Re: Change tape block size

2014-05-12 Thread Victor Zhang
Hello, First I need thank you who replied to my question. I should introduce my problem's background and my concern. The tape is virutal tape of oralce, vsm5. I am backing up extended format PS dataset to VSM5 using ADRDSSU. I tested using dss to backup, no matter what block size I specified in

Re: Change tape block size

2014-05-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-05-12 08:44, Victor Zhang pisze: Hello, First I need thank you who replied to my question. I should introduce my problem's background and my concern. The tape is virutal tape of oralce, vsm5. I am backing up extended format PS dataset to VSM5 using ADRDSSU. I tested using dss to

Re: Change tape block size

2014-05-12 Thread Victor Zhang
If block size specified in JCL is max block size the program can use when writing to tape, then I think I can' chage the block dize dss use to write to tape dsn. From GTF trace, someone helped me find dss was using 56062 as the block size to write, however when read, from SMF , we found dss use

Re: RMM and tape dataset block size

2014-05-12 Thread Victor Zhang
The strange thing is someone helped me find from GTF trace when dumpping an extended format PS dataset, 56062 is used as tape dsn block size, however when reading the same tape dsn, 262144 is used.It is very confusing, and at the same time, the block size specified in JCL matched what's

Re: Change tape block size

2014-05-12 Thread Victor Zhang
Lizette, Can I use ibm tools(BADBLKSZ) to check my tape dsn block size using EREP history file? regards Victor -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: PFA (Now, an HZR subject)

2014-05-12 Thread Karla Arndt
Runtime Diagnostics is not a monitor. It is a point-in-time diagnostics tool that you use when there is a problem on your system as an aid to diagnosing the problem. The fact that you are using runtime diagnostics when there are no issues on your system and it is returning no events is good!

Re: Good News: Introducing Mobile Workload Pricing (MWP) for z/OS

2014-05-12 Thread Scott Chapman
I've been doing SCRT reporting for about 5 years now. AFAIK there's no Microsoft Windows based component to SCRT. And looking at the very latest UG, I don't see any mention of it either. The tool itself is delivered as a self-extracting zip, which produces a .bin file that you upload to the

Re: Handle RACF abend in LE C

2014-05-12 Thread John McKown
I don't know if you want to bother with it, but if you want to (it's a PITA), you could make your HLASM subroutine be LE compliant. And then use the CEEHDLR service routine to capture the abend (as C does). The gory detail of the later are explained here:

Re: z/OS FTPS Client Linux FTP server

2014-05-12 Thread Mark Pace
I'm trying to make the AT-TLS stuff work, but I'm just as confused by this as the original stuff. The PAGENT setup seemed pretty straight forward. pagent.conf TTLSConfig /etc/pagent_TTLS.conf pagent_TTLS.conf # Common Production Group that all Rules use TTLSGroupAction grp_Production {

Re: Change tape block size

2014-05-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you use TAPETOOLs it will tell you what data you need to get the information. The tool has good documentation in the JCL and PDF files on how to run the different reports. Also, I have emailed the TAPETOOLS group and had excellent response when I have questions. From the text file for

378-14 Abend In TSO Verify exit

2014-05-12 Thread MichealButz
Hi, I have TSO verify exit in which I am enabling LLA exit CSVLLIX1 exit and then deleting it this seems intermittently to cause a 378-14 abend Below is the code * * Add LLA exit CSVLLIX1 in case module is LLA

looking for a TN3270 API from ASp.nET

2014-05-12 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Hello, I am looking for a API to enable multiple sessions from ISS application developed in C# concurrently. I know but hope there are more domare one that will take care for the multiple terminals/sessions. The web application will connect to CICS assignning a 3270 session to each of the web

Re: 378-14 Abend In TSO Verify exit

2014-05-12 Thread Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM
378-14 Private area storage is not in the specified subpool, is not in the specific key or is not owned by the specified task. You say: Later on I delete the exit and free up the storage Is the storage freed by another task, that does not own the storage?

