Re: ServerPac install

2015-10-28 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
> Updated my RACF data set profile > for Z220.**, IPL'ed to cycle ZFS, and it worked fine. Just as a FYI: You can avoid an IPL to cycle ZFS for RACF DATASET reasons by using SETROPTS GENERIC(DATASET) REFRESH. I don't remember which book I found that in, but it is heavily sprinkled with

Re: ServerPac install

2015-10-28 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
> About ZFS (not ServerPac) > > What about recycling ZFS with F OMVS,STOPPFS=ZFS and then replying with R > to: nn BPXF032D FILESYSTYPE ZFS TERMINATED. REPLY ’R’ WHEN READY TO > RESTART. REPLY ’I’ TO IGNORE. ? Last time I tried that it meant shutting down all of OMVS because the ROOT was a

Re: How to Display Data from a Dataspace using IPCS ?

2015-09-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
> SLIP > SET,IF,PVTMOD=(MEASMCMN,0ADA,0ADC),DSPNAME=(‘MEASMCMN’.*),JOBNAME=MEASMCMN,ID=M,END > The address in the data space I am looking for was: > Access register: 01010039 Register: 00025238 > I did not know the name of the data space DSPNAME(IRR1) is not in the > dump but I did find

Re: IPCS Magicians (was: Smaller Private Area in DR)

2015-09-07 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
> I know, but how do you go back to where you were? Say you're following a > chain of linked addresses and you want to go back. Typing in stuff to > remember the addresses would be a pain. Web browsers give you all that for > free. As far as I am concerned, one works differently in the z/OS

Re: IPCS Magicians (was: Smaller Private Area in DR)

2015-09-06 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
> Plus when you're displaying register contents or stack traces, the > addresses are displayed as links. IPCS has been doing that since I started working with it. Use %, ? and (forgot the 64bit-address character) when displaying active storage. Equate some address with a symbol, and you can

Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

2015-09-03 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
> I wonder how many other people routinely ensure they have a usable dump > available back at the office after any test day. > Barbara maybe ... ;-) It was usually a fight to get a dump saved, in some cases to get the dump taken in the first place, especially when I am the only one in the

Re: IPCS Magicians (was: Smaller Private Area in DR)

2015-09-03 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
> :>If someone showed interest in becoming such a fabled magician, what > direction would you point said someone to? > > Start with simple SYSMDUMPs and work your way up. > > Learn the trace table. Very good advise. The system trace table can be more interesting than any thriller you could

Re: vary dev,console with an IEF238D outstanding.

2015-08-26 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
- I try to vary a 3390 device ONLINE that was previously OFFLINE. This works without any problems and I can access the associated volume immediately. That means that the SYSIEFSD ENQ had a minor of VARYDEV, right? You may want to search for old apars with keywords sysiefsd, q4 and varydev. -

Re: vary dev,console with an IEF238D outstanding.

2015-08-25 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
IEE799D VARY CONSOLE DELAYED - REPLY RETRY OR CANCEL. A VARY CONSOLE command requested that a console be placed online or offline. The system could not process the command due to other processing in the system such as: - Another VARY CONSOLE command - Device allocation in progress

Re: How is CAMASTER started?

2015-06-23 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
CAMASTER is not started out of ICHALTSP in the case where RACF is the security product. That leaves me with my original question: How is CAMASTER started? As I said before, while ICHALTSP is certainly in LNKLST (since we will run that LPAR with either RACF, ACF2 or TSS, depending on the

Re: How is CAMASTER started?

2015-06-22 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
- ICHALTSP is an interface made available to the owner of the alternate security product being used on this system, as a means of starting that alternate security product in the same window when RACF is started, i.e., before started tasks and jobs can start. FWIW, ALTSP does indeed stand

Re: How is CAMASTER started?

2015-06-22 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I'd say sort of. But only when you are running ACF2 or Top Secret. We plan to run with either TSS or ACF2 in that lpar. Currently we still use RACF there. So we already have the (ACF2) library in linklist, but don't actually run an alternate security product yet. Which makes me think that the

Re: How is CAMASTER started?

