Re: PDS/PDSE Member information

2023-06-15 Thread Tom Marchant
I think you mean ISPF statistics. That would be in the user data area in the directory entries. You might try the LM ISPF services. -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 16:10:20 +0100, Jack Zukt wrote: >Hi all, > >Is there a way to get the PDS/PDSE member information, namely, >m

Re: Mainframe help now available!

2023-06-13 Thread Tom Marchant
Orchestra conductor talking to a violin player: "I know you usually play the violin, but today we need another french horn player. You are a musician. You can do it." -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: CVT or PSA field with ever changing value?

2023-06-05 Thread Tom Marchant
My first guess would be one of the old PSWs -- Tom Marchant On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 20:03:06 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: >Is there some PSA/CVT field that most of the time where it is examined (not >talking microseconds here) the value will be dif

Re: Why does ISPF BROWSE abend with S878 searching a large sequential file?

2023-05-24 Thread Tom Marchant
ters need not be specified, as they will be filled in properly by the system. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Are Banks Breaking Up With Mainframes? | Forbes

2023-05-24 Thread Tom Marchant
ble machine. Being a vacuum-tube machine, however, the IBM 704 had very poor reliability by today's standards. On average, the machine failed around every 8 hours." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_704 -- Tom Marchant ---

Re: COBOL to dynamic DD name

2023-04-28 Thread Tom Marchant
describe the problem you are trying to solve. -- Tom Marchant On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:37:39 +, Schmitt, Michael wrote: >I know how to have a COBOL program on z/OS use a data set name that isn't >determined until runtime, via an environment variable. My question is can you >use

Re: Inexplicable 0C4!

2023-04-27 Thread Tom Marchant
yte translated. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Inexplicable 0C4!

2023-04-27 Thread Tom Marchant
IMO R3 should be set to a length that reflects the end of the storage containing the string. Setting the length to 2 GB-1 is sloppy programming. -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:09:17 -0700, Michael Stein wrote: >On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 07:54:56PM +, Seymour J Metz wrote: &g

Re: Stop the ragging on COBOL please [was: RE: ASM call by value]

2023-04-10 Thread Tom Marchant
knowledge and qualifications. Sorry for feeding the trolls. -- Tom Marchant On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 23:38:39 +, Bill Johnson wrote: >First off, I’ve NEVER said I know it all. Many of you can’t even comprehend >simple English. But, there are some here who think they are an expert at >e

Re: Not aging well (know-it-alls)

2023-04-10 Thread Tom Marchant
So much for not putting your information out on the internet. -- Tom Marchant On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 22:00:17 +, Bill Johnson wrote: >I don’t lie, cheat, steal, smoke, do drugs, drink alcohol. I do lots a >charity, give huge tips, help animal shelters, and much muc

Re: LE runtime

2023-04-07 Thread Tom Marchant
Yes, it will. And if you are debugging an abend that occurred with an older version of the program, the listing is no longer available in the program object. -- Tom Marchant On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 18:33:18 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Won't that replace the NOLOAD segments with the new o

Re: JESLOG Parameter on JOB Card, executing SUB=MSTR

2023-04-07 Thread Tom Marchant
Are you running NETVIEW SUB=MSTR so that it can start earlier in the IPL? Have you considered stopping it after the IPL is complete and restarting it to run under JES? -- Tom Marchant On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 18:01:11 +, Mark Jacobs wrote: >The problem is with our Netview STCs. They exec

Re: LE runtime

2023-04-07 Thread Tom Marchant
Until the program is recompiled and relinked. -- Tom Marchant On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 10:48:04 -0700, Tom Ross wrote: >With the >NOLOAD class program segmenets in new COBOL the debugging data is always >available, alway

Re: Almost gone

2023-03-30 Thread Tom Marchant
comes next in your life. -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 07:43:09 -0500, John McKown wrote: >Actually, Optum Technologies started this project a little over a year ago. >They basically threw money and developers at, a long with telling the users >to "suck it up and deal with

Re: A question or two on zOS issues

2023-03-24 Thread Tom Marchant
How do they accomplish that? -- Tom Marchant On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:07:51 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >But most systems I use admirably do not allow non-privileged users to access >the hardware clock. -- For IB

Re: CS/CDS instruction

2023-03-10 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 20:06:10 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 18:17:14 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: > >>IBM has announced that Transactional execution will be removed. >> >Entirely? I read much earlier that it was being removed partially. From the z16 an

Re: CS/CDS instruction

2023-03-09 Thread Tom Marchant
IBM has announced that Transactional execution will be removed. -- Tom Marchant On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 10:51:59 +1100, Attila Fogarasi wrote: >The modern way is Transactional Execution. PLO was developed decades ago >and works well by itself but doesn't co-exist well with CS/CDS.