Re: Performance for DFDSS with ORACLE Tape Drives VSM5 ( was Change tape block size)

2014-05-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
Victor, The blksize is not the only way to tune a process for efficiency. And in some cases, there is little you can do to affect some applications like DFDSS. If you are using the hardware for tape is virtual tape of oracle, vsm5. Then there may be nothing more you can do. Sometimes the

Re: Good News: Introducing Mobile Workload Pricing (MWP) for z/OS

2014-05-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 12 May 2014 06:42:13 -0500, Scott Chapman wrote: ... The tool itself is delivered as a self-extracting zip, which produces a .bin file that you upload to the mainframe where it's executed. ... Wouldn't a .xmit be simpler; fewer steps? How does the mainframe execute a .bin? BTW, on

Re: EZZ9308E UNRESPONSIVE NAME SERVER

2014-05-12 Thread John Eells
Disclaimer: A Networking guy, I am not. Nonetheless, here's an excerpt from the z/OS R13 announcement letter that might be pertinent: The z/OS system resolver was enhanced in Version 1.12 to detect unresponsive name servers and issue operator messages when one is detected. In Version 1.13,

Re: 378-14 Abend In TSO Verify exit

2014-05-12 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Why not simply examine the dump. That will show what is doing the freemain! On Mon, 12 May 2014 14:07:24 + Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: :378-14 Private area storage is not in the specified subpool, is not in : the specific key or is not

Re: 378-14 Abend In TSO Verify exit

2014-05-12 Thread Micheal Butz
Excellent I allocate SYSUDUMP to my logon proc Sent from my iPhone On May 12, 2014, at 10:09 AM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: Why not simply examine the dump. That will show what is doing the freemain! On Mon, 12 May 2014 14:07:24 + Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM

Mad Men and the IBM 360

2014-05-12 Thread Dave Jones
A posting to the VM list from Billy Bingham: I haven't watched Mad Men before, but while channel surfing last night I saw the opening sequence that featured a IBM 360. Not sure what model it was. NBC News has this article on the 360 and Mad Men:

Fwd: Bloomberg: Old and Fired at IBM: Tech Trendsetter Changes the Game, Guards Age Data

2014-05-12 Thread Gabe Goldberg
From Bloomberg, May 12, 2014, 5:00:00 Although IBM employees are now able to accept a severance agreement and maintain their ability to bring an age- discrimination claim in arbitration, the strategy could make it harder and riskier for dismissed older employees to decide whether it’s worth

Re: Mad Men and the IBM 360

2014-05-12 Thread Mike Schwab
First picture is this Model 50 picture. http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_2423PH2050.html On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: A posting to the VM list from Billy Bingham: I haven't watched Mad Men before, but while channel

Re: Good News: Introducing Mobile Workload Pricing (MWP) for z/OS

2014-05-12 Thread Dana Mitchell
Once uploaded binary to z/OS, the .bin file contains JCL to run the SCRTTOOL. The object code consists of inline 80 byte ESD and TXT records passed via SYSLIN to LOADER (along with some other paramter files). For ease of testing/updating, we store the loader input in a pds member that is

Re: Mad Men and the IBM 360

2014-05-12 Thread Eric Chevalier
Your link points to a stock photo of an IBM 360 model ???. The system featured in Mad Men is a 360 model 30. Just like the one I used to learn assembly language programming! On 5/12/14, 9:57 AM, Dave Jones wrote: A posting to the VM list from Billy Bingham: I haven't watched Mad Men before,

Re: Good News: Introducing Mobile Workload Pricing (MWP) for z/OS

2014-05-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 12 May 2014 10:51:13 -0500, Dana Mitchell wrote: Once uploaded binary to z/OS, the .bin file contains JCL to run the SCRTTOOL. The object code consists of inline 80 byte ESD and TXT records passed via SYSLIN to LOADER (along with some other paramter files). For ease of

Re: z/OS FTPS Client Linux FTP server

2014-05-12 Thread Mark Pace
Progress?? Took me a little while to note the obvious error in this rule, supplied sample. TTLSRule Secure_Ftp_client { LocalPortRange 21 DirectionOutbound Local port may be anything - it's the remote port that I care about. So change to

