Re: HMC automation

2016-06-28 Thread Geoff Rousell
Robert, whether this is CBU or OOCoD, you cannot DECREASE the subcapacity model as part of the activation. In other words you cannot go from 5xx to 4xx, only from 4xx to 5xx. Did you actually mean 402 to 507? Geoff Rousell IBM z Systems SE -

Re: HMC automation

2016-06-28 Thread Parwez Hamid
Excellent point. Capacity on Demand options e.g CBU or On/Off Capacity on Demand do not allow to DECREASE the permanent capacity setting of the systeem. These options are for increasing permanent capacity temporarily only. Additional details in the Redbook - IBM System z10 Capacity on Demand -

Re: Request for confirmation of an RC

2016-06-28 Thread Peter Relson
>> Are you using shared-common? >That is the intent. My goal is something "like ECSA, only bigger." Am I not >on the right track? I think you're not grasping what I asked, but perhaps my terminology is not clear. By "shared-common" I meant REQUEST=GETSHARED (to be used subsequently with REQUE

Machine Learning for WLM

2016-06-28 Thread Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
I came across this paper titled "SELF-LEARNING PREDICTION SYSTEM FOR OPTIMISATION OF WORKLOAD MANAGEMENT IN A MAINFRAME OPERATING SYSTEM" As I was learning the basics of ML, this is the exact application that came to mind, being a zOS guy. I guess you can say I'm curious to find out where this r

Re: HMC automation

2016-06-28 Thread McElhaney, Robert
Thanks. My objective is to DECREASE from 407 to 502 during overnight batch window, then INCREASE from 502 to 407 for prime time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Parwez Hamid Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 6:06 AM To: IBM

Re: Request for confirmation of an RCF

2016-06-28 Thread Peter Relson
(sorry for omitting the "F" from the subject line previously) It is confirmed that in order to DETACH a 64-bit memory object you must specify AFFINITY=SYSTEM,V64COMMON=YES (otherwise the request fails) This is certainly not obvious, but it is what it is, and likely cannot be changed compatibl

Re: HMC automation

2016-06-28 Thread Mike Schwab
IBM capacity is defined as the maximum usage over a 4 hour rolling period. If you have a temporary high usage period exceeding your capacity that isn't too high and not too long, you aren't impacted. You go too long or too high and the processor starts to slow down so the total usage does not exc

Chown query

2016-06-28 Thread zos reader
Hi, I created a new directory with 755 permission and the directory should have the group and owner as same as the previous one, as like owner should be TSMMEV and and group should be TSMHXC. Old one:- #file: /products/test/DB2/db10534/ *#owner: TSMMEV #group: TSMHXC user::rwx group::rwx other:

Re: HMC automation

2016-06-28 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2016-06-28 o 14:49, McElhaney, Robert pisze: Thanks. My objective is to DECREASE from 407 to 502 during overnight batch window, then INCREASE from 502 to 407 for prime time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Par

Re: Chown query

2016-06-28 Thread Rob Schramm
Lookup the "find " command with exec. You should be able to recursively find and chown all files and directories. Rob Schramm Ps a simple Google of "Unix find user chown" will give a variety of answers On Tue, Jun 28, 2016, 10:01 AM zos reader wrote: > Hi, > > I created a new directory with 7

RACF questio

2016-06-28 Thread Scott Ford
All, I know there's a RACF list, but I have a weird issue. I am seeing a RACF rtncd 8 SAF rtncd 8 and RACF reason code 0 , I have never seen a 'incorrect function code', I have digging through manuals, anyone else seen this one or have a hint on how I find out what is causing it ? My apologies a

Re: Request for confirmation of an RCF

2016-06-28 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. Will do. I don't see any great need to change the macro itself. It's not the only macro in MVS where you need to specify something that could possibly be inferred instead. There is something to be said for consistent defaults, even when the default for X= could have been made dependent on

