Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-08-01 Thread Mike Schwab
How about C compilers to compile Hercules? On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:39 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:05 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: If you want something old school, MochaSoft offers 3270 emulators for the iPhone, iPod touch, iPad,

Re: SuperCE

2010-08-03 Thread Mike Schwab
On the mainframe, it is run like clists, in your clist libraries. Can also be compiled and run from a load module library. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rexx/library/ibmpubs.html Switching between languages is similar to invoking ISPF panels. On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 7:06 AM, john

Re: Memory v. Storage: What's in a Name? (Was: IBM zEnterprise)

2010-08-03 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 11:23 -0400, Ted MacNEIL wrote: Ever since I started doing Capacity Planning, in 1981,  it was called 'Storage'. Hell, I was still calling it core 'til 1991 - when Ehrman chided me for it.

Re: History of Hard-coded Offsets (Was: TSSO problems)

2010-08-03 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 4c56d535.9020...@ync.net, on 08/02/2010  at 09:24 AM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net said: Most of those geometry-related System Services didn't exist!  :-) What year are you talking

Re: Loading a one pack system without tape drive

2010-08-04 Thread Mike Schwab
Load a z/VM evaluation copy from HMC-DVD-RAM and use it to download z/OS? http://www.vm.ibm.com/eval/zvm53eef.pdf z/10 required. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:08 AM, Matan Cohen matancohen...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry but i wasn't clear enough , in this sentence you quote me I refer to a LOAD of

Re: Loading a one pack system without tape drive

2010-08-04 Thread Mike Schwab
, 2010 at 1:28 AM, Matan Cohen matancohen...@gmail.com wrote: it's not a bad idea! but what did you ment by Z/10 require? On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Load a z/VM evaluation copy from HMC-DVD-RAM and use it to download z/OS? http://www.vm.ibm.com

Re: Question on size of IEFBR14 and z/OS V1.11

2010-08-04 Thread Mike Schwab
I was rerunning an z/OS 1.9 ADDRSU backup of a Mod 9 volume, 600 track VTOC, 90% used with mostly 1 track datasets, 90% of VTOC entries used. I had to specify a REGION=256MB because REGION=196MB abended, ended up using about 205MB. when it finally completed. I would continue with the 17MB or

Re: Region Size - Step or Jobcard

2010-08-04 Thread Mike Schwab
If you have a problem with the region size, add a REGION parameter to the jobcard that is equal to or larger than any step, and overrides all the steps. No need to remove the REGION from the steps or procs, and any changes to the values could result in typo abends. On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:43

Re: SMS question

2010-08-05 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbm1.com wrote: Esteemed Listers, After RTFM'ing, testing and googl'ing I have been unable to come up with an answer to the following question: Is there any way (other than recreating the dataset) to alter or remove the SMS

Re: SMS question

2010-08-05 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 9:41 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 9:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SMS question

Re: Setting Interval Migration to 6 hour interval

2010-08-05 Thread Mike Schwab
The first one after midnight is always busy migrating those datasets that crossed the number of days boundary. On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 1:00 PM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] obrie...@mail.nih.gov wrote: Ulrich,  Good catch. My 4AM Interval ran for just over 2 hours. I never would have

Re: z/OS V1.11 and DFHSM performance

2010-08-06 Thread Mike Schwab
No APARs, so I would assume a new problem. Take a dump the next time it happens. and open the ETR. This does sound like an unintended tight cpu loop. On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: Open a software PMR: Excessive CPU during ML2 Recall. Let IBM tell you

Re: auditor request question

2010-08-10 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:37 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 19:16 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: As others have pointed out, your auditors are all wet if they think that practice is standard.  Logging on to consoles that are in a restricted access location that is

Re: auditor request question

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Schwab
How about activating the System Console's PC's screen saver and putting a password on the PC? On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Well, I might differ on the secure room part. Sometimes I have seen shops let cleaning people in to the secure room that

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - RESTARTING SECONDARY SPACE MANAGEMENT

