Re: MVS send command in REXX

In general, when you run into such problems "trace I" is your friend. I've stared blindly at lot's of code without spotting what was wrong, only to say "Aha!" the instant that I looked at a trace. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: CSSMTP debug No Brackets Allowed

What are people using these days, Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1), Latin-9 (ISO 8859-15) or some m$ perversion of one of them? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin

Re: IBMLink down ?

Not just you. Google gets same error for me. If you have an old PMR, try that link to sneak in Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Brian Peterson > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2018 7:32 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: IBMLink down

Re: ISPF programming with assembler

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:35:22 +0200 Immo wrote: :>I'd like to retrieve the unique row-id for an entry in an ISPF table from an :>assembler program (not the crp!). Unfortunately I didn't find out how to get :>hold of the value on my own and so far I haven't found a usable example. :>Any hint or

Re: MVS send command in REXX

What is in mtxt? You display it with a say statement but didn't include the output in your query. Is it pssible that it include an apostrophe/ -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:13:58 +, Allan Staller wrote: >C'mon IBM, get your act together! > >When are the PFCSK's in charge going to get shown the door! It's not the PFCSKs, it's the PHBs that should be shown the door! (They can't find it on their own! :-)> ) -- Dale R. Smith

Re: Userarea and Systemarea crossing.

Also note that SDSF for z/OS 2.3 added the following columns on the "AS" command display populated by the data in the LDAX : Priv PrivUsed Priv% EPriv EPrivUsed EPriv% Rob Scott Rocket Software -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

IBMLink down ?

This morning, when logging on to IBMLink, I receive the following error after entering my userid/password. -=-=-=-=-=- Error 500: java.lang.NullPointerException There has been a problem processing your request. Please try again. If you continue to have difficulties, please contact IBMLink

Re: ISPF programming with assembler

>From z/OS ISPF Services Guide Version 2 Release 3, SC19-3626-30, >, > TBGET: rowid-name Specifies the name of a variable in which a number that uniquely identifies the row being accessed is

Re: IBMLink down ?

It appears its down again, as I am receiving the same error -- Original Message -- From: Brian Peterson To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBMLink down ? Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 09:32:21 -0500 This morning, when logging on to IBMLink, I receive the following error after

Re: CSSMTP debug No Brackets Allowed

Thanks to everyone for their input. I am using Log Level 7. The general consensus seems to be a code conversion issue. Since CSSMTP is working properly for me, I will ignore the messages. -Keith Hays On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:36 AM, Allan Staller wrote: > Probably the codepage in use. Check

Re: IKJEFTSR

So as others have surmised, this results from a change to IKJEFTSR. StarTool was so christened by Serena Software when Bruce Leland and Steve Smith took the shareware PDS command--relative of PDS86 on CBT--private. Recently Serena was bought by Micro Focus, which is now responsible for

Re: IKJEFTSR

On 6/8/2018 9:12 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: Micro Focus has stated that the next release of StarTool is required to fix this particular problem. It's not just a nicety. Current releases of StarTool will not run *at all* under z/OS 2.3. New release (7.8.1) goes GA on June 15. Wow! z/OS 2.3

Re: IBMLink down ?

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 07:40:52 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >Not just you. Google gets same error for me. > >If you have an old PMR, try that link to sneak in > I tried that. It didn't help. Hunting around I stumbled upon this:

Re: IBMLink down ?

I failed to connect as of 11:10 EDT On Friday, June 8, 2018 Carmen Vitullo wrote: I finally got to the sign in page then got THANKS Error There has been a problem processing your request. Please try again. If you continue to have difficulties, please contact IBMLink customer

Re: Userarea and Systemarea crossing.

In z/OS 2.2 and above, each address space has a new control block in 64-bit common storage which can be used to monitor these boundaries - IHALDAX, pointed to by ASSBLDAX. LDAX_LDACRGTPDSA Current high address of PRIVATE AREA Region

Re: MVS send command in REXX

Seymour J Metz wrote: >What is in mtxt? You display it with a say statement but didn't include the >output in your query. Is it pssible that it include an apostrophe/ Excellent catch! Thanks! I forgot about that about apostrophe inside a variable inside that line. Really confusing and

ISPF programming with assembler

Hi, I'd like to retrieve the unique row-id for an entry in an ISPF table from an assembler program (not the crp!). Unfortunately I didn't find out how to get hold of the value on my own and so far I haven't found a usable example. Any hint or pointer to a working example in assembler

Re: IBMLink down ?

I finally got to the sign in page then got THANKS Error There has been a problem processing your request. Please try again. If you continue to have difficulties, please contact IBMLink customer support. Error 500: java.lang.NullPointerException Carmen Vitullo - Original

Re: ISPF programming with assembler

I have an assembler routine called by a COBOL program that uses ISPF table services to get the current pointer and data on a table, that alone I don't think would help you. Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Immo" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018

Re: IKJEFTSR

Of course companies large and small are wont to portray mergers and acquisitions as all sweetness and light. It happens in this case that the Serena/Micro Focus fusion was consummated in 2016, probably leaving waters considerably muddied for some time.