Re: RACF questio

2016-06-28 Thread Lou Losee
What RACF function are you invoking? Regards, Lou -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity - Unknown On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:35 AM, Scott Ford wrote: > All, > > I know there's a RACF list, but I have a weird issue. I am seeing a RACF > rtncd 8 SAF rtncd 8 and RACF reas

Re: RACF questio

2016-06-28 Thread Scott Ford
Lou, We are seeing all RACF commands failing using r_admin from a STC, but we invoke an ID with SPECIAL, but I noticed the STC ID has Trusted=no... Scott On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Lou Losee wrote: > What RACF function are you invoking? > > Regards, > Lou > > -- > Artificial Intelligence is no

Re: RACF questio

2016-06-28 Thread Lou Losee
Scott, What is the function code(s) you are passing in the plist? Are you using a reference to the function code in the plist and not the function code itself? Regards, Lou -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity - Unknown On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Scott Ford wrot

Re: RACF questio

2016-06-28 Thread Scott Ford
We pass the RACF command image, i.e.; adduser name(x) dfltgrp(x) password(x) and its length Scott On Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Lou Losee wrote: > Scott, > What is the function code(s) you are passing in the plist? Are you using a > reference to the function code in the plist an

Netstat (EZANS) for z/OS 2.2

2016-06-28 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Has EZANS been customized for z/OS 2.2? Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread Dazzo, Matt
I am working on a software upgrade install of zos 2.2 and have a question about what catalog to use in the 'ALIAS TO CATALOG' cpp install panel. After the install is complete I'd like to continue to us my current master catalog for zos 2.2. So do I create a new temporary user catalog as the zos

Re: Netstat (EZANS) for z/OS 2.2

2016-06-28 Thread Mark Regan
I believed they stopped at z/OS v1.13. See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24029203 On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:31 AM Richards, Robert B. < robert.richa...@opm.gov> wrote: > Has EZANS been customized for z/OS 2.2? > > Bob > > --

Re: Netstat (EZANS) for z/OS 2.2

2016-06-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
My last conversations with IBM on this is - not supported. It was a tool developed by an IBMer that retired and the Communication Server Team preferred not to continue with it. So I am thinking NO. But I have been wrong before. So who knows. I am not aware of an alternate at this time. You mi

Re: Netstat (EZANS) for z/OS 2.2

2016-06-28 Thread Mark Regan
BTW, since EZANS is a TCPIP tool, you should post to the IBMTCP-L mailing list. On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:31 AM Richards, Robert B. < robert.richa...@opm.gov> wrote: > Has EZANS been customized for z/OS 2.2? > > Bob > > -- > For

Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread retired mainframer
How do you intend to handle the DSNs that are common when the datasets are not, e.g., SYS1.LINKLIB? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt > Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:41 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread Dazzo, Matt
New dsn's go down as SSA.SYS1.LINKLIB. Then later get renamed to SYS1.LINKLIB on the new res volume without updating the catalog? That would leave the indirect catalog entry for SYS1.LINKLIB pointing to the new res volume at IPL. Then there is a cleanup of SSA.* dsn's. Where am I going wrong? T

Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
What is the *smallest* volume size everyone sees in general use? For example, will we create any problems if we assume that "everyone" has or can define at least a 3390-9 size volume these days? What if we chose 3390-27? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com --

Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
Are you using the Full System Replacement or Software Upgrade installation path? If the latter, did you use your prior saved configuration to model the new one after? Dazzo, Matt wrote: I am working on a software upgrade install of zos 2.2 and have a question about what catalog to use in the

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Custom volumes at 100 cylinders and at 1113 cylinders I would hope your second statement is true, but there are always outliers! :-) Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 12:19 PM

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Lizette Koehler
I have 3390 mod3s running around still. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. > Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 9:24 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Chuck Kreiter
We are actively eliminating mod-3's and mod-9's from our environment. Next DASD refresh will only have 27's and 54's. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 10:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LIS

