curiosity question about tape drive displays.

2018-11-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
From today's lunch discussion: When our 3590's need an action, they display 8 characters. Normally, the volid is positions 2-7. We normally see 'K' (keep) or 'M' (mount) in the first position, but we don't know if other characters are show in this position. We also don't know the meanings of

Re: curiosity question about tape drive displays.

2018-11-09 Thread Tony Thigpen
Well, of course I would find the doc a few minutes after asking the question. (I had been looking for it as time permitted over the last few days.) Based on the reading of GC35-0099 "IBM 3480 .. Use's Reference", all the z/OS macros for sending messages to the tape drive force the volid to be

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 11/9/2018 3:24 PM, Charles Mills wrote: The debug load module is 18MB. The release compile load module is 002FE160 = ~3 MB. It's reassuring to know it's not YOUR inefficient code that's made this module so massive! ;-) -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview

Re: Venting about error messages and documentation

2018-11-09 Thread Mike Schwab
BPX* is Open System Service, or ported Unix. Not an IBM Mainframe style product at all. On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 4:52 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > Gosh some of the error message documentation -- really the software design > leading up to the error message -- is just plain awful! > >

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Tom Brennan
I agree. In fact, when I started learning C I liked it enough that I made a set of z/OS assembler macros and subroutines to sort of simulate some of the C methods I liked best. For example: #PRINTF 'IGW%05dE Member %s with length %d is too large for a PDS', MSGID,MEMBER,LEN On

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Charles Mills
Hmmm. I've done this before but it seems plausible that the load module has grown. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 1:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Tom Brennan
http://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/error_logic.png On 11/9/2018 2:32 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Geez, again, would it kill them to say that in the error message? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Charles Mills
Yeah, module size was the problem. If anyone cares about the "why" it is because I was testing building a distro in a new environment. Normally a distro is built from a release compile of the C++ modules, of course. But this was just a "test distro" so I built from a debug compile. The debug

Re: How to tell what allocated a dataset never opened

2018-11-09 Thread Michael Babcock
I haven’t followed this entire thread but can you not simply scan the CLIST or REXX libraries for say the LLQ? On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 12:43 PM Jim Beck wrote: > Alan, Lizette, and Mike, > Thanks for the suggestions, but we're looking for WHAT CLIST, REXX, or > dialog component allocated the

IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Charles Mills
Can anyone explain the subject message to me? The documentation (not!) helpfully explains that the message means The PDSE program object exceeded the limitations for PDS load modules and could not be copied (converted) into the specified PDS library. and refers you over to the Binder API manual.

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Tom Brennan
In assembler I tended to code that way initially, while promising myself I would add separate error messages as soon as I got the kinks out. Sure. On 11/9/2018 3:20 PM, Charles Mills wrote: EXACTLY Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: STP and ETR

2018-11-09 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2018-11-09 o 18:29, Richards, Robert B. pisze: Oh wise time keepers! We are going to power down the datacenter so that electricians can make massive changes to PDUs, etc. Power off is projected to be 6-12 hours. My question is this: Doesn't the CPC (in our case, a ZEC12) maintain his

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Joe du Plumber
Charles, Check the module size again and refer to this statement in MVS Program Management: User's Guide and Reference (SA23-1393), Chapter 1 Introduction, subsection Using Utilities for Program Management, heading IEBCOPY: "However, you cannot convert a program object into a load module

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 15:22:33 -0600, Michael Babcock wrote: >Funny you ran across this. We were applying maintenance to Db2 tools >yesterday and received a message from the binder that said a PMO 3 object >could not be stored in a PDS. Holddata for the PTF indicated we needed to >convert the PDS

Venting about error messages and documentation

2018-11-09 Thread Charles Mills
Gosh some of the error message documentation -- really the software design leading up to the error message -- is just plain awful! https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.bp xa800/fsum7131.htm FSUM7131 Out of space or reached the end of the archive file. If

Re: Venting about error messages and documentation

2018-11-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 14:51:59 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >Gosh some of the error message documentation -- really the software design >leading up to the error message -- is just plain awful! > >https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.bpxa800/fsum7131.htm >

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Charles Mills
It is one of the benefits of working in C or C++: it is trivially easy to produce incredibly informative error messages: CZA0082S Error detected while processing maximum message length ('20') of 'MAXMSG' CZA0084I Near column 48 of record 46 of Parameter File

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Michael Babcock
Funny you ran across this. We were applying maintenance to Db2 tools yesterday and received a message from the binder that said a PMO 3 object could not be stored in a PDS. Holddata for the PTF indicated we needed to convert the PDS to PDSE. We did and all was well with the world. Don’t

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. I'll try to find a few bits to lop off. Geez, again, would it kill them to say that in the error message? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joe du Plumber Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 2:05 PM To:

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Charles Mills
EXACTLY Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 3:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IGW01203E MEMBER EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

Re: IGW01203E MEMBER xxxxxxxx EXCEEDS LIMITATIONS FOR PDS LOAD MODULES.

