Re: SMS managed volume

2008-02-22 Thread John Kington
Mark, So many great options. Thanks very much. I did find a problem with using D SMS,VOL=(volser) It reports a volume as not defined CBR1064I Command rejected. Volume serial number SMS013 undefined. But IEHLIST shows that it SMS managed. So I obviously have some issues from my

Re: ZOS Upgrade Issue

2008-02-22 Thread John Kington
continuing top-posting You can setup a default value for unit in your sms configuration. Regards, John I have worked on numerous systems that never had SYSALLDA setup in HCD or ALLOCxx and never had a problem running TSO BATCH. The default for generic for DASD is 3390 that has no ESOTERIC

Re: SMS : WILD CARD USE IN FILTLIST

2008-02-25 Thread John Kington
John, FILTLST NUMA INCLUDE(%%1,%%2,%%3,%%4,%%5,%%6,%%7,%%8,%%9) FILTLST NUMB INCLUDE(%%%1,%%%2,%%%3,%%%4,%%%5,%%%6,%%%7,%%%8,%%%9) IF DSN EQ AM2.DE%.HESD.SOR%.** DSN(2) EQ NUMA DSN(4) EQ NUMB THEN DO END This is assuming that there is only one numeric character following the

Re: SMS : WILD CARD USE IN FILTLIST

2008-02-26 Thread John Kington
Looking at it again, I noticed that John was looking for range of 0 to 9 as the last character in the second and fourth nodes of his dataset. I setup the filtlists to look for 1 though 9. The filtlists should have been: FILTLST NUMA INCLUDE(%%0,%%1,%%2,%%3,%%4,%%5,%%6,%%7,%%8,%%9) FILTLST NUMB

Re: CATALOG QUESTION - CORRECT AN ALIAS PROBLEM

2008-02-27 Thread John Kington
Ernie, Good Morning Gentle Readers, I am working on a problem regarding a TSO alias which was not created but for some unexplicable reason I find about 15 dsns have been cataloged in the MCAT. My question is how can I fix this problem - have the dsns created in the proper UCAT. I

Re: SMS QUESTION - DISKS STILL BEING ALLOCATED

2008-03-03 Thread John Kington
John, Good Morn, I have 2 vols (SMS managed) which I am trying to reclaim, however since there are some dsns on the packs. I changed the status from ENANLE to DISNEW so that no new dsns are allocated. Next, I performed the ACTIVATE (option 8.5) of the new CDS but I noticed that new

Re: SMS QUESTION - DISKS STILL BEING ALLOCATED

2008-03-03 Thread John Kington
John, I tried your suggestion and it worked. When I perform D SMS, VOL(TMV023) it shows that it is disabled in all partitions. I should have mentioned that this environment is JES3. I have never worked in a jes3 environment but I seem to recall that resources were scheduled for the

Re: dataset separation within a Storage Group

2008-03-05 Thread John Kington
Dave, What is the best way to separate datasets within a storage group. Applications want 3 datasets A.B.** to always be allocated on different packs than 3 datasets A.C.** These are small files, and I hate to waste an entire volume to create another STG GROUP... just to isolate

Re: Recatalog a GDG - accidentally deleted the base

2008-03-12 Thread John Kington
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pushparaj, Samuel S Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 7:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Recatalog a GDG - accidentally deleted the base Hello Required help! Unfortunately I deleted the GDG Base and I have 2

Re: Displaying multiple volumes allocated from DSLIST

2008-03-27 Thread John Kington
Ted, It's just showing that you have 2 additional candidate volumes allocated. They have not yet been assigned. It's a control block thing. It doesn't cost anything; it can protect you from future growth problems. The last two shops I worked at had 20 volumes allocated in most dataclasses.

Re: Gary Hussong is out of the office.

2008-03-28 Thread John Kington
Gary, What is a louts note text page? Regards, John Gary Hussong/CIMG/CVG@ CVG

Re: Gary Hussong is out of the office.

2008-03-28 Thread John Kington
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Re: OAM copying a platter

2008-04-18 Thread John Kington
Michael, I need to copy the PLATTER with out the data being deleted off of the source. I have 2 thoughts to see if you think they would work. 1. EJECT a volume issue the RECOVERY command for that volume using BACKUP2? Would the ejected volume be able to be added back into the library?

