Re: PF key - one PF key - not responding

2020-08-24 Thread Clifford McNeill
If a VTAM session monitor is between the PC and TSO, it could have PF21 assigned to some purpose and not passing it on. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Bob Bridges Sent: Monday, August 24, 2020 12:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: R

Re: IGD17272I but lots of space in storgrp

2019-07-10 Thread Clifford McNeill
The error is 550-SVC99 RETURN CODE=4 S99INFO=0 S99ERROR=38668 HEX=970C S99ERSN code X'012C'. 550 Unable to create data set OY72364.APTAR.L1.AIBILL.EXT for APPE command. It seems like SMS is not trying every volume in the storage group. --- Based on the error cod

Re: Description of the format of a SYSUDUMP

2019-09-19 Thread Clifford McNeill
try MVS Diagnosis: Tools and Service Aids From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Thomas David Rivers Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2019 7:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Description of the format of a SYSUDUMP Paul Gilmartin wrot

Re: Inexplicable 0C4!

2023-04-27 Thread Clifford McNeill
should this load L R3,=X'7FFF'string maximum length be a load address? LA R3,=X'7FFF' On 4/27/2023 8:52 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: Which flavor of 0C4? If PIC-10/11, the address is reported. On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:58:23 +0700 Robin Atwood wrote: :>I have had two

Re: Inexplicable 0C4!

2023-04-27 Thread Clifford McNeill
never mind, more coffee On 4/27/2023 9:12 AM, Clifford McNeill wrote: should this load  L   R3,=X'7FFF'    string maximum length be a load address?  LA  R3,=X'7FFF' On 4/27/2023 8:52 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: Which flavor of 0C4? If PIC-10/11, the

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

2021-04-14 Thread Clifford McNeill
No troubles here. Cliff McNeill From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Richards, Robert B. (CTR) <01c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 7:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RED Alert Today Rega

Re: IBM snew DOC Web SIte

2021-05-04 Thread Clifford McNeill
This because IBM no longer leads, but follows! Cliff McNeill From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of kekronbekron <02dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, May 3, 2021 9:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM snew D

Re: even an old mainframer can do it

2021-08-18 Thread Clifford McNeill
I miss socializing in the line to use the keypunch. Compiles were fill-in type work that involved operators reading in the card deck, so very controlled and very occasional. Desk checking was required. Cliff McNeill From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on b

Re: z/OS Data Set File System (DSFS) Now Available

2022-05-06 Thread Clifford McNeill
IBM's Native American name shall be Broken-Link. Cliff It seems pretty obvious in context that there’s an inadvertent, stray line break that renders the URL unclickable/untappable as-is. If you concatenate the two lines and remove any spaces you get this UR

Re: HSM backups and CICS VSAM files,

2022-06-07 Thread Clifford McNeill
There was a CICS FCT/File definition attribute known as Backup While Open (BWO).  I've forgotten the details but you may want to investigate it.  I think it will allow what you are trying to do. As far as the HSM failures to backup the file, there is probably something (messages) in the HSM log

Re: [EXTERNAL] Do they still make greenbar paper these days?

2022-06-08 Thread Clifford McNeill
Now you need a de-collator. On 6/8/2022 1:09 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote: GIYF or duck duck go or whatever your search engine of choice. Not only is greenbar paper still available (Staples, anyone?) but you can even still get it in carbon paper (shudder). ---

Re: BPXBATCH and PGM invocation

2022-06-23 Thread Clifford McNeill
I suspect the Dir not found was the output of the bpxmtext command.     Cliff McNeill On 6/23/2022 1:01 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: I suspect that the not found directory was ' (apostrophe). -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From:

Re: Some questions on SYSCALL

2022-06-28 Thread Clifford McNeill
I cant remember if they are required or not but do you have SYS1.SBPXEXEC and cohorts allocated?     Cliff McNeill On 6/28/2022 3:22 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:44:51 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: I was not super clear, was I? Perhttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topi

Re: Weird TAPE MOUNT behavior

2022-07-11 Thread Clifford McNeill
Did you run out of tape drives?  Can you show the IEF455D msg? On 7/11/2022 8:23 AM, Jack Zukt wrote: RESPOND TO IEF455D MESSAGE -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listser