2010-08-11 Thread Mike Schwab
You need to set it to a FUTURE TIME ( 2-5 minutes into the future) and it should activate at that time. Later, issue the commands with your permanent window. Or maybe issue some of the volume migrate commands. On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:48 AM, willie bunter williebun...@yahoo.com wrote: Good

Re: Valid EBCDIC Characters for DB2 Plan name

2010-08-12 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:49 AM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: Hi Would anyone know what are valid ebcdic charcters for a DB2 plan name EBCIDIC has 3 classes of characters. Uppercase Alphabetic A-Z Lowercase Alphabetic a-z National @#$ Numeric 0-9 Special printable charaters

Re: CA-FILESAVE help - desperate

2010-08-13 Thread Mike Schwab
How big is your sort prefix (sort keys)? Subtract this from 32767. Look in each file for records longer than the result. On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:58 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: We use CA-FILESAVE to process CICS/TS 3.2 journal records. We are getting a message:

Re: Date formats

2010-08-13 Thread Mike Schwab
The International Astronomical Union uses the Julian Date / Time format. 0 was at January 1, 4713 BCE Greenwich noon, increments by 1 per day, decimal fraction of day for time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day Various Gregorian calendar formats, including a list by country.

Re: date formats

2010-08-13 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: deleted I was more thinking of 1582.  Wikipedia (which is always right except when it disagrees with you) says:    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proleptic_Gregorian_calendar    The proleptic Gregorian calendar is

Re: [Fwd: Re: date formats]

2010-08-15 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 2:48 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: Believe it or not, our 20xx dates are encoded x'9A001' for 2000, and so on up the alphabet. I wasn't in on this, so I don't know where it terminates. But x'9F' is the max - 2015. So the world better end in 2012! grin x'90'

Re: QUERY IN ASSEMBLER

2010-08-17 Thread Mike Schwab
After reloading the registers from the save area, what did you load into GPR 15 before the BR R14 to return to the operating system? On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Ram Study rambal...@chennairocks.in wrote: Hi All, I have written a basic file handling program and ran in assembler. Program

Re: Simple JCL Question

2010-08-19 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de wrote: Hello IBM-Main, can I split a PARM on the EXEC statement, which is too long, in two parts (on two lines), without having a comma inserted? Thanks, regards Bernd Use variables (proc or set) in the parameter

Re: ShopzSeries My Licensed Software

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Schwab
My experience is with PC / Servers over TCP/IP. However, messages like this are usually one of the IPs between you and the destination are using a port number that is blocked on one or more IP numbers, usually a firewall IP number. If the port number is correct, do a trace route between the

Re: simple JCL question

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 008301cb4453$4242cec0$c6c86c...@org, on 08/25/2010   at 05:44 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: PGM= is positional, is it not? Yes. I could make a case that it shouldn't be, and it's as

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: Or two 80-column splits and one 160 column split for viewing listings. On one of the Hercules yahoo groups a few years ago, someone wrote an RJE editor that would do an 80 column edit screen and a 133

Re: ShopzSeries My Licensed Software

2010-08-25 Thread Mike Schwab
With 2 cases, probably a firewall issue somewhere within the IBM network. Open an ETR. On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Brian Peterson brian.peterson.ibm.m...@comcast.net wrote: I'm getting the exact same error message. Brian On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:54:16 -0400, Ken Porowski wrote: Trying

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-26 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In aanlktimngdk3urvnzngbsm5=uetr3pmzrqemfkd=t...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/25/2010   at 02:25 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: On one of the Hercules yahoo groups a few years ago, someone

Re: Check out Tropical Storm: Tracking Map : Weather Underground

2010-08-31 Thread Mike Schwab
I heard a story about a company. Their data centers were in Miami and New Orleans. A hurricane approached Miami and they transferred operations to New Orleans. Miami was still picking up the pieces and the data center had no power when the same hurricane approached New Orleans a few days later,

