Re: DCOLLECT Ouput recort Structure

2012-06-30 Thread Martin Packer
Personally I'd use the DFSORT Symbols mappings: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/mvs/symbols/dcol14.zip And that ought to make it easier, including avoiding the RDW issue. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence

Re: JCL DD SUBSYS - how to write the SUBSYS

2012-07-15 Thread Martin Packer
Well, Batch LSR Subsystem(BLSR) started out as a sample of how to write a subsystem, IIRC. I think it was in a WSC orange book. But I don't know how to locate it now. Anyone? Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Packer
Good luck with a DTD that covers the panoply of SMF record types and subtypes. :-) Might well prefer JSON myself (hip that I ain't) :-) - but similar issues arise with that. Martin (not speaking for SMF or any other Development) Packer Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Packer
s/300J/600J/ :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Packer
I'd say generation of XML was pretty cheap. It's the parsing that's expensive. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog

Re: Proof That Dinosaurs Can Learn New Tricks

2012-09-07 Thread Martin Packer
Excellent! But it seems to be behind SHARE's paywall. I don't really object to that - but it WILL limit your audience. :-( Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Is The Batch LSR Subsystem Dynamic?

2012-09-11 Thread Martin Packer
for an IPL before we have to make changes. (I'm not 100% certain we absolutely can't.) The narrow question is whether BLSR is a Dynamic Subsystem or not. Wider answers accepted, of course. Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Is The Batch LSR Subsystem Dynamic?

2012-09-11 Thread Martin Packer
Thanks! I'd already read the book and noted that Dynamic SSI came after BLSR. And so the BLSR book might not have been updated. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: WebSphere Application Server (WAS) 7.0 and web browsers

2012-09-12 Thread Martin Packer
WAS runs servlets and its kin - server side java. Applets are client-side java (and largely giggled at*). :-) * Actually cursed at on occasion in my case as our expenses system relies on them. :-) Glad the OP sorted out his problem. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: z/OS V1.8 -- z/OS V1.13 , Any VSAM improvement is good for Batch I/O performance ?

2012-09-14 Thread Martin Packer
CA Reclaim is the one item I can think of. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-14 Thread Martin Packer
.CSV won't contain formulae. Don't know if that's what bothers the OP - but it bothers ME as I'd like to generate them in REXX. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-15 Thread Martin Packer
Turns out Gnumeric will treat the formulae right but Symphony won't. But exporting to ODS format from Gnumeric and opening in Symphony preserves the formulae. (And, yes, Symphony's Help claims it would do the right thing.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: Phony IBM press release from 1980 for Mainframe-Attached Toilet

2012-09-15 Thread Martin Packer
I think the IP stands for Internal Plumbing. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: Sysplex Monitoring

2012-09-27 Thread Martin Packer
I'd always recommend RMF Coupling Facility Activity report (and SMF 74-4) and RMF XCF report (and SMF 74-2). I can't comment on how you might process the SMF records but there are several choices. I assume you have RMF (or the functional equivalent). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion

Re: Identify us of Enclave and ZIIP

2012-10-05 Thread Martin Packer
I suspect XML parsing with zAAP-on-zIIP in effect. Do you have zAAPs because that would rule this out. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs

Re: Identify us of Enclave and ZIIP

2012-10-05 Thread Martin Packer
As this started off on CICS-L I assumed the context of the question was CICS potential usages. Hence my stab at XML - as the only one I can think of. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email

Re: DFSMShsm Abend S878

2012-10-18 Thread Martin Packer
, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Mike Wood mww

Re: Need help parsing DB2 Accounting trace data

2012-10-24 Thread Martin Packer
(typically QWAC). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker

Re: RedBook EPUBs - How can you read them?

