Re: Dataset SYS1.SISFMIG ?

Hi Rob, thanks for your answer. This make sense. In our environment this dataset only exists in our (SMP/E) maintenance environment and not in our runtime environment. But we're working with SDSF without any problems. This dataset comes into view because of PTF UI75454 which replaces a module in

Re: Dataset SYS1.SISFMIG ?

Hello, the findings in Google with SISFMIG and IBM only show some listings which contain the dataset, but they tell nothing about its purpose. Kind regards. Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Dataset SYS1.SISFMIG ?

Hello, looking into our z/OS system I found a SDSF dataset SYS1.SISFMIG, but couldn't find where this library is used for and what its purpose is. A GOOGLE search dosn't help. Can anybody help? Even more I would line to know, if this library is really needed in an runtime environment. Kind rega

Re: Where to find TSO defaults?

Hi, thanks for all the answers up to now. But still some additional questions are open: 1. If I can change the default MAXSIZE via ACCOUNT command, where is this valued stored, to be persistant over IPLs? 2. I know that specific values are stored in the user's TSO segment in the ESM (RACF) data

Re: Where to find TSO defaults?

Hi, SYS1.UADS couldn't be a source of these defaults, because it's empty. TSOKEY00 does not contain any parameters related to this settings. Kind regards. Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Where to find TSO defaults?

Hello, perhaps a fairly stupid question: In the description of the RACF TSO segment for several settings TSO defaults are referenced. HOLDCLASS(hold-class) Specifies the user's default hold class. ... If you … do not specify a value for HOLDCLASS, RACF uses a default value consistent with curre

IGDSMSxx setting PDSE_VERSION(2)

Hello, on our new z/OS V2.4 we plan to set IGDSMSxx parameter PDSE_VERSION(2) to have V2 PDSEs as default. Therefore I would like to know, if there are any known issues out there, which are reason for don't do this setting. Thanks in advance for any hints. Kind regards Juergen

Read BookManager/READ files

Hello, where just in the process to migrate our z/OS systems to V2.4. As you know, on z/OS V2.4 BookManager/READ isn't available anymore. But unfortunately some developers come up with a requirement to read some very old homegrown documentation files (.BOO files). So my question is, are there a

Removal of Planning and Migration Assistant with z/OS V2.4

Hello, we just started a project to upgrade from z/OS V2.2 to V2.4. Now, late enough, we find out that with z/OS V2.4 PMA is removed. Up to now we used at least one of the tables (BCNFMDS) and one of the EXECs (BCN2APRR) to get a description of the installed FMIDs (We built some EXECs to send ++

Re: Migration from z114 to z14ZR1, CF structure sizes

Do you remember the percentage RRS RMDATA increases? Kind regards Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Migration from z114 to z14ZR1, CF structure sizes

values for CFLEVEL=17 via looking to the results they produce. So we urgently would need any good idea, how to get the new structure size values when migrating from CFLEVEL=17 to CFLEVEL=22. Thanks in advance for any help. Kind regards. Juergen Kehr

Re: Question regarding system symbols

Hello Kees, what I found out, as an easiest solution is, to define a second system symbol, which contains the lowercase value: the existing setting was RZ=A1 and there I add RZLC = a1 . In the procedure I use RZLC instead of RZ . Because at the moment this symbol is the only one, where we nee

Re: Question regarding system symbols

Hi Denis, you're absolutely right. It's not a problem to use uppercase characters in path names, but that's not the question here. I used path names here only as an example for needing the 'lowercase version' of an existing system symbol within some JCL. BTW: Using uppercase characters in the

Question regarding system symbols

Hello, in qur installation we use the system symbol &RZ for the system name. It has values like A1,B2,C3 (all letters are uppercase) Now we have to build the JCL for an STC where we would like to use this symbol, but our problem is that we need it in lowercase characters, because the value woul

REXX procedure needed

in advance for any help. Kind regards Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Question about PARMDD

Hello, since a while we're using the new PARMDD keyword for our DB2 subsystems. Here an example: //DB31MSTR PROC //IEFPROC EXEC PGM=DSNYASCP, // PARMDD=ZPARMDD, // DYNAMNBR=119,

DFSMSdss address spaces started by DFSMShsm

ry user of IEESYSAS. Another question would be, how to set RACF profiles for these specific IEESYSAS tasks? Kind regards. Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lists

IBM sold TWS (IWS) ???