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Styles, Andy (SD EP zPlatform)
Sadly we still have some 3380's defined. Don't gasp... Original Message From: Chuck Kreiter Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2016 17:52 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild -- This email has reached the Bank via an external so

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread David Purdy
General use is -9 and -27. -3 are in use but vanishing. No -54 yet. David On Tuesday, June 28, 2016 John Eells wrote: What is the *smallest* volume size everyone sees in general use? For example, will we create any problems if we assume that "everyone" has or can define at least a 3390-9

Re: Chown query

2016-06-28 Thread Nims,Alva John (Al)
From "man chown" chown [-fhR] owner[:group] pathname ... put the owner in followed by a ":" then the group name. Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behal

Re: Chown query

2016-06-28 Thread Jack J. Woehr
Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: From "man chown" There's also the "chgrp" command in Unix to CHange GRouP -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine un

Re: EXTERNAL: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
The answer to that is what I call IBM Standard Answer #2 - It depends ! In our shop we still have some uses of smaller than Mod 9 but I'd say as a general rule our smallest "Standard Volume;" would be a Mod 9. To create new "smaller than Mod 9" would be an effort. Jerry Whitteridge Manager Mai

Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Software upgrade, the previous install was not used as a model. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 12:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catal

Re: Chown query

2016-06-28 Thread zos reader
Thanks All, it worked. Have a good day. Samat On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:04 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: > >> From "man chown" >> >> > There's also the "chgrp" command in Unix to CHange GRouP > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Gibney, Dave
Mostly Mod-3s, some smaller and mostly special uses. Enough Mod-9 and Mod-27 to do Serverpac. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of John Eells > Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 9:19 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subj

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Porowski, Ken
Primarily -3 and -9, nothing larger, a few smaller @ 503 CYLs > CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1 973 740 5459 (tel) | ken.porow...@cit.com This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential inform

FW: Where is format of Job ID documented?

2016-06-28 Thread Barry Merrill
One addition for the archives for this thread: SMF 6 records written by PRINTWAY/INFOPRINT BASIC Mode contain JCTJOBID='PSnn'. (which could be confused with type 6 records written by PSF, which contain PSFn). Barry Merrilly yours, Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD President-Programmer

Re: ZOS 2.2 Install - Alias to Catalog

2016-06-28 Thread John Eells
Dazzo, Matt wrote: Software upgrade, the previous install was not used as a model. Software Upgrade is really intended to be used only when you will keep things on the same relative target volumes. That is, the same data sets that are on the first volume on your existing system will still be

Re: Chown query

2016-06-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 23:41:34 +0530, zos reader wrote: >Thanks All, it worked. > Protip: "chmod g+s groupname ." on the parent directory will cause files created under it to inherit its group name. (Maybe not for NFS.) I would not use "chmod -R g+s groupname .", but "chmod g+s groupname . */. *

Capturing TSO TEST output

2016-06-28 Thread Joseph Reichman
Hi Would anyone know if you can capture TSO TEST Output into clist variables using SYSOUTTRAP And SYSOUTLINE Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: Verify record cound against the file trailer [by SORT?]

2016-06-28 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Thanks again Sri, your new version also worked as long as I changed the OUTFIL DD name. Another colleague came to me with this one today. How could we handle variable-length count data in a trailer? For example (RECFM=VB file): ,This is a header 0100,data record 1 0100,data record 2 Etc.

Re: Verify record cound against the file trailer [by SORT?]