2012-11-01 Thread Martin Packer
And the cross-platform Calibre does nicely - for laptops/desktops. I use it on both OSX and Linux. (In fact I use Calibre to convert EPUB to MOBI for my Kindle occasionally.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: Reminder IBMLINK Outage

2013-10-02 Thread Martin Packer
And adopt probably should be adapt. Oh no! I scored an own goal. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: Automating weight and/or CP changes

2013-10-05 Thread Martin Packer
Why can't you vary it offline with automation? Most customers I know have offline CPs - usually to get the total of online and offline up to or above the number of physical CPs in the pool. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Distance considerations fo a Parallel Sysplex with DB2 Data Sharing

2013-10-09 Thread Martin Packer
In a nutshell CFLEVEL 18 and OA37826 can tell you about this. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: Coupling Facility Structure Duplexing

2013-10-12 Thread Martin Packer
are less leery of User-Managed Structure Duplexing than System-Managed. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-19 Thread Martin Packer
Glad it worked out for you. What was the diagnostic that told you this? IEHIBALL? :-) Or the message that was suggested? Or something else? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: zIIP simulation

2013-10-30 Thread Martin Packer
advantage of it if present - but they'll have to speak for themselves. I seem to recall their logic was that setting up for a zIIP isn't free so it's worth not trying if it's going to end up on a GCP. (And thanks to Tim for reinforcing my point.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal

Re: XCF Groups

2013-10-30 Thread Martin Packer
R742JOBM might give you a clue - in RMF XCF Activity data. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: XCF Groups

2013-10-30 Thread Martin Packer
Me dummy :-) it's R742MJOB Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker

Re: JCL (was: Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers)

2013-11-07 Thread Martin Packer
Doing that would make the JCL poor (or apparently contradictory) documentation. So I would hope the disagreement would be flagged somehow. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: IF (was: Aging ...)

2013-11-08 Thread Martin Packer
What do we suppose the intended use cases were for this? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: Has anyone measured CPU savings using external SORT's vs. internal (COBOL) SORT's?

2013-12-05 Thread Martin Packer
. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Clark

Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-08 Thread Martin Packer
To my mind quad made more sense than tri. But as others have said the game moved on. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog

Re: WLM Mixed Workload

2013-12-13 Thread Martin Packer
You really want DBM1 / MSTR in a service class above CICS e.g. Vel 80 and Importance 1. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker

Re: WLM Mixed Workload

2013-12-14 Thread Martin Packer
Velocity of 80 is not a recipe. It depends on what is typically achieved. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: HPU and zIIP overload

2013-12-20 Thread Martin Packer
this, but really it's DBM1's access to zIIP CPU that matters most. It's an open secret :-) that I'm working on a zIIP Capacity Planning presentation for delivery early in the new year. I think there'll be quite a market for such a presentation. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion

Re: SMF (was: REXX tutorial)

2014-01-03 Thread Martin Packer
If you want a link between REXX and SMF it is that in z/OS 2.1 REXX can process VBS eg SMF directly. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs

Re: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-20 Thread Martin Packer
A reasonable question might be do you expect installations to need this data to grow? If so and the growth is enough it might well be ARCHITECTURALLY better to move to 64 bit at some point. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Resistance to Java.

2014-01-23 Thread Martin Packer
. And at the risk of annoying people with blatant self promotion :-) see: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/ziip_address_space_instrumentation?lang=en Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44

Re: Resistance to Java.

2014-01-23 Thread Martin Packer
presentation. Largely because I don't want people fiddling with it. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: SMF (was REXX Tutorial)

2014-02-03 Thread Martin Packer
One key advantage of not going the pretend it's VB route - which you can now do in 2.1 - is you don't stand to break records. For example SMF 30 and SMF 42-6. These are not the kind of records I want to break. :-) (And thanks for the mention.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion

Re: SMF record 62 and SMF62MC1 byte meaning.