Re: Virginia DOT outage

2010-09-02 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: One might argue that the context of the original statement required citing rather than sighting, but nowadays how can one be sure? Perhaps spelling really is unimportant, so long as the correct sound is represented.  And both

Re: Need to get unix file to zos dataset

2010-09-02 Thread Mike Schwab
What program created it on Unix? What were the New Line settings? IND$FILE should be able to translate and split the PC convention records with ASCII CRLF settings http://www.bluezonesoftware.com/help/v50/en/bz/DISPLAY/IND$FILE/IND$FILE_Technical_Reference.htm#tso_receive But it does require both

Re: Virginia DOT outage

2010-09-02 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Don Poitras sas...@sas.com wrote: deleted They weren't injured, but you have to believe they were pretty scared when the plane they were flying last Saturday was met by armed men screaming at them. The 'criminals'? John and Martha King. Known throughout the US

Re: Hiperbatch on ZOS 1.10

2010-09-03 Thread Mike Schwab
This is about all I could find of it. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/memories_of_hiperbatch?lang=en On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Dave Barry dba...@ups.com wrote: Speaking of which... Does anybody know of a working version of HBAID?  It used to

Re: JES2 vs. JES3

2010-09-07 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: Why is an airplane better than a submarine? I'd like to know whether you plan to travel under the ice or over it before answering the question. --     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT    

Re: O/T IBM to Ship World's Fastest Computer Chip

2010-09-07 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Sun, 9/5/10, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: From: Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net Subject: Re: O/T IBM to Ship World's Fastest Computer Chip To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Sunday, September 5, 2010, 11:49 AM

Re: z990s still running?

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote:  On 9/7/2010 10:13 PM, Ron Hawkins wrote: I occasionally get copied on questions regarding support for OS390 on our (HDS) storage products. I think the most recent was a question about support for OS/390 1.2

Re: O/T IBM to Ship World's Fastest Computer Chip

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net wrote: On 9/8/2010 12:42 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: Just got a good example of journalistic incompetence. http://twitpic.com/2lqaqh The accompanying map is clipped, but appears to locate Bornholm on the western side Sweden

Re: O/T IBM to Ship World's Fastest Computer Chip

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net wrote: On 9/8/2010 12:42 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: Just got a good example of journalistic incompetence. http://twitpic.com/2lqaqh

Re: Need a simple counter

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:57 AM, Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote:     Hi    Sometimes I would need a simple SYSTEM/SYSTEMS/SYSPLEX wide counter, for every call gives back the next number. (Seen maybe in CICS ?) If not updated too frequently, with a shared catalog or

Re: O/T IBM to Ship World's Fastest Computer Chip

2010-09-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:36 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net wrote: On 9/8/2010 12:42 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: Just got a good

Re: EMC DLm Memory Leak Heads Up

2010-09-09 Thread Mike Schwab
We had our EMC hang July 7/8 and we are apply patches for memory leaks. On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Mark Young myo...@checkfree.com wrote: We had the EXACT same problem.  Funny, it seemed to take our EMC service folks a couple of weeks to figure this out.  We put the 2.1.2p2 on a week ago

Re: CA OPS/MVS phone home

2010-09-10 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 11:25 AM, Jack Kelly lasjke...@aol.com wrote: Does OPS have the ability to call a phone number and send a message to someone? Or does another product, eg NetView? I assume that any of them can send a email but I hate assumption? TIA Jack //jobname JOB

Re: DSFORT INTERNAL ERROR WITH ICE185A S0C1 -HELP

2010-09-11 Thread Mike Schwab
SAS 8.1 and 8.2 issued fixes. http://support.sas.com/kb/4/435.html On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Tommy Tsui tommyt...@gmail.com wrote: HI ALL, After migrated to z/os 1.11 we found lot of  jobs using DFSORT icetools abended with ICE185A S0C1 ABEND WAS ISSED BY DFSORT anyone hit the same

Re: ASG Zeke: Insufficient index data space storage

2010-09-12 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Patrick Falcone patrick.falco...@verizon.net wrote: Where having an issue with Zeke on 1.9 with Zeke Z17U8E Insufficient index data space storage Any ideas... Three ideas to try. Increase primary allocation. Increase region size. Increase index allocation

Re: z/OS non-sms dasd allocation algorithm ?