2016-06-28 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Peter, It is quite simple to verify the variable length. You just need to use UFF ( Unsigned free format ) instead of ZD which will automatically format the variable value by ignoring any thing other than a numeric and pad it with zeros. Example : //SYSINDD * OPTION COPY INREC IFTHE

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Mike Schwab
Yep. 100 for JES2 checkpoints. 500+ for catalog volumes. Some mod 3s for ML1 and Mobius datasets due to large number of small datasets. Mod 9s for most volumes. Storage groups are 1TB+ so new space is Mod 27s (due to IPL volumes). z/OS 2.2 installer wants Mod 40s, don't have uncarved space. S

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Lester, Bob
We have Mod9's and Mod54's only. We had INFOPAC on Mod54s - huge vtoc/vtocix/vvds! BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 3:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 28 Jun 2016 11:31:30 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main gib...@wsu.edu (Gibney, Dave) wrote: >Mostly Mod-3s, some smaller and mostly special uses. Enough Mod-9 and Mod-27 >to do Serverpac. Given that my netbook has a 320 GB drive, most notebook solid state drives are over 100 GB, the s

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:19:28 -0400, John Eells wrote: >What is the *smallest* volume size everyone sees in general use? > >For example, will we create any problems if we assume that "everyone" >has or can define at least a 3390-9 size volume these days? What if we >chose 3390-27? > I know if yo

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Gibney, Dave
We are on the third EMC RAID array since SLED days. First one with PAV. Looking at 4th array next year. We've always migrated to like size volumes and added on to the end. Added some mod 9's from 1 to 2 and mod 27's from 2 to 3. Mostly for System work. Mod 3's have always been fine for applicat

Destination z article: A Rewarding z/VSE Community

2016-06-28 Thread Gabe Goldberg
A Rewarding z/VSE Community Fans focus on participation and knowledge sharing http://destinationz.org/Mainframe-Solution/Trends/A-Rewarding-z-VSE-Community.aspx http://tinyurl.com/he7wosp -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, inc.g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Chur

Re: Verify record cound against the file trailer [by SORT?]

2016-06-28 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Many thanks once more Sri for your generous help. UFF was indeed the key factor. For the archives, one small correction: INCLUDE=(16,4,CH,EQ,X'0999',AND,$ TRL RECORD Should be: INCLUDE=(16,4,CH,EQ,C'0999',AND,$ TRL RECORD (C'0999" for the trailer, not X'09

Possible RFE: OMVS PDS-member serialization?

2016-06-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Would there be much support for an RFE like this? (Would it be a duplicate -- the idea seems obvious?) Any suggested changes or paraphrases or clearer terminology? Enhance OMVS "cp" and other utilities to employ ISPF-like member-level serialization. This would allow OMVS to update PDS libraries

Re: Verify record cound against the file trailer [by SORT?]

2016-06-28 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Peter, My apologies for the typo about not changing the hex notation to character notation for the Trailer include statement. I just modified the control cards to suit your new requirement and forgot to change it in all place. My Bad. Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation From:

Re: Netstat (EZANS) for z/OS 2.2

2016-06-28 Thread Anthony Thompson
It's not at all difficult to keep it working. Update the initialization section of the EZANS REXX from around line 180-ish on. I don't think there have been any changes to the netstat command syntax since z/OS 1.13. Ant. /**/

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Al Loeffler
I use 3390-27 for z/OS and other software installation, but I also use other sizes (3390-1, 3390-3, 3390-9, 3390-54) for operational and user datasets. Al Loeffler -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tues

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Steve Beaver
The smallest I've seen is a MOD3. And that is just because it had a CAT on it Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Al Loeffler Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 8:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Minimum

Re: [Bulk] Re: [IBM-MAIN] Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Ron Hawkins
John, I'm not sure what you mean by "general use." For HDS Business Continuity Manager software some customers will allocate a small volume for the command devices (let's say 10 cyls), often using the odd cyls left over on a Parity Group after formatting a bunch of common sized volumes (-3, -9

AW: Re: [Bulk] Re: [IBM-MAIN] Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

2016-06-28 Thread Peter Hunkeler
When I was with IBM Education, we used to run class labs on minimal z/OS (OS/390, MVS/...) systems as VM guests. The volumes were VM mini volumes just as large as needed. If VM is still the base for those labs, I'm pretty sure there still are volumes of various small sizes. Not sure however if