2014-02-14 Thread Martin Packer
It's SMF 64 which gives you a clue as to what actually HAPPENED - with Read, Update, Insert and Delete counters, plus the CI / CA Split counts, level changes etc. No 62. 64 is CLOSE, 62 is OPEN. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Optimization, CPU time, and related issues

2014-02-19 Thread Martin Packer
party to that. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker

Re: assembler

2014-02-19 Thread Martin Packer
From a modern perspective the single-level store in FS would've meant at least 128-bit addressing, perhaps 256, by now. And there'd be consequences to that. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245

Re: Below the Line Storage Allocation

2014-02-20 Thread Martin Packer
There are (31-bit and, more relevantly perhaps, 24-bit) virtual storage numbers in SMF 30 that might help you. But if you are failing to get enough storage maybe they wouldn't. I'm thinking of Step-End - Subtype 4 - records. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: Below the Line Storage Allocation

2014-02-20 Thread Martin Packer
Worried about your terminology here. Please show us the report. In most interpretations of what you said about the 6796K number it looks like a very small 24-Bit Private is available to you. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: why does WLM Server status change from YES to NO

2013-05-22 Thread Martin Packer
Wonder what happens if you manage region to goals of BOTH. Anyone using that yet? Note: SMF30PF2 has a new(ish) bit for it. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: why does WLM Server status change from YES to NO

2013-05-23 Thread Martin Packer
One thing worth considering - and having read the relevant bits in the manual and not seeing it there - is the suggestion I've heard that sometimes the IMS Control Region would benefit from Both. Horst, care to elaborate on that? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: VSCR (was: Examples of getbuf and build usage)

2013-06-03 Thread Martin Packer
DB2, IMS and CICS have already done considerable work moving stuff from 31- to 64-Bit, to name just three products. Certainly in the case of DB2 it was vital. For CICS becoming more so. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: I/O Optimization

2013-06-05 Thread Martin Packer
I thought s stood for standard rather than spanned. It's the s in VBS that's spanned. But I can't answer your question. :-( Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: X11 forwarding

2013-06-07 Thread Martin Packer
Open and close square bracket, I expect. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

EXECIO - Was: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-29 Thread Martin Packer
in REXX stem variables...) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-29 Thread Martin Packer
+1 for taking a look at the language - in case its party tricks are compelling. But I wonder how many packages are written in Lua - and that's my real beef. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584

Re: Announcing PCRE 8.33 for native z/OS

2013-07-03 Thread Martin Packer
If this were an Open Source project I might be able to persuade my employer to allow me to work on it. Or at least to use it. So, is it? If not I have to wish you well and decline to play. :-( Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: What programmer's fear (not IBM specific)

2013-07-05 Thread Martin Packer
If that's true in Another World I wonder what it'd take to make it true in THIS one. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog

Re: What programmer's fear (not IBM specific)

2013-07-05 Thread Martin Packer
Might be a silly question but do we have to use THEIR build system? In its entirety? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog

Re: Announcing PCRE 8.33 for native z/OS

2013-07-05 Thread Martin Packer
- such as finding things in listings. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks

Re: regex

2013-07-06 Thread Martin Packer
Thank you... That's ANOTHER thing I'll have to play with (and blog about) when on my residency in October - as I'll have my first sight of a 2.1 system then. I wonder if we'll get to write the Redbook. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide

Re: Announcing PCRE 8.33 for native z/OS

2013-07-08 Thread Martin Packer
I'm showing my ignorance here - but maybe it's a better class of ignorance :-) ... Why \2 and not \1? I recognise this as a backreference but don't know what happened to the first one. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: Announcing PCRE 8.33 for native z/OS

2013-07-08 Thread Martin Packer
It was both but John's answered the question. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: Announcing PCRE 8.33 for native z/OS

2013-07-08 Thread Martin Packer
Compiling matters if you do it lots of time. Just a few - as in some situational apps - and it won't matter much. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: SMF record - IPADDR

2013-07-15 Thread Martin Packer
. A concordance of SMF record mappings would be great, but detail would need to be added to the current field descriptions. A large task, I'd say. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac