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: WLM Couple dataset?

2023-03-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On the listserv web page, to the left of the top of the place where you type your reply, there is a large double quote. Click on that. -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 18:33:08 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: >On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 18:27, Bill Giannelli wrote: > >> I am in the lists

Re: zOSMF

2023-03-08 Thread Tom Marchant
Maybe she means what she said. MVS/SP Version 1.3.8 is referenced as a supported operating environment in this: https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd=sm=ShopzSeries=897/ENUS5695-002 -- Tom Marchant On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 16:03:13 -0500, David Spiegel wrote: >Hi Te

Re: IEF211I

2023-02-16 Thread Tom Marchant
The ENQ will be on the true name, not the alias name. -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:50:47 -0600, Jason Cai wrote: >HI Shmuel > DSN is an alias name(a loadlib dataset). > Could you tell me how to find which ano

Re: zOSMF

2023-02-16 Thread Tom Marchant
Remember to receive the latest HOLDDATA before running the REPORT MISSINGFIX. -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:45:26 +, Kurt J. Quackenbush wrote: >> An error was found in file "/u/pinionr/TDMF/IZUD00DF.json". Error: "The file >> contains data that is n

Re: how to read SMF data?

2023-02-14 Thread Tom Marchant
mxg.com On Tue, 14 Feb 2023 09:10:04 -0600, Bill Giannelli wrote: >thank you for your responses! >I just found out we have MXG! >doing google searches. >might you point me to a link and or manual on how to use MXG? >thanks >Bill >

Re: The Local death of DB2 z/OS --- what is the best way to preserve the data once the mainframe is gone

2023-02-08 Thread Tom Marchant
I would think that the auditors or the lawyers might not agree with management. -- Tom Marchant On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 13:44:58 -0600, Tom Longfellow wrote: >NO resources on any servers anywhere will be committed to the preservation of >data. >The Mainframe will be powered off 6 mon

Re: GETMAIN LOC=32

2023-02-07 Thread Tom Marchant
Is that all you want? "I want it because I think it would be cool" is not a business justification. -- Tom Marchant On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 12:15:57 -0600, Paul Edwards wrote: >The z/OS change that would be required to support >negative indexing (which, while fairly uncommo

Re: I want to cry

2023-02-06 Thread Tom Marchant
It is very difficult to debug an abend in a Cobol program unless you can at least read the generated assembler. Of course, these days, there are programs that will do it for you. -- Tom Marchant On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 18:27:57 -0500, Tony Thigpen wrote: >Ok, so exactly why is that a prob

Re: HOLDDATA Not Working as Expected

2023-01-26 Thread Tom Marchant
LDDATA entry. Just add the updated one to the end of the HOLDDATA file. The FIX in SMRTDATA is used by REPORT ERRORSYSMODS and REPORT MISSINGFIX. And include SUP(aparnum) in the resolving PTF. That tells SMP/E that the error hold is resolved when the PTF is applied. -- Tom Marchant

Re: How to determine if Enhanced HOLDDATA received?

2023-01-19 Thread Tom Marchant
the SECINT hold to be against that PTF. -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 21:01:46 -, Patrick Loftus wrote: >The holddata for SECINT looks like below. Note the function SYSMOD, not PTF >SYSMOD ID: >++ HOLD(HSMA230) FMID(HSMA230) REASON(BHx) ERROR DATE(yyddd) > > C

Re: How to determine if Enhanced HOLDDATA received?

2023-01-19 Thread Tom Marchant
An ASSIGN statement assigns a source-id, not a class. -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:22:44 -0600, Dave Jousma wrote: >I'll correct myself. i normally just download the ASSIGN file and receive >that. I took a peek at the HOLDDATA file on RL and the samp

Re: How to determine if Enhanced HOLDDATA received?