Re: OAM copying a platter

2008-04-18 Thread John Kington
We are trying to get a copy of a platter from one site and test it at another site to test D.R. What I thought was using the RECOVERY command I could take the original to test. Is that not the reason for backup2? Doing a movevol or recovery will cause you to lose track of the objects on the

Re: OAM copying a platter

2008-04-18 Thread John Kington
BACKUP2 is tape. That is you DR copy, no? Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: OAM copying a platter

2008-04-18 Thread John Kington
Could I take the tape do a recovery command at the DR site and create a platter? Yes. Read the OAM Planning, Installation and Storage Administration Guide for details on the RECOVER command. Unless you take all tapes, you will need to determine which tape(s) you will need. Again, read the

Re: SMS-releasing unused space

2008-05-06 Thread John Kington
Natasa, Hello, in order to prevent releasing of unused space for some datasets, I allocated it yesterday with MC that has Partial release parameter set to 'No'. However, today when I look at some of those datasets, they look like the space was first released (primary extent is 1 cyl,

Re: SMS-releasing unused space

2008-05-06 Thread John Kington
Tom, On Tue, 6 May 2008 08:25:42 -0400, John Kington wrote: Natasa wrote: Hello, in order to prevent releasing of unused space for some datasets, I allocated it yesterday with MC that has Partial release parameter set to 'No'. However, today when I look at some of those datasets

Re: SMS-releasing unused space

2008-05-06 Thread John Kington
Natasa, Here is additional information: The dataset was allocated through ISPF panels (so there was no RLSE parameter), in subsequent daily batch it is used with DISP=OLD, program is ICEMAN. Management class MCNORLSE does not allow any migration, because those datasets are used every day.

Re: Space problem

2008-10-15 Thread John Kington
Karl, Hi Can anyone please help on this one. I have a user who allocates a file with CYL,(100,100)). The file then gets closed and opened 780 odd times and data is added to it with each open. He has tried it with different file names. The SMS DATACLASS and STORAGE CLASS do not allow for

Re: Concatenating TERSEd data?

2008-10-17 Thread John Kington
Tim, We need to TERSE a fairly large (for us) amount of data. This data is in multiple separate datasets now, but needs to be sent as one large sequential dataset. We can TERSE the concatenated sequential input of course; but out of curiosity I'm wondering: can you TERSE the individual

Re: Problem Allocating DSN - 5000 CYl

2008-11-05 Thread John Kington
I seem to recall that the maximum size of a dataset is 65535, regardless of how many volumes it resides on. Limit for nonvsam, non-extended datasets is 65535 tracks per volume up to 59 volumes. Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: GDG Question

2009-01-20 Thread John Kington
Are you haevy user of GDGs created *more frequently* than daily? We run a batch job to copy off smf and ims log data whenever a switch occurs. Just our kind of normal. BTW: I think that a reason why IBM didn't increase maximum LIMIT() for GDG is lack of interest: Those customers who

Re: SMS and System Temporary Datasets

2009-01-20 Thread John Kington
Bob, I've got a product (CA-Allocate) that allows dynamic increasing of the allocation of System Temporary datasets. This current state. As I move to SMS, I see that only a STORCLAS is assigned for these. If I understand correctly, this means that the space coded in the JCL is

Re: 3390-3 to 3390-9

2009-01-28 Thread John Kington
Mark, Is it possible to Flashcopy from a 3390-3 to 3390-9 and then the additional space above 3339 is available for use? Does something need to be changed in the VTOC to reflect the size change? Don't know about the Flashcopy part but I believe you have to do a ickdsf vtoc refresh to

Re: 3390-3 to 3390-9

2009-01-28 Thread John Kington
Mark, Weird. I did a Flashcopy. Then on the offline device I did the REFORMAT UNIT() REFVTOC. But I would get FREESPACE errors. But then I put the device online and REFORMAT DDNAME(xx) REFVTOC and it works. Is there really a difference between the online DDNAME and the offline

Re: How to correct tape errors

2009-02-12 Thread John Kington
I think the OP would want to use the special dataset name TMSTPINIT.INIT or something like that to have CA1 ignore any mismatch between the TMC and the tape label. Regards, John Campbell Jay james.l.campb...@irs.gov Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 02/12/2009 03:26

Re: Split a large file into two parts

2007-08-06 Thread John Kington
Dave, I have a 500,000 record text file with a record length of 150 bytes.I'm tring to find some way of splitting it in two. Because of the record lenght, I'm not able to use the tso edit function. I'm sure I have the solution somewhere. Thanks, Dave I would use IDCAMS repro. repro

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 08/17/2007 08:09:57 AM: Hi, I have a CICS VSAM file that is reaching it's 4gb limit. I want to create an SMS pool for it. Can I define all the constructs and activate the new rules while the region is up and using this file ?

