Re: Extending the /tmp file system

2020-06-03 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Geib Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 3:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Extending the /tmp file system Hello Gadi - Only a TFS running as a colony address space can be extended - see the

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-03 Thread R.S.
W dniu 03.06.2020 o 06:09, Brian Westerman pisze: no switches exist at the site. I can't see how to share the CTC and NON CTC Control units on a Ficon card, it (HCD) keeps generating a message that you can't "share" CTC and NON CTC on the same CHPID, but maybe I'm doing something wrong.

Re: FW: Your comment on ISPF publication

2020-06-03 Thread Binyamin Dissen
It would appear that IKJSCAN considers leading commas to be similar to leading blanks in ignoring them when calculating the parameter offset. TSO/E Programming Services states: The Command Scan Service Routine examines the command buffer and performs the following functions: It translates

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-03 Thread Charles Mills
You are a bad boy! You failed to ask if it can be a ZFS path, and if not, why not? Perhaps an RFE is in order? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 9:16 AM To:

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-03 Thread Charles Mills
Fascinating! I'm looking at a V1R4 TSO/E Rexx manual and the sentence is in there. Chapter 8, Using Rexx in Different Address Spaces. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, June 2, 2020

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
That's the right answer to the wrong question. Yes, you can share a chpid between LPARs without a switch, but you cannot share chpids between control units without a switch. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe

Re: How to create two output files in DFSORT

2020-06-03 Thread Billy Ashton
OK everyone...I figured it out...my problem is that I was BUILDing over top of the existing data. I just added the PARSEd fields in the INREC to the end of the record, and moved the INCLUDE to OUTFIL. I could then add an OUTFIL FILES=(00),BUILD=(1,160) to get only the original record. Sorry

Re: How to create two output files in DFSORT

2020-06-03 Thread Sri h Kolusu
> OK everyone...I figured it out...my problem is that I was BUILDing over > top of the existing data. I just added the PARSEd fields in the INREC to > the end of the record, and moved the INCLUDE to OUTFIL. Billy, Glad you figured it out. It is always preferable to put the temporary fields at

Re: TSO EXec syntax (was: ... ISPF publication)

2020-06-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, at 16:57, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 15:45:53 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > >How would it be useful if it did? Which load module library is going to > >contain a CLIST or REXX exec? > > > I stand half corrected. Four line later, in text you trimmed: - which

Re: TSO EXec syntax (was: ... ISPF publication)

2020-06-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 17:34:50 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: >On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, at 16:57, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 15:45:53 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > >> >The deficiency of EXec is that it does not use the standard load module >> >search sequence for the member name. Someone

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
AFAIK the only FICON cascading is FICON switch cascading. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Allan Staller [allan.stal...@hcl.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 3,

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-03 Thread R.S.
Note: CTC and CNC are from ESCON world. Ideed, that required different CHP definition on each end. Nowadays we have FICON and FC chpid definition on each end. The topology may be FC CHP 1A FC CHP 1B or FC CHP 1A switch. 1A and 1B ard example values of th CHPID. Of course for

Re: TSO EXec syntax (was: ... ISPF publication)

2020-06-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, at 15:21, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > The deficiency of EXec is that it does not use the standard load module > search sequence for the member name. How would it be useful if it did? Which load module library is going to contain a CLIST or REXX exec? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my

How to create two output files in DFSORT

2020-06-03 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi folks! Today's SORT challenge: I am reading a temporary file for input, created in an earlier jobstep. I am using OPTION COPY INCLUDE COND=. INREC IFTHEN= OUTREC ..., IFTHEN=... This keeps only the records I want to reformat, and creates a nice output file of commands. However,

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-03 Thread Charles Mills
I must have time on my hands. I just dragged out the OS/390 V2R8 CDs from 1999, and the sentence is there verbatim. It's the only hit on GRXBIMG on CD #1. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent:

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-03 Thread Steve Smith
It's still there in V2R4... and I am appalled that I've been running REXX incorrectly for decades now. sas On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 9:35 AM Charles Mills wrote: > Fascinating! > > I'm looking at a V1R4 TSO/E Rexx manual and the sentence is in there. > Chapter 8, Using Rexx in Different Address

TSO EXec syntax (was: ... ISPF publication)

2020-06-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 23:44:50 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: >I'm not sure this is relevant, but today I ran into this: > >EX 'yadda.zadda.exec(blah)' ',,foo' /* works */ > >but > >%blah ,,foo /* does not work */ > >"blah" starts with > >parse arg a ',' b ',' c > >The leading commas disappear with the

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-03 Thread Allan Staller
Wasn't there a thing known as FICON cascading? To allow multiple CU's on the same CHP? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Base SYSPLEX setup [CAUTION: This

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-03 Thread Allan Staller
4 ficon ports(CHPIDs) and 2 ficon cables are required. Each cable is shared in a bi-directional manner. e.g CTCchipd1 <> chpid2 CNC Signalling Path 1 CNCchpid3 <> chpid4 CTC Signalling Path 2 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-03 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 13:01:50 +, Allan Staller wrote: >4 ficon ports(CHPIDs) and 2 ficon cables are required. Each cable is shared >in a bi-directional manner. > >e.g CTCchipd1 <> chpid2 CNC Signalling Path 1 > CNCchpid3 <> chpid4 CTC Signalling Path 2 > With FICON