2023-01-19 Thread Tom Marchant
anything. I guess that the PTFs that resolve SECINTs are also not documented -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:00:52 -0600, Dave Jousma wrote: >On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 16:37:28 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >>"SECINT >> The reason ID SYSMOD identifies a fix for a secu

Re: How to determine if Enhanced HOLDDATA received?

2023-01-19 Thread Tom Marchant
Wouldn't a hold with CLASS(SECINT) be an ERROR hold? -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:30:38 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Doesn't the process for security/integrity violations include creating an >APAR? If so, shouldn't any PTF with hold class SECINT also have an ERRO

Re: Question and CZAM and IPL

2023-01-12 Thread Tom Marchant
SW is an ESA/390 PSW. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SMPE recreate a target library... Possible?

2023-01-04 Thread Tom Marchant
One way of effectively providing a backup is to clone the target zone before applying maintenance. Then apply to the clone. -- Tom Marchant On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 09:16:58 -0600, Dejan Stamatovic wrote: >I agree totally. Only backups provide a sure way out of problems during >ap

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-21 Thread Tom Marchant
I like LyX for this kind of thing. Perhaps because I'm too lazy to learn LaTeX or TeX. Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message

Re: SMP/E oddity?

2022-11-30 Thread Tom Marchant
If you try to RESTORE bar it will fail unless either foo is also restored at the same time or foo has been accepted. -- Tom Marchant On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 14:49:42 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Partial restore is a can of worms. What happens if foo has a PE, bar >supersedes the asso

Re: Bytes in a 3390 track

2022-11-28 Thread Tom Marchant
n the target, and the second member's 32K block doesn't fit >after the first member's 32K block, Except that IEBCOPY also knows about splitting TXT records, and it will do so to maximize track usage. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: To share or not to share DASD

2022-11-28 Thread Tom Marchant
in the SYS1.PARMLIB on each system in the sysplex. Every system that is sharing a PDSE must be a member of the sysplex and have the sysplex coupling facility (XCF) active. People have violated these rules and gotten away with it, but that does not mean that it is safe to do so. -- Tom

Re: missing FMIDs

2020-06-19 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 07:16:30 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >I am not sure if there is an easy way to list all FMIDs in the SMP/e >environment. LIST FUNCTIONS . -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / a

Re: Separate SMPe environments for maintenance levels

2020-06-11 Thread Tom Marchant
n zone will still have to have the correct DDDEFs. JCL symbols can be your friend in setting up the jobs to do all of this. Test your process carefully. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: Punched cards and character set

2020-06-03 Thread Tom Marchant
t on page 150.3 of http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/princOps/A22-6821-7_360PrincOpsDec67.pdf to be easier to understand. The prior page describes how to read it. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acce

Re: IGDSMSxx setting PDSE_VERSION(2)

2020-05-12 Thread Tom Marchant
Radoslaw, What do you mean? Are you referring to running with PDSESHARING(NORMAL)? Is it documented anywhere that a PDSE can be safely shared outside a SYSPLEX when running PDSESHARING(EXTENDED)? -- Tom Marchant On Tue, 12 May 2020 17:02:23 +0200, R.S. wrote: >Yes, I'm aware of that. Howe

Re: Mainframe user ID length

2020-05-05 Thread Tom Marchant
). It says so right here, among other places: > >https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ibm.zos.zjcl/zjclt_exercise_crtNsubmitjob.htm What is your point? The contents of in-stream data is not part of JCL, any more than the contents of some other data set referenced

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 2 May 2020 to 3 May 2020 (#2020-125)

2020-05-04 Thread Tom Marchant
a unless you can count on everyone's workstation being at least as secure as z/OS is. All you need is one user who gets their PC hacked and the hacker has access to z/OS, with whatever authority that user has. -- Tom Marchant -

Re: S0F9 and SOFD ABENDs and SVC dumps - oh my!

2020-04-29 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 29 Apr 2020 08:45:30 +0100, Martin Packer wrote: >As much to the point, why does this need to be 24-bit LSQA? Compatibility. TCBs and RBs are still below the line because moving them above the line will likely break existing AMODE(24) programs. -- Tom March

Re: S0F9 and SOFD ABENDs and SVC dumps - oh my!

