Re: CBT File 120 - A new article - Member BM1912DE

2019-12-22 Thread Tony Thigpen
Any way you could just put a copy in a post to this list? Tony Thigpen Sam Golob wrote on 12/22/19 2:36 PM: Hi Folks,     I've just completed a new article which you might find interesting to read.  It is on the Updates page of www.cbttape.org on File 120, as member BM1912DE

Re: Looking for some large COBOL program examples

2019-12-12 Thread Tony Thigpen
. This is a vendor product where the vendor died many years ago and nobody took over the product. My customer has had me modify the source to both compile under and create output code that is compatible with z/VSE Cobol/LE and CICS/TS. If you want to try it, just let me know. Tony Thigpen Charles Mills

Re: [External] Help with CA-ENF error message

2019-12-10 Thread Tony Thigpen
) Vers(V1.1) Genlvl(2201W4110) CAS9075I - Service(CA-ENF/DB2 ) Vers(V1.0) Genlvl(2201W5100) More from the log: CAS9217I - ENF DB initialization starting CAS9218I - ENF DB initialization complete CAS9207E - CA-ENF Database Error 1600 CAS9203E - CA-ENF Initialization error - terminating Tony Thigpen

Help with CA-ENF error message

2019-12-10 Thread Tony Thigpen
of on a DR box. It may just be because the data was backed-up with CA-ENF up, but I have not seen this one before. -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Looking for a utility to create a master listing of all PDS members on a system

2019-12-10 Thread Tony Thigpen
is stored. I want, as a one time job, to create a listing with a single line per member/PDS set: Member_name PDS_name I figure there is something already available before I start writing something new. This system does *not* have any PDSE libraries as it is OS/390 02.10. -- Tony Thigpen

Re: what is DSSUMON?

2019-12-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
HISTORY: DATELPAR VERSION INSTALLER TASK 05/30/04 DCUF 3.1.9 BPIP 664964 05/30/04 DCU0 3.1.9 BPIP 666222 Tony Thigpen Mark Jacobs wrote on 12/9/19 4:37 PM: Browse the load module and see if there are any eye catchers/copyright notices in it. Mark

what is DSSUMON?

2019-12-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
I have an auto-started initiator running DSSUMON and I don't know what it is doing. Anybody know what this program does? I think it's a vendor program that we don't license anymore. The messages don't supply any vendor name. -- Tony Thigpen

Re: Transfering files from z/OS to VSE

2019-12-04 Thread Tony Thigpen
ed at both ends, just at the end that is not starting the FTP transfer.) Tony Thigpen Gadi Ben-Avi wrote on 12/4/19 8:54 AM: The systems are not connected in any way. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edgington, Jerry Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 20

Re: Transfering files from z/OS to VSE

2019-12-04 Thread Tony Thigpen
. And, those differ on the z/VSE site depending on which TCP/IP product you have there. Tony Thigpen Gadi Ben-Avi wrote on 12/4/19 8:16 AM: Hi, We need to transfer files from z/OS to VSE. The files are large, variable and have long record lengths. The files will be transferred using open systems

Re: Alternative for VTL ?

2019-10-15 Thread Tony Thigpen
already issues wither using a tape manager (we use RMM) or even in a DR situation with no tape manager and just a minimum system. The web interface to the unit, which is seldom needed, is simple and easy for the operator. I switched from Secure Agent and am very glad that I did. Tony Thigpen

Re: MPF Exit calling System REXX - S0C4 abend

2019-09-05 Thread Tony Thigpen
A copy of the assembler listing might be helpful. Tony Thigpen Sebastian Welton wrote on 9/5/19 5:39 AM: A colleague of mine has been developing an MPF exit which calls System REXX but this seems to have thrown up a weird type of error. The program compiles fine, is placed in LNKLST, MPFLST

Re: IBM "opens" OpenPower ISA

2019-08-22 Thread Tony Thigpen
Yes, is the very short answer. Tony Thigpen Raphael Jacquot wrote on 8/22/19 8:18 AM: On 8/22/19 2:07 PM, John McKown wrote: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/08/20/ibm_openpower_isa/ Basically, from what I read, this means that other companies can produce competing chips which implement

Re: Email report from jcl

2019-08-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
he closing boundary should be: --SIMPLE BOUNDARY-- The rules: The boundary setting does not have dashes. The opening boundary has two leading dashes. The closing boundary has two leading dashes and two trailing dashes. Tony Thigpen Roberto Halais wrote on 8/9/19 3:36 PM: You must finish with:

Re: Looking for a rexx that...

