Re: JES2 can't find customised start-up parameters

2016-08-03 Thread Tom Marchant
umentation in JES2 where the member is coming from. OTOH, that means that you do not use the system PARMLIB concatenation for your JES2 parameters. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instru

Re: Step-name not displayed correctly (z/os 2.2)

2016-08-02 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 3 Aug 2016 00:02:28 +0300, Itschak Mugzach <imugz...@gmail.com> wrote: >Yes. But this is a defalt exit we use on ower zpdt box. Almost 100% vanila. Does the exit by any chance reference SWA control blocks without using SWAREQ? Just a wild guess... -- Tom

Re: Step-name not displayed correctly (z/os 2.2)

2016-08-02 Thread Tom Marchant
corrupted? Is this the message from your IEFACTRT exit? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SMP/E query resolver?

2016-08-02 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 22:14:42 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >IR46970 That's pretty old. PTF released in 2001, with a correcting PTF in 2002. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: SMP/E query resolver?

2016-08-01 Thread Tom Marchant
e the prior >attempt. That is no longer true. The fix might supersede the previous but >it might just PRE-req the previous. Agreed. If an APAR fix needed a second APAR fix to correct the problem, the second can PRE or SUP the first. -- Tom Marchant --

Re: SMP/E query resolver?

2016-07-31 Thread Tom Marchant
On Sat, 30 Jul 2016 15:32:41 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 23:28:27 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >>When an APAR fix is created for the APAR problem description, it starts with >>"A". If a >>second APAR fix is created, perhaps f

Re: SMP/E query resolver?

2016-07-29 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 18:16:50 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 16:22:08 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >>>SMP/E for z/OS Commands >>>The ACCEPT command >>>o The SYSMOD named as the reason ID for the exception ... >>>

Re: SMP/E query resolver?

2016-07-29 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:16:17 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote: >On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:21:26 -0500, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> >wrote: >>>> >>>Is this true even if RRR is an APAR ID rather than a SYSMOD ID? (I >&g

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

2016-07-29 Thread Tom Marchant
rap. So it's not that SLIP was excluded, it never saw the S0Cx abend. In fact, the Program Interruption was never converted to a S0Cx abend. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send e

Re: SMP/E query resolver?

2016-07-29 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 12:03:24 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 08:57:50 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >>If a superseding PTF was applied, you can go into SMP 3.2 and query SYSMOD >>RRR. You will find that it has a status of SUP in your target and/or

Re: SMP/E query resolver?

2016-07-29 Thread Tom Marchant
at matter, I suppose that the resolving PTF could have been applied earlier, and the error PTF applied later with BYPASS(ERROR PRE). If you want to verify that things were done correctly, SMPLOG is your friend. -- Tom Marchant -- Fo

Re: SMP/E packaging question

2016-07-28 Thread Tom Marchant
e, the JCLIN that you provide to SMP/E for this LMOD will not cause the second link outside of SMP/E to have the alias. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Initiator - Identify the List of Jobs

2016-07-27 Thread Tom Marchant
ample, initiator 16? 2. Class B initiator? 3. A particular iteration of one of the above? That is, an initiator from the time it was started until it stopped. 4. Something else? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: SMP/E packaging question

2016-07-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 13:51:28 -0500, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> wrote: >On Mon, 25 Jul 2016 18:36:13 +, Way, Richard wrote: > >>I should have mentioned that we have customers run a separate link job anyway >>after the RECEIVE/APPLY/ACCEPT. > >Wh

Re: SMP/E packaging question

2016-07-25 Thread Tom Marchant
) >++JCLIN RELFILE(1) Why do you want to package your PTF in RELFILE format? There are examples of how to package a PTF with JCLIN in the SMP/E Reference under JCLIN. Have you looked at them? -- Tom Marchant -- F

Re: System symbols in batch JCL

2016-07-22 Thread Tom Marchant
JOB card: In a JES2 system, the default is based on the source of the job: The system makes the job's class the same as the installation-specified default class for the particular card reader, work station, or time-sharing user that submitted the job. -- Tom

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

2016-07-22 Thread Tom Marchant
request for more data, but at least we would have had a place to start. You've shown the PSW. You haven't shown the data at and before the PSW. Do you have the ILC? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

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

2016-07-22 Thread Tom Marchant
r chance that someone will be able to see something that you didn't. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: System symbols in batch JCL

2016-07-22 Thread Tom Marchant
n. Or use the Locate command: L SysSym I suspect (E)JES has similar support, but don't know how to access it. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listse