2020-04-29 Thread Tom Marchant
Don't forget that GETMAIN requests for storage above the line will return storage below the line if there isn't sufficient storage above the line to honor the request. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Here we go again;

2020-04-23 Thread Tom Marchant
is used here. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Here we go again

2020-04-22 Thread Tom Marchant
e that others did the same, or stored them in a fullword. These would have to be changed if letters are allowed. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.ed

Re: Any shop use UNIX in a production job?

2020-04-14 Thread Tom Marchant
oject, the Linux operating system would be largely useless. By the way, both GNU and the Linux kernel are free software, licensed under the GNU General Purpose License (GPL). The GPL was created to ensure that the GNU operating system would remain unencumbered by propri

Re: ESPIE question (does ESPIE "cover" ATTACH'd sub-tasks)

2020-04-03 Thread Tom Marchant
on List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >Behalf Of Tom Marchant >Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 8:10 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: ESPIE question (does ESPIE "cover" ATTACH'd sub-tasks) > >The data presented shows that FRR is a lot better than ESTAE(X). &g

Re: ESPIE question (does ESPIE "cover" ATTACH'd sub-tasks)

2020-04-03 Thread Tom Marchant
The data presented shows that FRR is a lot better than ESTAE(X). Perhaps you overlooked the number of iterations. -- Tom Marchant On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 10:23:33 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: >Interesting numbers. > >But I looked at the current doc and it still appears to be problem s

Re: PARM= vs PARMDD= and symbol substitution

2020-04-01 Thread Tom Marchant
different record length. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: PARM= vs PARMDD= and symbol substitution

2020-04-01 Thread Tom Marchant
ibm/360/os/R21.7_Apr73/GC28-6704-3_JCL_Reference_Rel_21.7_Apr73.pdf Also see numerous references to variable length in the ISAM Logic Manual for OS/360 release 21 http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/os/isam/GY28-6618-5_OS_ISAM_Logic_Rel_21_Feb72.pdf -- Tom March

Re: 64-bit application dump analysis [was: RE: Problems with ESTAEX invoked in AMODE 64 . . . ]

2020-03-26 Thread Tom Marchant
rinted, and IIRC rarely exceeded 200 pages. Yesterday, I saw a SYSUDUMP that was over 3700 pages. Trying to make sense of that is a chore even with a 99 line display and multiple split screens. It is much easier to process a SYSMDUMP with IPCS. -- Tom Ma

Re: SMPE BYPASS(HOLDSYS,HOLDERR)

2020-03-09 Thread Tom Marchant
EIVE only requires that the FMID be in the Global zone. If the resolving PTF was available, you should have been able to APPLY the FMID and the PTF at the same time. It isn't unusual for an ERROR hold to be placed on an FMID. If there is no resolving PTF, BYPASS HOLDERR would be necessary.

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-04 Thread Tom Marchant
h, are PDS or PDSE: PDSE to PDSE PDSE to PDS PDS to PDSE PDS to PDS -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Migrated Data Set Recall Messages

2020-02-19 Thread Tom Marchant
TO RECALL MIGRATED DATA SET - DSNAME=dsname and IEFC039I ATTEMPT TO RECALL MIGRATED DATA SET WAS SUCCESSFUL IEFC037I is specifically for JCLLIB. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: SMPE BYPASS(HOLDSYS,HOLDERR)

2020-02-18 Thread Tom Marchant
num)). And first run APPLY CHECK and examine the output very carefully to ensure that you are not installing any error PTFs beyond the one that you need. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: Backward compat--how far?

2020-02-12 Thread Tom Marchant
2. Read Direct and Write Direct were also removed at about the same time. There may be a few other instructions that have been removed, but IIRC they are all privileged instructions. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: IBM AOAR O44855

2020-01-20 Thread Tom Marchant
incorrect the system responds with | message Userid or Password not authorized and terminates. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Talking to 3270 terminals?

2020-01-15 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:48:26 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >or, perhaps more specific to the OP's question, >http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/ Oops. I meant http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/3270/ -- Tom Ma

Re: Talking to 3270 terminals?