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, Thanks for the input. The file is non-SMS right now. It is reaching the 4gb limit. I am creating a new pool for this and other VSAM datasets. We're small so there aren't that many and they all all non-SMS right now. I plan on moving them over to this pool. The compression sounds

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, OK. I'm still having problems. I created a new DC, SC, and SG on my sandbox. Defined volumes with the SG parm from DSF. Updated the ACS routines to point to a test file. Translated validated them. They activated successfully. I tried to IDCAMS the test VSAM file (KSDS) with no VOL

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, FILTLIST DASD_UNITS INCLUDE('3390','SYSDA','SYSALLDA') Add '' to your DASD_UNITS filter list. This will cover the case when no unit= value or null is being passed into your ACS routines. Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, FILTLIST PRODVSAM INCLUDE(REFPROD.REF.DNO.**) also tried ('REFPROD.REF.DNO') WHEN ((DSN EQ PRODVSAM) AND (UNIT EQ DASD_UNITS)) DO SET STORCLAS EQ 'PRODVSAM' WRITE 'STORCLAS SPECIFIED (' STORCLAS ')' EXIT END Can you post the FILTLIST for

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Bob, Question: I'm not an SMS expert but is this necessary: WRITE 'DATACLAS SPECIFIED (' DATACLAS ')' Dean is trying to leave bread crumbs so that he can see where the path he is taking. Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread John Kington
Dean, VVDS's are defined. Did the sprinkle. In 3.2 I can allocate, batch is where I have the issue. They both go down the same path, right ? You could add a WRITE statement to show what the UNIT variable contains. Regards, John

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-21 Thread John Kington
Dean, I didn't forget about all of you who helped me. Thank you for the suggestions. I opened a PMR with IBM, it appears that the unit being passed to SMS is zeros. I am waiting for a slip from them. We did change Do you mean nulls instead of zeros? the freespace and the file shrunk by 15%. I

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread John Kington
WHEN (DATACLAS EQ DATA_CLASS UNIT EQ DASD_UNIT) /* ALLOW USERS TO SPECIFY */ DO /* DATA CLASS FOR ANY */ SET DATACLAS =3D DATACLAS /* DASD_UNIT ALLOCATION*/ EXIT END Until the OP fixes the

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-22 Thread John Kington
Yes it did. When I removed those parms from IDCAMS and ran the define w/ '' in the filterlist for DASD units the define worked and the appropriate storclas dataclas were assigned. Dean, Great to hear that you have it working. I still suspect IBM means nulls or binary zeros when they say the

Re: SMS Question

2007-08-30 Thread John Kington
Willie, Good Morning, I am trying to allocate a VSAM dsn on 3 volumes which are not SMS managed. However, SMS tries to allocate the dsn in a SMS storage pool. How can I bypass SMS so as that I can allocate the dsn on these 3 vols. Below is my jcl and the error message. You will need

Re: SMS vs. GDG Model DSCB

2007-09-11 Thread John Kington
Len, We have had selective TMM implemented for a few years, now I've ran into a job where I can't seem to get the datasets redirected away from tape to the TMM pool. The error is the infamous IEF344I / IGD17045I space not specified. The ACS test works, but one thing is bugging me, I can't

Re: CA-DISK QUESITON

2007-09-27 Thread John Kington
Willie, DSNAME = O00130./ The command I tried is : LISTDMS ARC. You can try LISTD DSNAME=(/) to see if you can find any datasets. You need to point to the correct files dataset if you have more than one. Regards, John --

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 10/01/2007 07:35:16 PM: Our shop uses SMS for allocation and StopX37, but we are looking at replacing StopX37 with CA-Allocate. Does anyone have any experience coverting from StopX37 to CA-Allocate or converting off of CA-Allocate.