Re: BLKSIZE=3120

2013-07-23 Thread Martin Packer
Then that would either be April 1988 or December 1988, depending on whether DFP 3.1 shipped with MVS/ESA 3.1.0 or 3.1.0e. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: Dumb WLM question

2013-08-01 Thread Martin Packer
5 minutes is a new one on me. 2 secs, 10 secs are common WLM intervals. 15 mins is common for RMF but I *have* seen 5 mins for RMF where the installation sets it that way. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44

Re: SYSIN in PROC -- technique

2013-08-04 Thread Martin Packer
Yes, that would be a Release 13 thing. And yes my October residency will explore some of the value of this and, particularly, the 2.1 enhancements - for job cloning. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Martin Packer
Maybe rhetorical question: Is sending notices from JES2 via SMS as secure as you need? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker

Re: Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help !

2013-09-03 Thread Martin Packer
Doesn't SMF 14 / 15 help you here? Probably 15 as it's SORTWK etc. The problem will be identifying the actual sort work DD statement names. Maybe 30 can also do it - assuming it marks a DD as tape. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking

Re: Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help !

2013-09-03 Thread Martin Packer
That's true - but they're different. Not knowing them well enough I can't say but there might be an indicator that says tape sort work in them. By default they're SMF 208 (and most customers don't change them). I'm sure MXG has them taped. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion

Re: Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help !

2013-09-03 Thread Martin Packer
I think it's tape sort WORK data sets that aren't supported - judging by others' contributions to this thread. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: SYSIN in PROC -- technique

2013-09-03 Thread Martin Packer
Yes, and I've no idea now whether the OP is JES2 or JES3. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Memory For MSTJCL00 - Whose Is It?

2013-09-16 Thread Martin Packer
the anchor for something? Common Large Memory Objects perhaps? And are YOU seeing large memory numbers? I ask because I've seen it again in a customer with z/OS R.11. Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245

Re: Memory For MSTJCL00 - Whose Is It?

2013-09-16 Thread Martin Packer
Thank you. Care to name a few - not to point the finger, but so I have some idea what they are? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs

Re: Memory For MSTJCL00 - Whose Is It?

2013-09-16 Thread Martin Packer
number. Or whatever the truth turns out to be. Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Martin Packer
I think you meant UK. :-) And as pissed and pissed off are movable UKUS feasts :-) here goes... Think urinals. :-) You asked for it. :-) So here's some toilet humour. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44

Re: IBM assembler copybook

2014-02-23 Thread Martin Packer
And I think COBDFSYM has promise: Provides a way to map records based on COBOL Copybook for DFSORT. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs

Re: DFSort support for REXX E15?

2014-02-23 Thread Martin Packer
- whether as a sample or as product function - were created. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: How to install WLM definition by batch job

2014-03-14 Thread Martin Packer
It's possible the OP meant to ask how do I use a batch job to install a WLM service definition / activate a policy. Perhaps they could clarify. No, I don't know how to do this. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: JFCB LBI Blocksize

2014-03-26 Thread Martin Packer
Interesting: JFCB appears in its entirety in SMF 14 and 15: I extract things like member name from it in my code. I'm wondering how to get the LBI Blksize from SMF 14 / 15. Maybe I can't. If I figure it out I'll try to write it up (or point to any existing write up). Cheers, Martin Martin

Re: JFCB LBI Blocksize

2014-03-26 Thread Martin Packer
Thanks Yifat! That should be particularly easy to extract. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: XMLSS performance vs COBOL 4.1 runtime XML

2014-03-28 Thread Martin Packer
Actually more slower engines applies here as well. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: Software (compiler) PTF or maintenance level

2014-03-31 Thread Martin Packer
I think a useful stretch objective would be to get the information into the load module in some vaguely architected header. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: Logical Choices (was: ISPF dynamically allocating dataset with DISP=OLD?)