2019-07-30 Thread Tony Thigpen
David, Go it running. Now I need to play with the control card options. Thanks. Tony Thigpen Tony Thigpen wrote on 7/30/19 9:47 AM: David, Thanks. I now have CBT 112 installed and linked. I can't find an example of the correct batch JCL to execute the command within the file. Do you have

Re: Looking for a rexx that...

2019-07-30 Thread Tony Thigpen
David, Thanks. I now have CBT 112 installed and linked. I can't find an example of the correct batch JCL to execute the command within the file. Do you have some JCL you can share? Tony Thigpen David Spiegel wrote on 7/30/19 8:01 AM: Hi Tony, Please look at the VTOC Command Processor

Re: Looking for a rexx that...

2019-07-30 Thread Tony Thigpen
No. Tony Thigpen PINION, RICHARD W. wrote on 7/30/19 8:39 AM: Do you have any third part DASD reporting software, i.e. FDREPORT? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2019 7:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

Looking for a rexx that...

2019-07-30 Thread Tony Thigpen
s may have already written, so before I started from scratch, I figured I would ask here. -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Strange error on DR test

2019-07-12 Thread Tony Thigpen
ut sysplex is turned on (from an earlier time when they had multiple systems). It looks like all the dasd volumes restored correctly. I am not missing any. -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Question on JES2 spool expansion

2019-07-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
),SPACE=MAX This is z/OS 1.13. Am I correct? -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

how can we do it?

2019-07-03 Thread Tony Thigpen
ng message, it can't be driven by message number (like most sysrexx stuff) so I need to drive it based on the WTO descriptor code, but I don't know if that is possible with SysRexx. And, then I somehow need to intercept the "un-stick" DOM macro ca

Re: Best way to alert customer to pending license expiration?

2019-07-01 Thread Tony Thigpen
My software emails the customer a notice once a day, if the customer adds the correct email to the configuration. Tony Thigpen Charles Mills wrote on 6/30/19 6:40 PM: Okay, I am "dropping up one level" from my question about persistent WTO messages. The REAL question is &

Re: MVSCPCMD in batch

2019-06-04 Thread Tony Thigpen
All my VSE systems are under VM, but all my z/OS systems run native. But, with VSE, there are some things I don't want to do before the "CP IPL xxx' statement in the profile exec, so I do them as early as possible in the VSE IPLs Tony Thigpen John McKown wrote on 6/4/19 10:43 AM: O

Re: Single phase power connector to z114

2019-06-04 Thread Tony Thigpen
We have done exactly what you are thinking using 30amp twist plugs. Tony Thigpen Christian Svensson wrote on 6/4/19 10:32 AM: Hi, This may be an odd question. I bought an z114 and I'm trying to figure out how to power it. I've arrived that the single-configuration BPR I have should happily

Re: MVSCPCMD in batch

2019-06-04 Thread Tony Thigpen
By "crippled", it could be during early IPL or late shutdown. Tony Thigpen John McKown wrote on 6/4/19 8:20 AM: On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 5:23 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: I would not convert it to LE. I have strong feelings that any system tool like this must be able to run in a cripp

Re: MVSCPCMD in batch

2019-06-03 Thread Tony Thigpen
, there is no need and second, I believe that abend fixing is easier with a base address. KISS rules. :-) I have no real opinion about making a unix command as I don't really use unix that much, but personally I would prefer that a unix user not have access to VM commands. Tony Thigpen John