2020-01-15 Thread Tom Marchant
ttp://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/370/ or, perhaps more specific to the OP's question, http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/ -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

Re: Migrating to new compiler release

2020-01-14 Thread Tom Marchant
ode generated by 6.2. The ability to generate AMODE 64 code makes the compilers very different, even if that ability is not used for a given compile. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: SMPE UPGRADE Command

2020-01-13 Thread Tom Marchant
the TZONE entry for the new zone. I'd be curious what the UPGLEVEL is in the TZONE entry for your target zone. For a real answer, I suppose we'll need to hear from Kurt. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept

2020-01-13 Thread Tom Marchant
be spread across multiple DASD subsystems? It is not clear to me that this kind of architectural change would be an improvement, especially for data sets that can be accessed randomly. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: Job Posting

2020-01-10 Thread Tom Marchant
And they can laugh at us for all the free advertising that we give them. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 13:04:21 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>Don Poitras wrote: >> >>The Vista TN3270 emulator can copy a screen (or part of a screen) as text. >> >Is that Vista's or Windows support? Vista. IMO, it has very powerful copy and paste capa

Re: Enterprise COBOL 6.3 and IBM Programmer Tools

2020-01-02 Thread Tom Marchant
cannot call them from 31-bit Cobol, so you need to maintain two versions. -- Tom Marchant On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 07:39:48 +, Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) wrote: >If I read the Manual correctly, only Batch is 64-bit supported. CICS is not >64-bit supported. >I have many DB2 programs

Re: Misuse of the word hexadecimnal (Was RE: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...)

2019-12-04 Thread Tom Marchant
a TN print train", for example, that is only a subset of the 256 possible values in a byte. The point of using a term like "any hexadecimal character" is to indicate that all 256 possible values in the byte are acceptable. It could just as well be "a byte with any hexadecimal v

Re: SMS primary allocation

2019-11-21 Thread Tom Marchant
on can be satisfied by up to five extents. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: AUTHPGM in IKJTSOxx

2019-11-19 Thread Tom Marchant
aeter list is shorthand for "R1 contains a pointer to the parameter list". -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: AUTHPGM in IKJTSOxx

2019-11-18 Thread Tom Marchant
to an AMODE 64 program? https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieaa600/parmpm.htm -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@

Sort in a multitasking address space

2019-11-12 Thread Tom Marchant
could be using any of the available sort products. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Gerhard Postpischil ז״ל

2019-11-11 Thread Tom Marchant
his posts on this list, but I found him to be knowledgeable and helpful. Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: MIPS chart for all IBM hardware model

2019-11-07 Thread Tom Marchant
-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/lsprindex -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Zfs from 1 LPAR to another

2019-11-07 Thread Tom Marchant
. > >-- >Bruce A. Black >Senior Software Developer for FDR -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: RUCSA

2019-11-06 Thread Tom Marchant
any software that requires the setting of this parameter to YES, the software will need to be changed to no longer require the setting of this parameter to YES or the optional priced RUCSA feature will be required. --

Re: How display level of paging?

2019-11-05 Thread Tom Marchant
space. I'll close with this observation. A z15 processor can have a maximum of 40 TB of customer storage. The maximum amount of SCM is 6 TB. You want to configure your paging subsystem so that paging to DASD is rare, and almost all paging is to SCM, because SCM is so much faster.

Re: How display level of paging?

2019-11-04 Thread Tom Marchant
robability that the system will be able to find full tracks to page out to. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Best way for a task to give up the CPU and let other tasks run?

2019-10-30 Thread Tom Marchant
s than four times and considerable speculation. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-24 Thread Tom Marchant
lation about it. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Tom Marchant
accomplished with DYNALLOC aliasing. I'd >welcome an enlightening example. Really? Perhaps I'm being dense, but I don't see how that helps in a batch environment. And I don't see how something like DDNAME= would help that in a TSO environment. -- Tom Marchant -

Re: Best way for a task to give up the CPU and let other tasks run?

2019-10-23 Thread Tom Marchant
he OP has yet to give any indication of why he wants to do this, despite being asked repeatedly, and considerable speculation. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Is there a TSO equivalent to JCL DDNAME=?

2019-10-23 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 13:54:13 +0300, ITschak Mugzach wrote: >Jcl allows "routing" on DD name to another using DDNAME= opeerand. is there >an equivalent in tso? I remember TSO PIPE, but this was not a standard TSO >command (CBTTAPE maybe). What problem are you trying to solve

Re: PDS to PDSE conversion issues

2019-10-23 Thread Tom Marchant
I have another dumb question. How is it that PSF can tolerate having its PDS data sets moved while it is running? -- Tom Marchant On Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:29:24 +, Jousma, David wrote: >David, I guess I might have a dumb question, but if the datasets that PSF was >using wer

Re: Best way for a task to give up the CPU and let other tasks run?