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread John Kington
Ed, On Oct 2, 2007, at 6:33 AM, John Kington wrote: We converted many years ago before SMS provided Storage Constraint Relief. We use CA-Vantage along with CA-Disk so CA-Allocate was a better fit. If you are not dependent on notcat 2 processing, you should try SCR first mostly due

Re: StopX37 to CA-Allocate

2007-10-02 Thread John Kington
Ed, On Oct 2, 2007, at 9:25 AM, John Kington wrote: Ed, On Oct 2, 200 If you try to create a dataset with DISP=(NEW,CATLG) and it is already cataloged, you usually get a not cataloged 2 message in your job if the dataset is not SMS-managed. IEF287I dataset.name

Re: Using SMS to get rid of StopX37

2007-10-02 Thread John Kington
We mainly use StopX37 for the SPACVOLA feature. How do you handle this with SCR? Use a dataclass that has a value in Additional Volume Amount that is the same as the limit you have in SPACVOLA. Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: VSAM Extended Format and DFSMS

2007-10-03 Thread John Kington
Lizette I am just starting to have to added support for VSAM EF in our environment. I was wondering if there was any consensus as to what to do with them. Do you have them in their own pool? Do you combine them in a common pool? I never saw any reason to treat them differently than any

Re: FTP of fixed file off the mainframe

2007-10-03 Thread John Kington
Howard, Do you have trailingblanks specified? If the mainframe is the client, set it with locsite trailingblanks If the mainframe is the server set it with quote site trailingblanks Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: CA:Allocate

2007-10-04 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 10/04/2007 12:14:02 PM: I'd appreciate that. We did not install it yet, but I expect to receive the software sometime this week. We use DFSMS also, but I don't want to use CA-Allocate the replace it. I wonder if that can just be

Re: SMS Question - Rename STORAGE CLASS

2007-10-22 Thread John Kington
John, I am in a bind, can I rename a storage class? I am hesitant to try it out because I don't have a test system. If it is possible, could there be problems? I assume that I will need to do the translate, validate and activate. If you have never assigned the storage class, it is no

Re: SMS Question - Rename STORAGE CLASS

2007-10-25 Thread John Kington
John, Barry, The problem occurred overnight. Seems that user wanted to use the same STORAGE CLASS name which exists in another partition - B. (Both partitions A B are independent of each other. They do not share dasd, catalogs etc.) This way he wouldn't have to change his jcls,

Re: EDTINFO DEVSTAT ?

2007-10-25 Thread John Kington
Paul, You could use IDCAMS DCOLLECT to extract the volume information (V record) for all online devices. It should have everything you would want or care to know. The record layout is documented in the Access Method Services for Catalogs in Appendix F (z/OS 1.7). Regards, John IBM Mainframe

Re: SMS Advanced Feature

2007-11-14 Thread John Kington
Jason, We are planning to implement SMS data compression. I've read that we cannot implement compression on VSAM file that is open for update. Is this true? Aside from this, any other considerations? Compression will not take place until you recreate the vsam dataset. The danger with updating

Re: DFSMSDSS-ADRDSSU

2007-04-11 Thread John Kington
Amlan Hi, I am using ADRDSSU to unload a old backup dataset. Since the backup was taken long back all the datasets inside have a very old creation date. When this dump is unloaded, the created datasets also gets the same old creation date. This is causing problem because they get deleted

Re: Quick SMS Question.

2007-04-23 Thread John Kington
Issue command D SMS,VOL(volser) on your console. If it comes back with CBR1064I Command rejected. Volume serial number volser undefined. You need to validate and activate the updated sms configuration. You don't need to translate the ACS routine(s) unless you made a change to them. Regards, John

SFTP Client for z/OS

2007-05-02 Thread John Kington
Is there a SFTP client that can run on z/OS 1.7 without needing Unix System Services? TIA John -- NOTICE: The information contained in this electronic mail transmission is intended by Convergys Corporation for the use of the named individual or entity to which it is directed and may contain

Re: SFTP Client for z/OS

2007-05-02 Thread John Kington
Ulrich, Typically, the only type of files that sftp can transfer is HFS files. Why do you want to avoid UNIX System Services? What do you want to use sftp for? The datasets are z/os (mvs)and I was trying to see if we could use sftp without copying the data to HFS file(s). Regards, John

Re: SFTP Client for z/OS

2007-05-02 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 05/02/2007 11:11:16 AM: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/02/2007 at 07:27 AM, John Kington [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Is there a SFTP client that can run on z/OS 1.7 without needing Unix System Services? Is there a TCP/IP stack