Re: CTC (FCTC) usage

2019-05-30 Thread Tony Thigpen
the IODEF people just never considered putting in 'basic' CTCA support for FICON. When I asked IBM, I got the response: "It does not matter because NJE over TCP/IP is the future, not CTCAs." Tony Thigpen Tony Harminc wrote on 5/30/19 6:12 PM: On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 13:46, Jesse 1 Robin

Re: Need a second set of eyes to look at my NPF settings

2019-05-30 Thread Tony Thigpen
By setting: $TPRT7,FORMS=* I am now getting my print into the NPF queue. I was just too close to it to see it. Thanks, Tony Thigpen Elardus Engelbrecht wrote on 5/30/19 11:34 AM: Dana Mitchell wrote: Tony Thigpen wrote: Maybe you have a 'better way' to use NPF. Could you give me

Re: Need a second set of eyes to look at my NPF settings

2019-05-30 Thread Tony Thigpen
Thigpen Dana Mitchell wrote on 5/30/19 10:45 AM: On Thu, 30 May 2019 09:59:14 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: Maybe you have a 'better way' to use NPF. Could you give me an example of what you are doing? So JES2 never selects output for that printer? You don't ever get $HASP150 ? What I do is all

Re: Need a second set of eyes to look at my NPF settings

2019-05-30 Thread Tony Thigpen
, TRKCELL=YES,UCS=0,UCSVERFY=NO,VOLUME=(,,,), WRITER=,WS=(Q,R/),FSAROLTR=YES Maybe you have a 'better way' to use NPF. Could you give me an example of what you are doing? Tony Thigpen Dana Mitchell wrote on 5/30/19 9:46 AM: On Thu, 30 May 2019 06:23:32 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: I

Need a second set of eyes to look at my NPF settings

2019-05-30 Thread Tony Thigpen
=NO, SETUP=NOHALT, NPRO=0, MARK=YES, TRKCELL=YES, WS=(Q,R/) When I start the printer ($SPRT7), the NPF FSS auto-starts as expected. It just never pulls the print output from the JES2 queue. Thanks, Tony Thigpen

Re: CTC (FCTC) usage

2019-05-28 Thread Tony Thigpen
may allow multiple types of paths (one of which *may* be a CTC), but JES2 does not know or care about the path selected. Specifically, JES2 can no longer talk directly to a CTC. Tony Thigpen Jesse 1 Robinson wrote on 5/28/19 7:00 PM: I'm not sure what Tony T. means. We have only FICON CTC

Re: CTC (FCTC) usage

2019-05-28 Thread Tony Thigpen
FYI, JES2/NJE does not support FICON CTC connections. They only support ESCON/BASIC CTC connections, which you don't have on a z14. Tony Thigpen Munif Sadek wrote on 5/28/19 10:40 AM: we are getting new z14 and time to revisit our CTC configuration. Is there a complete documentation on FICON

Re: SDSF API question -- why only REXX & Java?

2019-05-24 Thread Tony Thigpen
Someone spent a lot of time to figure that method out. Tony Thigpen Alan Young wrote on 5/24/19 8:33 PM: The Implementing REXX Support in SDSF redbook ( http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247419.html?Open ) has some sample code for COBOL to call the SDSF interface via REXX

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-22 Thread Tony Thigpen
Yes, I have looked at that section, many times. There is some vagueness about some of the details that I guess would not be vague if I knew what I was reading about. :-) Tony Thigpen Tom Marchant wrote on 5/22/19 10:46 AM: On Tue, 21 May 2019 22:03:35 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: Some

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
is not started because our RMM proc in SYS1.PROCLIB has a different name. Of course, this could all be just a coincidence and I am still missing something. :-) Tony Thigpen Mark Zelden wrote on 5/21/19 4:31 PM: On Tue, 21 May 2019 10:27:20 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: I am looking at my ipl

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
Thanks. That helped a lot. One of the questions I am trying to answer is "who is starting RACF during IPL". It's not in COMMNDxx. Tony Thigpen John McKown wrote on 5/21/19 10:56 AM: On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:47 AM John McKown wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:27 AM Tony Thig

IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
. Does the INITRTN force an autostart as if START(YES) was specified? It appears that jobs started with IEFSSNxx start as normal JES jobs. Can IEFSSNxx be used to start tasks which run as SUB=MSTR. -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM

Re: JES2 shutdown failure - OMVS will not shut down

2019-05-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
BPXAS - ENDED - TIME=22.02.52 22.02.52 HUP1 STC03369 $HASP395 BPXASENDED 22.02.52 HUP1 STC03370 $HASP395 BPXASENDED 22.03.16 HUP1 F OMVS,SHUTDOWN 22.03.16 HUP1 IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY Thoughts? Tony Thigpen Tony Thigpen wrote on 5/14/19 5:55 PM: F

TCPIP.DATA file

2019-05-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
Currently, all the TCPIP jobs have to specify the //SYSTCPD DD statement. Since we only have one stach and one TCPIP.DATA file, are there any options at the system level that will eliminate the need for each batch job to have a //SYSTCPD DD? -- Tony Thigpen

Re: JES2 shutdown failure

2019-05-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
= 0 CMD=BPXPINPR SERVER=Init Process AF=0 MF=0 TYPE=FILE Tony Thigpen Cieri, Anthony wrote on 5/14/19 6:05 PM: OMVS is still doing something You might try D OMVS,A=ALL for more information -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: JES2 shutdown failure

2019-05-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
F BPXOINIT,SHUTDOWN=FORKINIT BPXM036I BPXAS INITIATORS SHUTDOWN. F OMVS,SHUTDOWN IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY Tony Thigpen Cieri, Anthony wrote on 5/14/19 5:50 PM: Under the OAS column of your D A,L display there is still one task. Was a $P JES2 command ever issued

Re: JES2 shutdown failure [EXTERNAL]

2019-05-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
$DA,X IEE707I $DA,XNOT EXECUTED Tony Thigpen Feller, Paul wrote on 5/14/19 5:50 PM: Sometimes a $DA,X can help find what is going on. Also all the other suggestions are good to try. Thanks.. Paul Feller AGT Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: JES2 shutdown failure

2019-05-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
A=002F PER=NO SMC=000 PGN=N/A DMN=N/A AFF=NONE CT=000.630S ET=00.25.05 WKL=SYSTEM SCL=SYSSTC P=1 RGP=N/A SRVR=NO QSC=NO Tony Thigpen

JES2 shutdown failure

2019-05-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
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Re: REXX 'where did I come from' function?

2019-05-01 Thread Tony Thigpen
What does "PARSE SOURCE" return? Tony Thigpen Sean Gleann wrote on 5/1/19 4:38 AM: Hello all I am developing a REXX that, for a number of reasons, needs to know the name of the PDS that it is stored in. The intention is that the REXX will be invoked from ISPF option 6, so typing some

Re: TCPIP IP address for current LPAR

2019-04-29 Thread Tony Thigpen
If IPv4 only, just do an INITAPI, GETHOSTID, TERMAPI. This will return the primary address of the TCP/IP stack that your job is associated with. But, if you already have a connection to another host, that host can get your address easily. Tony Thigpen Stan Weyman wrote on 4/29/19 8:00 AM

Re: SMTP Mail from z/OS

2019-03-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
secured well. This is not to start a discussion on the security issues. I am just responding to the comment that "part of the logic related to the design of CSSMTP, is the "predicate" that the mainframe is only interested in outbound communications." Tony Thigpen Allan

Re: What tools are available for z/OS programs to access a z/Linux database?

2019-03-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
Nothing specific as to the database. Current database is Adabas but they want to eliminate the SAG products. Plenty of network connectivity. They are considering using z/Linux on a separate cpu. Tony Thigpen Matt Hogstrom wrote on 3/9/19 9:14 AM: What is the database type you want to access

What tools are available for z/OS programs to access a z/Linux database?