2010-09-13 Thread Mike Schwab
VATLST sets up PUBLIC and STORAGE non-sms volumes. PRIVATE volumes are not used unless specifically requested. On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Steve Mann ma...@msu.edu wrote: Does anyone know how a dasd volume is selected for a new non-sms dataset allocation when using the UNIT parm?  Is it  

Re: region problem after migrated to zos1.11

2010-09-14 Thread Mike Schwab
With z/OS 1.11, on a volume MOD 9 almost full of 1 track datasets, ADRDSSU uses about 220MB of a 256MB region. On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 1:19 PM, gsg gsg_...@yahoo.com wrote: Were the jobs using ADRDSSU?  We had a similar problem, but we changed our default to 6M on all systems and it seems to

Re: z/OS V1.12 differences and z196 (the new mainframe) impacts

2010-09-14 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: deleted Well, we had this discussion at great length a few years ago... The pre-existing 24- or 31-bit program that's been running for many years now gets called by a 64-bit program, issues a GETMAIN which now zeros the

Re: z/OS sms dasd selection?

2010-09-14 Thread Mike Schwab
In our shop, we occasionally have our VTOC Indexes get disabled. Unfortunately, these volumes then fill up with datasets and cause out of space abends, even though there is plenty of space on other volumes. I suspect that Storage Class performance requirement columns 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 13, 15 are

Re: z/OS sms dasd selection?

2010-09-15 Thread Mike Schwab
We have a customer that uses the same DSNs on two different systems in the same sysplex, in different catalogs on different volumes. So their DSNs are not ENQed across the sysplex causing problems on the test system that shares volumes with another system. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:28 PM,

Re: symbolic date parameter

2010-09-16 Thread Mike Schwab
I wrote a small program that took the parm (after the system substituted the variables) and wrote it as a F 80 80 file w 1 record. Ran it once for each card then used all the files for the input file. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com wrote: You'll

Re: z10 E12

2010-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:54:08 -0700, Gibney, Dave wrote: I've heard of a site with this box that has experienced a failure of multiple CPU engines.  The built-in redundancy of the CPU picked up the data processing with

Re: SMS failure with dynamic allocation in FTP

2010-09-21 Thread Mike Schwab
A frequent problem our site runs into with is FTP (and USS services) do not recall datasets. Make sure the datasets are recall and check for NOAUTO migration value for the dataset. May not apply in this case, but something to look for. On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:51 AM, Donnelly, John P

Re: Identify all MVS images in a CEC

2010-09-22 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Steve Austin steve.aus...@macro4.com wrote: Thanks for all your responses. Essentially I'm looking for a method of identifying MVS images so that I can talk to my agent running in each of those images. If my agent is not running on an image then neither is any

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-09-22 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Larry Macioce mace1...@gmail.com wrote: I hate to bring up an old topic but has anyone seen or tried this?? http://www.syspertec.us/smartphone.html mace x3270 should be able to be comipled on any processor with a C compiler. Hercules should be able to be

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-09-22 Thread Mike Schwab
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 2:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone? On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Larry Macioce mace1...@gmail.com wrote: I hate to bring up an old topic but has anyone seen

Re: ISMF SAVE and E37 ABEND

2010-09-22 Thread Mike Schwab
After viewing the list under TSO ISPF 3.4, go out to the 3.4 screen and type P to Print, and press enter. Continue to press PF3 until you are exiting ISPF, the second dataset will contain your listing, modify disposition as needed. You probably want Option 4 Keep dataset and allocate new

Re: ISMF SAVE and E37 ABEND

2010-09-22 Thread Mike Schwab
I find it... On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: After viewing the list under TSO ISPF 3.4, go out to the 3.4 screen and type P to Print, and press enter.  Continue to press PF3 until you are exiting ISPF, the second dataset will contain your listing

Re: Access z/OS 3270 TSO from smartphone?