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

All of the above! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dale R. Smith Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 11:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CFSIZER no longer available? On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:13:58 +, Allan

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

Yes, this is the latest link I saved. Finally one stored link that is still working (or is it yet to be moved?). Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: 08 June, 2018 15:18 > To:

Re: Why are highly busy zIIPs worse than highly busy CPs?

This seems to come up a lot. I'm going to start by taking the opposite tack: you probably shouldn't run your GCPs at 90-100% busy either. Busier CPUs are generally going to have more cache contention which means the work is generally going to run "somewhat" less efficiently (i.e. more CPU

Re: Use of dynamic system symbols in JCL

Hi Lizette, I have a UDLC (User Defined Line Command) for our group. DJ - Displays Job status info. It creates a list of assignment SET statements in JCL for each of: SYSVAR, MVSVAR, MVSVAR SYMDEF, and then does the same for System Symbols (trapped from SDSF command -D SYMBOLS). Then I extract

Re: Where is the WLM website???

" I don't know who's minding the store at IBM, but they're asleep at the swtich right now." Agreed! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Conley Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2018 9:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

when I attempt to use the CFSIZER tool link I sent Allan, I selected the JES2 structure, entered an amount of 4k records and got this https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z never liked the sizer tool to begin with, so no biggy for me Carmen Vitullo - Original Message -

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

C'mon IBM, get your act together! When are the PFCSK's in charge going to get shown the door! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 9:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

Check the archives. ISTR a few weeks ago it had been moved somewhere else. See the thread about "where is the WLM Website". BTW, If you can find CFSIZER, please post the URL back to the list. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027062 I think this is it Welcome to the System z Coupling Facility Structure Sizer Tool (CFSizer). CFSizer is a web-based application that will return structure sizes based on the latest CFLEVEL for the IBM products that exploit the coupling

Re: opinion: multi-platform program design

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 11:49 PM Timothy Sipples wrote: > Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > >You missed REXX/CICS. Am I the only person who uses this variant? > > John McKown wrote: > >I don't have that product and so cannot code for it. > > You have it if you have CICS Transaction Server for z/OS, which

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

Here? http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027062 Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer III UF Information Technology East Campus P.O. Box 112050 Gainesville, FL. 32611 (e) ajn...@ufl.edu (p) (352) 273-1298 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

Kenneth J. Kripke wrote: Hello; I wanted to use the IBM WEB BASED tool CFSIZER at http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/z/cfsizer/ and specifying SMF. After filling in the criteria and depressing the SUBMIT I am directed to https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z This is a recent change in

Re: Where is the WLM website???

I didn't realize the issue was that big, when I lost my temper about the WLM website. It seems a opened a can of worms, although the Dutch version of this expression seems more appropriate: I seem to have opened up a cesspool. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

That link doesn’t work for me either. It still takes me to a marketing page when I click submit On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 8:25 AM Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM < kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote: > Yes, this is the latest link I saved. > Finally one stored link that is still working (or is it yet to

Re: Why are highly busy zIIPs worse than highly busy CPs?

Re the comment: How prevalent are installations today where the CPs run at top speed, in other words at the same speed as zIIP engines? In other words, Is it that valid to assume equal speed processors? Clearly guidelines for lower zIIP utilization matter more when there is a difference, as

Re: SORTLIB DD

Let me ask again: What is the size of input data? How much space do you have for temp datasets? How much memory can the job use? BTW: While sortworks on tape can be justified in case of lack of DASD space, I still see no reason to specify SORTLIB DD. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W

CFSIZER no longer available?

Hello; I wanted to use the IBM WEB BASED tool CFSIZER at http://www.ibm.com/systems/support/z/cfsizer/ and specifying SMF. After filling in the criteria and depressing the SUBMIT I am directed to https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z This is a recent change in behavior. Has this tool

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: PPRC-XD vs Async PPRC

1. PPRC-XD and PPRC are very different animals. PPRC-XD is capable to work on any distance, while PPRC is limited by speed of light which is not planned to change. 2. ESCON vs FICON did huge difference not only in speed (bit per second), but also in something called credit buffers. In very

Userarea and Systemarea crossing.