Hello, there were some rumours upcoming last week, that IBM solds TWS/IWS (Tivoli/IBM Workload Scheduler) to a Chinese company. Is this a (bad) joke or is there any truth behind these rumours? Does anybody know more about this message? Kind regards Juergen ---

BookManagerBUILD and DGW HTTP Server under z/OS V2.2

We plan to migrate to z/OS V2.2 in near future. Unfortunately BookManagerBUILD and DGW HTTP Server are no longer delivered as part of z/OS. To accelerate the migration we plan to try to transfer the products via SMP/E BUILDMCS from z/OS V2.1 to V2.2. The used FMIDs are HIMW530, JIMW531 (HTTP Se

Bookmanager BUILD and z/OS V2.2

As you probably know Bookmanager BUILD isn't supported and delivered with z/OS V2.2 anymore. We've had the idea to transfer the "old" Bookmanager BUILD FMIDs via BUILDMCS into a seperate CSI in the V2.2 environment. Now our question is: Will this work? Of course it's not offically supported, bu

RC=8 during SMP/E LINK

During a SMP/E LINK CALLLIBS we get a RC=8 for module B8RENVXX which is part of the RACF Offline feature of the zSecure Suite (FMID HB8R21G) with following messages: IEW2322I 1220 22ALIAS B8RSR000(SR) IEW2322I 1220 23INCLUDE SMPLTS(B8RENVXX)

Re: TPC.R, Hyperswap and SYNCSORT CFW question

Hi, I know that it's possible to switch it off at LCU level via IDCAMS SETCACHE, but as "backup" I would like to switch it off on the applications end (SYNCSORT) although, similar to DFSORT. Regards. Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN su

TPC.R, Hyperswap and SYNCSORT CFW question

Hello, we plan to install TPC-R and Hyperswap and we 're although using SYNCSORT. The TCP-R manual says: Applications that exploit Cache Fast Write include DFSORT and SyncSort. Eliminate any exploitation of cache fast write if you plan to use HyperSwap. In DFSORT there is a parameter to switch

Re: Help needed with old PL1 compiler message

Thanks I already found this APAR, but it doesn't fit, because of two reasons: 1. The APAR is for a newer compiler release. 2. The programs don't have more than 700 comments. But thank you for this hint. Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN s

Help needed with old PL1 compiler message

Hi, unfortunately a very old PL1 Compiler (5668-910 IBM OS PL/I OPTIMIZING COMPILER V2.3) is still used on our systems (z/OS V1.13). Now we get the following error message during compile runs: ERROR ID L LINEMESSAGE DESCRIPTION

Re: Missing order information in PMA report

Yes, thats it. In this CSI we although have JAVA 5 installed. JAVA 5 isn't named in the PRODSUP subentry, so it's reported correctly. But I agree that the interpretation of PRODSUP isn't correct, because there is no reason against installing several JAVA versions in parallel in the same CSI. C

Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system

I totally agree with some of the previous postings, a RSU or PUT level is no really meaningful value, to identify a specific maintenance level. Nevertheless a while ago a similar task occured on my desk: We should verify that security/integrity PTFs, which are named in IBM's security portal are

Re: Missing order information in PMA report

Hello, today again I have a question regarding the PMA report infos. Here you'll find the FEATURE and PRODUCT entries from my GLOBAL zone, the SYSMOD entries from the target zone and the corresponding lines from the PMA report. While all the CSI infos look quite similar the PMA report differs

Re: SMP/E question

those z/OS libraries (for example LINKLIB, LPALIB etc.), which are used by programs outside the base z/OS package, and that was the reason to create such a report. Kind regards Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: SMP/E question

Yes, you're right, but if I only specify LIST FORFMID(...) only, I'll get only the name of the elements which belong to the specified FMID, but not the DDDEFs which belong to the several elements. Therefore I would have to list any element seperately, or at least list any element type like MAC,