2019-03-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
Management is asking: What tools are available for z/OS programs to access in real-time a z/Linux database with full update capibilities? -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

IODF batch migration question

2019-02-28 Thread Tony Thigpen
have not found a way for the information from the IOCONFIG statement to used instead. I am worried that I am missing something. -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Identifying and eliminating uncataloged datasets

2019-02-25 Thread Tony Thigpen
. Does anybody know of a free tool that would help with this process? -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Is there an HCD for Dummy's book anywhere?

2019-02-19 Thread Tony Thigpen
You know, I can code an IOCP much faster. I just wish I could tell HCD to: "take this IOCP source, set everything up for me and ask me for any extra information HCD needs". Tony Thigpen Tony Thigpen wrote on 2/19/19 8:37 PM: It suddenly dawned on me that I was miss-understandin

Re: Is there an HCD for Dummy's book anywhere?

2019-02-19 Thread Tony Thigpen
It suddenly dawned on me that I was miss-understanding "logical address (same as CUADD)". I was reading it as "logical address which will be set to the specified CUADD value" instead of "logical address (which others call CUADD)". Duh! Tony Thigpen Neubert,

Is there an HCD for Dummy's book anywhere?

2019-02-19 Thread Tony Thigpen
on the panel that seems remotely where I would specify the CUADD= value. -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: HSM question - ML2 tapes no longer avaialble

2019-02-13 Thread Tony Thigpen
Thanks. Tony Thigpen Allan Staller wrote on 2/13/19 10:02 AM: For each affected volser: HSEND LIST TTOC(volser) ODS(x) HDEL 'datasetname' for each indicated dataset. HSEND RECYCLE ALL EXECUTE PERCENTVALID(0) HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

HSM question - ML2 tapes no longer avaialble

2019-02-13 Thread Tony Thigpen
in 2001, so we are just going to write-off the data on the tapes as 'aged-out'. What is the proper procedure to eliminate these volumes from HSM? -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

z/OS NPF/LPR CR/LF conversion *resolved* (cross-posted: IBMTCP-L and IBM-Main)

2019-02-07 Thread Tony Thigpen
After some looking around, I found that the printer had an internal menu that included an option to treat LF as CRLF. This menu item was not on the web interface for the printer, which is where I was initially looking. Tony Thigpen

z/OS NPF/LPR CR/LF conversion (cross-posted: IBMTCP-L and IBM-Main)

2019-02-06 Thread Tony Thigpen
' (Carriage Return/Line Feed). I don't see nay options that will change this behavior. Am I missing something? Or, am I going to have to use an exit? -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: HCD question

2019-01-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
Thanks, Sounds like EXPORT/IMPORT is the best way. I was hoping for some 'trick' with the panels, but I guess not. Tony Thigpen Gadi Ben-Avi wrote on 1/14/19 7:22 AM: This is a job I use to copy an IODF to another system. //DEL EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //DD1 DD DISP=SHR,UNIT

HCD question

2019-01-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
that there is a way to specify the volume where the file is located, so HCD always says the file can not be found. Is there a way to specify the volume, along with the name, when using the panel? Or, a command to start the panels using the uncataloged IODF file? -- Tony Thigpen

Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue)

2019-01-13 Thread Tony Thigpen
an assembler programmer, not a C programmer, so I view the reports with some speciesism. Tony Thigpen scott Ford wrote on 1/12/19 1:33 PM: I am speaking in terms of development cycle. On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 1:32 PM scott Ford wrote: David and Zman, Both good points, C is certainly faster than

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-10 Thread Tony Thigpen
Same for z/VSE. It works, but spending time in key-0 is not something most people want to do. Tony Thigpen Seymour J Metz wrote on 1/10/19 3:09 PM: AFAIK, a PSW key of 0 in MVS will allow waiting on an ECB of any key, but I can think of reasons to disallow it. I wouldn't even try to guess