2014-04-08 Thread Martin Packer
, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: John McKown

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Martin Packer
First thing to do is check what the result of INREC looks like. Second is to consider ICETOOL DATASORT to avoid sorting the header / trailer (or else use OUTFIL to recreate them. Cheers, Martin From: Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com To:

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Martin Packer
You ought to be able to do the +1 in DFSORT, by the way. In case that changes the problem into a better one. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Martin Packer
Can you show us a sample of input data and of data before it's sorted i.e after the INREC? Thanks, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-16 Thread Martin Packer
It's probable DFSORT could do that too. Consider the value of IFTHEN and ADD,+1 in OUTREC to increment and check the bounds of the block haven't been reached. But I accept that might be a fetishistic approach: Turning everything into something to be solved by DFSORT. Cheers, Martin Martin

Re: MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-18 Thread Martin Packer
But if everybody upped and grabbed all 2GB and touched each page... :-( :-) Which is why I recommend a good regime in place. I haven't yet said what that regime would be nor how to code it. Perhaps I should. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-18 Thread Martin Packer
for almost 30 years. Others likewise and some even longer. However what we have here is a discussion that has little structure now. :-( Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-18 Thread Martin Packer
BTW SMF 30 also has the limit and how obtained in it. So you can see what an individual job / address space can get at and why. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

Re: SORT ando MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-19 Thread Martin Packer
Except 1MB (and a fortiori 2GB) page frames were designed to do something else: Give better TLB effectiveness - fewer entries to cover the same amount of memory. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245

Re: MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-19 Thread Martin Packer
code - with the release-specific MEMLIMIT minima hardcoded. I already report Usage section data in a separate report and MEMLIMIT/reason for jobs and steps when I study them.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: SORT ando MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-21 Thread Martin Packer
I think the term pointer compression is relevant here - to java heap just above 2GB. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog

Re: SORT ando MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-22 Thread Martin Packer
VIO has, in any case, been seen as CPU expensive. Because it's simulating a device. I would, however, quite like to see VIO in Memory reborn - with a huge (EAV) device type. Full(er) disclosure: I wrote a presentation on managing VIO with DFSMS back in 1988. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer

Re: Sorry state of IT education?

2014-04-23 Thread Martin Packer
trying to be helpful. But I appreciate you haven't defined your problem properly or you're asking the wrong question can be offputting. Sorry about that and I'm not sure how to make it better. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center

Re: SORT ando MEMLIMIT best practice

2014-04-23 Thread Martin Packer
I don't disagree: I didn't really talk implementation but I want to see very large temp data sets in memory, controlled via DFSMS and not too expensive. First step is very large IMHO but recast to be cheaper in CPU terms at the same time would be welcome. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer

Re: Beyond the EC12

2014-04-25 Thread Martin Packer
That's because we haven't ANNOUNCED anything. :-) TGIF :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com

Re: Beyond the EC12

2014-04-26 Thread Martin Packer
Without meaning to be defensive z196 a flop? I've encountered tons of them. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: Upgrade Product - Vsam Files

2014-05-07 Thread Martin Packer
Personally I prefer data set but comprehend dataset. A bit like Full Function English and Limited Function English. :-) Lights blue touch paper but fails to stand well back. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: Upgrade Product - Vsam Files

2014-05-07 Thread Martin Packer
I always thought file went with DD and data set with physical object. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https

Re: Mainframe (in general) running at 100% not always a bad thing

2014-05-08 Thread Martin Packer
forwards. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From

Re : Setting A SLIP For A Program Running Under CICS.

2014-05-09 Thread Martin Packer
I thought CICS switched to using standard Program Fetch 25 years ago. Old V3? Does knowing that change anything? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter

Re: Restoration of IAM datasets

2014-05-26 Thread Martin Packer
Are they not BDAM? I think that's how they showed up in our SMF-based reporting, but it's been a long time since I saw any. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com

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