Re: SMP/E question

I don't think, that checking Program Directories is a real good solution. Even more our CSI contains several fairly old products, for which it is really difficult to find a copy of the program directory. On the other hand I believe, that an automated solution is possible, because SMP/E itself a

Re: SMP/E question

Thanks for your reply, but LIST FORFMID(...) doesn't do the job. AFAIK it's because DDDEFs are not directly assigned to FMIDs like SYSMOD (for example PTF) entries. So LIST FORFMID(...) does not list any DDDEF related information. The only idea I had was, to walk thru the CSI starting with an F

SMP/E question

FMID. We would like to split our CSI into FMIDs which are closely connected to base z/OS and those who have exclusive libraries. I would be able to produce such a report using the GIMAPI interface, but perhaps there is an easier solution available. All ideas are welcome. Kind regar

Re: Missing order information in PMA report

quot;repair" the CSI in order to complete the missing ++FEATURE and ++PRODUCT records. Regards Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Missing order information in PMA report

Hello, thanks for all the informations. I now was able to fix some of the missing FEATURE entries. The reason for this situation was, that I missed to include the PRODDATA file during RECEIVE processing. A that point another question comes to my mind. Is there any repository for all these FEA

Search for SDF II R4 documentation

For a reinstallation of the very old product SDF II R4 I need a copy of the basic installation docs for this product (Program Directory, Installation Guide etc.) Several searches via Google were not succcessful, so any idea how to get the required manuals is appreciated. Kind regards Juergen

Re: Missing order information in PMA report

Hello Kurt, thank you for the useful information. One additional question: Do you have an UCLIN example for adding FEATURE/PRODUCT subentries to the SYSMOD entry? Thank you in advance. Kind regards Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN subsc

Re: Missing order information in PMA report

Hello, before open a PMR, wouldn't it be possible to reorder and re-RECEIVE the products, in order to fill the missing FEATURE entries? What will happen with those entries, when I'll REJECT the FMID afterwards to get rid of the unnecessary TLIBs? Kind regards. Juergen

Re: Missing order information in PMA report

Thanks for your quick answer. I've done a LIST for PRODUCT and FEATURE, but I couldn't find PRODUCT entries only for one of the listed programs: IBM 31-Bit SDK for z/OS Java Technology Edition 06.00.00 For me that is fairly strange, because I installed PSF V4.5.0 only a few month ago via CBPDO

Missing order information in PMA report

Hello, we are using SMP/E PMA to build a report about the products applied in our CSI. For some of the FMIDs the report does not give order information, as this sample shows: FMIDs Without Order Information TZOS100 HHC2102 HCF V2 R1 HHOP801 Rational Developer for System z HJVA600 IBM 31-Bit SDK

Re: Scan for VSAM datasets with EXCPEXIT defined?

very rare situation of an I/O error. In this case you probably might get an S806 error additional to the I/O error. Kind regards. Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Scan for VSAM datasets with EXCPEXIT defined?

, who have EXCPEXIT defined, in order to avoid problems after this PTF is active? Thanks for all ideas. Kind regards Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.u

Re: AMATERSE and PDSE ?

. Hopefully no one has the idea to use AMATERSE for backup purposes ... Kind regards. Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

AMATERSE and PDSE ?

Hello, I'm a little bit confused about the the topic named in the subject of this thread. We're using z/OS V1.13 and I successfully tersed/untersed several PDSE datasets, but now I get a RC=40 during UNTERSE of a PDSE (Load) LIBRARY. In various documentation I found statements that PDSE is supp

Re: Getting ptfs for a specific FMID

Hi, AFAIK normal RECEIVE ORDER does not have such a function to include or exclude FMIDs, but there is an offering of IBM Germany which allows to specify a BLACKLIST or a WHITELIST of FMIDs to be included or excluded, when you order service. You'll find some information about this product named

Re: MODIFY CATALOG,ALLOCATED question

Hello, thanks for your response. But in my case the problem isn't to get all the lines from the MLWTO. CAS stops to send lines after a certain limit. Regards Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: MODIFY CATALOG,ALLOCATED question