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-10 Thread Tony Thigpen
Seymour, Can a z/OS program, running in key-0, wait on an ECB that is in key-8? Tony Thigpen Seymour J Metz wrote on 1/10/19 1:36 PM: 1. It is part of the architecture that with a PSW key of 0 you can access any storage not protected by some other mechanism, e.g., low storage protection

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
Joseph, My z/OS experience is still limited. Most of my experience is with z/VSE. In z/VSE, if in key-0, I can access any other key storage. I don't know if this is true for z/OS. Someone else will have to speak up on that issue. Tony Thigpen Joseph Reichman wrote on 1/9/19 10:39 PM

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
that time period expires *or* when socket activity occurs, which ever happens first. In other words, a TIMEOUT= pointer to low-values is not the same as not specifying the TIMEOUT= option. Your posts make me think that you may be using a low-value TIMEOUT value. Tony Thigpen Joseph Reichman wrote

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
What for? I think you are just making it worse. Tony Thigpen Joseph Reichman wrote on 1/9/19 1:51 PM: Hi I quite don’t understand this but In my testing when I had WTO's the modify logic would work. I now decided to put a STIMER after the SELECT_LOOP I.E. STIMER WAIT,DINTVL

Re: Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue)

2019-01-08 Thread Tony Thigpen
By fancy, I mean stuff like 10 nested functions. (from the top of my head and I bet I missed a paren) if h2d(right(strip(substr(x,5,10)),'B')+strip(right(substr(,5,10),5),'B') = strip(right(substr(input.4,5,10),6),'B') then do Tony Thigpen Paul Gilmartin wrote on 1/8/19 3:48 PM

Unreadable code (Was: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue)

2019-01-08 Thread Tony Thigpen
Alabama, where few spoke it. (Yes, management did catch him after a month or so.) Tony Thigpen Pew, Curtis G wrote on 1/8/19 3:05 PM: On Jan 8, 2019, at 2:03 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: "C is the first write-once, read-never language." Not even close; APL was around nearly a decad

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-08 Thread Tony Thigpen
By the same token, I have hear it said many times: "C is the first write-once, read-never language." Tony Thigpen Charles Mills wrote on 1/8/19 1:58 PM: a policy of not allowing the use of assembler for any new code which is understandable One might argue that any asse

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-08 Thread Tony Thigpen
also are 'do it all' routines. And, I am happy to agree to disagree on what is 'easiest'. We all have our own unique experiences and skill-sets. Tony Thigpen David Crayford wrote on 1/8/19 10:51 AM: Tony, The company I work for now has a policy of not allowing the use of assembler fo

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-08 Thread Tony Thigpen
it worse.) It boils down to: For simple though, the HLL interface is 'OK', but just like the AT commercials, are you ok with 'Just OK'? Tony Thigpen David Crayford wrote on 1/8/19 5:36 AM: I'm wondering why anybody would choose to write a TCP server using EZASMI macros as opposed to the UNIX

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-05 Thread Tony Thigpen
You might need to post your full code so people can look at it to find the problem. Tony Thigpen Joseph Reichman wrote on 1/5/19 7:52 PM: This is the situation both the main task and 4 sub tasks have selects after the time outs of the main task and subtasks I do wto When I get a connection

Re: FW: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-04 Thread Tony Thigpen
are not sharing the ECBs between the main task and the subtasks. As a side note, I always recommend that you have a master 'shutdown' ECB for all your EZA subtasks and that you use SELECTEX instead of SELECT so that the SELECTEX will trigger if the main task sets the 'shutdown' ECB. Tony

Re: OS/390 (not z/OS) question

2018-11-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
When I use HCD to 'Work with EDTs', it shows locally defined esoterics, but not the one for 3590-1. When I use HCD to 'View generics by name', I see 3590-1, but I can't change it. Can I just add a 3590-1 in 'Work with EDTs' and then that override the one the system generates? Tony Thigpen

OS/390 (not z/OS) question

2018-11-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
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RMM media type question

2018-11-19 Thread Tony Thigpen
e to what needs to be changed so that tapes defined to RMM as CART3590 will only use the real 3590s? -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with th

