Looking for an old OSVS Cobol II v1.3

2021-01-19 Thread W Mainframe
Guys, I am planning to revival an old application written in OSVS Cobol II v1.3 (it's important the correct release) for VMSP rel5 in my P370... Unfortunately my cobol mdisk has some crc errors, I can't read it and there is no backup... :(Anyone has this compiler available? There is no comercial

Re: clarification please - is z/OSMF required for migrating z/OS from v2.3 to v2.4 ?

2021-01-19 Thread Marna WALLE
Hi Dave, Please take a look at many of the recent performance enhancements that we've done in z/OSMF, specifically for smaller LPARs. We had heard very positive things about these enhancements, and we are still looking at doing more. z/OSMF specific new functions can be found here: https://ib

Re: clarification please - is z/OSMF required for migrating z/OS from v2.3 to v2.4 ?

2021-01-19 Thread Marna WALLE
Hi Dana, This is a good comment about the organization of the z/OS Upgrade Workflow! I'm glad you brought it up. When we were organizing the z/OS Migration book, oh so many years ago, we had debated just your point. Should we do it by element-first, or timing-first? As you know when using

Re: MVS RESMGR exit

2021-01-19 Thread Peter Relson
Simply put, there is no MVS or z/OS concept of a "pseudo abend" beyond some internal RTM processing. I can see that IMS uses this term but it has no meaning to z/OS itself. Within a CommServer book there is mention of "pseudo abend" within IMS saying "Under certain situations IMS applications c

VSAM file discrepancies

2021-01-19 Thread Steff Gladstone
Greetings, We are trying to figure out how a VSAM file became compromised. That is, even though the primary key is unique, when we do a REPRO, we see that the data contains an extra record with the same key. The file is updated from two different computers via a batch COBOL program. The share opt

Re: clarification please - is z/OSMF required for migrating z/OS from v2.3 to v2.4 ?

2021-01-19 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Jan 19, 2021, at 9:02 AM, Marna WALLE wrote: > > Of course, we can't be all things to all people Why not? In contrast to paper manuals, web applications can have hyperlinks that provide for multiple paths through a task. I don’t want to go on a rant, but I see far too many web applications

Re: clarification please - is z/OSMF required for migrating z/OS from v2.3 to v2.4 ?

2021-01-19 Thread Marna WALLE
Hi Dave, We certainly want to have the z/OSMF installation (with a portable software instance) easier than a CustomPac Serverpac! I do understand, though, that anything different will take a time to get used to. With that in mind, I'd like to mention a sample portable software instance which y

Re: clarification please - is z/OSMF required for migrating z/OS from v2.3 to v2.4 ?

2021-01-19 Thread Jousma, David
Thanks Marna. Somehow I knew you'd wander along to this thread. 😊 I'm sure I'll get prodded at some point to look at it. For something we do once every couple years, I really havent spent much time looking at it. Our zOSMF installation is still in shambles as we have not yet gotten secur

Re: clarification please - is z/OSMF required for migrating z/OS from v2.3 to v2.4 ?

2021-01-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Well, when first reviewing the workflow, you should be able to deselect the products you do not have. Then when you go to implement, you should be able to pick the phase to select those actions. And if something needs another item in the same phase done first that should be noted and grouped at the

IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go is announced!

2021-01-19 Thread Yuan Jie Song
Today, IBM made an important announcement for Go (or Golang) on z/OS, continuing its commitment to deliver open-source innovations on the strategic z/OS platform. See IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go announcement: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/james-tang1/2021/0

Re: VSAM file discrepancies

2021-01-19 Thread Cameron Conacher
A KSDS with duplicate full primary key values? Are you sure? Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 19, 2021, at 10:19 AM, Steff Gladstone > wrote: > > Greetings, > > We are trying to figure out how a VSAM file became compromised. That is, > even though the primary key is unique, when we do a REPRO,

Re: VSAM file discrepancies

2021-01-19 Thread Steff Gladstone
The duplication exists in the data, not in the index. On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 at 18:22, Cameron Conacher wrote: > A KSDS with duplicate full primary key values? > Are you sure? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jan 19, 2021, at 10:19 AM, Steff Gladstone > wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > We are tr

Re: VSAM file discrepancies

2021-01-19 Thread R.S.
W dniu 19.01.2021 o 17:22, Cameron Conacher pisze: A KSDS with duplicate full primary key values? Are you sure? I'm sure it is possible. VSAM is just set of data... Data set on disk. ;-) Yes, it is hard to have duplicate key WHEN USING VSAM (access method). However is is enough to use CI mode o

Actual signs set by the DP (divide decimal) instruction

2021-01-19 Thread John Ganci
I am working on z390 (Don Higgins' software) fixes to the emulation of the DP (divide decimal) instruction and have a question as to what signs are set for the remainder. Normally I would answer my own question by running sample programs, but I am retired and do not have access to a mainframe.

Re: Actual signs set by the DP (divide decimal) instruction

2021-01-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
"The preferred sign codes are 1100 for plus and 1101 for minus. These are the sign codes generated for the results of the decimal-arithmetic instructions and the CONVERT TO DECIMAL instruction." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 F

Re: Actual signs set by the DP (divide decimal) instruction

2021-01-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 19 Jan 2021 11:40:34 -0600, John Ganci wrote: >... >"The sign of the quotient is determined by the rules of algebra. The sign of >the remainder has the same value as the dividend sign. These rules hold even >when the quotient or remainder is zero." > Does this guarantee the convention

DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-19 Thread Gibney, Dave
I recently switched to DFSORT. Hopefully this is the last glitch. My weekly MXG (SAS) job failed in the TRNDDSNS step. I am not yet familiar with DFSORT messages. The step has REGION=0M and I have no special memory exits. The SAS SORT options are: DYNALLOC SORTDEV=3390 SORTBLKMODE SORTDEVWARN If