Re: 378-14 Abend In TSO Verify exit

2014-05-12 Thread Jon Perryman
R8 is 0 so you are trying to free address 0. My guess would be that LLA_ADDR is within LLA_area and that the XC LLA_AREA has cleared that field (and probably the length). Another problem is that you copy the load module without correcting the adcons/vcons. Why don't you just use the entry

Re: z/OS FTPS Client Linux FTP server

2014-05-12 Thread Donald J.
You need ApplicationControlled On as well as SecondaryMap On. Issue this command to see your resultant config: pasearch -p TCPIP tcpip.pagent.dat -- Donald J. dona...@4email.net TTLSEnvironmentAdvancedParms { SecondaryMap On -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way

3590 tape drives

2014-05-12 Thread Kurt Eastwood
All, Thank you for responding to my questions about my 3590 B11's and A50 control unit. Kurt -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

SCLM

2014-05-12 Thread Kurt Eastwood
All, Are there any SCLM experts on this list who have had to insert an INCLUDE statement in the link edit portion of an SCLM macro? I cannot figure out how to do this and any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Kurt -- For

SCLM

2014-05-12 Thread Kurt Eastwood
All, Are there any SCLM experts on this list who have had to insert an INCLUDE statement in the link edit portion of an SCLM macro? I cannot figure out how to do this and any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Kurt -- For

Re: 378-14 Abend In TSO Verify exit

2014-05-12 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 12 May 2014 09:51:55 -0400, MichealButz michealb...@comcast.net wrote: * LOAD PROGRAM * * LOAD EP=AAALLIX1 SLL R1,8 Get rid of auth code SRL R1,5 Length is in double words I can't comment on the ABEND

Re: SCLM

2014-05-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you have not done so, you might want to join the ISPF List Use this URL to join https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=ispf-lA=1 Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kurt Eastwood Sent: Monday, May 12,

Re: 378-14 Abend In TSO Verify exit

2014-05-12 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 5/12/2014 11:08 AM, Walt Farrell wrote: With your SRL R1,5 you end up with multiplying the original doubleword length by 8. I assumed that was the intent, based on the comment in the code about the returned length being in doublewords. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International,

Re: SCLM

2014-05-12 Thread Rob Scott
Use the SCLM CMD statement in your ARCHDEF - for example : CMD INCLUDE SYSLIB(FOOBAR) On 12 May 2014, at 19:00, Kurt Eastwood kurtms...@yahoo.com wrote: All, Are there any SCLM experts on this list who have had to insert an INCLUDE statement in the link edit portion of an SCLM macro?

Re: z/OS FTPS Client Linux FTP server

2014-05-12 Thread Mark Pace
EZA1554I Connecting to: 10.6.0.10 port: 21. 220-Welcome to Mainline's FTP Server. 220- 220-This FTP server is limited to use by Mainline employees, customers 220-and authorized business partners. 220- 220-NOTE: All files may be deleted after 30 days. 220 GU5349 ftpSetApplData: entered FC0254

Re: SCLM

2014-05-12 Thread Kurt Eastwood
Lizette, Thanks. I joined the ISPF list and also posed my question there as well. Kurt On Monday, May 12, 2014 1:33 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: If you have not done so, you might want to join the ISPF List Use this URL to join

ICETOOL, OCCUR command.

2014-05-12 Thread TonyGMAIL
Has anyone used ICETOOL with the OCCUR command to analyze a subset of a file, i.e. records containing ABC123 in column N? The OCCUR command does not accept a USING command. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Performance for DFDSS with ORACLE Tape Drives VSM5 ( was Change tape block size)

2014-05-12 Thread Staller, Allan
It is my recollection that, pretty much since the advent of buffered tape drives (e.g. 3590, 9840,... ) the actual blocksize written to tape is independent of what is specified in the JCL. In other words, it does not matter what you code in JCL, the actual data block written to physical tape

Re: Performance for DFDSS with ORACLE Tape Drives VSM5 ( was Change tape block size)

2014-05-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-05-12 21:02, Staller, Allan pisze: It is my recollection that, pretty much since the advent of buffered tape drives (e.g. 3590, 9840,... ) the actual blocksize written to tape is independent of what is specified in the JCL. In other words, it does not matter what you code in JCL,

Re: ICETOOL, OCCUR command.