2010-09-22 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Larry Macioce mace1...@gmail.com wrote: I hate to bring up an old topic but has anyone seen or tried this?? http://www.syspertec.us/smartphone.html mace x3270 should be able

Re: Your opinion on More or Less CPs in a Z196

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Schwab
1. Better to have 2 z/Series, just in case one should go down entirely. 2. Are they in separate computer rooms in separate cities at least 2 POPs away, for mirroring and protection against a Hinsdale fire taking out a phone company hub.

Re: ISMF SAVE and E37 ABEND

2010-09-23 Thread Mike Schwab
I do an DCOLLECT on the volumes then an easytrieve report by storage groups and similarly name non-sms volumes. On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Neil Duffee nduf...@uottawa.ca wrote: OK, a third question: Is this even worthwhile? In batch, perhaps? z/OS v1.11 DFSMSdfp Storage Administration

Re: VTOC /VVDS issue

2010-09-27 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA30233 z/OS 1.8 or higher? Is this patch applied? Try the local fix. On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 11:54 PM, SrinivasG sriniv...@infosys.com wrote: Hi, Users get a Catalog error when they try to access DB2 Datasets : DSNP012I  -DB9J DSNPCLO0 -

Re: Name of a program's library

2010-09-30 Thread Mike Schwab
Include a hand entered or compiler timestamp and slightly modify the low end value (zap) after copying to other load modules? On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com wrote: An unauthorized program can OPEN a BPAM, BSAM, QSAM, or BDAM DCB to the load library, search

Re: Help in troubleshooting CoD load

2010-09-30 Thread Mike Schwab
Capacity on Demand - the thread originator was trying to change his configuration for more processors. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:45 PM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com wrote: What does CoD stand for?  I've been following this thread for a while, and I haven't seen the initials spelled

Re: Duplicate Volser

2010-10-05 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com wrote: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Dover Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 2:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Duplicate Volser ... my understanding is there is

Re: ESS800 Configuration

2010-10-05 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Carlos Bodra - Pessoal cbo...@terra.com.br wrote:  Hi We are in process to configure some area of our 2105-800 to be used by open systems. We start process and when we try to building host access (option modify host), we got in ESS Specialist console following

Re: Strange Allocation Behaviour

2010-10-05 Thread Mike Schwab
123 extents, so VSAM? If a CI is full and an insert takes place, a CI split can occur. If The insert happens to fall at just the right point in that CI, and all the records go into the new CI. The insert is then tried on the new CI, so another CI split happens. Repeats until it runs out of

Re: Maximum # of processors for Z/os

2010-10-05 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www-304.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/lsprzOS11MIJuly2010?OpenDocumentpathID= includes all zSeries. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:49 PM, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 10/5/10, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: From: Edward Jaffe

Re: IDCAMS DEFINE and OWNER

2010-10-06 Thread Mike Schwab
I Believe the owner is an optional comment intended to have the TSO USERID of who to notify if there is a problem with the dataset. http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/vstutor/vstutor.htm is a vsam tutorial for the VSAM Catalog era and ONWER was not an option before MVS/XA. Use ALTER cluster

Re: Batch loop in SYSplex

2010-10-10 Thread Mike Schwab
How about the catalog? Did it expand suddendly? On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Mohd Shahrifuddin fud...@bayss.com wrote: Dear All, Environment: We in z/OS 1.9, CICS, IMS and VSAM environment. Running Parallel SYSPLEX 4 LPAR. Lately we apply new PTF RSU1006 for all three(z/OS,IMS and

Re: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd

2010-10-12 Thread Mike Schwab
You can't install z/VM from DVD then download and install MVS? On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 9:30 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, October 12,