2015-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Scott, We made our case to IBM, they agreed and provided a licensed API. am I correct in assuming that the API provides IBM with a way to start an address space (via one of the IBM IRIMs used for initializing the system) by using a CA module in the ASCRE? So essentially the first CA module

Re: How is CAMASTER started?

2015-06-18 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Search IBM-MAIN archive (or google) for TEC570878 or IKJEFXSR Thanks Norbert. I can see that CAMASTER started on this system, but I still don't know how this is actually done since no libraries containing this frontend are loaded in LPA via lpalst or command. Right now neither IKJEFXSR nor

Re: How is CAMASTER started?

2015-06-18 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
There's no module named ICHALTSP in IBM libraries (LINKLIB, CSSLIB, MIGLIB,...). It's only in CAW0LINK. (ISPF - DDLIST - LINKLIST - MEM ICHALTSP). According to the ibmmain post ICHALTSP is an (IBM) IRIM that receives control in master scheduler (but you're right, I cannot find it in my SMPE

How is CAMASTER started?

2015-06-18 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Now that CAMASTER has become a mandatory address space, I am asking myself how that address is actually started. The CA documentation makes it sound as if it were magic that starts it, but I don't believe in magic. There are knowledge base articles out there that say that starting CAMASTER at

Fw: Question for RDT system users - message issuance

2015-06-11 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
CNZ4200I CONSOLE L700 HAS FAILED. REASON=IOERR From that point forward, we did not get any IEF403I or IEF404I messages anymore To answer my own question: The console has MONITOR-L set in consolxx, and there was no setcon mn,jobnames=on issued anywhere (this is an ADCD system, after all!). I

Question for RDT system users - message issuance

2015-06-11 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
This is a question for those of you that run z/OS on an RDT system (presumably also those on a zPDT system), i.e. on emulated hardware. Yesterday we had to restart the remote viewer (VNC) I use to login to Linux to start z/OS. Restarting VNC kills the console: CNZ4200I CONSOLE L700 HAS FAILED.

Re: Notify for XMIT

2015-05-12 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
To clarify, Exit 13 used to be required to get notification because the default was NO. Now it's controlled by this keyword in the init deck: NJEDEF MAILMSG=YES Since YES is the default, unless you code MAILMSG=NO, you should be getting the notify. This from Knowledge Center regarding

Re: Performance question - handling of max CPU % utilization

2015-05-07 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Question: how do you performance guys and gals present those maximums? Or how do you prove that machines are heavily used? Do you use averages of those maximum CPU% utilization or what do you use? Do you combine all the LPARs and then work out the max? Any trending or statistical analysis

Re: DUMP parm recommendation

2015-04-27 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
My WebSphere guy asked for this: SDATA=(CSA,,SQA,RGN,TRT,GRSQ,LPA,LSQA,SUM,NUC,PSA,SWA,ALLNUC) Looks like the general setting that IBM support asks for, copied from one component to the other without any thought to content or validity. Advice? Thoughts? Replace the ALLNUC with NUC or ditch

Alter TRUST status on a certificate

2015-04-22 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
All, I am new to this certificate stuff. I have inherited this certificate in my RACF data base (apparently the only one that has a private key somewhere, no ICSF in use, and I have all RACF privileges): Label: WebSphereCA Certificate ID: 2QiJmZmDhZmjgeaFguKXiIWZhcPB Status: TRUST Start Date:

Re: Alter TRUST status on a certificate

2015-04-22 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
You misspelled websphere. Try this with a capital S and no space. Label must exactly match. racdcert CERTAUTH alter(label('WebSphereCA')) notrust Donald hit the nail on the head. Teaches me to always copy over the label, no matter how short it is. racdcert alter(label('WebSphereCA'))