2014-05-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
Could you post your control cards and error message(s)? Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of TonyGMAIL Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 11:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ICETOOL, OCCUR command. Has

Re: Performance for DFDSS with ORACLE Tape Drives VSM5 ( was Change tape block size)

2014-05-12 Thread Staller, Allan
Agreed. Low compression ratios will produce more blocks to actually be written to the tape, elongating total application time. snip W dniu 2014-05-12 21:02, Staller, Allan pisze: It is my recollection that, pretty much since the advent of buffered tape drives (e.g. 3590, 9840,... ) the

Re: Performance for DFDSS with ORACLE Tape Drives VSM5 ( was Change tape block size)

2014-05-12 Thread Pommier, Rex
So what gets sent down the channel? If I put BLKSIZE=1024 on my JCL for the output DD statement of the DFDSS dump job, will DFDSS dutifully send 1K blocks down the channel to the tape controller/drive and the hardware builds big blocks and writes the large block to the tape, or does DFDSS know

Re: ICETOOL, OCCUR command.

2014-05-12 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Tony, You cannot use USING with OCCURS operator of ICETOOL. However you can generate similar report to OCCURS operator with traditional reporting features of DFSORT. Please show us a sample of input and desired output along with the DCB properties of the input file and I will show you a way

Re: z/OS FTPS Client Linux FTP server

2014-05-12 Thread Donald J.
A GSK trace is most likely needed. Did you ever resolve the intermediate certificate issue I mentioned on my May 8 message? Your ftp.s390.mainline.com server certificate is issued by the GoDaddy intermediate cert: Issuer: C=US, ST=Arizona, L=Scottsdale, O=GoDaddy.com, Inc.,

Re: ICETOOL, OCCUR command.

2014-05-12 Thread TonyGMAIL
My input file contains a number of records with RACF in columns 11-14. I need to count the occurrences of the values in columns 1-4 for this subset. //DEL1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //O DD DEL,DSN=SORTOUT //* // SET LEN='121' // SET CNT='5000,5000' //* //ICE1

Re: ICETOOL, OCCUR command.

2014-05-12 Thread TonyGMAIL
My input file is FB, 100 bytes, output format is not important. On 5/12/2014 2:44 PM, Sri h Kolusu wrote: Tony, You cannot use USING with OCCURS operator of ICETOOL. However you can generate similar report to OCCURS operator with traditional reporting features of DFSORT. Please show us a

Re: Performance for DFDSS with ORACLE Tape Drives VSM5 ( was Change tape block size)

2014-05-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-05-12 21:16, Pommier, Rex pisze: So what gets sent down the channel? If I put BLKSIZE=1024 on my JCL for the output DD statement of the DFDSS dump job, will DFDSS dutifully send 1K blocks down the channel to the tape controller/drive and the hardware builds big blocks and writes

Re: Performance for DFDSS with ORACLE Tape Drives VSM5 ( was Change tape block size)

2014-05-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-05-12 21:12, Staller, Allan pisze: Agreed. Low compression ratios will produce more blocks to actually be written to the tape, elongating total application time. High compression is not good also. BTDT. The optimal compression is the one assumed by the vendor, usually 3:1 *IBM) or

Re: Good News: Introducing Mobile Workload Pricing (MWP) for z/OS

2014-05-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-05-12 18:32, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On Mon, 12 May 2014 10:51:13 -0500, Dana Mitchell wrote: Once uploaded binary to z/OS, the .bin file contains JCL to run the SCRTTOOL. The object code consists of inline 80 byte ESD and TXT records passed via SYSLIN to LOADER (along with some

Re: ICETOOL, OCCUR command.