Re: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd

2010-10-12 Thread Mike Schwab
wrote: W dniu 2010-10-12 20:12, McKown, John pisze: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2010 12:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd

Re: Two HSM's on one Lpar

2010-10-12 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: I'm trying to come up with a technical solution for a $$$ problem. In short I want all the migrations activities for a single HLQ that's in its own storage group to be isolated to its own ML2 tapes. Taking a curtsy

Re: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd

2010-10-12 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:12:56 -0500, McKown, John wrote: Without first having some z/OS base system? No. You cannot install z/OS without z/OS.  ... If this is literally true, it bodes ill for the future of z/OS. There

Re: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd

2010-10-13 Thread Mike Schwab
We have a ESS F20 box bought about 1999. We have had some repeated NVS failures on it, when the mainframe was configured to block the failing cluster, it continued to work. We moved off of it and configured it for open systems. AIX boxes with 1 FC card. When it went down, the AIX box was down

Re: Different versions of PTFs from IBM

2010-10-14 Thread Mike Schwab
I am wondering if the old one he has was a pre-release test version? On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:50 AM, John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com wrote: There should *never* be two versions of any PTF released outside IBM. If you really got two copies of a PTF that are not exactly the same, this is a problem

Re: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd

2010-10-14 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:11 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 7:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: When will

Re: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd

2010-10-14 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:46 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: deleted -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? I do have permission from my manager to post via my work account. But you have a very good point. I just got a

Re: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd

2010-10-14 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com wrote: XIV supporting z/OS roadmap?  Can you point me at something official that says this?  I would like to look at the XIV but I was told by our VAR that XIV supporting FICON and (emulated) CKD isn't in the works.

Re: S013-64-IEBGENER

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Larry Macioce mace1...@gmail.com wrote: [deleted], but my question is why are you defining a dummy dataset? Why not use a br14 or like(if you have another exact dataset) ? Mace It actually opens and closes the dataset, forceing a complete definition of the

Re: Null versus empty datasets

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Schwab
It can also print the VTOC so you can find where the dataset is located. //jobname JOB 'acct','pgmr name', //STEP02 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU ,PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN' (to test control card syntax) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //DDA DD UNIT=DISK,DISP=SHR,VOL=SER=vv //SYSINDD * PRINT

Re: Mainframe hacking?

2010-10-15 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 6:02 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: ---snip--- On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:24:08 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: But why, when hit by a Windows exploit, don't they likewise say, It's time to move off

Re: DFSORT: SUM count?

2010-10-19 Thread Mike Schwab
This example was for counting the duplicates of each record. If you want the total count of duplicates, it tells you in the number of records deleted. On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:37 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com wrote: I just needed a quick and dirty program to tell me how

Re: IPCS dump where command what subpool

2010-10-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Do an IPLINFO to find the ranges of the various areas? On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: Is there any way of knowing whether an address is pvt or common -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?

Re: Storage usage in a job

2010-10-19 Thread Mike Schwab
120T = 120,000 4K pages over 480,000,000 bytes On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: We're doing some load testing, and running out of storage, but we can't figure out how to tell WHAT storage. Shortly before it blew off, the REAL column in SDSF showed 120T.

Re: Storage usage in a job

2010-10-22 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Veilleux, Jon L veilleu...@aetna.com wrote: I wish I could find it but I am not having any luck today. I had found a specific reference to that happening, somewhere, but I will retire that opinion for lack of corroborating evidence. Everyone have a great

Re: IRA400E

2010-10-27 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Sharon Lopez sharon.lo...@nc.gov wrote: Has anyone seen this on your SDM (SYSTEM DATA MOVER) lpars? IRA400E 04,PAGEABLE STORAGE SHORTAGE

Re: IRA400E

2010-10-27 Thread Mike Schwab
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r10.antg000/sdm.htm Suggests it is part of eXtended Remote Copy (XRC). You might look at I/O rates, a cable might have been cut and I/O stacked up on your primary. Do you route your connections via different routes.