Re: SFTP Client for z/OS

2007-05-02 Thread John Kington
Ulrich, John, Seymour and Jack, Thanks for the replies. It looks like the least painful way is to copy the data from mvs dataset(s) to hfs file(s) so that the OpenSSH port client can read them. I was just hoping there were no walls between Unix System Services and z/OS. Regards, John

Re: SFTP Client for z/OS

2007-05-03 Thread John Kington
Norbert, Have a look at http://www.dovetail.com/products/dspipes.html and http://www.dovetail.com/docs/dspipes/cookbook.html#3_13 Thanks for the pointer. I gave in for now and we will duplicate the data to hfs. Regards, John

Re: SMS Question

2007-05-10 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 05/10/2007 06:03:57 PM: Bruce Black wrote: I think that SMS requires that a SCDS be validated before it can be activated. Edward E Jaffe wrote: If such an option exists, it's not enabled in my environment. -- It is option 7.3 in

Re: FTP space error

2007-05-15 Thread John Kington
Mark, I'm trying to FTP a really large file from a Linux FTP server to zOS. I keep ending with a B37-04 end of volume. It appears to me that FTP will not go to a secondary volume. It takes secondary allocations on the one volume and then ends when it fills the volume. The file would be

Re: Broken GDG Chain

2007-05-31 Thread John Kington
Daniel, This group is invaluable... Q. HSM ML1 problems, now we're recovering data. SA recalled 3 versions of a GDG and they show up in 3.4. However, when the GDG base is expanded, they no long show in its chain. Does anyone have a magic command to repair that? What is the status in the

Re: Regarding SDSF pgm

2007-07-20 Thread John Kington
Ed, In COBOL? Someone else showed an example of the offsets and it wasn't simple either. I am not suggesting its impossible just a little more than simple it isn't. IIRC it was not possible in EASYTREV at least the version I had. SAS I know it can be done It is dirt simple in Easytriev

Re: CATALOG ERROR

2007-01-15 Thread John Kington
My job put out the following error: IEC331I 042-006(04280039),JS3BATCH,SOFVMA05,SCRT,IGG0CLH0 IEC331I VOL,INST49,NAME,DATAALL.REND.PC5.PROD.VMAXTD.G0553V00 IEC331I 050-092(0484,INST49),SOFVMA05,XTRACT,VALO,IGG0CLE3 IGD07001I GDG ROLL IN ERROR - RETURN CODE 50 REASON CODE 0 MODULE

Re: CATALOG ERROR

2007-01-16 Thread John Kington
that the catalog entry was present. I then scratched the entry (del noscr). But I cannot understand why this happened. I checked the syslog but found nothing that would indicate any type of a problem. Any other suggestions? John Kington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My job put out the following error: IEC331I

Re: CATALOG ERROR

2007-01-17 Thread John Kington
: The dsn is created on dasd and SMS managed. I checked the disk status and it is always online. The job creates the dsn in the SMS pool which has 23 dasds in that storage pool. John Kington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keeping with top posting: Esmie, Do you recall whether the oldest generation

Re: How to Write SAS Output to MVS external file?

2007-01-17 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 01/17/2007 03:01:21 PM: on behalf of Carol Srna [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello All. How do I write the output of my SAS file to an external file? //S010EXEC SAS //RMMSUM DD DSN=PRMAS.RMM.MASTER,DISP=SHR //MYOUTPUT DD

Re: CONVERTV

2007-01-25 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 01/25/2007 11:09:23 AM: Hi All, I'm running CONVERTV TEST on a VAM (CA-DISK) pool of DASD in preparation for a move-in-place conversion to an SMS pool. We're z/OS 1.7. Bob, I recommend you check out Naviquest which is

Re: Scratch orphaned PS files

2007-01-29 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 01/29/2007 03:52:41 PM: Hi; I have a couple of orphaned PS files kicking arround my Z/OS system. I have tried to get rid of them with DELETE VVR No Luck IEHPROGM SCRATCH No Luck All ideas appreciated Carl, You should

Re: DADSM allocation for non-SMS files

2007-01-31 Thread John Kington
For example, for a Physical Sequential file with UNIT=(esoteric,6) SPACE=(CYL,(1000,500)) and 3390 geometry (3339 cylinders) we have observed DADSM pass over volumes with plenty of space and instead allocate 3 volumes that had preexisting files with 3000 cylinders. In other words, the