Hello, When getmaining storage in my address space the user- and system-area cannot cross: the highest user area block (getmained from the bottom) cannot pass the lowest system area block (getmained from the top) and vica versa. Is this a rule for both below and above 16 MB? I know it is for

Re: MVS send command in REXX

saurabh khandelwal wrote: >000120 parse arg mtxt . mtxt How long is that mtxt? If it is too long, the rest of the message command will be trimmed off. >000500 mvs "send 'AG54LST JOB "mtxt"' user(AG54) now" Change above to this (replacing two spaces with two commas): mvs "send 'AG54LST JOB

MVS send command in REXX

Hello Group, In this below REXX, I want to send message only to operator AG54 but, not sure why this send command sending message to all users in system , not only AG54. I checked syntax for this send command but result is same, EDIT NETVIEW.CNMCLST(FAIREXX1) - 01.14 **

Re: Userarea and Systemarea crossing.

After some Googling, I found the answer in an MQ Q site: "For the LSQA getmain failure, it is possible that the Extended User Region Top for the CHIN job has hit the bottom of Extended LSQA because Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) private storage use is high, for example Subpool 0 Key 8 (SP0

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: compares

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 17:30:02 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Also, DELDUPS from CBT.. > Likewise the POSIX sort command or, for a data set of the size mentioned, associative arrays in Rexx. >-Original Message- >From: Of Sri h Kolusu >Sent: Wednesday 06-Jun-2018 21:09 > >You can

Re: SDSF DA display in z/OS 2.3

Well SDSF DA under z/OS 2.2 it still highlights the full line. Thanks.. Paul Feller AGT Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Friday, June 08, 2018 1:49 PM To:

Re: SDSF DA display in z/OS 2.3

It is because JOBNAME is now a point and shoot field. Tab to it, and you get the equivalent of ? next to it. Go up to Options, 3- Screen, 9 Change fixed field point-and-shoot to OFF, and you get the old behavior. _ Dave Jousma

Re: CSSMTP debug No Brackets Allowed

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 16:26:57 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >What are people using these days, Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1), Latin-9 (ISO 8859-15) >or some m$ perversion of one of them? > Context? Most desktop systems seem to be gravitating to UTF-8. Is UTF-8 with a BOM perversion enough? -- gil

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

Well it's Friday. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYXoAKBBFiQ >From Donald Fagan's New York Rock and Soul review-1991. In a message dated 6/8/2018 1:52:17 PM Central Standard Time, allan.stal...@hcl.com writes:   I won't post it, but I am singing my refrain!

Re: SDSF DA display in z/OS 2.3

you can do the "point  and shoot" on the task name that is not highlighted and it gives you what "?" would.  To have it highlighted issue "SET FFPS OFF"  On Friday, June 8, 2018, 2:49:34 PM EDT, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: For as long as I can remember, the SDSF DA display marks

AW: Re: Why are highly busy zIIPs worse than highly busy CPs?

>How prevalent are installations today where the CPs run at top speed, in other >words at the same speed as zIIP engines? I haven't got the faintest idea. We do, but that doesn't matter for this discussion. I thought this is complex enough, so I take one part of complexity out first:

Re: CSSMTP debug No Brackets Allowed

The context is data that are not Unicode. Ban the BOM! IETF recommends leaving UTF-8 files alone, but m$ can't be bothered. Did I mention that I hate editors that corrupt my source files, as well as the compilers that can't be bothered to display the hex encoding of invalid nondisplayable

Re: MVS send command in REXX

Should you not be using TSO SEND?   Here is a Clist version, invoked in batch.    MEMBER NAME  TSOSEND  //  //*  //* NOTE: NO LINE NUMBERS IN COLS 73-80 ALLOWED, ELSE CLIST FAILS!    *  //* ¯   

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: compares

Also, DELDUPS from CBT.. - Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sri h Kolusu Sent: Wednesday 06-Jun-2018 21:09 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: compares Dean, You can

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

CFSizer is now working Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Dale R. Smith > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2018 9:24 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: CFSIZER no longer available? > > On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:13:58 +, Allan Staller

SDSF DA display in z/OS 2.3

For as long as I can remember, the SDSF DA display marks 'swapped in' tasks with highlighting on all columns, including task name. In z/OS 2.3, we notice that columns are highlighted *except for* task name. Cannot find any doc on this change from 2.1. Worth an SR? . . J.O.Skip Robinson

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

But why didn’t the PFCSKs/PHBs check the stuff out? IBM should be truly embarrassed. I won't post it, but I am singing my refrain! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 1:49 PM

AW: Re: Why are highly busy zIIPs worse than highly busy CPs?