Re: Redbook on DFHSM and PDSEs Control datasets

2015-03-31 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Do you think an old Dino like me could use it to setup DFHSM for the first time. I need to on our development environment. SYS1.SAMPLIB(ARCSTRST) is the HSM starter set and will get you going. Having gone through this exercise from scratch on an ADCD system about 2 years ago, I can say that

Re: Setting up a new user for OS/390 and Z/OS

2015-03-26 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Anyone have the JCL to set up a new user for TSO and other services for both OS/390 and Z/OS. Getting bored using IBMUSER and when trying to use TSO commands to do it have made a bit of a mess as it does not seem to work correctly (this could be me!) and no I do not wish to use the other

MPF exit

2015-03-25 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I have just noticed a very strange behaviour of an MPF exit that is supposed to suppress messages from hardcopy log. The exit does this: OICTXTRFB2,CTXTRDTM We have an abundance of IEC161I messages that clutter up hardcopy log (among other things). So I set the exit to suppress iec161i

Re: Knowledgecentre versus the library server

2015-03-12 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
From where and what did you used to d/l the whole set? I must have missed it. Actually I want to d/l the whole 2.1 set and place it somewhere shareable by all. It is a one-time effort, and I download each pdf manually and sort them into the folders I want them in. I also rename them so I

Re: Knowledgecentre versus the library server

2015-03-12 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I would rather download the PDFs,I'm think personally, it's easier more me. Not me. I still prefer the .boo. In fact, most of the time, I still use the z/OS 1.13 books rather than the current doc unless I'm going to print part of it, or unless I know that I need something more current.

Re: Dump Defaults (Was: SLIP IF Trap?)

2015-03-12 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
It would be easiest if you could send this dump somewhere that I can access. Like opening a PMR and sending the dump, if you have a license to do that. Or sending it to Dallas if you have an ISV relationship there. Thanks Jim, I have done so. Barbara

Re: Dump Defaults (Was: SLIP IF Trap?)

2015-03-11 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Dusting off this old thread: I set a slip trap that included the TCPIP address space in the address spaces to be dumped. TCPIPCS socket detail on that slip dump gives me: TCPIP Socket Analysis BLS18100I ASID(X'002B') 01F0_2280 not available The address

Re: Vary OPEERLOG offline before IPLing the system?

2015-02-11 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
​We use SYSLOG, not OPERLOG. And I see the NIP messages in it. It appears that they are buffered and written to SYSLOG once JES2 comes up and SYSLOG is available. Given our small size, I don't know if this buffer is a wrap around and so might lose messages if there are a lot of them before

Re: Vary OPEERLOG offline before IPLing the system?

2015-02-10 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
OTOH, it's not clear what happens to OPERLOG messages after JES terminates. They're probably captured in a CF structure, but would we have access to that data after system shutdown? Assuming that operlog is not varied off, operlog merrily goes on recording everything that goes on after JES

Re: Top-Secret

2015-02-01 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
The above will work but not sure what the ramifications are, however, if you establish a TSO environment in a long-running job such as a started task. The most obvious one is that you cannot stop (p) the STC that has a batch TSO environment. You will always have to cancel it, unless

Re: Full z/OS SPOOL

2015-01-07 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I realize that probably just reflects the fact that it's defaulting): BUFDEF BELOWBUF=(LIMIT=39,WARN=80),EXTBUF=(LIMIT=200,WARN=80) Mind you, I'm taking the BELOWBUF values from what's currently set. Is 39 a plausible number? I'm reluctant to Just Try It because I know that if I get it

Re: Full z/OS SPOOL

2015-01-05 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Ok. I must have missed it somewhere that the OP is perhaps using ADCD, but he said he is using VM to access his JES2? So, can you run ADCD as a guest under VM? The OP said that he is running in Dallas. It is my understanding (having never worked on any of their systems) that Dallas provides

Re: Full z/OS SPOOL

2015-01-05 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Elardus, Just curious, at what z/OS level are you? I'm asking because that APAR is somewhat old, but I'm sure that local fix also mentioned by Bob should help you out until you can fix the init deck. Are other LPARs using the same JES2? If so, you could try out the local fix or purge

RACF password history was: AW: //STARTING JOB ...