Re: SHARE Webcast: SHARE Academy and New to z Systems

2016-07-21 Thread Tom Marchant
0001011, and 0001110 through 011 binary are reserved for possible future assignments. Codes 100 through 111 binary are available for use by programming. Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: SHARE Webcast: SHARE Academy and New to z Systems

2016-07-20 Thread Tom Marchant
rather moot at this point. The format of the linkage stack is well documented in the Principles of Operation. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lis

Re: Bsam VS Qsam for VB records

2016-07-19 Thread Tom Marchant
ly written to (MOD) by a program that specified a different blocksize, the DSCB would have been updated to reflect the more recent blocksize, which may not be enough to read existing blocks on the data set. This is largely guesswork and supposition, based upon minimal information provided

Re: Bsam VS Qsam for VB records

2016-07-19 Thread Tom Marchant
the BDWs on disk are wrong, and can be corrected. Didn't Joe say that all I/O to the file has been using QSAM? If that is true, the BDW is the length of the block and to change it will likely cause errors. -- Tom Marchant -

Re: DFsort and zIIP

2016-07-19 Thread Tom Marchant
st that SyncSort's perfocmance is suffering from using zIIPs (simplified >and exagerated, I know). I understood "there is a low offload potential and the value to clients may be marginal" as meaning that there would not be much benefit in using zIIP. Not that it would be worse. -- Tom Mar

Re: Any Gotchas going from V1.13 to V2.2

2016-07-18 Thread Tom Marchant
icoded instructions that somehow are dispatched on another processor. That seems quite unlikely to me. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.

Re: Error in a simple COBOL program

2016-07-15 Thread Tom Marchant
formation to enable us to duplicate his job. All we can do is guess. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Any Gotchas going from V1.13 to V2.2

2016-07-15 Thread Tom Marchant
d. > >Would it make sense to make it a kneecapped 2 way with a zIIP? Are >there areas where this would improve performance? Are you assuming that in order to get a zIIP he'd have to give up a CP? That isn't the case. There are available

Re: Already logged on message - Wrong System ID

2016-07-14 Thread Tom Marchant
already logged on to LPAR1.. Does it really say LPAR1? Or does the it just say that you are already logged on the the current LPAR? >This gets resolved after My ID is cancelled from LPAR 2. If your session was really cancelled on LPAR2, you were logged on to LPAR2

Re: 64-bit XPLINK LE assembler program initialisation error U4093 reason X'218' (536)

2016-07-13 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 10:54:05 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Tom Marchant < >000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >> Or COBOL. Or PL/I. (I think) >> > >​There's a 64 bit XPLINK COBOL compiler now? Sorry about th

Re: 64-bit XPLINK LE assembler program initialisation error U4093 reason X'218' (536)

2016-07-13 Thread Tom Marchant
does >all the real work.​ Or COBOL. Or PL/I. (I think) Why do you want to be XPLINK-64? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Error in a simple COBOL program

2016-07-13 Thread Tom Marchant
ains X'E3', the remaining bits of the opcode are in bits 40-47. > -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Error in a simple COBOL program

2016-07-12 Thread Tom Marchant
n on Program Interruptions. These are detected by the processor as instructions are executed. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the messa

Re: Error in a simple COBOL program

2016-07-12 Thread Tom Marchant
Ned, or >WRITE (a record to) a file which has not been successfully OPENed. > >There will be no S0C1. That depends on your LE options. IIRC, if you have TRAP(OFF), you will get the S0C1 >On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 14:59:20 UTC+2, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >> Yes. The addr

Re: Error in a simple COBOL program

2016-07-12 Thread Tom Marchant
e address of the GET or PUT routine has not been filled in. as a result, that location contains zero. Branch to location zero causes a S0C1. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: Simple assembler question

2016-06-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:23:18 -0500, Andre Schoeman wrote: >SLLGR0,R3,32 /* Shift bits 0-31 in R3 to bits 32-63 in R0 */ I think you mean SRLG. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: Simple assembler question

2016-06-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 22:27:37 +, Hardee, Chuck wrote: > LR R15,R3 Copy low 32-bits to R15 > SRLGR0,R3,32Copy upper 32-bits to R0 > >You may want to add an SR or XR for register 0 and 15 prior to the above two >instructions if you want to make sure

Re: AW: Re: TIOT exceeded

2016-06-23 Thread Tom Marchant
ch GDG. You could do it another way, for example with IDCAMS. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: TIOT exceeded

2016-06-21 Thread Tom Marchant
udy the TIOT map in the Data Areas manual. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Highest address "below the bar

2016-06-20 Thread Tom Marchant
resulting size of the region above 16 megabytes depends on system options and what system software is installed. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu w

Re: Where is format of Job ID documented?

