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I'm unfamiliar with RDz. I guess it is this product:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rdz/
Indeed it is.
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On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 17:36:36 -0600 Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com
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Are you running it from a shell? (hint: that is a requirement)
Is that because it doesn't include RC=SYSCALLS('ON') to
define the tail variables? Why else?
Gil is correct. In order to run under, say TSO, as opposed
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STORAGE is equivalent to GETMAIN in terms of serialization. For what it's
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Does anybody have RDz and use it with COBOL?
I'm unfamiliar with RDz. I guess it is this product:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rdz/
Yep; that's the one.
Does the editor run on the
We are planning to install z/OS 1.10 at the first time via
ServerPac.Could you tell me how to IPL from a Customized Offerings
Driver (5751-COD) and how to install a driving system. Which IBM
manual could help me? Thanks a lot!
Best Regards,
Janson
Janson,
You will receive 'Customized
$5,500 per programmer who uses it???!!! And ISPF costs how much for however
many people need to use it? There is no way that we would do this. How does
anybody justify it? And it's based off of Eclipse, so IBM hasn't even done all
the work to create and maintain it.
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Does anybody have RDz and use it with COBOL?
On 12/01/2009 10:47 AM, duncan turner wrote:
I am considering creating an IPL set for production and DR use using
up to 8 volumes probably 3390-27. I was thinking of putting the IBM
program libraries on one volume, using another volume for a work
volume and then striping the other system
Anybody have any experience (good and bad) with Microfocus Server to
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If you send me (off-list) a name and contact information for the
Does anyone know if performing an LPR from multiple mainframe hosts
to a single lpr host queue definition would cause contention issues?
I have 3 VPS mainframe printers that are lpr'ing to the same remote
host queue and there appears to be some contention going on.
If lpr'ing from multiple
I have VPS and I can print to any printer from both of my Lpars. Can you
be clearer on how you have the definitions?
Pat Mihalec
Rush University Medical Center
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On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 14:28:12 -0600, Mark Zelden mark.zel...@zurichna.com
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7 *-* j=s.stfs_avail * s.stfs_blocksize
LS.STFS_AVAIL
LS.STFS_BLOCKSIZE
7 +++ j=s.stfs_avail *
From: peter.far...@broadridge.com
In any case, establishing an off-mainframe data repository for
sequential and VSAM data and/or an NFS/SMB connection to the mainframe
for sequential data (and all the associated CPU cycles that those
products require on the mainframe) would still be the
Sure, the problem (I think) is that I have 3 lpar regions that are lpr'ing
to a common server (same IP address,port and queue).
The catch is that the server lpr destination (HOUSTON) is not really a
printer but software that is emulating a printer.
So the mainframe VPS definition for each
In 4b17e85d.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com, on 12/03/2009
at 04:33 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com said:
So you are saying that there is no point doing the two step process I
mention because it will have the file enqueued for the life of the job no
matter what, if DISP=OLD is
In listserv%200912030904178069.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 12/03/2009
at 09:04 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz maryanne4...@gmail.com said:
I see that the module's entry point address is 96EDA300, and IBM QA told
me to go in to IPCS browse to look at that and see if the eye catchers
indicate whos module it is,
In listserv%200912031152459201.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 12/03/2009
at 11:52 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz maryanne4...@gmail.com said:
I was unaware that only vendor
problems can be posted to the list.
There is no such restriction.
It helps if responses include an attribution line and quotes of enough
In s84gh5derriun3ggjjsnmq3i5evkkm2...@4ax.com, on 12/03/2009
at 12:29 PM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu said:
Huh? The 1958 Chevy didn't have seatbelts,
By the 1960's lots of cars had seat belts, at least as an option.
And it is no longer though of as odd at all when a car goes a
In 4b1856e3.2050...@ync.net, on 12/03/2009
at 06:25 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net said:
I would prefer supplementing sturdy seat belts with dangerous air
bags.
I take it that you don't have children?
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In 4b1823a1.2030...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 12/03/2009
at 09:46 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said:
I really don't understand why do you insist on improper spelling of
'Andersen' name.
When did *you* become concerned with correct nomenclature?