2014-12-29 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Check out the SETROPTS HISTORY and MINCHANGE options if you haven't already. Thanks, Tom! I did that and set history accordingly. No need for an exit, then! I would set MINCHANGE only if I see that someone tries to change the many passwords that are now kept to get to the (n+1)th password.

Re: Dataset PACK profile

2014-12-28 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Just trying to understand the importance of setting a PACK ON on the pds member profile. What will be the impact if it is set ON in parmlib members ? I once had a customer who had accidentally turned it on in MSTJCLxx. The IPL failed miserably. I imagine the same thing happens if you use

Re: RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32767?

2014-12-16 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
6 //DD7 DD UNIT=SYSALLDA,SPACE=(1,0),RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32767 6 IEF638I SPECIFIED NUMERIC EXCEEDS MAXIMUM ALLOWED IN THE LRECL SUBPARAMETER OF THE DCB FIELD Why is this considered an error? In fact, 32761 is accepted; 32762 causes the error. On what rationale is

Re: Setting up a sysplex and OMVS/zFS

2014-12-06 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
It looks like most of the datasets the system is complaining about are in their own user catalogs. I should be able to connect the user catalog to the master catalog on the zOS 1.13 side and be ok. Tho there is one that is cataloged in the z2.1's master catalog. I may have to just

Re: Why is the System Data Sets book no longer deemed useful?

2014-11-24 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Deleted: z/OS MVS System Data Set Definition, SA22-7629: Information about system data sets is available with the information sent with the z/OS install package. There is no replacement reference for MVS System Data Set Definition, except for references to cataloging. In that one instance,

Re: Why is the System Data Sets book no longer deemed useful?

2014-11-23 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
When did it last exist? I have V1R10 docs here and I don't see it. I found one in the z/OS V1.1 bookshelf SA22-7629-00 says First Edition, March 2001. I have either always copied it over in .boo format or this was contained in some sort of 'release DVD' when I downloaded the next

Re: Big data - Google wants *all* of you

2014-11-12 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Indeed. If a hospital uploads my genome code, will it be as anonymous, or will I be spammed (real medicine, quackery medicine, experimental medicine, etc) on what I have in my genome code? Let's hope that I could veto having my personal data (mis)used that way! Do we even get told if a

Re: RDz v9.0 and DIAGxx VSM USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO)

2014-11-10 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Is anybody out there running the RSE server on z/OS (1.13) with USEZOSV1R9RULES(NO) successfully? Anybody have any other idea why today the developers cannot authenticate to the RSE server as they did before the most recent IPL of the DEV lpar? We are running RSED8.5 with

Re: Abend s0077

2014-11-03 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I was so surprised by this that I had to go look. A spot check of several z/OS messages books shows that many (perhaps most) messages include Module: [module name] just as they always did. Maybe you were lucky enough to have a tendency to work on exceptions, or on some component or

Re: Abend s0077

2014-11-03 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
It blows me away that LE has to take a perfectly good 0C1, 0C4 or 0C7 and convert it into a U4xxx code. Not only that, they have to obfuscate the registers. I have learned (with a lot of scars) that the ZMCH (if you can find that in the ceedump) has the actual registers at time of abend, no

Re: Abend s0077

2014-11-02 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
In my experience, most of the time the first reader of a contact systems programmer explanation IS a systems programmer. I always found it highly irritating when that was the only explanation for an error message. Even a broad general description of what went wrong can sometimes be helpful

Re: AW: Re: MEMLIMIT not honoured by DB2 utility job

2014-10-30 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Peter, I have found plenty of places where the discussion is about DB2's DBM1 and IRLM address spaces. Those ignore any MEMLIMIT setting and set this limit to values defined in DB2. I could not find anything related to the utility program DSNX9WLM regarding MEMLIMIT. Waiting for an

Re: Dump Defaults (Was: SLIP IF Trap?)