Re: Actual signs set by the DP (divide decimal) instruction

2021-01-19 Thread John Ganci
Thanks for your reply. That clears it up for me. My bad for not rereading the section on decimal codes at the beginning of Chapter 8 before posting my question! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-19 Thread Sri h Kolusu
> ICE752I 0 FSZ=0 RE IGN=0 C AVG=188 0 WSP=0 E DYN=2313 16352 Dave, When DFSORT is invoked via program, it needs to know how many records it is sorting so that it can optimally allocate resources needed to sort that data. Since the program is feeding the records DFSORT does not have a clue a

Re: VSAM file discrepancies

2021-01-19 Thread esst...@juno.com
I would create a second VSAM Dataset and REPRO the prior dataset into the new dataset. That should expose a duplicate key. Paul D'Angelo -- Original Message -- From: Steff Gladstone To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM file discrepancies Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 18:58:

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-19 Thread Gibney, Dave
Thank you. Adding the suggested parm allowed my job to succeed. Ultimately, there where 15,890,801 records. I looked again and there was not an ICE118I issued in the original job. I really don't know how, or what controls SAS (v9) passes to the HOST SORT Thanks again for the assistance. > -O

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-19 Thread Sri h Kolusu
> Thank you. Adding the suggested parm allowed my job to succeed. Dave, Glad to hear that the job is successful. > Ultimately, there where 15,890,801 records. May be you should pass 18 million as estimated filesize to account for future growth. Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporatio

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-19 Thread Martin Packer
I'd ask over on MXG-L if there are methods for SAS to pass the record count and average record length estimate to DFSORT. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Systems Investigator & Performance Troubleshooter, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-19 Thread Gibney, Dave
Seem like something that SAS should do without being told My checking of SAS options didn't find the settings other than the ones I mentioned in original note. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Martin Packer > Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 1:

Re: MVS RESMGR exit

2021-01-19 Thread Attila Fogarasi
IMS terminology dates back to 1968 and abend generally means "abnormal end of the IMS unit of work" rather than an MVS ABEND. For continuous operation reasons IMS avoids issuing ABEND except when absolutely necessary for data integrity. The IMS pseudo-abend is strictly an internal IMS function wi

Re: VSAM file discrepancies

2021-01-19 Thread Attila Fogarasi
It sounds like your program has not implemented the IBM SHROPT(4 3) requirement for how to use ENQ/DEQ: "If your program is updating, after the update has completed the ENQ/DEQ bracket, the reader must determine the required operations for control block refresh and buffer invalidation based on a co

TSO XMIT and no member list

2021-01-19 Thread R.S.
I want to switch off member list when TSO XMIT ... DA(SOME.PDS) is running? I just want to issue the command and I don't want to see loong member list on the screen. Any clue? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland == Jeśl

Re: TSO XMIT and no member list

2021-01-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:55:59 +0100, R.S. wrote: >I want to switch off member list when TSO XMIT ... DA(SOME.PDS) is running? >I just want to issue the command and I don't want to see loong >member list on the screen. >Any clue? > OUTTRAP? -- gil --

Re: DFSORT and SAS

2021-01-19 Thread Scott Barry
SAS application programs often invoke multiple PROC SORT requests (some thru SQL-type invocations, or otherwise) and so there really should not be an OPTION FILESZ=Ennn necessary, given the SAS program-invoked method (i.e., SAS generates the OPTION and SORT statements.) And so you should se

Re: TSO XMIT and no member list

2021-01-19 Thread R.S.
W dniu 20.01.2021 o 01:23, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:55:59 +0100, R.S. wrote: I want to switch off member list when TSO XMIT ... DA(SOME.PDS) is running? I just want to issue the command and I don't want to see loong member list on the screen. Any clue? OUTTRAP? Well, I

Re: TSO XMIT and no member list

2021-01-19 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
The messages issued during TSO TRANSMIT are actually coming from IEBCOPY. By custom in most shops, DD SYSPRINT is commonly allocated to the terminal, i.e. TERM=TS in the logon proc. To bury these messages, allocate SYSPRINT to dummy or to a throwaway sysout class. Don't forget to reallocate ba

Re: TSO XMIT and no member list

2021-01-19 Thread Greg Price
On 2021-01-20 10:56 AM, R.S. wrote: I want to switch off member list when TSO XMIT ... DA(SOME.PDS) is running? I just want to issue the command and I don't want to see loong member list on the screen. Any clue? What is PARMLIB->IKJTSOnn->TRANSREC->SYSOUT set to? Default of * goes to ter

Looking for an old OSVS Cobol II v1.3

2021-01-19 Thread Tom Ross
Guys, >I am planning to revival an old application written in OSVS Cobol II v1.3 (= >it's important the correct release)=C2=A0for VMSP rel5 in my P370... Unfort= Well, there never was a product called OS/VS COBOL II. There was OS/VS COBOL (last release V1.2.4, never a release 3) and there was a

Re: Looking for an old OSVS Cobol II v1.3

2021-01-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
I believe that the IDR data will show 5740-CB1 or 5740-CB2 for those compilers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tom Ross [tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com] Se

Re: TSO XMIT and no member list

2021-01-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
OUTTRAP only grabs messages from PUTLINE and PUTGET. XMIT and RECEIVE call IEBCOPY under the covers, not vice versa. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of R.S

Re: TSO XMIT and no member list

2021-01-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
OUTTRAP doesn't grab TPUT or TPG. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January

Re: TSO XMIT and no member list

2021-01-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
The only way I know is the SYSOUT keyword. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of R.S. [r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl] Sent: Tuesday, January 19, 2021 6:55 PM