Has anyone ever done this successfully? if so, how?
I'd try putting a RESET in your start-up EDIT macro.
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That has been around since 1.3.4
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where the size is specified)
This crops up about once a year, even though it was identified over 20 years
ago.
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These capabilities were announced over 10 years ago!
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WLM can already do both weight and CPU changes.
Been at it for 10 years.
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He is silent these days. Wonder if he is retired?
My understanding is that he retired quite a while ago.
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Has anyone else run into this and how did you solve it?
I must be missing something!
Why is this a problem?
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Oh how I wish there was just an option for the JCL stream to be
RECFM=VB,LRECL=255 (or more).
Can't be MORE until we can edit MORE interactively.
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I'm not aware of one that is 'free'.
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PDSE is over 20 years old!
What makes it 'special' after all this time?
Welcome to the 1990-s!
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They said enough -- just because some are doesn't mean there's enough!
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grep stands for General Regular Expression
I had always thought it was:
Get Regular Expression and Print
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So we have the same language there for CMS dialog and batch; you simply
disconnect from your CMS machine, and the execution continues as a batch
machine.
Don't you need a SET RUN ON first?
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Where do the -71 and -16 come from?
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I've always found a big difference in mindsets regarding availability.
In general:
Mainframers brag about how long systems stay up.
UNIX children (PFCSKs) brag about how quickly they can reboot.
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Software is difficult to write, so, of course, it should be difficult to read!
(8-{]}
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You can (in theory -- I have) create a dataset:
A.B.C...
Which would limit you to 22 levels.
The level is not the limit: it's the combination of node length (8 bytes) and
DSN length (44) that determines 'levels'.
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TSO appends a prefix of your userid to your data set name unless you specify
quotes.
Don't forget PROFILE NOPREFIX
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Bug was a term used by engineers long before Grace Hopper arrived on the scene.
As quoted:
”First actual case of bug being found.
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I started as a JCL-Jockey in 1981. This APF stuff seemed straight-forward back
then.
Why is it difficult for seasoned types 32 years later?
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I dabbled a bit in university, but I really got into in under MVS/ESA when it
came out under TSO.
Then, a few years later, I moved to VM/CMS and started coding it there.
Sort of the reverse of most.
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It was easy for me, too.
I just didn't get involved until it came out on ESA because I didn't work with
VM a long time after University.
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Details?
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I remember, from the early 1980's, a quote along the lines of:
If a SYSPROG hasn't p*ssed off at least one person a day, they aren't doing
their job!
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you have the problem to decide what tab
positions this file is meant to have, and you always have to guess, and it's
wrong most
of the time, and the result looks awful
Your solution would also look awful with proportional text.
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address SYSCALL 'sleep 10'
You need a CALL SYSCALLS(ON)
first don't you?
Hope I spelled it correctly.
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That defeats the whole purpose of sharing information -- which is one of the
main reasons for the existence of the list.
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You can access TSO from multiple LPARs with the same ID and password in the
same SYSPLEX.
As of a few years ago, you can even use the same ISPPROF dataset.
But, you cannot sign on twice to the same LPAR with the same ID.
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300,000 Kilometres per Second
Not only is it a good idea!
It's the
I truly believe that one ID per person with the ability to sign on once per
LPAR (and share the same ISPPROF) is simpler to implement.
I don't believe that the typical user needs multiple userids to do their job.
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300,000 Kilometres per Second
Not only is it a good idea!
It's the LAW!!!
When I said I truly believe anything more than one userid was needed by a
typical user, I NEVER said I would attempt to deny extra ones.
I would just have to have a valid reason why.
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300,000 Kilometres per Second
Not only is it a good idea!
It's the LAW!!!
There may be (more or less reasonable) reasons for an installation to insist
on unique userid/person.
Unique mapping of userid to person is a valid issue.
You must be accountable for what you do.
Sharing of ids negates that.
Multiple ids must still be assigned to single people for the same
What blanket statement?
There are so many posts to this list, that if you don't quote part of what
you're responding to, nobody will understand you.
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There is probably a start-up overhead that is fixed, regardless of the
transaction rate.
So, the more transactions running the lower this per transaction cost appears.
Example:
Assumptions:
Fixed overhead: 10 seconds
Cost/transaction: 1 second
For one transaction: 10+1 = 11 seconds/tx
vm370 did accurately track time used ... but mvs is quite a bit sloppier ...
which gives rise to capture ratio ... ratio cpu accounted
for compared to total cpu busy.
