Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 22:03:40 -0300, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: On 7 Apr 2014 10:41:50 -0700, Bob Shannon wrote: Why is it that SYS1.NUCLEUS can't be a PDSE? SYS1.LINKLIB? SYS1.LPALIB, SYS1.PARMLIB? Could it be the short sighted and inadequate implementation? Common Clark.

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 10:11:46 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: Why do YOU need PDSE support at IPL time? As far as I know, it makes no sense to _require_ that PDSE support be available at IPL time. If you have a business case, or a requirement for your code, please state it. I suspect the

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-09 Thread John McKown
What I, personally, think would be neat would be some sort of R/O page data set. It would be something like the LPA. It would be created and updated to basically contain the z/OS nucleus. NIP would simply allocate the fixed real memory for this nucleus. It would read the data into this memory from

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014 11:26:24 -0500, John McKown wrote: What I, personally, think would be neat would be some sort of R/O page data set. It would be something like the LPA. It would be created and updated to basically contain the z/OS nucleus. NIP would simply allocate the fixed real memory for

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-09 Thread Jim Mulder
What I, personally, think would be neat would be some sort of R/O page data set. It would be something like the LPA. It would be created and updated to basically contain the z/OS nucleus. NIP would simply allocate the fixed real memory for this nucleus. It would read the data into this

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-09 Thread John McKown
I think the reason is not to reduce system start up (IPL) time, but to remove the PDS dependency from IPL/NIP. And perhaps even to replace the need for PDSEs. Many people here _still_ seem to dislike them. I, personally, don't have any problem with them. If fact, 90+% of all our non-system

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-08 Thread Martin Packer
john.archie.mck...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date: 08/04/2014 02:27 Subject:Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?) Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu In case anybody is interested. I looked

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-07 Thread John McKown
On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 20:11:59 +, Chase, John wrote: Update from the vendor: The scheduler DOES NOT attempt to acquire exclusive allocation of a JCL member; it only needs READ access to the JCL library. So, the

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-07 Thread John Gilmore
The old, old question: Why are PDSs (instead of PDSEs) being used here? John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 09:53:03 -0500, John McKown wrote: Hum, I don't see the need to downgrade. From what I understand, when a user does an ISPF editor SAVE command, ISPF does: ENQ SPFEDIT dsn OLD write out to PDS STOW to update the PDS directory DEQ SPFEDIT dsn That is, ISPF does not have a SHR

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-07 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 09:53:03 -0500, John McKown wrote: Hum, I don't see the need to downgrade. From what I understand, when a user does an ISPF editor SAVE command, ISPF does: ENQ SPFEDIT dsn OLD write out to PDS

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-07 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: snip I use LM services for background updates of PDS. (And once was caught by a MIM failure.) Soon, it may be time for a(nother) rant about the difficulty of LMCOPY from a UNIX file to a PDS member. The best I can

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-07 Thread Bob Shannon
Why is it that SYS1.NUCLEUS can't be a PDSE? SYS1.LINKLIB? SYS1.LPALIB, SYS1.PARMLIB? Could it be the short sighted and inadequate implementation? Common Clark. You should already know that NIP is too early in the IPL process to use PDSEs. Bob Shannon Rocket Software

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 17:41:42 +, Bob Shannon wrote: Why is it that SYS1.NUCLEUS can't be a PDSE? SYS1.LINKLIB? SYS1.LPALIB, SYS1.PARMLIB? Could it be the short sighted and inadequate implementation? Common Clark. You should already know that NIP is too early in the IPL process to use PDSEs.

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:54:55 -0500, John McKown wrote: Soon, it may be time for a(nother) rant about the difficulty of LMCOPY from a UNIX file to a PDS member. The best I can do is first copy it to a temp DS (or SYSCALL readfile, then LMPUT in a loop). IBM should enhance the UNIX cp command

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-07 Thread Clark Morris
On 7 Apr 2014 10:41:50 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Why is it that SYS1.NUCLEUS can't be a PDSE? SYS1.LINKLIB? SYS1.LPALIB, SYS1.PARMLIB? Could it be the short sighted and inadequate implementation? Common Clark. You should already know that NIP is too early in the IPL process

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-07 Thread John McKown
In case anybody is interested. I looked at the RedHat Fedora initramfs which is the boot image used by the GRUB boot loader to start up my Linux/Intel system at home. This is basically a compressed archive. The file itself is 41 meg compressed. It expands to 103 meg. The boot loader in Linux

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-07 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 20:27:18 -0500, John McKown wrote: I looked at the RedHat Fedora initramfs which is the boot image used by the GRUB boot loader to start up my Linux/Intel system at home. No it isn't. It is designed to be used to ensure the root filesystem is mountable by the kernel.

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 20:11:59 +, Chase, John wrote: Update from the vendor: The scheduler DOES NOT attempt to acquire exclusive allocation of a JCL member; it only needs READ access to the JCL library. So, the entire incident is now explained by the errant user somehow obtaining an

Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2014-04-04, at 08:52, Chase, John wrote: Just curious: Does it use the ISPF-style ENQ? We didn't get that level of detail in the vendor's reply, but that would seem to be the most logical choice. So you're saying they didn't do it that way? In the past, we needed a protocol for

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On 2014-04-04, at 08:52, Chase, John wrote: Just curious: Does it use the ISPF-style ENQ? We didn't get that level of detail in the vendor's reply, but that would seem to be the most logical

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chase, John -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On 2014-04-04, at 08:52, Chase, John wrote: Just curious: Does it use the ISPF-style ENQ? We