2018-11-09 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Doesn't that size value 011C5D10 mean that the load module is over 16M bytes long? Does PDS support load modules that large? PDSE definitely does, I'm just not certain about PDS. HTH Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Profiles specific to user

2018-11-09 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Thanks for this.. can this be updated to add accesses available through UACC? No. That type of info is in the base part of the profile. Look in unloaded record type 0400 for datasets this field DSBD_UACC and adjust the ICETOOL job for that. Look in this below

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Profiles specific to user

2018-11-09 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Ahhh, SORT is my kryptonite.. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: 09 November 2018 09:17 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Profiles specific to user Sankaranarayanan,

Re: Bundling several physical CP's for single-threaded Tasks

2018-11-09 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Consider using a"PIPES" like concept to multi thread, i.e., if J1 creates a dataset read by J2, send the data to a pipe so that J2 can run concurrently. Or if these are DB updates, split the inut into multiples jobs and run concurrently. It depends on you work flow. n Fri, 9 Nov 2018 10:09:40

Bundling several physical CP's for single-threaded Tasks

2018-11-09 Thread Kevin Neuhaus/KBS
Hello everyone, we have a LPAR with 2-3 CPs and currently 330 MSU. Unfortunately large portions of a migration batch are single-threaded and therefore only run with ~178 MSU on CP. Is there a way to combine >2 CP's to make them work together on a single-threaded task? Best regards Kevin

Re: Bundling several physical CP's for single-threaded Tasks

2018-11-09 Thread Mike Schwab
Run fewer CPs at a faster speed. See you account rep. On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 3:20 AM Kevin Neuhaus/KBS wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > we have a LPAR with 2-3 CPs and currently 330 MSU. > Unfortunately large portions of a migration batch are single-threaded and > therefore only run with ~178 MSU

Re: PCSTLNET013 (OSA ICC problem)

2018-11-09 Thread R.S.
Update: I regenerated self-signed certificate, exported to PC and added to PCOMM CA certificates. Now it works... partially. I have two OSA ICC chpids and it works for CHPID A, but not for CHPID B. OSA-ICC User's Guide says the certificate is per CPC not per card. PCOMM reports error code 414

Re: ISPF hiliting and *PROCESS in assembler source

2018-11-09 Thread Pierre Fichaud
Billy, I just specified 2 (HLASM) instead of 1 (automatic) and it worked. I didn't do enough research. Regards, Pierre. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: I/O priority

2018-11-09 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
Thanks Scott. I guess you could say that it may need consideration when trying to push your existing h/w to the limit, much like how WLM is to ration resources out when things are running tight. – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: I/O priority

2018-11-09 Thread Scott Chapman
Interesting you should mention that. Most systems we see do in fact have I/O priority management enabled. (Groups less so.) However, that will affect the computed velocity. And in some cases it can skew the velocity in ways that may be counter-productive. And the problems that I/O priority

Re: descriptor code for iplcheck

2018-11-09 Thread Peter Fatzinger
Jason, IBM ships IEAMDBLG in SYS1.SAMPLIB as an example of how to extract records from the operations log logstream and convert them into SYSLOG format. You can see how it gets to the MDBCDESC (defined in macro IEAVM105) field and uses it to determine if the message is a command response.

Re: Service class changes

2018-11-09 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Scott Chapman wrote: >SMF30PFI includes flags indicating that the service class was changed either >during or before execution. Sorry, but is it not SMF30PF1 (number one instead of letter i)? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht Performance section flag byte (SMF30PF1): X'80' (SMF30PFJ)

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Service class changes

2018-11-09 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
So it's just a flag to say it happened? Can't find the from and to srvclass info anywhere.. ? – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: 09 November 2018 13:16 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Service class changes

2018-11-09 Thread Scott Chapman
SMF30PFI includes flags indicating that the service class was changed either during or before execution. Scott Chapman Enterprise Performance Strategies On Thu, 8 Nov 2018 17:59:19 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: >Hello list, > >Apart from 99.2, can I find info on service class

Re: Bundling several physical CP's for single-threaded Tasks

2018-11-09 Thread Allan Staller
No -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kevin Neuhaus/KBS Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 3:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Bundling several physical CP's for single-threaded Tasks Hello everyone, we have a LPAR with 2-3 CPs and currently 330