2019-10-17 Thread Tom Marchant
ssue STIMER WAIT when it detects that it has nothing to do. If, OTOH, it waits for an ECB to be posted, or an I/O to complete, or any of a number of other things, it is already relinquishing control. -- Tom Marchant -- For I

Re: Power failure

2019-10-17 Thread Tom Marchant
plemented. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: STGADMIN.DPDSRN Confusion

2019-10-16 Thread Tom Marchant
than the data set that is in use. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.idas300/rname.htm "Do not use this option unless you know the data set is not open on any system." -- Tom Marchant -

Re: Power failure

2019-10-16 Thread Tom Marchant
. >Does IBM receives more detailed message ? Have you asked IBM? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Seeking doc on TSOENTER and TSOLEAVE macros

2019-10-15 Thread Tom Marchant
ther name in our z/OS system. What CBT tape file(s) did you find them in? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SMF exit IEFU086 work area size

2019-10-11 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:30:42 -0500, John McKown wrote: >OK, I'll remember that. "That which is not specifically allowed is >forbidden." More like "That which is not documented as working in a particular way cannot be assumed to work in that way, even if testing seems to show that it works that

Re: PDS Member updating via COBOL Program

2019-10-08 Thread Tom Marchant
R. This parmlib is >used heavily and extensively by applications, and no way to get it DISP=OLD. >Any thoughts or explanation would truly be appreciated. Your ENQ on DSNAME+member will not help you when the two jobs are updating a different member. -- Tom Marchant ---

Re: SMPe CSI maintenance levels

2019-10-07 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 08:25:20 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >An easy way is to create unique HLQs for Global, TLIB and DLIB datasets. If >you use one HLQ for everything it might get confusing. I think you mean target data set. TLIB means something different. -- Tom Ma

Re: SMPe CSI maintenance levels

2019-10-07 Thread Tom Marchant
ne so you don't lose what you have done, then restore your original target and distribution zone from a backup. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@

Re: Phoenix Software International Announces IBM(R) JES3 Licensing Agreement

2019-10-04 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 17:31:06 +, Jousma, David wrote: >Does every JES3 shop that wants to remain have to re-buy (I'm guessing yes)? >Otherwise how's the money going to be made? Buy? Is a one-time charge an option these days? -- Tom Ma

Re: Phoenix Software International Announces IBM® JES3 Licensing Agreement

2019-10-03 Thread Tom Marchant
Nice. Congratulations, Ed. -- Tom Marchant On Wed, 2 Oct 2019 14:36:51 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >El Segundo, CA—October 2, 2019: Phoenix Software International, Inc., >today announced they have entered into an agreement with IBM® under >which Phoenix Software International has

Re: Tracing RACF?

2019-09-27 Thread Tom Marchant
ess to the user catalog for the data sets. However, for a RACF-protected master catalog, you also need UPDATE-access authority to add or delete an SMS-managed data set entry. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Xpediter: Same Debugger from Competing Vendors???

2019-09-26 Thread Tom Marchant
-AID and similar products are another story. Tom Marchant Abend-AID development Compuware -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Softcopy Librarian and V2R3

2019-09-25 Thread Tom Marchant
ger. The bookshelf files are not like directories that contain the PDF files. Rather, they are XML files containing information about the bookshelf and the books associated with it. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

Re: Description of the format of a SYSUDUMP

2019-09-18 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:03:38 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:36:14 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > >>I guess I'm asking "what is the chunk of memory described in 'SAME AS >>ABOVE'" ? > >One line. 32 bytes. > >It is simply tellin

Re: Description of the format of a SYSUDUMP

2019-09-18 Thread Tom Marchant
mes obvious when you see a separate data area that shows one line of data then several lines "same as above". -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email t

Re: I see a need for general conversion of mappings was Re: C headers in z/OS 2.4

2019-09-18 Thread Tom Marchant
as someone who has used >COBOL to get program and data set usage from SMF data. What if you could get the compilers to be able to process the Assembler DSECTs? Would that be a better approach? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN su

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