2016-06-17 Thread Tom Marchant
signs Job ID differently from JES2. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Cringely article about more IBM rumors

2016-06-16 Thread Tom Marchant
to run 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: LINK and high order word of R1

2016-06-13 Thread Tom Marchant
0-31) of GPRs 2 through 14 are unchanged It seems to me that the low half of 14 should be unchanged as well, but that's not what the book says. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instru

Re: LINK and high order word of R1

2016-06-13 Thread Tom Marchant
Floating Point Control (FPC) Register is unchanged with the exception of two fields: the IEEE exception flags and the data exception code (DXC). o When return information is provided in GPR 0, 1, and/or 15 (for example return and reason codes), only bits 32-63 of the register contain th

Re: IEAMSCHD and SRB entry questions

2016-06-13 Thread Tom Marchant
n the case of the GPRs) bits 32-63 is zero. As Ed pointed out, this is a DIAG trap that is intended to help you to find errors in your code where you assume that the high halves are zero when they may not be. -- Tom Marchant. -

Re: Survery PDSE MAXGENS_LIMIT

2016-06-07 Thread Tom Marchant
An old generation will fall off the end if the limit had been reached. In ISPF you can override this behavior with SAVE NOGEN. I assume that there is a way for a batch job to do the same, but I don't know how. -- Tom Marchant -- F

Re: Determine the PDS a job was submitted from?

2016-06-07 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 6 Jun 2016 16:08:30 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >a programmer might >have typed JCL from scratch in an editor then SUBMIT on the command >line. I sometimes do that from within SDSF using line command SJ. And I frequently resubmit a job the same way. -- Tom

Re: Survery PDSE MAXGENS_LIMIT

2016-06-06 Thread Tom Marchant
tion. If you open a prior generation and save it without NOGEN, a new generation is created that becomes the most current. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

Re: Survery PDSE MAXGENS_LIMIT

2016-06-06 Thread Tom Marchant
often use SAVE NOGEN when saving a member to make it easier to manage. And I always have AUTOSAVE OFF in my profiles. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Not able to delete DSN

2016-05-27 Thread Tom Marchant
s on DASD, you can use DELETE NVR. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: RFE's to consider

2016-05-26 Thread Tom Marchant
. Then I could use MD and D line commands to selectively undo the changes, and possibly SAVE NOGEN. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SMP/E Feature?

2016-05-13 Thread Tom Marchant
any incidents of OOPS I didn’t mean to do >that. Really? Can you give examples? I've never had a problem caused by the fact that I use DDDEFs. >Also with DDEFS there can be too many fingers in the pie and that leads to >oops. Why? When I create a zone, I define the DDDEFs, then leav

Re: LIBRARIAN to PDS

2016-05-11 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 11 May 2016 13:16:51 +, Brenton, Ren wrote: >2) It does not update the PDS stats. ITYM ISPF stats. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to li

Re: CSA Shrank in DR

2016-05-06 Thread Tom Marchant
than what you have specified in IEASYSxx This is described in detail in the Init and Tuning Reference. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: How expensive is AMODE switching?

2016-05-04 Thread Tom Marchant
at language? If LE, the environment switching might also be expensive. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SRB dispatching question

2016-05-03 Thread Tom Marchant
RB # 1 pauses, SRB #2 can be dispatched on the same processor. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: An explanation for branch performance?

2016-04-30 Thread Tom Marchant
Stream. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: OA49446 on RSU1603 - RACF / DFSMS change

2016-04-29 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:21:12 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >The old way, which surprises me a little, DEFINE ALIAS required access to the >data set to which the alias is related, but not to the alias name being >defined. Sorry, this part seems to be incorrect. The old way didn't re

Re: OA49446 on RSU1603 - RACF / DFSMS change

2016-04-29 Thread Tom Marchant
entry name (the PATH or AIX name). This is NOT a RACF PTF. It is a PTF to HDZ2220, DFSMS. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

2016-04-28 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 28 Apr 2016 19:57:32 +, Tracy Adams wrote: >The importance (priority) of DB2 is set 2 Importance is NOT priority. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

Re: Alter access to datasets

2016-04-28 Thread Tom Marchant
. What data sets? >Has anyone else been experiencing this? Hard to say without some specific examples of the data sets you mean. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: WLM issue with a proposed solution

2016-04-28 Thread Tom Marchant
ot;old automation" determine that there is a problem? When one of these long running transactions are canceled, do you know what was going on in them? Are they just unusual transactions that take a long time, or are they in a loop or something? I wonder if the real problem is that thi