Re: Weird TAPE MOUNT behavior

2022-07-11 Thread Clifford McNeill
19.12.37 J1234567 -DB2PRJ1O PRDB2PRC04 18349K 108.19 2.91 818.20 858556 0472 0 0 0 1 On Mon, 11 Jul 2022 at 14:32, Clifford McNeill wrote: Did you run out of tape drives? Can you show the IEF455D msg? On 7/11/2022 8:23 AM, Jack Zukt wrote: RESPOND TO

Re: JCL QUESTION :IGD17045I SPACE NOT SPECIFIED FOR ALLOCATION OF DATA SET

2015-11-24 Thread Clifford McNeill
John, I'm using SMS managed tape libraries with multi-DSN output files (UNIT=AFF) and I have code in our ACS dataclass routine that looks like this: IF &ANYVOL = 'REF=ST' OR &UNIT = 'AFF=SMST' THEN DO SET &DATACLAS = &DATACLAS EXIT END As I recall, both the ANYVOL and UNIT were necessary

Re: PTF error clarification

2015-12-23 Thread Clifford McNeill
PE Error RC8 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Kurt Quackenbush Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2015 7:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PTF error clarification > Is a return code of 4 more appropriate for PTFs not applie

Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How??

2016-02-05 Thread Clifford McNeill
Also don't forget the stand alone ICKDSF IPL tape to init the disk drives before a stand alone DFDSS IPL to restore the tapes. Cliff McNeill From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Skip Robinson Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 1:15 PM To: IB

Re: TSO timeout S622

2020-12-28 Thread Clifford McNeill
0090 IKT100I USERID SYSxxxCANCELED DUE TO UNCONDITIONAL LOGOFF 0090 EZZ6034I TN3270 CONN 0010269E LU TCP00059 CONN DROP INACT-S 894 Looks like a telnet timeout. Try checking TCPIP settings for TELNETPARMS TIMEMARK and INACTIVE. Cliff McNeill ---

Re: "Wrong" Size Allocation with AVGREC?

2021-03-23 Thread Clifford McNeill
This smells like the default geometry in DFSMS is set to a 3380 instead of a 3390. Option 8 in ISMF will allow display of the CDS Base which will show the defaults being used. Ensure Bytes/track is 56664 (3390 track size). Cliff McNeill W dniu 23.03.2021 o

Re: Overrides (was: REXX as JCL replacement)

2018-07-11 Thread Clifford McNeill
The proc author probably wouldn't do in that manner. Look at excerpt below, notice how LKED SYSLIN is referencing a dsn from a previous step? SYS1.PROCLIB(IBMZCPLG) - 01.01 Columns ===>

Re: Overrides (was: REXX as JCL replacement)

2018-07-11 Thread Clifford McNeill
The syntax using stepname (not procstep name) is used because there is no nested procedure in that refer back. By that I mean, the reference is not to a DD within a proc invoked by the procedure. That is how I've always viewed it. I reread the JCL manual concerning backward references and it

Re: how to catalog page dataset to new MCAT

2018-09-15 Thread Clifford McNeill
johnny, I'm going on the assumption that PAGE.PLPA.PAGE doesn't exist and copying a non-existent catalog entry isn't going to work. Skip gave sample IDCAMS statement to define a PAGESPACE, so use it to define your PLPA, COMMON, and PAGE datasets - use different names than the system on which yo

Re: Using FDR

2018-11-07 Thread Clifford McNeill
What happens if you mount one of the files, list contents with ls command, and then unmount it. Can you then dump it? The mount/unmount could be to any mountpoint, it doesn't have to be the exact one in BPXPRMxx. I'm suspecting zfs wasn't unmounted correctly and re-mount (anywhere) will fix i

Re: SMP HELP

2017-08-15 Thread Clifford McNeill
Just a guess, not closing bracket on ARCHDEF. -- -- GIM20313S ** THERE IS A SYNTAX ERROR IN THE CONTROL STATEMENT FROM DD STATEMENT -- GIM20313S ** THERE IS A SYNTAX ERROR IN THE CONTROL STATEMENT FROM DD STATEMENT -- GIM46700IGIMUNZIP PACKAGE CONTROL STAT

Re: Started task userid

2016-10-10 Thread Clifford McNeill
We use Top Secret and the method used is to enter a command to update something called the STC table dynamically with the stc procname and userid/acid to be associated with it. The command looks like TSS add(STC) proc(xx) acid(uu) Cliff McNeill