Re: VM

2018-11-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
It works on a VM volume or a VM mini-disk. Tony Thigpen Nai, Dean wrote on 11/14/18 11:44 AM: Hi Tony, Not a VM person but working on a DR now. Does that work for a VM volume? Dean Nai On 11/14/18, 11:07 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tony Th

Re: VM

2018-11-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
Use REFORMAT in ICKDSF. Tony Thigpen Nai, Dean wrote on 11/14/18 10:18 AM: Anyone have any JCL to clip a VM volume from one name to another. Thanks in advance. Dean Nai Senior z/OS Systems Programmer Technical Services Group Department of Information Technology State of New

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Tony Thigpen
employee helping him understand the programs. And, he told everybody the code was his (per the guy that I helped later). That stinks. [The bug was already corrected on my web site and available for download.] Tony Thigpen Farley, Peter x23353 wrote on 11/12/18 1:13 PM: Not jumping on Ed Jaffe

Re: curiosity question about tape drive displays.

2018-11-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
the volid to be in position 2-7 of the display. Position 1 can be: Blank = Verify M = Mount D = Demount K = Keep (put in rack) R = Retain (keep near by for additional use) Position 8 can be: Blank = Not at load point S = Standard Label N = No Label A = AL Label X = Non-Standard Label Tony Thi

curiosity question about tape drive displays.

2018-11-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
of position 8. Is there some manual that documents all the possible messages that z/OS sends to the drive? And for bonus points, do all the different tape managers, such as RMM, CA1 and Zara use the same standard? -- Tony Thigpen

Re: tape drive RESERVE/RELEASE

2018-11-06 Thread Tony Thigpen
Thigpen Allan Staller wrote on 11/6/18 8:57 AM: Autoswitch. In z/OS the commands a v xxx,as,on or v xxx,as,off I believe there is an IODF option to make the drives switchable. Al -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, November 6, 2018

tape drive RESERVE/RELEASE

2018-11-06 Thread Tony Thigpen
/ONLINE to release/reserve the drives. -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Remote HMC ...and NAT

2018-10-30 Thread Tony Thigpen
For multiple reasons, don't. It is a very, very bad idea. Tony Thigpen R.S. wrote on 10/29/18 12:03 PM: I'm going to attach HMC remotely. Remote means it is behind the router, so no broadcasts are realayed, that alos mean one has to provide IP of the CPC (instead of auto-detection), etc

Re: CPU ID display incorrect?

2018-10-15 Thread Tony Thigpen
an email war. It escalated before I had a chance to even think about the LPAR id. Tony Thigpen Elardus Engelbrecht wrote on 10/15/18 2:35 AM: Tony Thigpen wrote: Why would the D M=CPU display a wrong number. What number? What is wrong? Perhaps something is wrong because you read/posted

CPU ID display incorrect?

2018-10-14 Thread Tony Thigpen
ial Number: 0008400A58C7 Additionally, VTAM-Print says: (GSMINITL) THIS CPU: 758C7 -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Problem with XMITIP, TXT attachment and ZVM / NJE

2018-09-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
The specification for NJE are found in SA22-7539. Tony Thigpen Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) wrote on 09/21/2018 12:48 PM: My understanding is that this is an NJE issue. The user is using XMITIP to generate an e-mail in SMTP format, placing the data in the JES Spool routed to z/VM where

Re: Problem with XMITIP, TXT attachment and ZVM / NJE

2018-09-20 Thread Tony Thigpen
> I don’t know if it’s possible to encode in BASE64 the txt file when > we transmit the mail but it will be a solution like the PDF or BIN > format… PDF and BIN files are sent as BASE64. BASE64 encoding of TXT files is normal in the email world. That is your best approach. Tony Thig

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Tony Thigpen
I don't think it's really going to matter in a few years. These millennials can't seem to get out of bed before noon anyways. :-) Tony Thigpen Paul Gilmartin wrote on 09/18/2018 02:54 PM: On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:38:02 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: Having a single time zone doesn't force