Re: Diag traps, was: Re: z/os 1.11 and low private

2010-11-01 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: Yes, this is the JCL I found, but this only targets some PSA areas and not with x'FF' and x'4F' as you said. The FF and 4F come from the DIAG traps. And I think I copied the JCL from share presentation 'bit bucket 29'. And

Re: ATTACH

2010-11-01 Thread Mike Schwab
I like the US-English-International Keyboard setting on Windows / Linux. Once you set this setting, when you type the first combineable character, it is not echoed to the screen until the next character is typed. If the combination is one character, the combined character will be sent, otherwise

Re: ATTACH

2010-11-02 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com wrote: deleted BTW, I finally found an online definition of Rob Scott's words cromulent and embiggins. This page http://www.cracked.com/article_15269_from-cromulent-to-craptacular-top-12-simpsons-created-words_p2.html used to

Re: ATTACH

2010-11-02 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 7:09 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: deleted The latter refers to a style of writing where alternate lines are written from left to right and right to left (it is a reference to a method of plowing a field where when you reach the end of a row you turn

Re: Fast way of changing time - CBT File 639

2010-11-07 Thread Mike Schwab
Mainframes are often run by companies with offices in several time zones across a continent or around the world, so are often set to GMT and let the local offices deal with the varying time differences. On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 8:34

Re: Tivoli Storage Manager for z/OS (Functionally Stablized Impending Demise)

2010-11-07 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 11:57 AM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: W dniu 2010-11-05 13:38, Jim Marshall pisze: deleted Question - 2: So what are people going to use to back up things like your zFS/HFS files on z/OS to get granularity in the restoring at the file level. My guess:

Re: SMS Overflow Allocation

2010-11-08 Thread Mike Schwab
I get this all the time. The dataset has a small allocation that allows multiple volumes. They start their job, fill up all the extents on a volume, extend to another volume, fill it up, and keep extenting until they have allocations on all volumes. Then they try to extend to another volume and

Re: Fast way of changing time - CBT File 639

2010-11-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: deleted And the concept of exactly two time zones, GMT and LOCAL is parochial.  There are 24 zones (actually far more), and a proper conversion function has two arguments:    localtime( UTC, zone ) ... dealing with

Re: IEC614I RENAME FAILED - RC 008, DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS (04100C04)

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Schwab
Lookat for IDC614I return this search result: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/SHELVES/EZ2MZ920?searchRequest=IEC614ISEARCH=SearchType=FUZZYsearchTopic=TOPICsearchText=TEXTsearchIndex=INDEXrank=RANK I open the System Messages book

Re: Fast way of changing time - CBT File 639

2010-11-09 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 16:27:09 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: What I would like to see, but I doubt it would ever be implemented, would be like the Leap Second rule.  If you need to drop a second, you skip the last second of June

Re: does an UCB include any info on how many systems the given device is online?

2010-11-11 Thread Mike Schwab
I don't think so. I run a DCOLLECT on all my systems then assign a column / value from the system id and print out various stats about the volume. It does assume the same UCB on all systems. On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Dr. Stephen Fedtke max_mainframe_...@fedtke.com wrote: hi all, if a

Re: Mac Emulator

2010-11-12 Thread Mike Schwab
Are they looking for an Apple 1? http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/11/12/apple.computer.auction/index.html?hpt=C1 On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: snip--- And I think Computer History Museum is

Re: QUESTION ABOUT Primary Days Non-usage

2010-11-16 Thread Mike Schwab
Also, until the volume reaches the group's high percentage, it does not check the datasets on the volume to see if they could be migrated. If it reaches the group's low percentage during a migration check, it stops checking the remaining datasets. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:14 AM, esmie moo

Re: JES2 Output and Status column in SDSF

2010-11-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: I have a problem with mail delivery.  We are using SMTP and it is not getting delivered. I am reviewing the output in SYSOUT Class B (SMTP) and the STATUS column in SDSF shows JHOLD. That is the O screen I am

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