Re: Error Adding CSVLLIX1 using CSVDYNEX with modaddr paramter

2014-01-08 Thread Clifford McNeill
I'd be interested if this fixes the problem. I looked up the CSVDYNEX RC 8 and RSN 827 and it says a AMODE=31 exit routine is being added to an exit that requires its routines to be AMODE=24. Cliff McNeill > Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 17:08:08 + > From: rsc...@rocketsoftware.com > Subjec

Re: Error Adding CSVLLIX1 using CSVDYNEX with modaddr paramter

2014-01-08 Thread Clifford McNeill
bly some sort of branch > around the eye catch instruction and was not greater than x'7Fxx' - for > example x'47F0', CSVDYNEX thought that the caller had passed a 24bit > address instead of the required 31bit. > > > > > > On 8 Jan 2014, a

Re: USSTAB Refresh

2014-02-07 Thread Clifford McNeill
For TN3270 the table is not in VTAM. I put the USS table in linklst and do a v tcpip,tn3270,obeyfile command and , if necessary, an LLA update/refresh command to change it. Cliff McNeill > > List; > > > > I compiled a new USSTAB for use with TN3270. I am attempting to refresh > > VTAM/T

Re: Security definitions for OAM started task

2014-04-29 Thread Clifford McNeill
Be sure you are using the OAM PISA Guide for Tape Libraries. Here is a checklist from that manual. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r13.idao300%2Fo3010.htm Cliff McNeill > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 22:09:14 +0530 > From: baby.ekla...@gmail.com

Re: Friday Puzzler

2014-05-23 Thread Clifford McNeill
My guess is, if the dataset isn't cataloged, then you must specify a volser and unit to find the dataset, because it isn't a temp dataset. Cliff McNeill > > I have an end user job that is getting a JCL error and I know how to fix it > but I can't explain exactly why it's failing. I can recrea

Re: Tape Label Question

2014-06-03 Thread Clifford McNeill
'We append 5 extra datasets to the end of this tape, some using FDR and some as an IEBCOPY.' Can you put those 5 or so datasets on the front of the tape and put pack backups at the end? Cliff McNeill --

Re: ECSA Survey

2014-06-30 Thread Clifford McNeill
We are a small shop with 150MB of ECSA that is 50% allocated. We have roughly 200 asids. From my experience any one asid using more than 5MB is highly suspect. That is a big block of memory, if you can't do it with that then you're probably doing it incorrectly. I'm not sure that pageable vs

Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E

2012-07-16 Thread Clifford McNeill
> > "ISN000E The service processor has failed. Some critical system > > functions are inoperative. > > "Service Processor" is also known as the "SE" or "Support Element". > Further investigation would need to be done by your hardware support > team. Have you tried to reboot the support Elemen

Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E

2012-07-16 Thread Clifford McNeill
Forgot to mention that the Service Elements are the laptop computers inside the covers of the z900. Cliff McNeill > Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:07:50 -0500 > From: sy...@hotmail.com > Subject: Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > > > "ISN000E The service pr

STP Dialout Failure

2013-10-02 Thread Clifford McNeill
Anybody else experiencing failures with STP/ETR dialout to NIST ACTS? http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/acts.cfm Cliff McNeill -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive ac

Re: STP Dialout Failure

2013-10-03 Thread Clifford McNeill
Thank you for that information, John. I will continue to investigate our failure. Cliff McNeill > > IBM Product Engineering tested NIST ACTS, and I'm told they verified in > the lab that the NIST dial-up time server is still operating correctly > and available to provide time through an H

Re: NO COMMUNICATIONS DATA SET - IGD002I

2013-10-09 Thread Clifford McNeill
> I did for SETSMS for COMMDS there was no response at all, but for SCDS and > ACDS i got the below : > > setsms acds(system.zt01.acds) > IGD068I ACDS SYSTEM.ZT01.ACDS SPECIFIED IS THE > SAME AS THE ACTIVE ACDS - COMMAND IS REJECTED > > > setsms scds(system.zt01.scds) > IGD056I ACDS SYSTEM.ZT01.

Re: How diagnose potential memory leaks with LE?