2014-09-26 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I can tell you the intent. Each allocation of above-2G storage fits into one of 5 should I include it in the dump? categories -- - like region (default for private) - like LSQA - like CSA (default for common) - like SQA - do not dump automatically The intent is to dump like x when 'x'

Re: Dump Defaults (Was: SLIP IF Trap?)

2014-09-25 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
CD SET,SDUMP=(RGN,CSA,LPA),ADD,MAXSPACE=5000M ... probably inherited from something someone did before the last millennium. Does anyone have any other (21st-century) recommendations for improving this? I have set this: CD SET,SDUMP=(ALLPSA,CSA,SQA,GRSQ,LPA,NUC,RGN,SUM,SWA,TRT) In our

Re: SLIP IF Trap?

2014-09-23 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
FWIW, I have a feeling that many (most?) customers don't analyze SVC dumps often if ever; they have no opinion one way or the other about the necessity of RGN. :( IBM or an ISV will likely provide an SDATA= string for any dump they request, so the defaults really don't matter to them...

SL SA and range parameter

2014-03-26 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I have attempted to set a storage alteration PER trap. I was interested in several 4 byte areas distributed across maybe 2 pages. My intention was to disable SA monitoring for everything except those 4 byte areas, similar to the way it is described for IF traps: SL

Re: SL SA and range parameter

2014-03-26 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
On what z/OS version? 1.13. As documented in MVS System Commands (v1.12): RANGE is not valid for error event traps. RANGE cannot be specified on an ACTION=IGNORE storage alteration PER trap. I believe this could be the reason for IEE739I. Since this was a PER trap, not an error event trap,

Re: XCFAS holding OMVS and XCF CDSes

2014-02-11 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
You never add PCOUPLE. You promote from ACOUPLE to PCOUPLE via PSWITCH. You do if you activate a CDS for the first time. There is nothing preventing you from specifying both pcouple and acouple in the same command. Admittedly I have never tried to switch both primary and alternate to a new

Re: multiple TSO Sessions (try this)

2014-01-30 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
You're not even getting IKJ56425I? You must have setup your system to allow that. No to both. At least not that I know of - this is an ADCD system. I do get IKJ56425I when I attempt to logon a second time from a terminal emulator. Note that the other 10 sessions do not have a VTAM ACB in the

Re: multiple TSO Sessions (try this)

2014-01-30 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
You should bump the split screens up to 32. Much more impressive. :) I bite. How do I do that? Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: multiple TSO Sessions (try this)

2014-01-30 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Change ISPCFIGU. Use the command ISPCCONF. IIRC the default number of split screens is 8. Thanks. Will do that, just to astonish my colleagues. :-) Yes, the default is 8. Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: multiple TSO Sessions (try this)

2014-01-30 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
But I am fairly sure that, IN THIS CONTEXT, the CEA which was being mentioned in the thread was not Common Event Adapter, which has _nothing_ to do with multiple TSO logons that I can see, but was referred to z/OSMF and its ability to allow multiple TSO sessions for a single user. I guess

Re: multiple TSO Sessions (try this)

2014-01-29 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Is there some actual technical reason why TSO cannot be made to allow one user ID to log in multiple times to TSO within a single LPAR? Who says TSO does not allow one userid with several logins within a single apar? JOBNAME StepName ProcStep JobIDOwnerC Pos DP Real PagingSIO

Re: Storage Tracking

2014-01-17 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Peter, Is there a tool or Rexx exec which can help me in identifying the Job consuming the High Virtual Shared Storage or Common Storage ? check the archives :-) This is Jim Mulder's answer when I asked the exact same question about two years ago: 6) I bemoan IBMs failure to give us a good

Re: Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking

2013-12-08 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I am somewhat at a loss to understand how some of the problems you are detailing happened. The only way it could have would be with an ill behaving user written program or process. If I remember this correctly (and I am on shaky ground here), sadump writes a 'special striping', understood