Re: OA49446 on RSU1603 - RACF / DFSMS change

2016-04-28 Thread Tom Marchant
SET. FRED and TOM are both cataloged in the same user catalog. Now the change in behavior gives me full access to FRED.DATA.SET through because I own TOM. -- Tom Marchant > >On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Paul Gilmartin ><000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote

Re: mixed AMODE with HLL | 64-bit to 31-bit

2016-04-27 Thread Tom Marchant
her something really easy but not widely >known or it's just not possible. Which is it? Thanks. The book you need is the LE Vendor Interfaces manual. I found that it makes the POO seem like light reading. -- Tom Marchant -- For IB

Re: Respack Volume Size Challenge

2016-04-24 Thread Tom Marchant
or an IPL volume. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SMP/E question

2016-04-23 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 22 Apr 2016 15:41:23 -0700, retired mainframer wrote: >Since you should restore before reject... Really? That's news to me. AFAIK it makes no difference. Why do you say that? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

Re: New to RACF

2016-04-22 Thread Tom Marchant
',COUNT or 'The meeting was attended by %d men' -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Setting up z/OSMF under 2.1

2016-04-21 Thread Tom Marchant
irst time. It seems to correctly disassemble instructions that were introduced on the z13. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Java on z bitness

2016-04-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 21:06:21 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >Tom Marchant wrote: > >>Why not make your STC run AMODE 64, at least part of the time? > >Yeah, that's an option, but it's a lot more work and has other possible >impacts It's not that hard. STMG R2,R15,

Re: Dataset Move Query

2016-04-20 Thread Tom Marchant
LIB, you could call it SYS1.PRODUCT.V2.LINKLIB with a data set alias of SYS1.PRODUCT.PROD.LINKLIB. It would be cataloged with SYMBOLICRELATE to SYS1.PRODUCT. would be a system symbol defined by you to be equal to V2. The entry in PROGxx would r

Re: Java on z bitness

2016-04-19 Thread Tom Marchant
t!)? Why not make your STC run AMODE 64, at least part of the time? It is easy to switch modes, but you do have to be careful that those programs that run AMODE 64 save and restore the 64-bit registers. The same with your JNI.

Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-14 Thread Tom Marchant
set their subscription to NOMAIL and access the posts on the web. For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-M

Re: Automatic Binary Optimizer (ABO)

2016-04-12 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 22:20:16 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >you still have to test all of your existing >applications so you might as well re-compile them. Except that recompiling with a different version of the compiler isn't necessarily trivial. -- Tom Ma

Re: How force dataset non-SMS?

2016-04-06 Thread Tom Marchant
until B37. SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)),UNIT=(SYSALLDA,5) And if you make it RECFM=F,LRECL=80, you can fill it up faster. I think you'll get 78 records per track. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instru

Re: Advice needed - GRS across 2 sysplexes with shared dasd

2016-04-05 Thread Tom Marchant
l have to combine them into one. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Advice needed - GRS across 2 sysplexes with shared dasd

2016-04-05 Thread Tom Marchant
he >PDSE protection you need. Maybe, but only for PDSESHARING(NORMAL). PDSESHARING(EXTENDED) requires XCF as well as GRS connectivity. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

Re: Why sort (was Microprocessor Optimization Primer)

2016-04-04 Thread Tom Marchant
record to read next, and so to read the records in an order that is logically sequential, but physically random? If so, that is not at all like reading the records sequentially. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / a

Re: RLSE does not work with PGM=FTP

2016-04-03 Thread Tom Marchant
ment that has RLSE specified. Likewise, FTP isn't using the INFILE DD statement. This is only a guess, based upon my understanding of how RLSE works. I could be wrong. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: Advice needed - GRS across 2 sysplexes with shared dasd

2016-04-01 Thread Tom Marchant
cess is one way and the other is to let the system >manage the access. GRS will not help you. PDSE sharing is managed by XCF. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists.

Re: COBOL 5.2 Programs too large to compile?

2016-04-01 Thread Tom Marchant
obol program you probably make quite a few non-XPLINK calls. For example, GET and PUT routines. > >Scott > >On Thursday, March 31, 2016, Tom Marchant < >000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >> On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 22:17:40 -0400, Don Poitra

Re: COBOL 5.2 Programs too large to compile?

