_zprime/ On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 8:53 PM Enzo D'Amato wrote: > > I am trying to get in contact with someone from IBM. I

Re: my new z114

2022-05-28 Thread Mike Schwab
https://gesrepair.com/convert-three-phase-single-phase/ On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 6:01 PM Enzo D'Amato wrote: > > Thanks for the info. From what I have read, the BPRs in all of the z114s are > the same weather or not you are using three-phase or single phase. The only > difference is the power

Re: my new z114

2022-05-28 Thread Mike Schwab
When Connor hooked up his z890, he hooked up Hot to one wire, neutral to another wire, and left the third wire alone. Works as long as the load is not too high (few drawers, I/O cards). On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 3:54 PM Joe Monk wrote: > > I also wanted to ask if anyone could share the proper 3

Re: my new z114

2022-05-27 Thread Mike Schwab
duce an > IPL-able image but I do not recall what it was. > > Actually, I have not IPL'ed a box at all since I owned a P/390. What media > will a z114 IPL from, other than DASD? > > Charles > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto

Re: my new z114

2022-05-27 Thread Mike Schwab
The RJ45 Ethernet should plug into your network just fine. As far as bare metal programming Hercules emulator on your PC might be easier to write and debug with before putting on actual hardware. On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 2:44 PM Enzo D'Amato wrote: > > Parwez is correct that this is a M05 model,

Re: zFS compress failure

2022-05-27 Thread Mike Schwab
PASSACS if SMS managed. > > Make sure the receiving volume has enough free space to create the file in > > one extent. Then you can move the volume back to the original volume. This > > may not help if something else is wrong with the file. Thanks -Original > > Me

Re: zFS compress failure

2022-05-26 Thread Mike Schwab
Unmount, defrag (or migrate / recall), remount. Or, create a replacement zfs, mount at a new point, copy with Unix commands, unmount both, mount new file system, delete old file system. On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 9:28 PM Mark Jacobs <0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I've

Re: Mark your calendars for July 10, 2022 - CustomPac intended removal date

2022-05-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Any possibility of licensing one zIIP on a z14 or earlier with zero zIIPs so z/OS 2.5 z/OSMF installation method can be run once installed? On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 7:51 AM Timothy Sipples wrote: > > Mike Schwab asked: > >Doesn't IBM also allow software capping to a lower c

Re: How to keep the response from HSENDCMD batch

2022-05-18 Thread Mike Schwab
HSEND Q CDS ODS(my.output.file) On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 6:08 AM Nobuhiko Furuya wrote: > > Hello all, > > Could you give me your advice ? > > We are converting CA-Disk to DFSMShsm. > In this situation, we are to use HSENDCMD in TSO batch as follows. > > //STEP1EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 > //SYSPRINT

Re: Mark your calendars for July 10, 2022 - CustomPac intended removal date

2022-05-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Doesn't IBM also allow software capping to a lower capacity than the slowest uniprocessor through the operating system? On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 5:54 AM Timothy Sipples wrote: > > Andrew Rowley wrote: > >It would benefit customers, software vendors and IBM if IBM could get > >these small systems

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