Re: Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking

2013-12-08 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
SAdump never writes short blocks. When it wants to write a block which is not full, it pads the block with dummy records (which IPCS knows to ignore). Then I don't understand why the utility used produced a copy significantly smaller than the full dump. Once it was initialized on the full

Re: Something to Think About - Optimal PDS Blocking

2013-12-07 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Yes, however FBS stands for Fixed Block Standard, not Spanned. Exactly. And the last record in an FBS data set can be short, i.e. less than lrecl. The short record denotes the end of the data set. And all the utility programs know it and stop processing once they reach the short record. That is

Re: ISPF 3.4 with HLQ *

2013-11-25 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Use ISMF or something like that to search for all your 'other' dataset on all of your catalogs. Just to make sure there is not another [unwanted] duplicate on another volser. Just review your Linklist and APF that they are referring to the correct dataset and/or volser where applicable. I

Re: ISPF 3.4 with HLQ *

2013-11-25 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Doesn't somthing in this thread tend to refutetZe'ev Atlas's recent assertion: Apparently z/OS is capable of finding the file without any manual assistance! ... Well, the devil is a squirrel (as we say in German). While an ADCD system is praised (by IBM) as the best thing for application

Re: ISPF statistics

2013-10-31 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
It's certainly possible to have DSORG=PS,RECFM=U data set that does not contain load modules. I've used them. I believe it's also possible to have DSORG=PO,DSNTYPE=PDS,RECFM=U with content other than load modules, but ISPF refuses to recognize this fact. I don't know whether

Re: Command output not displayed on Console

2013-10-23 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
The command output shows INTERNAL. Are you issuing the command from the internal reader or thru some strange product? Is there an automation product that is suppressing the original command and re-issuing it with the options? The command was issued from STC09092, which he said is control-O.

Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-23 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
IBM is able to read them. They might request the SA dump if you report the problem and you will be glad you took it. I disagree. Sort of. The customer had asked IBM Why did the restart of SMSPDSE1 not complete? and the customer had given IBM an sadump. IBM support said that they cannot answer

Re: Possible To Remove Both CFRM Couple datasets?

2013-10-17 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
We have (by oversight) an active base sysplex with CFRM couple datasets defined in COUPLExx. As it is a base sysplex there is obviously no active CFRM policy. Are you sure you don't have an active CFRM policy? The policy that was last active on those CFRM CDSs would have been activated, no

Re: Unit-count default with UNIT=group-name?

2013-10-16 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
If I code SPACE=(CYL,(2,2,0)),UNIT=SYSDA is that implicitly a request for only one volume, or might z/OS give me one cylinder each on two volumes or a secondary allocation on a second device (assuming, of course, that SYSDA were multiple volumes, as it usually would be)? I just tried to get a

Re: SYSIN Symbol Resolution vs. LRECL

2013-10-14 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
No, it doesn't. The 255 byte limit for ISPF edit was removed with ISPF 4.1 in 1994. The limit was changed then to 32760 for fixed length records and 32756 for variable length records. Now I am really confused. Wasn't it you who quoted from the ISPF help panels that maximum record length

Re: Distance considerations fo a Parallel Sysplex with DB2 Data Sharing

2013-10-09 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
OTOH I would not entertain running a parallel sysplex over DWDM. A former employer did. Distance about 22km. Due to IBMs requirement for parallel sysplex pricing for at least one machine being on a different box. That distant lpar was (obviously) sharing ISGLOCK, and response times from

Re: Issue with JES SPOOL

2013-09-26 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
But in no case did we have to cold start. I second that. We have a 100% JES2 shortage of one kind or another about every 3 months. So far I managed to get by without a cold start. The problem as I see it is reducing the shortage to the point that a logon will be possible again. A number of

Re: Health Check(s) remediation

2013-09-23 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I have been asked to take on the task of remediating the health checks for sysplex. I have been given a list of some of the health checks that come up as exceptions on designated LPARs. Any suggestions? IXGLOGR_STRUCTUREFULL RRS_ARCHIVECFSTRUCTURE GDPS_CHECK_DASDMIH