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SNIP
And it is no
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paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
I often wonder whether a reason TCP/IP triumphed over SNA was
that SNA didn't provide a facility with the
Since Charles pointed out in his second post that he was new to C++, I'm
going to jump to the conclusion that he intends to use C++ rather than
C. In that case, the recommended approach for working with strings is to
use a container class like std::string instead of the C str*() and
strn*()
Hi,
I have 936 MIPS processor Z02-2096 z9BC
I have 4 LPARS and 2 CF LPARs
SYSA (Prod)
SYSB (Dev)
SYSC (Test)
SYSD (Maint)
SYCF1
SYCF2
Both CPU Engines are online across all LPAR's.
Wts are in such a way that MIPS Allocation are
650 for SYSA
50 for SYSB
50 for SYSC
50 for SYSD
100
1972 Chevrolet Vega, 4 cylinder, aluminum block. At 50K miles a quart of
oil per tank of gas (250 miles). At 60,000 miles blue smoke. At 75,000
miles I rebuilt it with iron sleeves. That rebuild lasted 100K miles till
the rust issue made my feet cold.
My brand new 1966 Mustang had factory
Gosh, there is no question that can't be hijacked into something else.
Thank you to all the people who suggested I use the C++ classes. Yes, yes, I
am well aware of the string class. It does not do everything. There are
times when char[] makes more sense and/or must be used. When doing so, it
John,
The cpus defined as CF (specialty) engines ONLY run the CF code, so
there is no gain to you SYSA/B/C/D lpars.
Are you running a parallel sysplex?
Also I think the GP engines are in one pool, and the CF engines in
another so your weights aren't giving you the MIPs you think.
Alan
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and for something completely different
As IBM sales suffer, now's the time to buy a new mainframe
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/120409-ibm-mainframe.html
Yes. Parallel Sysplex.
No ICF Engines.
During As-is migration , Legacy system migrated from 2 z900 Processors
(which were in sysplex) to z9BC.
John
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Field, Alan C.
alan.c.fi...@supervalu.comwrote:
John,
The cpus defined as CF (specialty) engines ONLY run the CF
Hi all,
I would like your advice when reserving 512Kb below 16Mb line.
During years i've coded :
L R7,LDASIZA Size of A.S. Region Below
L R8,LDAESIZA Size of A.S. Region Above
ASSIGN0 DS0H Region=0M
ST
All threads here get hijacked eventually. Some sooner than others. From
responses that __I__ have received from IBM in the past, they tend not to
implement in flux stuff. And, they basically say give us a business case to
implement ... and we will prioritize it with other requests. What they
I have TCPPRTR=raw I am going to the memory on the real printer. I am
not experiencing any bottleneck and I am also sharing the printers with
windows servers. We just each take our turn.
I hope that helps.
Pat Mihalec
Rush University Medical Center
Senior System Programmer
(312) 942-8386
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In s84gh5derriun3ggjjsnmq3i5evkkm2...@4ax.com, on 12/03/2009
at 12:29 PM, Howard Brazee howard.bra...@cusys.edu said:
And it is no longer though of as odd at all when a car goes a
Yup... welcome to IBM-Main. The signal to noise ratio is quite high.
Charles Mills wrote:
Gosh, there is no question that can't be hijacked into something else.
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We're all guilty
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I'm not the sysprog, so I may not have all of the details, but if I remember
correctly these are the issues:
We have PDSESHARING(NORMAL) in our IGDSMSxx member, rather than
PDSESHARING(EXTENDED).
From
Thanks for clarifying.
On 12/4/2009 at 8:14 AM, in message
20091204154243.c72fef58...@smtp.patriot.net, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
In 4b17e85d.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com, on 12/03/2009
at 04:33 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com said:
So you
ITYM low.
Signal is the good part
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Certainly, SYSA can take unused cycles, they are distributed according to
weights. What you haven't said is what mode your CFs are running in, so I will
assume the are dynamically dispatched. The thing you need to be very careful
about here is that the CF partitions can get the cycles they
I'm drawing a blank here;
when deleting sequential files (non-vsam) is it possible to use a DD
reference in the IDCAMS cards instead of coding the actual dataset name
in the DELETE statement? The example below doesn't seem to work for
me.