2014-05-12 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Tony, Use the following DFSORT JCL which will give you the desired results. //DEL1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //O DD DEL,DSN=SORTOUT //* // SET LEN='121' // SET CNT='5000,5000' //* //ICE1 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSGDD SYSOUT=* //I DD

Re: z/OS FTPS Client Linux FTP server

2014-05-12 Thread Mark Pace
Donald - I really don't understand this whole certificate thing. And only working with them once every couple of years, I quickly forget what little bit I learned. However I was able to follow your logic about the certificates, root and intermediate. I added the intermediate cert and now I can

Re: ICETOOL, OCCUR command.

2014-05-12 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Oops, I missed the SORT statement CNTL. Please add SORT FIELDS=(1,4,CH,A) to CNTL and it should look like this //CNTL DD * INCLUDE COND=(11,4,CH,EQ,C'RACF') SORT FIELDS=(1,4,CH,A) OUTFIL FNAMES=O,REMOVECC,NODETAIL,BUILD=(121X), HEADER2=('(1,4,CH) VALUE

Re: Good News: Introducing Mobile Workload Pricing (MWP) for z/OS

2014-05-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2014-05-12 14:24, R.S. wrote: o The jar command can (probably) be used to extract the .zip, removing the requirement for a desktop system. o Extracting on z/OS provides verification over more of the transfer path, largely detecting problems caused by EBCDIC, code page, and

Re: ICETOOL, OCCUR command.

2014-05-12 Thread TonyGMAIL
Thank you, it works fine! I'll have to do more reading. This is a neat technique using the concept of a report that actually is not a report. Thanks again, Sri. On 5/12/2014 3:37 PM, Sri h Kolusu wrote: Oops, I missed the SORT statement CNTL. Please add SORT FIELDS=(1,4,CH,A) to

Re: ICETOOL, OCCUR command.

2014-05-12 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Tony, You can always use the traditional reporting features to generate the reports. It is just that OCCURS and DISPLAY operators are user friendly versions of reporting. With traditional features you need to do all the formatting and spacing and Key break logic. The OCCURS and DISPLAY

2014 VM Workshop attendee registration is open for all attendee types: regular, student, sponsor, and spouse!

2014-05-12 Thread Mike Walter
Cross-posted to the IBMVM, Linux-390, and IBM-MAIN discussion lists. The 2014 VM Workshop, June 26-28 2014 will be conducted at North Carolina AT State University, Greensboro NC A Guaranteed Registration deadline is hard-coded as 11:59 PM Friday May 30, 2014 due to NC AT requirements for

2014 VM Workshop - Call for Session Presentations.

2014-05-12 Thread Mike Walter
Cross-posted to the IBMVM, Linux-390, and IBM-MAIN discussion lists. The 2014 VM Workshop will be conducted at North Carolina AT State University, in beautiful Greensboro, NC for 2.5 days from about 9AM Thursday June 26, through ~about~ 2PM Saturday, June 28. For more details, see:

Re: IBM C and Cobol Threading question

2014-05-12 Thread Tom Ross
The distinction between COBOL's distinction of WORKING-STORAGE and LOCAL-STORAGE is essentially the same as the PL/I and then C distinction of static and automatic storage. As far as I can judge from earlier posts in this thread the shared facility is not a dynamic shared control block; it is a

Re: 378-14 Abend In TSO Verify exit

2014-05-12 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 12 May 2014 11:35:44 -0700, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: On 5/12/2014 11:08 AM, Walt Farrell wrote: With your SRL R1,5 you end up with multiplying the original doubleword length by 8. I assumed that was the intent, based on the comment in the code about the returned

Query for Destination z website -- relocating a data center

2014-05-12 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Have you moved a data center? What was involved? How much fun was it? What was involved, from start to finish? Does the old disruption rule, two moves equals one fire apply? Please share lessons learned, gotchas suffered or avoided, if only wishes, war stories, etc. Here's some thinking

Re: IBM C and Cobol Threading question

2014-05-12 Thread Jon Perryman
In assembler, we usually do this by allocating the storage to a shared subpool or allocating the storage to a TCB that we know is the last TCB to terminate. This allows assembler programmers to choose the time that the storage will be automatically freed if recovery / termination occurs for our