I've been doing capacity planning since 1981.
VM is better than MVS, but it's not 100% accurate.
No software monitor can be.
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that was used by the task and by MVS.
Alas it is (AFAIK) no longer marketed.
Ed
On Jan 31, 2014, at 11:12 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
vm370 did accurately track time used ... but mvs is quite a bit
sloppier ... which gives rise to capture ratio ... ratio cpu
accounted
for compared to total cpu busy
the detailed MVS capture ratio discussions imply that MVS isn't even bothering
to do the clock accounting for large parts of the kernel (and in some cases
has been as high as 60%).
A long time ago, in a lab far far away, IBM made a (possibly erroneous)
decision when CPU was expensive to not
Hopefully, they are not counting time spent resolving page faults and such
that _validly_ belong in uncaptured time today.
I was taught by IBM that was in *MASTEr* SRB time.
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300,000 Kilometres per Second
Not only is it a good idea!
It's the LAW!!!
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On 2/3/2014 9:38 AM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Hopefully, they are not counting
It's not just VSAM.
SMS datasets use the VVDS, as well.
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Should ask on CICS-l.
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I know this is loading a gun :), but do any of
As for location, in a distant galaxy long ago, SLED DASD liked VTOC and
VVDS (did that exist then?) located in the middle of the volume to
minimize head movement. (Nod if you agree.) That pra
It stopped nattering long before RAID came out.
3380-K was when IBM stopped recommending it.
Sent
Actually IBM stopped recommending the 1/3 up the pack with 3380-D/E. In the
1980's. I made the old recommendation and they corrected me.
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I have to ask: Why they big concern over a few instructions?
Optimisation of a few is not worth the effort
these days.
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On 2014-02-17, at 10:36, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I have to ask: Why they big concern over a few instructions?
Optimisation of a few is not worth the
effort these days.
Hmmm... No single instruction is worth
Pride? Maybe.
But, a few have misinterpreted my comments.
I didn't say don't optimise.
I said why worry about a few instructions?
Even inside a loop, one instruction would have have to be executed a great
amount before it can/will impact MSU based costs.
Also, it have to be executed
Careful. In Canada the first four digits identify the issuer.
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How much does an initiator cost?
Nothing until you run short of them
But, it's still inelegant.
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Which shops allow test/development jobs under control of a scheduler?
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Because what's past is prologue.
Until 10-12 years ago, you couldn't do it in a JES2 shop.
Now, it's ingrained and too many people/processes depend on it.
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Management.
Territorialism.
Because?
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on
that (possibly poor) behaviour.
Sea change is not an option.
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I've worked for 8 shops in the past 32 years and not one has allowed
test/development use the scheduler.
Production? Yes.
Productivity? No.
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.
How many of your staff were new to z/OS?
They're used to a specific idiosyncracy!
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Sorry.
No insult intended.
But, you've been z/OS for what 3 years?
How would you feel if a bunch of MVS'rs came and b*tched about 40+ years of VSE
practices that I'm sure are just as ingrained?
How can you know where I'm at if you ain't where I've been?
Understand where I'm coming from?
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:
- job sequencing
- job user identification
Just my opinion.
Frank
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Sorry.
No insult
How is this a problem.
The jobs can only use one initiator at a time.
The waiting jobs only tie up some SPOOL space.
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As I have said previously, just use TYPRUN=HOLD. That will solve your problem.
How since only one initiator is in use?
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But does not catch values that are not multiples of 4. I suppose it's
slightly more plausible that a future extension introduce RC=20 than that it
introduce RC=3.
ISPF functions do return RC=20.
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Perhaps we all should consider a better use of our time than worrying about
inconsequential things such as duplicate jobs being submitted? (8-{]}
I, for one, do not understand what the problem is. (8-{[}
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ANTMAIN is one of the tasks IBM automatically assigns to SYSTEM, iirc.
So, if this is (still) true, the answer is YES.
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Zed [in Canada, after all).
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stuff
address TSO
FREE FI(ISPFILE)
SUB dsn
DEL dsn
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Way too complicated!
Just dynamically allocated/de- as needed for each file tailoring dialogue.
That way you can control the dsn sizes any way your lil ol heart desires.
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Windows make work until the disk is full. And that is what we want!
I don't think so.
Windows, in general, is a dedicated single user system. This philosophy is fine
in that environment.
But, in a shared system, you are NOT the only one affected by full disks!
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, therefore better.
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Why complicate your logon PROC?