Note: it's been awhile since I've had to use IDCAMS
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:01:29 -0700, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
I'm not the sysprog, so I may not have all of the details, but
if I remember correctly these are the issues:
We have PDSESHARING(NORMAL) in our IGDSMSxx member,
rather than PDSESHARING(EXTENDED).
From
Why do you even want to do that??? Use IEFBR14 instead, with DISP=(MOD,DELETE).
Or, as I do:
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,
// PARM='DEL DSN'
//SYSTSIN DD DUMMY
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
If your reason is to pass the DSN via a PROC parm or a JCL SET symbol. Use
IKJEFT1B if you want a return code from
D'oh. I stand corrected.
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
ITYM low.
Signal is the good part
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CICS itself exploits (some) above-the-bar addressing: Containers are
stored there, but for application access to that data CICS copies it to
24- or 31-bit storage. Applications themselves cannot directly access
the data in 64-bit storage (Assembler excepted, of course; but you're
on your
Because I won't know if the dataset will be cataloged or not, hence the
use of IDCAMS to avoid a JCL error.
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Using DISP=(MOD,DELETE) will work if the dataset exists or not. It it exists,
the existing copy is deleted. If it does not exist, then it is created at step
start and then deleted at step end.
The IKJEFT01 or IKJEFT1B will work regardless. And, as a plus, will not do an
HSM recall if it is
OK, cool. I'll try it.
Thanks
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Subject: Re: IDCAMS Delete via DD
Using DISP=(MOD,DELETE) will work if the
Hi Gilbert,
.
We have VPS also. IMHO the answer is it depends If you have multiple hosts
sending to a virtual or real printer, and if the mutliple hosts get busy
sending at close to the same time, it can cause contention. You can determine
if either of these is happening by reviewing
If you use Iefbr14 and the dataset is a large dataset that was migrated to LM2
then your job may wait hours for it to be recalled and then deleted. The idcams
with a a delete nonvsam and reset the return code if the dataset is not defined.
Idcams will not wait on the recall it will issue an
On 12/4/2009 at 12:34 PM, in message
listserv%200912041334504828.0...@bama.ua.edu, Tom Marchant
m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote:
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 12:01:29 -0700, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
I'm not the sysprog, so I may not have all of the details, but
if I remember correctly these are the
In 67991c5ad29f4e83926c6c00a8b5f...@tbabonas, on 12/04/2009
at 11:01 AM, Tony B. tbabo...@comcast.net said:
1972 Chevrolet Vega, 4 cylinder, aluminum block.
Vega? Isn't that the English translation of Renault?
My brand new 1966 Mustang had factory standard seat belts which I
promptly
Greetings!
FDRDSF is not my forte, I have looked at the very fine manual, but need to
borrow a little expertise...
I have some very old FDRDSF tapes that I need to restore and look at the
contents. We had some old source that was thought lost, but maybe, might not
be...
I do not
I am getting the exact same results on 1.8.
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I am running it from the csh in omvs.
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Linda,
The following will print the contents of your FDR tapes:
//PRINT1 EXEC PGM=FDRABRP
//SYSPRINTDD SYSOUT=*
//ABRMAP DD SYSOUT=*
//VSAMPRT DD
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I would prefer supplementing sturdy seat belts with dangerous air
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I take it that you don't have children?
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None that I'll admit to. :-) Lifelong
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FDRDSF is not my forte, I have looked at the very fine manual, but need to
borrow a little expertise...
I have some very old FDRDSF tapes that I need to restore and look at the
contents. We had some old source that was thought lost, but maybe, might not
be...
Exactly my point. Someone asked me why I said we didn't want to use PDSE to
solve my issue and I said because we can't share them well, because we're not
in a Sysplex.
You can't share regular PDS datasets either.
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
I have some very old FDRDSF tapes that I need to restore and look at
the contents [...] I don't know what datasets might be on these tapes.
The old TAPEMAP program from the CBT used to be able to interpret FDR
dumpfiles. You could at least use that to see what's on the tapes.
--
David
Thanks Dave, but we don't have ABRS, just the FDR, FDRDSF.
Linda
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Subject: Re: Need some FDR help please
Yes, Ted, I think he's figured that out.
