Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I have the feeling. that Antony has right, it is a CEE5101C message and the MSS mvssigsetup call failed In the DUMP verbx ledata 'all' should be the errno2 (or errno_jr or errnojr etc etc) field. I just (re)did the verbx ledata 'all' and did a find on errno. This is the only line that has

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I've seen something similar when two tasks under a parent TCB both attempt to do a mvssigsetup(). The second one (attach) fails because an mvssigsetup() has already been done. To quote highlander, there can be only one! IIRC, this was two POSIX(ON) C programs in ISPF split screens.

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Just ran into this. Verify there is an OMVS UID/GID associated with the process. I just set a slip trap that will capture me the OMVS address space data at the next recurrance to verify exactly that. One would think that given OMVS's prevalence in todays systems there would be a dump option

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Any chance to format the component trace COMP(SYSOMVS) SUBNAME((SYSCAL)) ? First dump: ADCD113 SYSCALL 0F080001 17:09:13.929282 STANDARD SYSCALL ENTRY TRACE ASID..0041 USERIDx STACKĀ§20BC8048 TCB...008ADAE8

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I would say:009c( errno:156 EMVSINITIAL) and errno2: 0d070200 JRPswKeyNotValid: The PSW key of the caller is not a valid key Action: A service was requested that requires the invoker to be in the same key that the process was dubbed under. If we are happy about this =-O Thanks a

Re: z/os 1.13 and BCPII internal protocol

2013-06-05 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
IBM states that it uses an internal protocol that replaces the old SNMP one. from the installation guide, it is clear that they use SNMP (community name is defined on both HMC and BCPII) but it runs from the SE to the HMC over private lan. So, what exactly is this private protocol? My guess

Re: Unable to mount ZFS

2013-06-02 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Richard, http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r11.ioea700/ioea7d0021001588.htm After someone had pointed it out, I read it and now I know it needs to be done. That doesn't change the fact that without TRUSTED and without explicit access, the ZFS

Re: Unable to mount ZFS

2013-05-31 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Barbara, I know you're not z/OS UNIX's biggest fan, however, this time the problem is related to the authorization to perform an MVS OPEN against an MVS data set. UNIX is only inside the data set. I beg to differ. The UNIX implementation has clouded itself in such a bunch of things - nothing

Re: Unable to mount ZFS

2013-05-27 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
The meaning of the volume serial number shown in the VOL field varies. For a non-VSAM data set, it means the volume on which the data set resides. For a VSAM data set, it means the volume on which the catalog containing the data set entry resides. I didn't know that before. It is quite

Re: z/OS 1.13 ZAP for IBM Fault Analyzer

2013-05-27 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
IBM Fault Analyzer support on z/OS. Would anyone out there have obtained the ZAPs for the IEAVTABD version of the module that came with the PTFs for OA38518? I have searched under z/OS and under IBM Fault Analyzer and not found what is needed. Yes, I know I may have to open a PMR but

Re: Mysterious Abend 0C1

2013-05-22 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
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Re: Mysterious Abend 0C1

2013-05-22 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
But then you're trusting IPCS (presumably) to format the trace entries correctly. Something it has been known to silently get wrong, if there is a version mismatch between IPCS and dump. Which you're informed about in bold at the initialization of the dump for the past 10 years. Barbara

Hold Output in SDSF

2013-05-17 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I have been unable to fix a problem that is driving me rather crazy (and I am not even sure it can be fixed either via JES2 parms or SDSF parms): Whenever I use SDSF ST or DA panel, every JOB/STC/TSU shows exactly one line of output, both for active jobs and for terminated jobs. Specifying ? in

Re: Hold Output in SDSF

2013-05-17 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
For me, if the output DD 's has different attributes (for example some with OUTDESC some without ) I also got at H several lines, but if they all the sames I got only one. Seems to me the OUTPUT Group Number is changing in this case Maybe for the dynalloc , they also have different

Re: ANTMAIN takes a lot of CPU

2013-05-13 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Since no one has asked yet, I will. Is SYSTEM the appropriate level of priority for this task? I don't have any flashcopy here, so I have no experience or even knowledge of all that ANTMAIN does. Regardless if you use flashcopy or not, you'll have an ANTMAIN address space automatically

Re: ISPF 3.4 Performance degradation on z/OS 1.13

2013-04-23 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I'm guessing that the catalog display feature is dragging you down. Uncheck that option on the 3.4 entry panel and I bet your 3.4 flies again. If you want the catalogs, then make sure you're using VLF caching for your catalogs. Just went to my 1.13 system and tested this on a list of

Re: Health Checker for z/OS checks - to check or not to check, now is the..