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Tony Thigpen
Mis-read as delayed one hour for central. Tony Thigpen Steve Smith wrote on 09/18/2018 01:31 PM: Your statement exactly agrees with Gil's, so why do you think you're disagreeing with him? sas On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:08 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote > Prime time sh

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Tony Thigpen
n Pacific time. I don't know what they do now. > But there's the school bus problem. Not really. It would actually make the bus problem worse. It's really the 'I want some time to go fishing or boating after work' problem. Tony Thigpen Paul Gilmartin wrote on 09/18/2018 12:08 PM: On Tue,

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Tony Thigpen
breakfast. We really need to get out of the '8-5' work times. While outside work needs to be daylight centered, we could make our standard workday '6-3' and a lot more people would be happy with the available daylight after work. Tony Thigpen Mike Schwab wrote on 09/18/2018 11:19

Re: Search for utility

2018-09-12 Thread Tony Thigpen
Can they not just ignore the 1 or 2 programs when they review the output? Tony Thigpen McCabe, Ron wrote on 09/12/2018 02:52 PM: Hello, Question from our developers...is there an easy way to search for a string in all COBOL programs except for 1 or 2? So what they would like to do is search

VSAM share-option 4

2018-09-04 Thread Tony Thigpen
, but that is another can of worms. Am I understanding the z/OS side correctly? -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: JES2 BSC NJE over FICON

2018-08-28 Thread Tony Thigpen
I guess the question is: Why is it ok for the IOCP, but not ok for the IODEF? Sounds like someone in the z/os group IODEF programmer did not talk to the hardware guys. Tony Thigpen Neubert, Kevin wrote on 08/28/2018 12:29 PM: Don't believe FICON supports BCTC. If ESCON is no longer

JES2 BSC NJE over FICON

2018-08-28 Thread Tony Thigpen
Control unit 3200 of type FCTC cannot attach device 3260 of type BCTC. What gives? (I did try leaving the IODEF at FCTC and the IOCP at BCTC, but JES2 grips and will not establish the link.) -- Tony Thigpen -- For IBM

Re: 0,clpa

2018-08-26 Thread Tony Thigpen
Tony Thigpen Tony Thigpen wrote on 08/26/2018 07:43 PM: Forgot: LOADPARM on screen is: 12FE02M1 Tony Thigpen Tony Thigpen wrote on 08/26/2018 07:40 PM: More info. Just did some testing: IEA101A SPECIFY SYSTEM PARAMETERS FOR z/OS 01.13.00 HBB7780 IEE600I REPLY TO 00 IS;CLPA IEE252I MEMBER

Re: 0,clpa

2018-08-26 Thread Tony Thigpen
Forgot: LOADPARM on screen is: 12FE02M1 Tony Thigpen Tony Thigpen wrote on 08/26/2018 07:40 PM: More info. Just did some testing: IEA101A SPECIFY SYSTEM PARAMETERS FOR z/OS 01.13.00 HBB7780 IEE600I REPLY TO 00 IS;CLPA IEE252I MEMBER IEASYS00 FOUND IN SYS1.PARMLIB IEA107I CLPA IGNORED IEA007I

Re: 0,clpa

2018-08-26 Thread Tony Thigpen
N SYS1.PARMLIB IEE252I MEMBER PROG00 FOUND IN SYS1.PARMLIB CSV410I APF FORMAT IS NOW DYNAMIC IEE252I MEMBER LPALST00 FOUND IN SYS1.PARMLIB IEA713I LPALST LIBRARY CONCATENATION Tony Thigpen Peter Relson wrote on 08/26/2018 07:25 PM: Tony, When you replied "0,CLPA" to get the

Re: 0,clpa

2018-08-25 Thread Tony Thigpen
I found both CLPA and OPI=YES in the IEASYS00 member. I am going to remove OPI=YES and see if that removes the problem. Tony Thigpen Peter Relson wrote on 08/25/2018 09:21 AM: The OP really was noting that he had to specify something to keep the IPL going. Whether that was CLPA or something

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