2013-10-10 Thread Clifford McNeill
My preferred term is 'programming error' Cliff McNeill > Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 17:33:04 -0400 > From: zedgarhoo...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: How diagnose potential memory leaks with LE? > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Ditto. I think they like 'leak' because they have no decent tools (in

Re: Purging output

2014-12-10 Thread Clifford McNeill
Mike,I've never done it before but my reading of the manual suggests $POJ,JM=IDC1031*,ALL,CC=(4) might workCliff McNeill > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 16:53:44 -0600 > From: mike.a.sch...@gmail.com > Subject: Purging output > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > I am wanting to purge output from our

Re: Console access to an LPAR

2015-02-13 Thread Clifford McNeill
Skip, It could be part of the OS definitions in HCD panels CBDPDVOS (Define Device to Operating System Configuration) and CBDPDV13 (Define Device Parameters / Features)? There you can define the device as initially offline. Or it could be part of the ICC/OSC definition that is accessed fro

Re: Deleting Alias

2013-08-21 Thread Clifford McNeill
This problem seems unclear because of the two catalog ALIAS uses. One for the HLQ that probably points to a user catlg and another for the DSN alias pointing to a user catlg. Ensure that both are pointing to the same catalog. Is there an ALIAS entry for the HLQ? Cliff McNeill > > I was a

Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)

2013-01-03 Thread Clifford McNeill
I received a phone call from my sales rep (at IBM's insistence) stressing the severity of this and 2 other APARs. I suspect that others have received similar phone calls. I am not registered (yet) for the 'System z Security Portal' but I suspect the APAR's details are in there. Cliff McNeill

Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)

2013-01-03 Thread Clifford McNeill
> the day after xmas, the PTF's did NOT exist at the www.ibm.com/support > site. I have not looked since as we do not run either of those > components but found it strange I could not successfully search for the > PTF's. From the limited viewing of the Security portal, I did not see > much in v

Re: SMF LOGGER Questions

2013-01-25 Thread Clifford McNeill
Gary, I think you should the messages Skip has seen in syslog when a new logger dataset is created. However, some of the updates are not applied until the logstream is closed and reopened. Excerpt from 'Setting Up a Sysplex' Chapter 9.7 Updating a log stream's attributes: Pending updates w

Re: Enqueue during VSAM REPRO - Who is the culprit

2013-03-08 Thread Clifford McNeill
Are you really copying new to current or this that a typo? Cliff McNeill > Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2013 12:20:07 -0700 > From: stars...@mindspring.com > Subject: Enqueue during VSAM REPRO - Who is the culprit > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Esteem Listers - > > I have a simple issue, but I am una

Re: Read a PDS (all members) like PS dataset

2016-06-15 Thread Clifford McNeill
You could try to open, write, and close the PDS with the original LRECL and BLKSIZE, IEBGENER will do fine. Then you should be able to recover the previous members. Of course, get a backup first. Cliff McNeill From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behal

Re: EMC DLM

2015-06-02 Thread Clifford McNeill
I know very little about EMC DLM but I do know it uses a lock directory that you need read/write access to. The lock directory is specified on the Storage tab of the administrator's web interface. Cliff McNeill > > We have an EMC DLM in production replicating to one for DR. We are unable

Re: CLEAN cart and Jaguar generations

2015-07-09 Thread Clifford McNeill
As far as I know, that is true. The various cartridges are just different sizings and worm type, the cartridge form factor remains the same. Cliff McNeill From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of R.S. Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2015 2:29 PM To

Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

2015-08-27 Thread Clifford McNeill
I've seen this happen when adding a module to CSA and it causes CSA to cross a 1-meg boundary. CSA expands in 1meg increments. Cliff McNeill From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Phil Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@

Re: Codepage

2018-03-07 Thread Clifford McNeill
Scott, I found this document http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21256665&aid=1 which is some version of the source to EZACICTR. In there I see that mode=single and mode=multiple have a different number of parameters. Your call (as below) are for mode=multiple, hence the paramete

Re: Unable to Delete Orphaned VSAM Data Components

2012-06-29 Thread Clifford McNeill
Ken, Have you tried IDCAMS DELETE TRUENAME? //DELET12JOB ... //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DDSYSOUT=A //SYSIN DD* DELETE - K101.AIX.DATA TRUENAME - CATALOG(USERCAT4) /* Cliff McNeill > > 1) Orphaned DATA component entry exists