2013-03-22 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
After using Health Checker for z/OS for several months now, I'm having doubts about some checks, so please feel free to comment :) I just cannot resist. But first: Have you checked the archives? Most of the checks you talk about here I have complained about in the past. Documented in the

Re: exit add in progxx for cnz_wtomdbexit and setprog

2013-03-19 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Hmmm, after seeing Anthony's question, I wonder if your exit is waiting for a subsystem or console or something to complete during the IPL? But still, I don't know what product is that exit? Elardus, Bernard said he wrote his own exit routine for a dynamic exit defined to the system by z/OS

Re: Format the linkage stack from an SDUMP issued in SRB mode

2013-03-13 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I didn't see an obvious way to format the linkage stack for an SRB. Neither SUMM FORMAT nor 2.2 did the job. Eventually I browsed the storage using CR15. Not sure if you're asking for this: ip cbf x str(lse) with x the linkage stack entry address. IIRC, there are similar str(yyy) values for

Re: Limit on parallel TSO User address spaces started via CEA

2013-02-11 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I think those are arbitrary limits, for the purpose of preventing an errant program or user from using too many address spaces, and also for allocating the storage for the table which is used to keep track of these address spaces. Do you have a scenario where these limits would be too low

Re: Limit on parallel TSO User address spaces started via CEA

2013-02-11 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
gil, Does this count address spaces started by syscall fork() when OMVS runs under TSO? Does syscall fork() use the CEATsoRequest API under the covers? If so, then yes. Does it count adress spaces started by USS Rexx address TSO? Does USS Rexx address TSO use the CEATsoRequest API under the

Re: Limit on parallel TSO User address spaces started via CEA

2013-02-11 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Even when Rexx under z/OS Unix System Services creates the address space in order to start another instance of the TSO TMP? And I forgot to ask the obvious question: Does this count address spaces used to EXEC PGM=IKJEF* in batch? gil, please read MVS Programming: Callable Services for

Limit on parallel TSO User address spaces started via CEA

2013-02-10 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Does anyone know why the number of TSO user address spaces that can be started in any given lpar via CEA services is limited to 50? MVS Programming: Callable Services for High-Level Languages is fairly firm in stating this: The CEA TSO/E address space manager can create up to 10 concurrent

Re: JSON format in ISPF Services Guide?

2013-02-07 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Thanks for your answers. I have been searching specifically for this cross-reference out of the z/OS MVS Programming: Callable Services for High-Level Languages book: For information about the JSON format used for TSO/E messages, see JSON format for TSO/E messages. For the JSON format used for

Re: Submitting job name

2013-02-06 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Is there a way to produce a report that will show all of the jobs submitted by a certain task (Control-M). I couldn't find it in SMF type 30. Assuming that CONTROL-M has a unique STC id assigned to it via RACF class STARTED, try RACFUSER in SMF30 (it is called RACFUSER in MXG). Barbara

Re: z/OS SAS Installation

2013-02-05 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Am I the only one who misses the rationale behind the z/OS installation and maintenance of SAS 9.2 (and now 9.3) using the Software Depot? I imagine it would be more palatable if it was straight foward and error free. Also, has anyone evaluated (or converted to) the World Programming System

Re: Stand-alone Dump Revisited

2013-01-23 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I mentioned the AUTOIPL statement because it's easy to overlook. But yes, guaranteed that if there are multiple SAD output volumes, they need to be need to rebuilt using AMDSADDD because the volumes are chained together by unit address, which AMDSADDD determines and writes out. Guess how I

Re: Coupling facility - Non Volatile performance

2013-01-23 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Due to IBM Health checker report we have to change mode of our Coupling facility to non Volatile.. CF is running in a partition on CPC, shared by 4 z/OS LPARs making it a sysplex. We are enabled for CICSPlex , DB2 Data sharing, RACF Database Sharing, SMSPlex, Catalog ECS etc etc..

Re: Stand-alone Dump Revisited

2013-01-22 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Gotta love that girl. Who else would have that on an AD/CD system - and know why ?. Thanks Shane. But no, this was not on an ADCD system - we don't have enough DASD on the ADCD system to reserve one for sadump, much less several. Never mind that the DASD we have are mod3 (since ADCD is

Re: Stand-alone Dump Revisited

2013-01-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I saw Barbara's note about including the dataspaces belonging to OMVS, but haven't seen a complete generation deck (or significant excerpt) from her yet. You've asked for it: AMDSADMP IPL=D3390,VOLSER=xx, + REUSEDS=ALWAYS,IPLEXIST=YES,

Re: CEA Reason Code 32D

2013-01-08 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Scott, By chance did you see any violation messages in RACF ? None. *That* would be too easy, wouldn't it? I would not have needed to ask what that reason code is that they already say they don't document where the application interface is described. No mention where else to look, either.