ED TO CAS, S-SMS, V-VLF, I-ISC, C-CLOSED, D-DELETED, * * R-SHARED, A-ATL, E-ECS SHARED, K-LOCKED * *CAS*** Regards Juergen Kehr -- Fo

MODIFY CATALOG,ALLOCATED question

says MLWTO LIMIT REACHED and stops the listing. So the list is incomplete. Now I'm looking for a solution to avoid this limitation or to change ist to a higher value, but I couldn't find any hint, how to do it. So any help is apprechiated. Kind regards. Ju

Re: zFS and VVDS (OT)

In this case SSS stands for System, Software and Services, a small (former mainframe) consultancy company in Germany, where at least three of the writers in this thread met many years ago. It's always nice to see, that you'll never met the members of the "mainframe community" only once, and so

Re: zFS and VVDS

Hello, for those who have any doubts in what I told, here an IEHLIST report of the specific volume: 1 SYSTEMS SUPPORT UTILITIES---IEHLIST -DATE: 2014.261 TIME: 07.42.48 CONTENTS OF VTOC

Re: zFS and VVDS

Hello Walter, we're running om z/OS V1.13. Furthermore it seems that the VVDS isn't only not cataloged, it seems that it doesn't exist! (It's not shown on an ISPF 3.4 list on the specific volume.) Kind regards. Juergen PS: Nice to meet all the former SSS guys here. ---

zFS and VVDS

S is created, when the first VSAM on that volume is created. Thanks in advance. Kind regards. Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: DFSORT SVC

I don't think that they are compatible. The question is, if I can use IGX00017 for SYNCSORT and IGX00038 for DFSORT (both are SVC 109) in parallel? Regards Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruction

DFSORT SVC

we have to user a completely other SVC number, for example 228? Thanks for any response. Kind regards. Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

Dear Lizette, of course you're right, if your system hasn't enought central storage system starts to page out and more auxiliary storage is requested. But AFAIK as soon as there is less workload on the system, for example at weekends on our systems the paging rate decreases and so the auxiliary

Re: Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

Hi Anthony, the presentation you mentioned in your post is one of the sources of information we already know. Based on these information we already took a dump of the RASP address space and run the IPCS commands mentioned there. Here you'll find an extract of the results. But I couldn't find an

Auxiliary Storage Usage Problem

gards. Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Auxiliary Storage Allocation - Inconsistent Numbers?

Dear Gavi, thanks for your message. The program you mentioned looks ver interesting, but I couldn't find it on the IBM FTP location ftp://testcase.boulder.ibm.com where it should be. Any idea where to get this program ? Regards Juergen -

Re: Auxiliary Storage Allocation - Inconsistent Numbers?

Hi, I think I find an answer to question 1 from my previous note. It seems that the programs for determing the total number of available aux slots don't take into account any page datasets that were added later using a PAGEADD command. Regards. Juergen --

Auxiliary Storage Allocation - Inconsistent Numbers?

y on information from ASCB. Thanks in advance for an explanation of these differences. Kind regards. Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Program PUAUXMON

Thanks for your response. That's exactly my problem, that these two named macros are not contained in the source and my assembler knowledge isn't sufficient to build these macros. Kind regards. Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Program PUAUXMON

able? Thanks in advance for any help. Kind regards. Juergen Kehr -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ISPF 3.4 question

Dear Norbert, that's it ! I should have read the panel more carefully, the field "Display Catalog Name" solves my problem. Thanks. Kind regards. Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send e

ISPF 3.4 question

Hello, when using ISPF 3.4 I got the following strange situation: Using dataset level PP.**.BBLOAD I get the following output, which is completely correct PP.MVI.BBLOAD SYR101 Using dataset level *.**.BBLOAD I get this output PP.MVI.BBLOAD

Console commands to determine version/release

el of these products. Thanks for any help. Juergen Kehr PS: Sorry, if this is a double-post. I sent this message via Google, but it seems that it doesn't reach the mailing list. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

LE run-time options

methods? Which settings will be used then? Thanks in advance for all answers. Juergen Kehr PS: Sorry, if this is a double-post. I sent this message via Google, but it seems that it doesn't reach the mailing list. -- For IBM