How to calculate records sorted in memory

2018-11-09 Thread Bill Ashton
Is there a way that I can determine if my SORT can be done in memory, or if I will use SORTWK files? I am running IBM DFSORT if that matters. For example, I am playing with a file that has about 15 Million records (FB, len 49), and the key is the whole 49-byte record. How can I determine if the

Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces

2018-11-09 Thread Joseph Reichman
Hi Given the choice of using the SSAR instruction with a ALET of 1 And adding a access list entry via ALESERV which is the preferred method I would get the feeling Peter Relson and Rob Scott would say ALESERV Thanks --

Re: How to tell what allocated a dataset never opened

2018-11-09 Thread Jim Beck
Alan, Lizette, and Mike, Thanks for the suggestions, but we're looking for WHAT CLIST, REXX, or dialog component allocated the dataset, not the TSO user. Anthony, you're on the right track, but I think you're also right that IKJ-- or IRX-- (for Rexx) is doing the allocation. Thanks for the

Re: filter program

2018-11-09 Thread Sri h Kolusu
We want to extract some important messages from syslog or operlog by filter MSGID > If we use SORTs Or "ISREDIT find",we don't know how to extract multiple-line message > Could you tell us how to use SORTs can extract on 'anything' using control cards or "ISREDIT find" > any suggestions is

Re: SEVERE ERROR EDC4002: Unable to write to map file from Prelinker

2018-11-09 Thread Mike Hochee
Hi Charles, We experienced the same thing several weeks ago. It is documented in PHO3870. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?crawler=1=swg1PH03870 HTH, Mike -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills

IRR.DIGTCERT.LISTRING CL(FACILITY)

2018-11-09 Thread Lopez, Sharon
When we upgraded to z/OS 2.3, we started getting the error message out in our CPCS software. This message wasn't occurring before. It isn't causing an issue that we are aware of, but it is definitely creating a lot of messages. CPCS software is old and no changes have been made to it. Has

Re: SEVERE ERROR EDC4002: Unable to write to map file from Prelinker

2018-11-09 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. If that is your PMR you could update them with the fix which is shown below. Do not know if both RECFM and LRECL are necessary; I only tried with both. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Hochee

Re: SEVERE ERROR EDC4002: Unable to write to map file from Prelinker

2018-11-09 Thread Mike Hochee
No, not our PMR. I was unaware of the workaround until I saw this thread. Hopefully IBM will document. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Friday, November 9, 2018 9:55 AM To:

ISPF hiliting and *PROCESS in assembler source

2018-11-09 Thread Pierre Fichaud
To All, I've added a *PROCESS OVERRIDE(CPAT(MC)) statement at the beginning of my assembler source. When I do this the highlighting of the program changes to something not related to assembler. I can't see where I can make a change somewhere to make it color the HLASM

Re: ISPF hiliting and *PROCESS in assembler source

2018-11-09 Thread Bill Ashton
Hi Pierre, I am not sure where or if you can change that, but you can always go to the command line and enter "HILITE ASM" to change it. Billy On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 10:02 AM Pierre Fichaud wrote: > To All, > I've added a *PROCESS OVERRIDE(CPAT(MC)) statement at the > beginning of my

Re: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces

2018-11-09 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 11/9/2018 10:12 AM, Joseph Reichman wrote: Given the choice of using the SSAR instruction with a ALET of 1 And adding a access list entry via ALESERV which is the preferred method I would get the feeling Peter Relson and Rob Scott would say ALESERV If '1' is already a valid ALET you can

Re: IEF196I msg in JESMSGLG

2018-11-09 Thread Jim Beck
Mark, When we phased out an in-house developed automation system to a commercially available one, we had several message rules that needed the same capability. I wrote an MPF exit program that used the OICTXTERF3,CTXTESJL statement, then in MFPLSTxx had MSGID SUP(YES),USEREXIT(exitname).

IEF196I msg in JESMSGLG

2018-11-09 Thread Steely.Mark
When I execute a batch job which uses a JES2 init I get the following job messages: J E S 2 J O B L O G -- S Y S T E M X X X X -- N O D E X X X X 09.00.18 JOB12252 FRIDAY,09 NOV 2018 09.00.18 JOB12252 TSS7000I XX0042 Last-Used 09 Nov 18 00:01

STP and ETR

2018-11-09 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Oh wise time keepers! We are going to power down the datacenter so that electricians can make massive changes to PDUs, etc. Power off is projected to be 6-12 hours. My question is this: Doesn't the CPC (in our case, a ZEC12) maintain his TOD clock in the SE so that when power returns, we can