Re: replacing system logger cds with a smaller dataset

2012-12-16 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I would like to replace the system logger cds with a smaller dataset. Is it possible to force the use of the smaller data set? Not dynamically, no. You will have to format new LOGR CDSs at the desired size, change COUPLExx to point to the new datasets and reIPL the sysplex, thus cold-starting

Re: I broke it - programcontrolled programs

2012-12-14 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Sorry, I assumed you knew how to use it and didn't give the details. I assumed the same :-( No. I guess security isn't much of a concern for ADCD. I wouldn't have expected UACC(READ). No clue why alter would be given to some userids, AFAIK READ is good enough and there are no higher

Re: I broke it - programcontrolled programs

2012-12-13 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Ah, you don't refresh the PROGRAM class by doing a refresh of the PROGRAM class. You do it with SETROPTS WHEN(PROGRAM) REFRESH I did. That is what I meant when I said I refreshed 'PROGRAM'. What? You wanted consistency? yes. How strange of me. Mostly, I want to understand what I did wrong so

Re: I broke it - programcontrolled programs

2012-12-13 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
As has been mentioned, this module should not be in IEAVTRML. In fact *nothing* should be in IEAVTRML. This has been true for quite a while. I know Barbara does not like the IBM HC for z/OS, but it has a check specifically to point out things that are in IEAVTRML since it should be empty.

Re: I broke it - programcontrolled programs

2012-12-12 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
What is the DSN containing DFSMRCL0? IMS1110.SDFSRESL or something. RALTER PROGRAM * ADDMEM('ims-loadlib'//NOPADCHK) I did. I also refreshed PROGRAM. Same error. Besides, that IMS library is not anywhere in LPA or linklist. As far as I can see, the usermod that puts it into ieavtrml does not

Re: I broke it - programcontrolled programs

2012-12-12 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Lizette, What version of IMS are you running? AFAIK DFSMRCL0 is not used by IMS Version 9 or later. Well, then someone should have told that to the people who deliver the ADCD system. We are NOT running any IMS version, and that module name most probably comes from IEAVTRML, that the ADCD

VSAMDSET and SYSCATLG

2012-12-06 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
In the 1.10 ADCD RACF database there were two group profiles named VSAMDSET and SYSCATLG. I was able to delete them in that database. With the 1.13 ADCD RACF database, these two profiles (defined 1995) are still (again) in there, but any attempt to delete consistently gives me: IKJ56702I

Re: VSAMDSET and SYSCATLG

2012-12-06 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Are you using these commands? Thanks Frank. I must have done too many RACF commands these past days. I had overlooked that IBMUSER was still joined. It was sufficient to remove IBMUSER from that group, and then I could delete. Barbara

Re: VSAMDSET and SYSCATLG

2012-12-06 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
This is WAD. You could use IRRRID00 (with a dummy SYSIN) to look out for phantom PERMITs for those 2 groups just to make sure they're not there anymore at all. I know. I should have remembered that I cannot delete a group that still has connections. As I said - I have done too much cleanup

Re: Page datasets

2012-12-05 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
We have 9 mod-9 page datasets that are over 50% in useMQ Broker using most of this storage. Has anyone experienced anything like this? I seem to remember having seen something like this. All of those pages went out to AUX when MQ Broker was started (apparently having something to do with

Re: What happens when an LPAR gets interupted.

2012-11-15 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I'll take a shot at bits of this: 1) What are the signs of a CPU being preempted and given to another LPAR? Look at the logical cpu (PR, first column) in the system trace table and the physical cp (CP, last column). When they change (assuming more than one lp and more than one cp), it means

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-15 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
OTOH I'm curious about the purported risk of a 'moving device'. In order to make a significant change to a device--especially UCB address--the volume has to be offline or else the dynamic ACTIVATE fails. How about a dynamic activate that succeeded but a component (catalog) that doesn't

Re: CPU Utilization

2012-11-07 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Not sure how Workload Manager is being used or configured at your shop. From the original description, I am assuming that that installation runs more than one lpar on the box, most probably with lpar weights that reflect importance of the lpars. If the OP happens to work on an lpar that is not

Re: Health Checker again

2012-11-01 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Mark Zelden's IPLINFO will show you how many CADS are in use: The current number of CADS (MAXCADs) in use is 38. The maximum number of CADS (MAXCADs) used since IPL is 38. Yes. But it is always infinitely easier to justify installing an 'official' IBM product rather

Re: ENF (event notification facility) health checker event

2012-11-01 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
If I see a HZS0003E message, a high severity exception occured. I have an ENF listener application, it could maintain this HZQUERY status, but maybe with the HZS messages is simpler. No, it's not. The HZS message id for each check can be customized in that the severity of the check is

Re: Logical CP to physical CP ratio

2012-10-10 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
We are in the evaluation process for one or two mainframe upgrades. Our current environment includes a z9EC 2094-504 with 4 prod LPARs and 1 tech support LPAR with a total of 12 LP's, so a ratio of 3:1. Some of the candidate mainframes have faster speeds but only 2 or 3 CP's. This would

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