Re: Allocation test

2013-09-20 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Wow, this has snowballed. To summarize: I am allocating a DSORG=PO data set with an explicit zero space value for directory blocks. This data set *is* SMS-managed. The ACS routines don't interfere with any DCB attributes, and there is no ALLOCxx anywhere within the parmlib concatenation. (And

Allocation test

2013-09-19 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Can someone please run this iefbr14 job and tell me what the space allocation is (number of directory blocks) on your system? // EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DD1 DD DISP=(,CATLG),DSN=TEST, // SPACE=(TRK,(1,0,0)),RECFM=F,LRECL=20,DSORG=PO Note that I

Re: Allocation test

2013-09-19 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Thanks, Thomas. that confirms that there is a bug somewhere in allocation. The same job should result in the same allocation on two different lpars, I'd say, and it should not use a random number for directory information. At the very least I would have expected that the directory information

Re: Allocation test

2013-09-19 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
All, Be aware of the trap that Elardus hinted to: your allocation can be modified by ACS routines, possibly differently on different LPARs, caused by different variables passed to it. Thanks for testing. On our system, I am the master of everything (SMS, allocation), you name it. There isn't

Re: Allocation test

2013-09-19 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
In my case it certainly is NOT by ACS-routines! I can only think of reuse of space with a (part of) member index. And this must in a production environment imply a security leak ?! Having spent quite a bit of time recently with the different ways a DCB is populated, this is an invalid

Re: Allocation test

2013-09-19 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
IIRC the (pseudo) eof is only written for SMS managed PS datasets, so a PO dataset could well be allocated over old data which will then be readable. Can you force the problem PO dataset to anther place by making sure the space for the 66000 dataset is still in use when the problem PO

COBOL 5.1 Share presentations

2013-09-18 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Tom, Could you share the SHARE presentations you have given on COBOL V5? I just sent them over, they should be live soon at: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21634215 'Soon' meaning that more than a week later these presentations are still not there. Barbara

Re: COBOL 5.1 Share presentations

2013-09-18 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Thanks for the direct link. Yes, I have now downloaded the presentation. https://share.confex.com/share/121/webprogram/Session13662.html Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: TSO Delete in IKJTSOxx

2013-09-12 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I've run into this in the past when deleting GDG bases from ISPF 3.4. I get an authorization failed message, and putting DELETE in IKJTSO00 and a PARMLIB UPDATE(00) fixes it. Interesting. This is new for me or I forgot about it. :-) I found this interesting, too, so I went and tried it

Re: TSO Delete in IKJTSOxx

2013-09-12 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Barbara, keep in mind that the SAMPLIB IKJTSO reflects a vanilla system. Any Program Products may instruct you to update IKJTSO. I know. But an ADCD system *is* a vanilla system. Supposedly. There certainly isn't any non-IBM product running on ours (other than our own, which does not require

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-11 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Thanks! BTW, with huge, are we talking about 1 members ? Generally, yes - because of the way things are split between different major applications. I looked and saw one loadlib with about 20,000 members, but most are under 5K. Are we also talking about PDSEs with

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-11 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I had begun to think that my experience with PDSEs was somehow atypical, too lucky, because I had not encountered the grievous problems that featured in others' war stories. I therefore spent a long afternoon trying to reproduce and clear some of these problems. My experience was much like

Re: z/OS 2.1 and tools like COBOL 5.1, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool, etc

2013-09-10 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Tom, Very late to this, so sorry if my concerns have been answered earlier. What about shops with a ring of monoplexes ?. The sysplex scope is each ind= ividual monoplex - but the sharing boundary is the larger GRSplex. Latch co= ntention - particularly PDSE latches - are a PITA. It also