I prefer just the ISPCTLx.
And, just allocate and de-allocate as your file tailoring requires.
But, teto.
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Yes, there is the presumed overallocation with release solution. But many (if
not most) allocations don't work with release at allocation. In most cases
this causes waste of space and still x37's.
Whoa! I'd like to see some examples of such broad (if not, exaggerated)
statement!
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They couldn't care less.
They couldn't care less?
About doing their job?
You have a bigger problem than x37 abends!
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At least space management is Space Management's job.
Production support is Production Support's job.
Or else, what are they doing?
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and since machines went beyond 300 MIPS/CP.
Also, how can you discuss performance and REXX in the same sentence?
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Or, the delay in problem solving due to under-resourced staff.
Or, ... ...
But, it's not my shop! TETO!
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Then why do the answers to my diatribe looks like they don't see this as a
problem ?
It's not that it's not a problem.
It's just that there is 35+ years of prior art that your shop seems to be
ignoring.
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-fits-all, magic bullet, I guess your needs
weren't met.
After all, all of the suggestions required some work on your part.
Don't ever expect any suggestions from me anymore.
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is this documented?
Or, am I misreading this post and it only applies to DB2's allocations?
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How does this help discovering an already changed, yet forgotten, password?
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was introduced.
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in Disaster Recovery Magazine.
It's the unforeseen that crunches you in the butt!
Nobody even thought about it until Katrina.
Your technical plan may be perfect; it can all fall apart on people and
logistical problems.
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Can't all that be forged, perhaps by a programmer who feels the need to make a
last-minute tweak and feels unfairly burdened by the process?
Isn't that what change these to be the same amounts to?
Unfairly burdened by doing their job?
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-Toothpicks does that mean?)
They did a similar thing with:
PCB -- before I ever even became aware of IMS it meant (to me) Printed Circuit
Board.
ATM -- I thought it meant Automated Teller Machine.
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software, not hardware.
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I am a little weary of correcting misapprehensions.
Who asked you to?
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But, it's been over 30 years since I cared about that level of detail; I don't
know if it's still true (or, really, ever was)
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Easy for you to way!
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Perhaps you are keeping bad company. While humans are not perfect, there are
methods to improve code reliability.
In 30+ years, I've worked for 6 companies.
Gee, they all must be bad company!
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I believe it is.
In Canada DEFINITELY!!
To the point the University of Waterloo stopped requiring COBOL for co-ops for
their first academic terms in 1993 (ish).
Then, all the CDN banks (I was employed at one, then) dropped out of the
programme.
If that's changed: BONUS!
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No Universities!
Well one on the list.
But, it's just a college on steroids.
In Canada, a college is a MUCH lower level than universities are.
Barely a step above occs.
I know I responded to my own post.
But, it's BOGUS!
(I know it's also a little elitist; it is what it is).
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Ted MacNEIL
There is only ONE (pseudo-)University from Canada on the list!
Canadian colleges don't cut it!
Therefore: there is NO commitment in Canada.
And, no propaganda will change that.
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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From: Timothy Sipples sipp
I believe it's based on the first id retrieved from the RACF database that
matches.
Try asking on the RACF or MBS-OE lists.
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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From: Adam zosp...@outlook.com
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to
understand your data?
It would take the computer programme that ate Manhattan to have enough code to
decode everything.
Then, there's finding the data.
How does a single vendor know enough to write code to interpret naming
conventions of DataSets, then read and understand the data?
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Ted
requirements.
If it was just that I would not have responded.
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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INITSQA started as soon as 65-bit started -- OS/390 2.10.
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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From: Dennis Trojak dennis.tro...@radioshack.com
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Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14
It's a bona fide US holiday, which trumps even Friday.
I disagree. Many on the list are not Americans.
You didn't hear any of we Canadians trumpeting our holiday on July 1st.
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Ted MacNEIL
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I don't like the Friday digressions!
Sheesh. Insensitive Americans...
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Ted MacNEIL
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From: zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com
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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 16
to be
understood is an idiot! Do you understand?
Voice from back of class: No Sir!
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Ted MacNEIL
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Two places I worked at, since the whole overblown issue came up had the same
response by management: If it ain't broke
Plus, there are always other things to do.
Now, that IBM has backed off ...
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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Preach all you want.
It's management who sets priorities.
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Ted MacNEIL
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Twitter: @TedMacNEIL
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From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:15
Not all of us are, though.
If we wish to stay employed, we must follow their directives.
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Ted MacNEIL
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