Re: DADSM allocation for non-SMS files

2007-01-31 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 01/31/2007 09:52:57 AM: If it is a non-sms file then you need to define a volume list. Simply adding a volume count doesn't work unless these are volumes are mounted as storage or public. Private volumes will require a

Re: DADSM allocation for non-SMS files

2007-01-31 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 01/31/2007 10:50:23 AM: The non-SMS volumes for the esoteric in question are all mounted STORAGE (all 35 of them). We do not have any program products installed that are intercepting (x37). The abend I am most familiar with did

Re: ftping of DFDSS logical dataset dumps

2007-02-02 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 02/02/2007 01:00:39 PM: Greetings. Has anyone played with taking the output of DFDSS logical dataset backups and FTP'ed them off the mainframe and onto a network lan location. We have an application that wants to take several

Re: 2007 daylight savings

2007-02-16 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 02/16/2007 10:54:10 AM: Is there a single apar/document that describes the changes required for the above for z/OS and all associated software. Jim McAlpine Jim, http://www.ibm.com/support/alerts/us/en/daylightsavingstimealert.html

Re: SMS / ISMF

2007-02-27 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 02/27/2007 10:33:09 AM: Here's the question: Assuming no userid match above, will the ACS exit and pass control back to CA-Allocate? CA-Allocate will always see the allocation. You should check the STORCLAS or STORGRP variable.

Re: SMS / ISMF

2007-02-27 Thread John Kington
Bob, I shot from the hip with my answer. If you set PLSOPT10 to Y in your parms, CA-Allocate will see the sms managed allocation. If you set it to N or allow it to default to N, your ASR will not see the allocation. Sorry for the wrong answer. Regards, John

Re: How does DFSMS ACS TEST function Work

2007-03-02 Thread John Kington
Lizzette, If you change the CDS name to 'ACTIVE', your test case will be run against what is actually in use. If you have different results, you should check out the date and time each routine was last translated between the source CDS and the active CDS on ISMF panel 7 | 5 (Display). Regards,

Re: How does DFSMS ACS TEST function Work

2007-03-05 Thread John Kington
Lizette, We are now looking at maybe FTP might be imbedded in the ACS routines somewhere making our lives interesting. Job name is one of the parameters you can use in the test case. Did you ever test the same case(s) against cds 'ACTIVE' as well as your source cds? Regards, John

Re: Copy file(s) from one lpar to another

2007-03-16 Thread John Kington
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 03/16/2007 03:18:36 PM: I want to copy file(s) from our production lpar to our Test lpar. Many of the files are sms managed. What I would like to do is copy any file; regardless of its manageclass,etc and just put it to a volume

Re: Data set's lost

2008-06-12 Thread John Kington
--snip--- Hello list, I have some data set's vsam not catalogued and are lost on the disks, tried to delete them and I am not able, used the IDCAMS VVR and NVR and I am getting the following messages: --more

Re: SMS construct pgm name

2008-07-01 Thread John Kington
Jack, Has anyone developed a methodology to determine if FTP is the program creating SMS dsn? Currently we have a fall thru test for pgm = BPXPRECP but I think that's the exec() program, not just FTP? Of course we have the various flavors of FTP, FTP port 21, sFTP (ported tools) and TECTIA,

Re: wildcard utilities

2008-07-09 Thread John Kington
Jim, I have been struggling with a way to use wildcards as a means of not having to know all dataset names that may be created within a day's time. I know snip I am not sure I understand what you are trying to do but I would use dcollect to gather information on dasd datasets and extract

Re: Can STGINDEX have secondary allocations?

2008-07-11 Thread John Kington
Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Staller, Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Kees wrote: snip AFAIK, No. BTW Why are you still doing VIO at all? It made a lot of sense when disk access times were 17-30 ms, but not with 3-4ms

Re: Can STGINDEX have secondary allocations?