Re: MVS ROUTE command is a bad influence on DB2 ERLY code

2013-08-05 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
The command char is registered with the subsystem definition - I suspect (but don't know) that when you look at the OPDATA between the 2 systems (run the command on each ) you will see a difference. Why Route gets involved is each system is processing the command according to what is

Re: Installing HSM or rather: DFHSM woes

2013-07-12 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I have to ask. What's harm of defining a couple 1 cylinder (or 2 track) OCDS, BCDS that will remain empty and unused? 'Business reasons'. I just didn't understand why something that looks to have correct syntax is getting a syntax error. Turns out that it *should* be correct. I will just

Re: Installing HSM or rather: DFHSM woes

2013-07-11 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Glenn, Have you tried an HSM Modify command to issue it? The syntax seems correct, so it may be some typographical error in your parmlib. 13193 06:03:58.69 me 0290 F DFHSM,SETSYS TAPEMIGRATION(NONE) 13193 06:03:58.71 STC02475 0090 ARC0103I INVALID SETSYS

Re: Installing HSM or rather: DFHSM woes

2013-07-04 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Alan, You can issue F DFHSM,RELEASE MIGRATION, but it will most likely be held again immediately when the first migration is attempted. I got up the nerve to issue the command this morning (after all, the cycle is still defined to not start by itself). HSM said: ARC0100I RELEASE COMMAND

Re: Installing HSM or rather: DFHSM woes

2013-07-04 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Is this in the ARCCMDxx member? Or is it being issued as a command? Doesn't matter. Doesn't work either way, gets the same error message. If in the ARCCMDxx can you post a few lines above and below the Tapemigration line? SETSYS -

Installing HSM or rather: DFHSM woes

2013-07-03 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Finally I have finished wading through the HSM starter set and customized it the way we want to use it - just migrating to ML1, no ML2, no backup, no recovery, no dumping, no tapes, a really minimal environment. That means I only start DFHSM with an MCDS (OFFCAT, BAKCAT, JOURNAL, ARCLOGX,

Re: Installing HSM or rather: DFHSM woes

2013-07-03 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
DUMMY muddies the water because the DDNAME is truly allocated even though there is no tin can at the other end of the string. A component that wants to use that file may well try to open it. Depending on how the file is accessed, DUMMY can cause OPEN failure. Well, not in the case of

Re: PDSE Issue

2013-07-02 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Matt, V SMS,PDSE,ANALYSIS IGW031I PDSE ANALYSIS Start of Report(SMSPDSE ) 879 ++ Unable to latch ASRBULCH:7FF94DC0 Latch:7FF94DD8 Holder(006A:00AFF208) Holding Started Task:TECHCICS -data set name-- -vsgt---

Re: IPCS CBF control block list

2013-06-24 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Miklos, Is there a list of the available control blocks, to format via CBFORMAT command ? (I'm searching for DCB DEB IOB etc etc , but a list would be not bad ) Try SYS1.PARMLIB(BLSCECT). It contains a list of data structures. Maybe it will help you. Barbara

abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Does anyone have an idea what the above reason code wants to tell me? According to the book, the reason code should be decoded as an LE-Message named msgCEE0510x with x denoting the severity or something. Unfortunately, I cannot find any msgCEE0510x in any LE book. We are running z/OS 1.13, and

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Anthony, the message isn't CEE5101x, it would translate to CEE0510x. Note the extra zero. If I understand the book correctly. Besides, the application isn't terminated, it loops and writes two transaction dumps per hour with the same abend code without terminating. And the application does

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
Miklos, If you get a DUMP, there should be an Errnojr field (error information title), maybe it contains the errno and errno2. where exactly would I find that? I have several dumps to choose from, and even formatting ledata from that dump doesn't cough out any such field. The dump title was

Re: abendu4080 reasonCEE05101

2013-06-21 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
I'm wondering if CEE05101x and CEE5101x aren't the same animal. When is a leading zero significant? I don't see any CEE messages with more than 4 digits. The 'reason code' explanation of u4080 explicitly says that the last digit is supposed to be ignored and only the 4 characters following

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