> the workload on the CP is totally different. Is it? If you think about Java, maybe. But when it comes to workload such as DB2, Sort, Monitors, that have shifted more and more of its task towards zIIPs, isn't this still the same workload? -- Peter Hunkeler

360 Front Panel has found a new home

https://photos.app.goo.gl/36CxlZQJDssj5uLh1 I would like to thank the list for giving me the opportunity to find a home for this bit of History. Ever since joining the list I have enjoyed many of the discussions even though my main frame days are Burroughs based in the early 1970s. Regards

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: PPRC-XD vs Async PPRC

Mike, Then how did ESCON use data buffers for flow control? Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 3:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] [EXTERNAL] Re: PPRC-XD vs Async PPRC ESCON is

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: PPRC-XD vs Async PPRC

Mike, Excuse my flippant reply earlier. Are you confusing "one frame at a time" with ESCON's path ownership and "one IO at a time?" Both ESCON and Fiber Channel use receiving buffers and ACK responses to control the number of in-flight frames, or DIBs in the channel. Both protocols will send

Re: Why are highly busy zIIPs worse than highly busy CPs?

I have seen press stories where Full speed CPs see a lot of wait time (waiting for data, interrupt, etc.), where slower CPs credit the delays to the reduced capacity so they will see little to no wait time. On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 4:48 PM Christopher Y. Blaicher wrote: > > I wish Peter Relson

Re: OT: Rap music (was Re: opinion: multi-platform program design)

You have asked me and I have said nothing. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2018 9:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] OT: Rap music (was Re: opinion: multi-platform program

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: PPRC-XD vs Async PPRC

ESCON is synchronous, where after sending a buffer, it would wait for acknowledgement before sending the next buffer. FICON is async, where it sends buffer after buffer without waiting. If it doesn't get an acknowledgement within a certain time frame it would resend the lost buffer. On Fri, Jun 8,

Re: PPRC-XD vs Async PPRC

I am absolutely not a hardware guy, so I tend to reduce hardware issues to simpler terms. First off, mirroring motivation was not part of this thread initially, so I didn't point out that our entire business case for mirroring was Disaster Recovery. Any technology that depends on 'letting

Re: MVS send command in REXX

Here is a Clist version, invoked from batch TSO (JCL):   '// ... ...  ' '/*JOBPARM SYSAFF=()  ' '//*    '

Re: Why are highly busy zIIPs worse than highly busy CPs?

On 06/08/2018 02:50 AM, Parwez Hamid wrote: > Re the comment: > > How prevalent are installations today where the CPs run at top speed, in > other words at the same speed as zIIP engines? In other words, Is it that > valid to assume equal speed processors? Clearly guidelines for lower zIIP >

Re: Why are highly busy zIIPs worse than highly busy CPs?

On 6/8/2018 2:06 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: Would be curious if anyone has seen a more complete description about how the sub-capacity CP enforcement works. Every so often (I believe 4 usec on my z13s), there is something akin to a timer interrupt in the chip that runs a millicode housekeeping

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: PPRC-XD vs Async PPRC

Radslaw, Have you confused a few things when explaining the difference between synchronous and asynchronous, and ESCON compared to FICON? Buffer credits are synonymous to DIBs, and a large number of buffer credits provided by Fiber Channel switches allowed the connection to be full of frames

Re: CSSMTP debug No Brackets Allowed

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 18:26:08 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >The context is data that are not Unicode. > >Ban the BOM! IETF recommends leaving UTF-8 files alone, but m$ can't be >bothered. > It's more complicated thatn that, but, yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark#UTF-8 > ...

Re: MVS send command in REXX

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 11:55:47 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >>What is in mtxt? You display it with a say statement but didn't include the >>output in your query. Is it pssible that it include an apostrophe/ > >Excellent catch! Thanks! I forgot about that about apostrophe inside a >variable

Re: SDSF DA display in z/OS 2.3

Interesting! Though I'm not sure I'm getting that exact behavior. I can place my cursor on the JOBNAME and then press enter, and it will behave as if I had placed ? in the NP field and pressed enter. But I can't tab to the job name. It bypasses it and goes to the Ptry column. Does anyone

Re: SDSF DA display in z/OS 2.3

Thanks for the pointers. I would never have guessed the cause. However, there may still be reason for an SR: 'FFSP' does not show up everywhere in Help panels. For example, SET ? PARM INVALID HELP: SET Commands to Set Options Select a SET command

Re: Why are highly busy zIIPs worse than highly busy CPs?

I wish Peter Relson would comment on this so we all can get the straight answer, but he may not be able to. >From what little I know and most that I summarize and guess at, it seems the >following to be what is happening. First of all, the dispatcher code for ZIIP processing is not the same as

Re: MVS send command in REXX

Hello,   Here is a Clist version, invoked in TSO batch. Check it against what you are doing in REXX. (I am putting everything in quotes to avoid my email's data being interpreted as commands.)  MEMBER NAME  TSOSEND (JCL) "// ... ...  " "/*JOBPARM

Re: MVS send command in REXX

Hello, Thanks for reply. below command doesn't work. After changing mvs "send 'AG54LST JOB "mtxt"' user(AG54) now" to mvs "send 'AG54LST JOB "mtxt"',user(AG54),now" I stopped getting any notification as i was getting on any system. Is there any other syntax for this command . here mtxt is