Re: Sort extracting values in PDS members

2020-06-03 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi Kolusu, I was finally able to get to this, and it works great for what I need! Thanks! Billy -- Original Message -- From: "Sri h Kolusu" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 5/27/2020 7:30:48 PM Subject: Re: Sort extracting values in PDS members Billy, On second thoughts, We can

Re: TSO EXec syntax (was: ... ISPF publication)

2020-06-03 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Because EXEC does not invoke a load module. " On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 09:21:46 -0500 Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: :>On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 23:44:50 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: :> :>>I'm not sure this is relevant, but today I ran into this: :>> :>>EX

Re: How to create two output files in DFSORT

2020-06-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 16:12:33 +, Billy Ashton wrote: > >Today's SORT challenge: >I am reading a temporary file for input, created in an earlier jobstep. >I am using >OPTION COPY >INCLUDE COND=. >INREC IFTHEN= > >OUTREC ..., >IFTHEN=... > >This keeps only the records I want to reformat,

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
> We have lots of multiple CU's on a channel, Without a switch? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Dana Mitchell [mitchd...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-03 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 13:05:11 +, Allan Staller wrote: > You cannot share chpid without the switch. It is point to point >topology, not daisy chains like in Bus > >That is incorrect. I routine share ahannels across LPARs. > >The purpose of the switch is to concect multiple physical CECs to a

Re: TSO EXec syntax (was: ... ISPF publication)

2020-06-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 15:45:53 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: >On Wed, 3 Jun 2020, at 15:21, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> The deficiency of EXec is that it does not use the standard load module >> search sequence for the member name. > >How would it be useful if it did? Which load module library is

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 07:00:19 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I must have time on my hands. I just dragged out the OS/390 V2R8 CDs from >1999, and the sentence is there verbatim. > >It's the only hit on GRXBIMG on CD #1. > >-Original Message- >From: Steve Smith >Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-03 Thread Allan Staller
You cannot share chpid without the switch. It is point to point topology, not daisy chains like in Bus That is incorrect. I routine share channels across LPARs. The purpose of the switch is to connect multiple physical CECs to a single device. -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Base SYSPLEX setup

2020-06-03 Thread R.S.
W dniu 03.06.2020 o 15:05, Allan Staller pisze: You cannot share chpid without the switch. It is point to point topology, not daisy chains like in Bus That is incorrect. I routine share channels across LPARs. The purpose of the switch is to connect multiple physical CECs to a single

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-03 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Maybe someone with the entire CBT tape unloaded might find a hit. There is a lot of old code out there... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 10:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What is GRXBIMG

Re: No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3 Serverpac

2020-06-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
But until then, you can use the non-SMPe java to perform your RECEIVE ORDER processing. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Wednesday, June 3,

Re: No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3 Serverpac

2020-06-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
Not using this, but your provider can order SMP/e Java from ShopZSeries. It's z/OS level independent. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On

Re: Punched cards and character set

2020-06-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 16:58:03 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >I don't understand the table at: >https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/codes.html > >The column labels 12, 11, 10, (blank) appear redundantly on the >second and fourth quadrants. You might find the chart on page 150.3 of

No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3 Serverpac

2020-06-03 Thread Gibney, Dave
Semi long background. Our MFaaS provider did not migrate us to a host capable of running z/OS 2.3 until after z/OS 2.3 was no longer orderable. For USERKEYCSA reasons (Natural Global Buffer Pool, Natural out of support)), I don't really want to go to z/OS 2.4. Our MFaaS provider was able to

Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-03 Thread Charles Mills
A more interesting question might be "what happens if I do allocate it?" and at least for a simple test with ALLOC FI(GRXBIMG) DA(*) the answer seems to be "nothing special." What might this be a relic of? GRX does not seem to be a component prefix. I could be wrong. Here's my theory: a

Re: No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3 Serverpac

2020-06-03 Thread Gibney, Dave
Can I then get it into SMPE, so I can maintain it using normal procedures? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Mark Jacobs > Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2020 3:42 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3

Re: No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3 Serverpac

2020-06-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
You should be able to download a non SMPe installable JAVA from here. https://developer.ibm.com/javasdk/support/zos/ Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message

Re: No Java, in the archive, z/OS 2.3 Serverpac

2020-06-03 Thread Allan Staller
I used to be possible do download JAVA directly from IBM w/o going through Shopz. Check the JAVA pages at IBM.COM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 5:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: No Java, in the

Re: Punched cards and character set

2020-06-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 15:10:20 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 16:58:03 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>I don't understand the table at: >>https://homepage.divms.uiowa.edu/~jones/cards/codes.html >> >>The column labels 12, 11, 10, (blank) appear redundantly on the >>second and

Re: Punched cards and character set

2020-06-03 Thread Steve Smith
I thought that vintage green (& other) cards had the actual card-punch rows listed, and it turns out that is true: http://weblog.ceicher.com/archives/IBM360greencard.pdf sas On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 4:10 PM Tom Marchant < 000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun

LCUs on spanned channels

2020-06-03 Thread Gord Neill
Hi, Ran into an odd situation defining a storage box on spanned channels. There are 26 LPARs in this CPU (z15), 12 in LCSS 0 and 14 in LCSS 1, running z/OS 2.4. The storage box has 6 channel paths (01-06 FICON, spanned) directly connected (no switch) to this CPU, and there are 64 LCUs defined