Frank, as I've mentioned before, I really think you guys need to re-visit the
Sysplex question again. There is really no reason to not be running at least a
base Sysplex, it should vastly improve things there. IIRC, you are running GRS
in ring mode
Linda, I believe you can do the same thing with FDRDSF, but I don't have it
here. As someone else suggested, call Innovation, they are top notch support,
and will be happy to help.
Linda Mooney linda.lst...@comcast.net 12/4/2009 4:40 PM
Thanks Dave, but we don't have ABRS, just the FDR,
Thanks to all of you for the help. I have a call into Innovation, waiting for
a call back. 10 years ago, I used to install and support FDR, but I couldn't
find what I needed and rust never sleeps, does it? I actually use it most often
to FDR from disk to disk, but I can't remember the last
Correct on strcpy_s versus strncpy. Strncpy has the possibility of making a
new bad situation while preventing another. You can easily end up with a
string that is guaranteed to run wild if you strcpy it.
I *think* what I am going to do (with regard to the specifics of strcpy[_s])
is use either a
I'm using the z/OS UNIX directory list. When I put an E next to a file name,
it always pops up a dialog to which I always hit Enter to accept all of the
defaults. It's kind of like the 3.1 member delete confirmation. It's obvious
how to turn the member delete confirmation off. Is there a way to
Can anyone point me to the place where it's documented
how to code an ERRET routine that gets control when
a LOAD is unsucessful?
The Assembler Services Reference (Vol. 2) simply supplies
the contents of the registers on entry:
Register Contents
0 Used as a work register by the system
Charles Mills wrote:
I'm using the z/OS UNIX directory list. When I put an E next to a file name,
it always pops up a dialog to which I always hit Enter to accept all of the
defaults. It's kind of like the 3.1 member delete confirmation. It's obvious
how to turn the member delete confirmation
Steve Comstock wrote:
Can anyone point me to the place where it's documented
how to code an ERRET routine that gets control when
a LOAD is unsucessful?
When you code ERRET= the LOAD macro inserts LTR 15,15 followed by JNZ
ERRET after the LOAD SVC. So ERRET can be logically treated as just an
Edward Jaffe wrote:
Steve Comstock wrote:
Can anyone point me to the place where it's documented
how to code an ERRET routine that gets control when
a LOAD is unsucessful?
When you code ERRET= the LOAD macro inserts LTR 15,15 followed by JNZ
ERRET after the LOAD SVC. So ERRET can be
Linda,
This is from Innovation.
As suggested by Dave O'Brien, program FDRABRP with the command PRINT TVTOC
will show you the disk data sets that are backed up on any backup created by
the FDR system (whether the backup was taken by FDR, FDRDSF, or FDRABR).
Although program FDRABRP is part of
Thanks!
Charles
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Charles Mills wrote:
I'm using
This may or may not be a weird question, but...
Is there a utility where I can give it a list of dataset names and it can give
back some JCL that could have been used to define that file? Simply an IEFBR14
with a DD for each file where the DD has the DISP=(NEW,CATLG), the DSN, the
full DCB,
On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:44:12 -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote:
D'oh. I stand corrected.
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
ITYM low.
Signal is the good part
It's kinda like how people say steep learning curve
(understanding increases rapidly) when they mean
shallow learning curve (understanding increases slowly).
Thanks to all! I finally found the FDRABRP program and we got it run.
Now I need to restore PS and PO (these tapes predate PDSE), excluding VSAM, no
catalogue updates allowed, non-SMS DASD volume and new high level qualifier.
Most of our DASD is non-SMS. I am excluding the VSAM because
On 2 Dec 2009 05:30:26 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
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Do you have a url for the RDz reference that documents
On 26 Nov 2009 10:49:40 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
I've seen plenty of awful Java. But by far, VB.NET takes the cake due to
India's 3-week course .NET factories. I've found several *major* exploits
in some core business software and the dynamics of it all... leaves an
imprint of
I think so to, but it is not my decision to make.
Perhaps one of our sysprogs will read this and get that discussion restarted
amongst themselves. I have tried to nudge them in that direction in the past,
but nothing has come of it.
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