2008-07-11 Thread John Kington
Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 07/11/2008 12:04:33 PM: On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:13:04 -0400, John Kington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No numbers but a story from personal experience. When I first implemented SMS, I setup a VIO

Re: Moving 3390-3 to 3390-9

2008-07-15 Thread John Kington
Jon, I potentially have a need to move -- preferably on the fly -- some volumes from 3390 model 3 to 3390 model 9 devices. I can use the wonderful TDMF to move like-to-like volumes, and it seems to me that I figured out a way to move mod-3s to mod-9s. Unfortunately, I can't remember what

Re: Moving 3390-3 to 3390-9

2008-07-15 Thread John Kington
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Re: SMS Confusion

2008-07-22 Thread John Kington
Daniel, Ready to IPL our test 1.9 and the SMS question came up. Is the version as laid down by the build process enough to bring up the system? My boss is concerned since we're in a shared DASD world. My z/OS guys would bring it up for the first time in the sandbox and have me active a real

Re: LISTCAT/SMS QUESTION

2008-07-30 Thread John Kington
Willie, The storage group is never included in the listcat output. To prove that a given volser is in a certain storage group: Issue command D SMS,VOL(volser) Use quickref Run idcams dcollect STOG(storagegroup) Show them a report from micsdasd if you have it. Navigate to ISMF panel that lists

Re: SMS and DFDSS

2008-08-07 Thread John Kington
Bob, Hi Folks, I'm trying to assign a DATACLAS to some existing SMS datasets that don't have one, so they can extend to multiple volumes. I've done a logical DFDSS dump of the datasets (all PS). I've deleted the datasets that were dumped. I've Updated my DATACLAS ACS

Re: SMS and DFDSS

2008-08-07 Thread John Kington
Lizette, I think that when you dump datasets with DFDSS it includes that information in the dump. So the datasets will restore with those same values. Don't you have to nullify the ACS during the DFDSS restore so the new code will be picked up? Something like: BYPASSACS--(dsn)-

Re: Invalid dataset name in catalog, how to remove

2008-08-08 Thread John Kington
Ken Leidner wrote: I have a tape dataset cataloged over 10 years ago with a very strange - invalid name. I am not sure how it was created, but I would like to remove it from the catalog. The tape has scratched years ago and I found this odd dataset name and would like to remove it from

Re: Compression %

2008-08-21 Thread John Kington
Can someone point me to information on what the compression percentage is for datasets allocated with a data class that specifies compaction=Y? Bob, The listcat output shows the compacted byte count and the real byte count. You should be able to calcuate the compression ratio using these

Re: TDMF Questions

2008-09-11 Thread John Kington
David, My shop is now the proud owner of a HDS 9990V. We are however novices in the use of TDMF which the vendor has proposed as the transfer agent between our old and new DASD. Can anyone point me to TDMF documentation? Has anyone run into any issues using TDMF on live data? Any issues

Re: TDMF Questions

2008-09-11 Thread John Kington
David, My shop is now the proud owner of a HDS 9990V. We are however novices in the use of TDMF which the vendor has proposed as the transfer agent between our old and new DASD. Can anyone point me to TDMF documentation? Has anyone run into any issues using TDMF on live data?

Re: TDMF Questions

2008-09-11 Thread John Kington
David, One further question: We currently use FDR to backup our Z/VM and Linux volumes. Since the volumes are accessible to Z/os, will we be able to move VM and Linux volumes using TDMF? Thanks, Dave Dang, you made me look at the manual. The name of the manual is Installation and

Re: Update datasets defined in lnklst

2008-09-18 Thread John Kington
Tom, As DB2 guy, I used to religously use the CSVLLAxx member to avoid impacting others. However, my main zos guru recommended to me a while back (maybe the last 2 ZOS releases?) that the benefits were so minimal now that it wasn't worth the effort to code the CSVLLA route any longer,

Re: VOLID starting with ##

2008-09-24 Thread John Kington
Mike, Hello all, I tried searching the archives for VOLID starting with ##, and volume id ##, but didn't get any hits. We have from time to time had cataloged datasets that have the volid as ## Where the ## are really ##'s and the ? are some assortment of characters. This has been going

Re: Unable To Find Error Message - ADSDM192

2006-08-28 Thread John Kington
John, Did you get a four digit number after the ADSDM192 message? If so, try to find that code in the message manual. Regards, John -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL

Re: Unable To Find Error Message - ADSDM192

2006-08-28 Thread John Kington
John, I do have it the 4 digit (4266) but I cannot find the message manual online. I did not have it in my local manuals either. I found the manual through the CA-Disk forum page on esupport website. 4266 FILES-DD IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR (FFF) It appears you tried a function that requires an

Re: Unable To Find Error Message - ADSDM192

2006-08-29 Thread John Kington
John, Thanks for the info. You're welcome. Last favour to ask of you, you mention that you found the information in a esupport website. The URL is //http:supportconnect.ca.com You will need to register with the site to get the documentation or other good stuff. Once there, you can setup to follow

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