2016-03-31 Thread Tom Marchant
rograms, including generated ones. > >If so, they didn't make it obvious in the announcement. I don't see >anything about 64-bit. I think Bill means that the compiler runs AMODE(64), not that it can generate AMODE(64) programs. -- Tom Marchant -

Re: Custom LE runtime parms for an entire batch job

2016-03-31 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 10:09:28 -0500, Peter Ten Eyck wrote: >Hmm, that's I what I thought. Does not seem to be picking up my LE changes? Do you have a STEPLIB? MVS will use JOBLIB or STEPLIB, not both. -- Tom March

Re: Linux

2016-03-28 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 10:35:44 -0400, Rick Troth <tro...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 03/26/16 14:45, Tom Marchant wrote: >> First of all, it is GNU/Linux. >> That is, it is the GNU operating system with a Linux kernel. >> See http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html >&

Re: opinion? writing z/OS FOSS code which requires z/OS 2.1 +

2016-03-28 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:38:10 -0500, Tom Marchant <m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com> wrote: >On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 09:25:03 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >>It will be >>developed, probably slowly, on a friend's z/OS 2.2 system. The application >>will use facilities which on

Re: opinion? writing z/OS FOSS code which requires z/OS 2.1 +

2016-03-28 Thread Tom Marchant
of people here. Maybe, but z/OS 1.13 goes off support at the end of June. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Religion provides statistical proof of the Creation of our civilization. This is .. really ... the Apocalypse. Today, see Eden and Exodus in superposition.

2016-03-28 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016 11:02:04 +, Martin Packer wrote: >My mail rules are delivering this guy's mail to junk. Please don't feed the troll. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructi

Re: Linux

2016-03-26 Thread Tom Marchant
tional software. Your selection of languages may be limited more by what is available on MVS, since that seems to be the eventual target of your development. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instru

Re: Linux

2016-03-26 Thread Tom Marchant
ed on whichever root I boot. In Linux, /home is the equivalent of /u on z/OS Unix. I also like to create a /service directory where I can mount my other root partitions. It's something that I learned from working with z/OS Unix. -- Tom Marchant --

Re: Knowledge Center (again; was: SMP/E Accept ...)

2016-03-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 15:07:58 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >(for example) On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:27:31 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >>... And in 5.18: ... >> >I'm looking at the Commands manual in: > > http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/api

Re: SMP/E Accept - LINK-EDIT defaults

2016-03-23 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:25:58 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 23 Mar 2016 07:08:52 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >>I believe you can specify LEPARM(STD). Not sure if that will eliminate the >>message. >> >I don't see STD (or STANDARD) in: >SA23-2276-

Re: SMP/E Accept - LINK-EDIT defaults

2016-03-23 Thread Tom Marchant
Not sure if that will eliminate the message. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: CeBIT and mainframes

2016-03-21 Thread Tom Marchant
0m0.199s I have two questions. 1. What do the above figures mean? 2. What happens on z/OS when you put a heavy load on 320 channels all at once? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access inst

Re: Friday, but not funny at all...

2016-03-20 Thread Tom Marchant
" Or .odt, the ODF text document format. Even Microsoft can process it, but so can everyone else. Microsoft managed to ram through the OOXML standard, but it is inferior to the ODF standard, which predates it by several years. I wonder if the request comes from

Re: CeBIT and mainframes

2016-03-19 Thread Tom Marchant
can provide emulation for all of the things that real systems do, including serialization of accesses. And ssuming that they can lash together enough commodity x86 systems to perform significant real work. I'm skeptical of all that but assuming all that, where are they going to get the I/O bandw

Re: Raised Floor

2016-03-15 Thread Tom Marchant
n on one of those floors. Of course, local codes may vary. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SMF41 VLF info and ALERTAGE

2016-03-15 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:16:21 +, Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: >I meant, VLF knows the current youngest age and makes it available to >the HC routine at each HC interva... ITYM "VLF knows the current youngest age and uses it in *its* health check".

Re: SMF41 VLF info and ALERTAGE

2016-03-15 Thread Tom Marchant
ll you. With a health check message. >I already opened a PMR for adding the info to SMF 41-3. Good luck with that. Maybe they'll convert it to an RFE. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructi

Re: Cannot allocate Steplib?

2016-03-13 Thread Tom Marchant
allocate some other DDNAME, open a DCB and pass that DCB to LOAD. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Civic and CVCC (was Re: Alleged mainframe breach...)

2016-03-12 Thread Tom Marchant
me "Civic" derived from "CVCC" strikes me as revisionist history. And the notion that it could have been called CiViCC is just plain silly. companies don't pre-announce new technology in that way. If either of you have evidence that the name Civic" wa

Re: Cannot allocate Steplib?

2016-03-12 Thread Tom Marchant
ough a listcat, pick out the steplibs, and put mine in front. And then >when I went >somewhere else and lost the scripts had to write another one, only to find out >later >someone else had also. Maybe you had a Dynami

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

2016-03-11 Thread Tom Marchant
x 2160 should allow for a very nice 99 x 160 display, even considerably less than full screen. That is, if my video card can handle it. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

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